GOING TO EXTREMES | After seeing the show suffer through multiples stops and starts since its winter hiatus (a problem that a lass named Alice might remedy next TV season), Adam Horowitz says that he and fellow series creator Eddy Kitsis look forward to presenting “an uninterrupted string of episodes where we can really tell a story and build to a finish we’re really, really excited for the audience to see.”
Speaking with TVLine from the set in Vancouver, where he and Kitsis were overseeing the filming of the Season 2 finale (airing May 12), Horowitz eagerly anticipated exploring “two extremes” over this final run of episodes: the intimate, and the scope. “The intimate of what our cast can pull off and the emotions they can convey always floors us,” he says. “As does the scope of the storytelling, and the visuals that our crew is able to achieve.”
SAVED BY THE BELLE? | Kicking things off this Sunday is “Lacey,” an episode in which amnesic Belle adopts an alter ego and delves into a not-at-all-provincial life. Explaining the greater purpose of this, the first of the final four hours, Kitsis says, “We understand that Rumple and/or Mr. Gold is a man who has darkness inside him, and all season he’s been searching for the light, for a way to be better now that his son is in town. And we also know there is a prophecy that said Henry would be his ‘undoing’, and he said to the seer, ‘Well, I’ll just kill him.’ But now that it’s his grandson, he’s facing a conundrum, and Belle has always been the person who’s brought out the best in him. What ‘Lacey’ does is watch Rumple struggle with his inner demon.”
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Speaking with TVLine from the set in Vancouver, where he and Kitsis were overseeing the filming of the Season 2 finale (airing May 12), Horowitz eagerly anticipated exploring “two extremes” over this final run of episodes: the intimate, and the scope. “The intimate of what our cast can pull off and the emotions they can convey always floors us,” he says. “As does the scope of the storytelling, and the visuals that our crew is able to achieve.”
SAVED BY THE BELLE? | Kicking things off this Sunday is “Lacey,” an episode in which amnesic Belle adopts an alter ego and delves into a not-at-all-provincial life. Explaining the greater purpose of this, the first of the final four hours, Kitsis says, “We understand that Rumple and/or Mr. Gold is a man who has darkness inside him, and all season he’s been searching for the light, for a way to be better now that his son is in town. And we also know there is a prophecy that said Henry would be his ‘undoing’, and he said to the seer, ‘Well, I’ll just kill him.’ But now that it’s his grandson, he’s facing a conundrum, and Belle has always been the person who’s brought out the best in him. What ‘Lacey’ does is watch Rumple struggle with his inner demon.”
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So not so many interruptions for us in the future :) NICE!
ReplyDeleteDoes Belle REALLY bring out the best in Rumple? :S
ReplyDeleteI'm cranky about what they say about Emma. They talk about her not being comfortable with things and blah blah but we haven't actually SEEN any of that. She basically just stands there blank faced until the plot needs her. They've really let Emma's characterization down this season
What gets me is this line: "We understand that Rumple and/or Mr. Gold is a man who has darkness inside him, and all season he’s been searching for the light, for a way to be better now that his son is in town."
ReplyDeleteDid he now? When and where? I'd like to watch that again, because all I've seen is Gold doing whatever he damn pleases and getting exactly what he wanted. Belle loosing her memory is the only exception.
Belle storyline is exciting.
ReplyDeleteAll of this time, Belle was Gold's "moral compass" so to say - as Gold/Rumple is someone who is so used to doing whatever he wants that he just is unable to grasp when to stop by himself.
Now with Belle taken out of equation, the situation might be reversed - watching Gold HAVING to find good in himself not only for himself, but for belle too and having to save her is a welcome change.
Because while Belle might have brought out the best out of Rumple, with this situation Rumple will be forced to bring out the best out of himself - and that is when a true redemption can start
Again, they are promising loads of surprises. Show, don't promise unless you plan on delivering!
ReplyDeleteHook is coming back under "surprising" circumstances? Let me guess: Tamara decides he might be a good ally, she promises to teach him a way to kill Rumple and that's how he's brought back to the story. Wow, I would never have guessed that if it weren't all over the promo for the next episode.
Right? EXACTLY.
ReplyDeleteWe've actually seen him do the exact OPPOSITE. We've seen him organize the murder of a past lover, beat people (even when begged not to), curse Regina (when specifically asked not to), treat women as possessions (never gonna get over him beating Hook and saying he "took" Milah from him), fuck over everyone so he can have magic, etc etc.
I mean, we've seen Regina try and stumble/fail but we've actually been able to SEE her try and speak about the changes she was trying to make. Like, A LOT. But Rumple has just done the same as always.
Unless Hook flies in on a unicorn, using magic to give all the Storybrooke citizens kittens, I really don't see how any circumstances will be surprising.
ReplyDeleteShe really isn't a very good moral compass since he still does all the same horrific things as before.
ReplyDeleteWell he has not tried to kill everyone lately(unlike certain evil queen), so that's a progress
ReplyDelete:S Other than Cora? Or Hook? Or Regina? Or Smee?
ReplyDeleteSounds like Lacey might have the opposite effect on Rumpel to what Belle did.
ReplyDeleteIt also sounds like the producers are just as frustrated as we are by the constant stops and starts of Season 2. I really hope Wonderland proves to be a worthy companion to Once (perhaps even better, given all the mistakes Once has made this year) so that this problem is not so pronounced next time around.
He didn't because it doesn't suit him. Regina is all about the drama and the "let's kill all these bastards" gesture. Rumple is subtler, but he still eliminates whoever is on his way (and way more effectively than the evil queen, I might add). He only failed in getting Regina's soul sucked by the wraith, but he did kill Cora, eliminate Smee and didn't kill Hook because a car ran him over, otherwise he would have.
ReplyDeleteAnd let's not forget Henry. We still don't know exactly what his plans for the kid are.
Right? And it came right after threatening to kill ALL the Charmings. Of course he's going to protect them right now because it's in his benefit to do so. And Emma has magic, something he can twist to his benefit, like he already has, and like he did with Regina.
ReplyDeleteEveryone wanted to kill Cora, for various reasons and no one should blame them for that, considering all Cora did.
ReplyDeleteHe decided not to kill Hook for Belle and in my opinion, that's why Hook is still alive.
Regina and Smee are those pesky relapses that keep happening when Gold decides that his own power is more important than his redemption - hence why current storyline is great for making him actually WANT redemption.
Hmmm. no, I think you can blame them for it. It's still murder and Rumple manipulating Snow into keeping him alive was pretty vicious. And considering that Rumple has now murdered two of his lovers, it doesn't really bode well for the girl he "loves".
ReplyDeleteI don't agree. That scene came across, to me, less like he didn't kill Hook for Belle as much as it was the same reason he let Hook live before, because it hurt him. The whole thing came across as incredibly abusive towards Belle, just showing how brainwashed and abused she was.
If he wants redemption though it's really, really far away.
Thank you,unfortunately there has been almost no character development for her character all season..
ReplyDeleteSo disappointed in that. The entirety of the FTL foray should have been about developing Snow and Emma as characters, both together and individually, and they didn't at all.
ReplyDeleteThis is actually pretty plausible! ;)
ReplyDeleteI love you two, @disqus_uBicBtsBpz:disqus @inhighheels:disqus , you always voice my frustrations with this show so perfectly!
ReplyDeleteOnly thing is, don't be so damn fast, I can't possibly get a reaction in before you have already said it! :P
Awwww, :D
ReplyDeleteOh, that's so nice! *--*
ReplyDeleteAnd I've been procrastinating and checking for spoilers all day long. Really fast reactions to posts, really slow reactions outside of the internet lol
Nothing wrong with that! ;)
ReplyDeleteHehe, a lot wrong with it, but thanks anyway. And, dude, what is it with people? Now my thank you comment got voted down. Just... WTF? We need a manual for down-voting asap.
ReplyDeleteYou mean like all the other 'surprises' we didn't see coming? Yup Also lol at your comment getting downvoted. I guess we got some angry Hook/Emma shippers doing the rounds.
ReplyDeleteHahaha. Downvotes and upvotes on this site don't mean anything. People will downvote you automatically if they don't like you or try to get other comments to the top.
ReplyDeleteI have given up trying to make sense of it. Though diehard fans tend to downvote pretty easily when you criticize their show. :')
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, these downvotes rarely make any sense! Haha, and dude? Really? ;)
ReplyDeleteI can't call myself a diehard fan of something unless I care enough to critique, criticize and analyze.
ReplyDeleteThey don't like us, so they downvote us, even comments that aren't even related to anything!
ReplyDeleteAll your fault, @disqus_uBicBtsBpz:disqus . I'm a lovely person, how can anyone not like me? Besides, I like Regina. I'm the beacon of perfection! Tsc, tsc...
ReplyDelete"Unless Hook flies in on a unicorn, using magic to give all the Storybrooke citizens kittens"
ReplyDeleteI want to see that XD
Which is true for every single character - Morality is exactly that - OUR interests, not that of others(that's charity). For Snow its about appeasing the memories of her mother and what she would count as being "good girl", but that's also just as long as it suits her. And every character has that "limit", somewhat a self-serving motivation for the things they do.
ReplyDeleteThe thing with power is that power ultimately ALWAYS corrupts and stepping over your "limit" makes it easier to do that again(as we are seeing with Snow and have seen with Regina) - Rumple has been over the moral horizon for centuries - so yeah, his line is somewhat blurry, to the point that he is unable to discern which action belongs to which side of that line. Living for centuries while having to tell yourself that what you did is GOOD has that effect.
Belle is something that defines him, anchors him - someone whom he allows to JUDGE him. - because if he has forgotten that defining moment and interest on being good, then he might as well use Belle's own.
So what happens when that is taken away form him? Will he succumb to the old habbits or will fight for Belle, in progress of which, regaining his OWN sense of good and wrong.
Yeah, I understand the idea and agree with you, but I also think the execution is not ideal. I see what they want Belle to mean for Rumple, but I don't see all the progress the writers advocate for his character. Anyway, let's hope that changes.
ReplyDelete*nearly chokes on drink* :P
ReplyDeleteIt probably is all my fault. Whatevs. Downvotes on the internet have absolutely no bearing on my sense of self and in no way influence me to change my feelings on things. So, good try, haters.
ReplyDeleteIf anything, downvotes make you feel slightly... important? I mean, people actually go to the trouble of reading your stuff, even though they don't like you, just so they can disagree (as senseless as that might be) and vote you down. Pretty impressive, IMO.
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