Wishing On A Star: What We Want To Happen

[KingOfHearts]

 

And, as I'm getting wishy, I'd like a fairy-centric, just so we can find out about their flavor of magic and what's up with them! I mean, they have Rumple's out-sized hate and disdain, let's see why. If Rumple's hate for Blue just spills over onto the others, I'd like to know that too. 

I believe the show's reasoning is that Blue gave Bae the magic bean that transported him to the Land Without Magic, thus being "responsible" for him being gone. Afterward, Blue and Rumple had a taunt fest and it's just been a rivalry from then on out.

[Camera One]

I wish Blue was even ruder to Rumple in the Diner.  I was amused she still called him the Dark One.

[KingOfHearts]

 

They should recreate the Snow! Charming! moment of the Season 1 finale. If there's no stopping the horrible author story, my new dream is that he agrees to write it differently and starts fucking with everyone by creating things like Golden Snow.

I'd love to see Frankensnow. I'm a bit disappointed we didn't see more of those two together in S1, besides the occasional lip service. It would made the Kathryn triangle more dramatic with David seeing those two together. Now I want an alternate universe.

 

It would be awesome if an alternate universe stuck around for a while as an actual game changer. They thought forcing the Author to change the story was a good idea? Ha! Happy endings aren't always what we expect they will be, dearie! 

Edited January 18, 2015 by KingOfHearts

[Delphi]

What I want in 4b is forCruella to be killed, Ursula to be banished or killed and malificent in desperation to summon Chernabog from Fantasia and have absolute hell released on storybrooke for all of season five culminating in the final battle that Rumple saw in pilot.

Edited January 18, 2015 by Delphi

[Souris]

I've decided that the only way Regina will ever be redeemed for me is if in the final ep she crushes the heart of the thing she loves most -- herself -- to cast a spell to save everyone else. Right after saying, "My gift to you is this happy day" -- and meaning it.

[FurryFury]

They love Regina way too much for this. I could see a Redemption Equals Death scenario for Rumple, but not for her, sadly.

[Chaos Theory]

I love Regina too.  I love that she is complex and is not a good guy or a bad guy.  I have been doing a semi rewatch (season 2 mostly) and I find her character to be the most interesting and complex of the series.   I don't think she needs a redemption arc.  I think the show has been giving her one since the beginning.  

 

I am honestly looking forward to the who wrote the book storyline and thinking that Regina looking for her happy ending will realize that she has been writing her own happy ending all along.  

Edited January 24, 2015 by Chaos Theory

[Curio]

I wish we could stop doing Enchanted Forest pre-curse flashbacks once and for all. They don't add anything new to the story anymore (how many Evil Queen/Snow and Charming "take back the kingdom" scenes do we need?), except now the flashbacks give us some background on the Villain of the Month before they vanish after their required 11 episodes. So it's all rather pointless. I'm all for returning to the Enchanted Forest in the present, though. Storybrooke has gotten boring and stale, so I wouldn't mind if future episodes split up the time 50/50 between Storybrooke and different enchanted lands. If some of the characters need to split up, then fine. But I'd love to see Emma kick ass in the Enchanted Forest now that her magical powers are more settled in and see her go up against some fun magical people in a different setting. This show has the potential to be really exciting and adventurous, but it's hard to be excited about hunting a monster when you're doing it in front of a cutesy little pawn shop. It just takes away some of the intensity. Basically, give me more 3B finale vibes, please.

Edited January 25, 2015 by Curio

[KingOfHearts]

I'd love to see Emma go to Wonderland just to see her reactions. It's much more bizarre and unrealistic than the Enchanted Forest. She and Hook can have another Captain Swan adventure. I could just imagine them trying to navigate the hedge maze or questioning the smoking caterpillar. Oz would work too.

[Shanna Marie]

I was reading an article about "caper" stories -- assembling the team of experts to take on a seemingly impossible task -- and that made me think that this could be something fun for this show to try. They could have the main characters work together to defeat the bad guy of the arc by coming up with an elaborate plan that draws upon all their unique skills and traits. There's Emma with her magic, gun, street smarts and knowledge of our world, plus her inability to have her heart ripped out. There's Regina with her highly variable dark/light magic and complete lack of conscience (she'd make a good diversion or double agent). Belle has her research skills and book smarts. David's good with a sword and knows animals (that could be useful). Snow's got the archery and banditry skills. Hook's good with boats, is a good navigator and is a good fighter, but I think he'd also make a good "face man" for a con because he's capable of thinking on his feet and laying down the charm and smolder, and his reputation as a villain might come in handy there. If we bring in recurring characters, there's Whale to provide medical backup, Ruby with her wolf abilities, Granny as a tracker, Archie for psychological analysis of their target, and then there are all the various dwarf skills.

 

Do it right, and it could even cover the whole arc. I'd rather see a plan slowly coming together, step-by-step, as they gather information and supplies and get things in place, building toward a big climax than see them run around uselessly for eight or so episodes before suddenly being able to easily solve the problem at the last second.  So, say, start the arc with them learning what they're up against and getting the idea for how to go about fighting it, with a ticking clock of them knowing they have to do it before a certain time. Each episode would cover them putting a particular part of the plan in place while they're holding off the bad guy. Then the finale would be it all coming together, with the requisite last-second disaster that forces them to improvise.

 

Oh, and the fairybacks could be about some time in the past when each character gained the skill or did something similar to what they're being called on to do for that particular part of the plan.

Edited January 30, 2015 by Shanna Marie

[tennisgurl]

I would watch the crap out of that!

[Curio]

Shanna Marie, that all sounds fabulous and stuff...but where does the deus ex machina come in? Or freezing the main characters so they can't do anything in the final battle? And as a viewer, I'd be confused if I had to follow a season-long plan coming together.

 

[/sarcasm]

[Kktjones]

Love this idea! It reminds me somewhat of the Season 3 finale - Emma and Hook had to use their "wits" to solve a specific problem. Of course there were obstacles along the way they had to overcome, but they were able to adjust on the fly and succeed at the end. It felt so much more satisfying because they had to work together as a team and didn't rely on magic or some last minute solution from out of the blue. Wish the writers would read these forums - you guys have so many good ideas.

Edited January 30, 2015 by Kktjones

[Shanna Marie]

Shanna Marie, that all sounds fabulous and stuff...but where does the deus ex machina come in? Or freezing the main characters so they can't do anything in the final battle?

That would be the improvising at the end after the inevitable disaster throws a monkey wrench into their plans. After all that planning and buildup, everyone but Regina will be frozen and helpless, and then Regina will realize (with no evidence and for no apparent reason) that she could have defeated the villain all along because the ring she's been wearing all season is actually an item of great power that she can now use because her heart is so pure. So she can just walk in and take the villain's item that makes him/her powerful. Never mind all that sneaking about, lock picking, charming the guard dogs, distracting the villain, and all that.

 

At least, that's how this show would do it. God forbid we let multiple people contribute, pay off anything that's been set up or set up the eventual payoff.

[tennisgurl]

Let multiple people contribute?!?! What is this sorcery?!

[Delphi]

That sounds amazing. Kind of like where I thought 3A was going to go but didn't, a pirate, a villain, a Prince. Sigh, what could have been.

[Geeni]

I would love to see an episode where there is no crisis to solve one day, but where the characters are living their everyday lives and doing normal things and the biggest problem they face is someone's car not starting or something, or for one of the characters still trying to figure out how microwaves work. Just a normal day in SB, basically. I know that's asking too much because it would mean actual character development and no plot, but still.

[scarynikki12]

Since 4B will be Regina centric (not a spoiler, common sense) and Maleficent will be back, I'd like a revisit to Mal's episode 2 line "all power comes with a price".  If everyone were to realize that magic has no price, and that it was just some really good PR on Rumpel's part, then it could reset that particular part of the show's mythology in a more organic way.  Then maybe the good magic users could start to balance out the bad and the villains might actually have formidable opponents. 

 

I would also like to see some consequences from the search for the Author.  I'd like to see him point out that he's merely the scribe (or librarian as was pointed out after the fall finale), has no control over what actually happens, but has the ability to show what would have happened.  Then he shows Regina that, yes, she and Robin would have inexplicably started making out within seconds of meeting but also what would have happened next: that she would have joined his band of outlaws rather than Marian, that they would have been on the run for a few years but also that Rumpel would have found them, killed Robin, manipulated her into casting the Curse all the same, only this time the general timeline is off and Snow and Charming aren't married or expecting when Rumpel needs the name of the Savior.  Instead, it's little Alex who is sent through the wardrobe by Cinderella moments after her birth, she grows up in the foster system like Emma, but does not meet Neal or get pregnant as a teenager.  Therefore Henry does not ever exist (yay!).  Alex does make her way to Storybrooke and break the Curse like Emma did (maybe she meets her True Love among the cursed and their big smooch breaks it), and everyone reunites with their loved ones.  This time, since there would be no one to play mediator between Regina and the Savior, there is no one to step in when the angry mob goes after her in the aftermath.  The alternative timeline ends with Regina being executed.  Actually, I'd really like to see this now. 

 

I'd also like a unicorn.  Maybe Mal can hook me up with one from the same pet store she got hers from?

[Mari]

The alternative timeline ends with Regina being executed.  Actually, I'd really like to see this now. 

 

I'd also like a unicorn.  Maybe Mal can hook me up with one from the same pet store she got hers from?

Sign me up for this storyline and the unicorn, too, please.  I promise not to name him something like "Mr. Sparkles".  The name would be dignified, but not pretentious. 

 

This storyline would be wonderful.  It even makes Neal/Baelfire's possible return palatable, because it would get rid of not only Henry, but everything before and after Henry.  And if Regina came back with the new, improved self-awareness feature, I might not even mind her return.

[FurryFury]

Wow, making Alexandra the Neville to Emma's Harry is a great idea. I'd love to see it.

[Selina K]

I want A&E to explain how they reconcile 'evil isn't born, it's made' with the entire Author storyline.  Right now I am seeing predestination (author) versus free will (evil is made) and I'm not seeing how the two walk hand in hand in the same show.  If the author writes you as a villain, does it mean the Author is 'making' you evil, therefore you have no free will, which essentially means you were born to be evil?

[Camera One]

I think A&E might respond that Regina did make her own choices to become evil.  However, she has reformed and she is trying to be good, but she can't escape the label of villain, so the goal is to make the Author re-categorize her as no-longer a villain, which would permit the rewards that heroes supposedly get (a happy ending).  

Edited February 7, 2015 by Camera One

[KingOfHearts]

I hope Cruella's flashback takes in London. I don't want a retelling of 101 Dalmatians, but I'd love to meet Anita and Roger. We definitely need more Land Without Magic interaction. I want to see how Cruella's been able to get so rich! (With that fancy car in the promo!)

Edited February 8, 2015 by KingOfHearts

[Curio]

The Princess Bride was on TV the other day and couldn't help but watch the whole thing, commercials included. (I told myself I'd just watch one scene, but that turned into two scenes, and then another scene, and then eventually the credits rolled and 3 hours went by.) But it got me to thinking...

Why the hell can't Once be more like that?! They literally have all the ingredients and the formula to make it happen...but they just don't. I want to see our heroes go on fun adventures through fire swamps and storm castles, I want to see dashing rescues and sword fights, I want to see the villains get knocked down a peg and embrace their evilness, I want to see unique partnerships and friendships, I want to see fantastical landscapes and scenery, I want to see a big damn romance between Westley Hook and Buttercup Emma, I want whimsical and funny jokes combined with action adventure.
 
But what do we get instead? Season after season, a new villain du jour comes in and we have to learn about their sad story while our heroes just sit around and drink coffee at Granny's and never address any of their personal problems or have normal conversations with each other. I don't want to know the sob story behind why Prince Humperdinck is such a douchebag, I want to see the heroes call him out for being a douchebag and knock him down a peg and not feel bad about it or get a black stain on their heart because of it.

 

So my wish is for this show to become more like The Princess Bride and to take itself less seriously, let the villains be assholes without wasting our time with the inevitable sob story, embrace their already fleshed out heroes, and give them some fun adventures to go on outside of Storybrooke.

Edited February 19, 2015 by Curio

[FurryFury]

I have a confession to make... I don't really like The Princess Bride. I kinda suspect you need to watch it in a younger age than mid-20s to really love this film. I don't dislike it, it's OK, but just... way too cheesy for me, I guess. I did like to learn the origin of all those memes, but as a story, it didn't grab me at all.

[Curio]

I have a confession to make... I don't really like The Princess Bride.

 

Inconceivable! (Sorry.) Meh, it's not for everyone. The story isn't necessarily groundbreaking, (I don't think it's supposed to be), but it's just a fun and entertaining adventure to get lost in for a couple hours if you're in the mood. It's cheesy, but it's well-written cheesy. So many good one-liners, characters, and famous scenes have come out of that movie. Or maybe that's just the nostalgia talking.

[KingOfHearts]

 

I have a confession to make... I don't really like The Princess Bride. I kinda suspect you need to watch it in a younger age than mid-20s to really love this film. I don't dislike it, it's OK, but just... way too cheesy for me, I guess. I did like to learn the origin of all those memes, but as a story, it didn't grab me at all.

Might just be an American thing. A lot of us saw it as kids, so it's mostly for the nostalgia factor, as Curio said.

 

On an unrelated note, if you could have a Once episode mimic a Lost episode, which Lost episode would it be? I'd like to see an Expose-type episode showing what the background characters were doing during major events. They could really have their own spin-off show called Once Upon a Time in Offscreenville.

Edited February 20, 2015 by KingOfHearts

[tennisgurl]

That would be awesome! I would love an episode like The Zeppo from Buffy, where we see a big dramatic episode, but all from Zanders point of view, while he`s off having his own goofy adventure. Do a typical Once style monster attack, but from the point of view of Dr. Whale, or Gypetto, or just some random towns-person. Play it for drama, about how the issues of the non Charming`s are being ignored, or play if for comedy, like showing how ridiculous the shows plots and characters can seem from the outside.  

 

Or see some kind of support group, where they all talk about how hard it is to adjust to living both a fairy tale life, and a modern one, or they just sit around and complain about all the crap they have to deal with. Maybe wonder why the woman who might have killed their loved ones is just walking around, palling around with the king and queen? That would be amazing. 

[Camera One]

Yeah, at this point, I don't care about the overaching plot anymore.  A few fillers every season would be just fine in my books.

Edited February 20, 2015 by Camera One

[The Cake is a Pie]

If we're wishing for a supporting character point-of-view episode, my first vote is for Pongo.

Edited February 20, 2015 by The Cake is a Pie

[FurryFury]

Might just be an American thing. A lot of us saw it as kids, so it's mostly for the nostalgia factor, as Curio said.

 

Yeah, this is what I've figured. Also, Buttercup is way too much of a damsel of distress for my liking. I can't help but be annoyed. After all, all the girl power on Once is probably its biggest draw for me.

Edited February 20, 2015 by FurryFury

[regularlyleaded]

For what it's worth, I think the appeal of The Princess Bride just depends on the type of films you find fun and/or funny. For me, I loved The Princess Bride (and it still makes me laugh) because it was sweet, but fun and clever with plenty of tongue and cheek humor. It was irreverent, and yet self-aware of what it was. It poked fun at itself and the many tropes that are common in childhood fairytales, and other silly swashbuckling stories of adventure. I mean, come on. "He's only 'mostly dead'" Heehee! Just thinking of those scenes with Miracle Max make me laugh..."Have fun stormin' da castle!" And the scene where Buttercup is going to kill herself by plunging a dagger into her chest and Westley stops her by saying "It would be a shame to ruin such fine breasts." (Or something like that). I mean, it's silly but to me it's also poking fun of at Shakespeare like scenes where the tragic romantic character, overcome with grief for the loss of their love, commits suicide. Especially Prince Humperdink's "Consider me an alternative to suicide." LOL.

 

It's an endearing, humorous and silly movie, but that doesn't mean everyone will enjoy that same sense of humor that the movie (and book!) was reveling in. And there's nothing wrong with that. Different strokes for different folks.

[Shanna Marie]

I loved that The Princess Bride was both a brilliant spoof of that kind of story and a good example of that kind of story. However, I don't look at it as particularly romantic (and the book seemed to agree with that viewpoint, while the movie was a little less cynical), all those "as you wish"es aside. We hardly saw Westley and Buttercup together. What he was willing to do for her was romantic, but I'm not sure she was worthy of it. What I loved was the humor and swashbuckling.

 

Which is something I'd like to see more of in this show. My wish would be for some kind of quest plot -- something that gives at least some of the characters an active, positive goal instead of just running around reacting to everything the villain does until the last second when they pull something out of thin air. Say, there's some magical object or even person they need to defeat the villain, and so Emma, Hook and maybe David (my personal choices) have to go off somewhere to find it, whether it's back to the Enchanted Forest, some other land in that world, Wonderland, the World Without Color, Alice's pseudo-Victorian Not!England, or even the outside World Without Magic. I lean toward the world of the Enchanted Forest because I have a couple of wishes there. One, I'd like to see someone mistake David for James and see Hook's reaction to that when he's expecting to be the one seen as the villain, and two, I'd like to get more into Hook's past, perhaps by visiting the place he grew up or him having to confront the consequences of some bad deed he did as a pirate, or even for Emma and David to find some evidence of something heroic he did as a naval officer.

[KingOfHearts]

The show could probably benefit from some sort of separation or reset to the main cast. They all seem to be relatively happy living together at the moment. That could be utilized to get audiences to want them back together if they were torn away from each other. Right now they've fallen into reactively fighting against the Big Bad of the Week while intermittently enjoying small town life. That might work for some shows, but Once has promised and shown so much that it feels counterproductive. There were better, bigger goals in S1 and S2. Even 3A was unique because it brought the characters to unfamiliar territory and they acted differently. I'd like more of that sort of scenario, where we can get some growth and we can miss the days when Storybrooke was happy.

[Camera One]

That reminds me how much potential was lost when they threw out that awesome reset they had in "Going Home" out the window.  Oz would have been a great location for an alternate setting, and I'm not sure what is left which can be that fantastical.  At this point, most scenarios would have been "done before" by this show.

 

I'm sure they will plan another big twist for the end of 4B.  Maybe they'll do an alt-reality, and someone will "awaken" and need to convince everyone else to leave and jump through a portal or something (we have to go back!).  This whole author thing is made for that... the Queens of Darkness die but they succeed in changing the stories, and the last montage of 4B will be everyone in the Enchanted Forest in opposite of their usual roles so we would all be "shocked".  

Edited March 8, 2015 by Camera One

[Camera One]

I was thinking about a possible alternate reality.  If Snow had found out that Cora killed Ava, this could have been the basis for a role reversal with Regina being the blameless victim.  Snow tells Leopold that Cora murdered Ava, and Leopold asks Rumple to kill/neutralize Cora, which he does with pleasure.  Snow grows up angry and when she is of age, she sends guards to imprison Regina and her father in the dungeons, as revenge.  Rumple cultivates this hatred in Snow, and teaches her magic, so she becomes the one to cast the Dark Curse, and Snow takes Leopold's heart to do it.  Meanwhile, Charming's father dying made him angry at the world, and green with jealousy when he finds out his twin brother became a Prince.  So he becomes unhinged and takes magical lessons from Rumple as well, as a candidate for enacting the Dark Curse.  As an evil warlock, he joins Snow in power.  This would be a lesson to us all that Snow and Charming are no better than Regina and Zelena.  So then in this alternate world, Snow and Charming are the Evil Dictators and Emma would need to save poor defenseless Regina from their dungeons.  And Emma ends up having to firebomb Snow and Charming, as they richly deserve when they refuse to leave this alternate reality since deep inside, they crave power and want to hurt others.  Only Emma and Regina escape from this alternate world, and they go back to Our World and find Henry and live happily ever after.

Edited March 8, 2015 by Camera One

[tennisgurl]

I want them to use the storybook stuff to let Emma see the things that Regina has done. Especially the murder of Graham. The writers can try to excuse the multiple rapes, but they cant excuse the murder.

 

I could get behind alternate realities. If they would just take a second to explain this author thing first.   

[The Cake is a Pie]

As much as I'm enjoying Cruella, I'm afraid I'll be in villain overload after this season. I've wished for this before, but I still really wish it could happen: the Storybrooke barrier goes down and it becomes visible to "the real world." There is no main "villain" during the season, rather we have the SBers dealing with "normals" coming into town and having to deal with issues like hiding magic from the muggles. Right now there really isn't any limit to the magic users other than crossing the town line. It would be interesting to see them struggling with wanting to use magic, but having to hide it from the outsiders.

It's too bad they already burned the "Home Office" concept, because instead of having villains to fight, they could have had a long running storyline with a shady anti-magic organization trying to expose Storybrooke. If they want new characters to introduce, there can be no shortage of other fairytale characters who migrated to the Land Without Magic, only to hear about SB and come into town to see if the rumors of a magical town are true.

[FurryFury]

They could also make a huge threat appear in EFL (now that almost no, if any, people are left there), rally the ogres, other magical creatures who didn't get through the curse and try to invade SB. Really, there are so many ideas more fresh than "Disney villain of the half-season". (Well, Ingrid wasn't exactly Disney, and I'd argue it worked well for her).

[KingOfHearts]

 

It would be interesting to see them struggling with wanting to use magic, but having to hide it from the outsiders.

That would be an awesome show. Have them try to keep people away from Main Street while a giant monster is attacking it.

 

I'd like to see a threat get outside Storybrooke.

[Shanna Marie]

I'd love to see them do a reversal of the season 3 finale and have Emma and Hook go on a quest or adventure in our world. Then he'd be the one in an unfamiliar place, not sure how to fit in, while she'd be the one who knew the ropes. I guess they'd still have magic, since her magic appears to work even in the World Without Magic, but it would be fun to see them both having to at least pretend to be "normal." She couldn't use magic publicly, so no major jazz hands. They could do all the usual quest steps but in places that are mundane to us but that would be strange to Hook. He's usually pretty good about pretending to know what's going on, but if he got a lot thrown at him all at once, he might still have some fish-out-of-water moments.

[tennisgurl]

I want the gang to get the hell out of Storebrook for awhile. Have them to go Agrabah, or the Victorian era with a steampunk edge, or the Land without Color for awhile. See how they do there. Or, have them wander into the Star Wars universe, where they have to be dependent on technology, or the Marvel universe, and have an Agents of Shield cross over. I don't know, just something to change things up.

 

They have a whole damn multiverse here, where, technically, all fictional realities exist. Cant they explore a little more? We have established that its really freaking easy to journey through worlds, lets journey! 

[OnceUponAJen]

Hmmm, if we're wishing, I'd love to see Emma and Hook adventuring at sea. It would probably be crazy expensive to do, but it would be nice to see Hook being a captain again, and Emma a little out of her element. Heck let's make it a sea-faring time travel adventure where they have to wear cool costumes too.

[Zuleikha]

I'd like to see Belle giving people their objects back from Mr. Gold's pawnshop. She runs the library, so she doesn't need the pawn shop and she knows that most of those objects were extracted in one-sided deals (and some of them were outright stolen and others seem to have been relocated by the curse). I don't want a big episode about this or anything--just a background scene and then Rumple having to deal with the loss of his objects. 

 

I would also like to see Tiana and Jasmine to complete out the princesses--preferably with good, interesting stories.

 

I also think it would be fun to have this season end with finding the Author and some kind of kerfluffle that sets up an alternate universe for next season so 5A can be a Mirror Mirror style alternate universe. I feel like that would just be a fun way to inject some freshness into the series, and be fun for the actors by giving them the opportunity to play very different versions of their characters. Give us Dark Snow. Give us some crack ship pairings. Give us Belle as the Dark One and Rumple in the Mirror or some other craziness. Then the big finale for the season can be the fixing to return us to our established characters. 

[Curio]

Hmmm, if we're wishing, I'd love to see Emma and Hook adventuring at sea. It would probably be crazy expensive to do, but it would be nice to see Hook being a captain again, and Emma a little out of her element. Heck let's make it a sea-faring time travel adventure where they have to wear cool costumes too.

I also think it would be fun to have this season end with finding the Author and some kind of kerfluffle that sets up an alternate universe for next season so 5A can be a Mirror Mirror style alternate universe.

 

Combined scenario:

Operation Mongoose is successful and The Author is able to rewrite part of the book, but something goes awry and we're given an alternate universe timeline where Regina never cast the Dark Curse. Thus, all of our characters are sent back to the Enchanted Forest to live as if the curse never happened, Emma would have grown up as royalty, and she'd also be the only one who has her real memories of Storybrooke. The only thing that can send everyone back to Storybrooke and the real timeline is a True Love's Kiss™, so naturally, Emma thinks of using that with her parents to get back. But (plot twist) right when Emma goes to do this plan, the villains du jour capture Snow and David and they're taken as hostages to a different land. With Henry nonexistent in this timeline, that means Emma has to set off on a journey across the seas to save her parents and break the alternate universe curse. But luckily for Emma, Hook also happens to be in the Enchanted Forest on a brief mission for Pan and bumps into Princess Emma on her quest. She's able to convince him to help her find her parents and they get to go on a sea-faring adventure where Emma sees Hook in full-on sea captain mode barking orders at his crew. Even though this version of Hook has no idea who Emma is, meaning a True Love's Kiss™ wouldn't work right away, Emma realizes it could work if his feelings eventually worked up to her same level. (Callback to Snow and Charming's plot in Season 1.) So now it's only a matter of time before one of two plans happen: 1) Emma finds her parents and True Love's Kiss™ happens, or 2) Emma bonds with old-school Hook enough to make a True Love's Kiss™ happen.

[OnceUponAJen]

I love it! I get everything I asked for, and Emma saves the day...which hasn't happened since S1.

[scarynikki12]

That's ultimately the key for me if they do go through with the Author having the power to change the past.  Someone would need to retain their memories, because this couldn't be a permanent change, and who better than Emma?  Well, Regina would have to retain her memories as well, so that she could be aware of how her selfish desires resulted in Henry not existing.  Regina getting her way and not knowing the cost would undermine such a dramatic story shift so she needs to be in on it.  Of course, she'll undoubtedly assume that Emma is somehow to blame, and revert to form and try to destroy her but Regina becoming the Big Bad again would probably be a breath of fresh air for her characterization. 

 

But Emma needs to be the one to save the day, however it may happen, because this is supposedly her fairy tale and the show needs to get back to that. 

[Shanna Marie]

But Emma needs to be the one to save the day, however it may happen, because this is supposedly her fairy tale and the show needs to get back to that.

After two arcs in which she's built up as being special and important, only to be shoved aside and/or frozen at the critical moment, it's about time. Maybe the "great potential for darkness" buildup (while otherwise reduced to being a bit player in Regina's story) will end up meaning she finally gets to do something at the climax of the arc.

[HoodlumSheep]

I was rewatching the pilot of Galavant today, and I still wish they'd just do a fun crossover or commercials together. Or even just have it as a dvd extra. Or just have a few of the characters/actors pop up in the background randomly.

[Curio]

Speaking of Galavant, when will we find out if it gets a Season 2? If it does somehow miraculously get renewed, I want to know right away so I can start petitioning Colin for a guest star role...