just throwing in my 2 cents... i'm never right, but i had to get it out so here it is.
If it does happen, i don't think ouat- per say- is getting another season. i truly think that EC is right and that this is it=ouat's end. he kept mentioning series finale and i think he meant it. saying that they're treating this as a series finale just in case it's just damage control in my book. i can't see it going forward, in whatever form, simply b/c i think they'll barely scrap a 0.7-0.8 when they return.
imo they're just trying to label a sort of a spin off as a reboot and count it as a renewal if it happens? - dunno if i make any sense.
realistically speaking, they can't get another season w/ all the mains, simply b/c it's way too expensive for the network considering the ratings.
that's why, my gut feeling is telling me that almost all of the current mains are leaving, except one, or maybe two, in a *poor, imo* attempt to keep some of the fans and that the reboot thingy will have as leads people who aren't that expensive. it's just business for them so they'll probably try to keep the ratings, while shifting the focus so that it's profitable- if it does happen, which again, imo, it's unlikely.
i can only see lana staying... as regina could still be searching her HE or doing whatever else.
As for the jen leaving while ouat goes on... i kind of disagree, that we can be sure that's happening after reading EC's interview... he spoke w/ finality about ouat as a whole - using series finale- not only regarding jen and if he thinks it's the end, then it's pretty natural to say that she'll end the series. Either way, i know that jen and colin have different contracts and so on but i just can't see one staying and the other leaving...
it might be my coping mechanism, i'm aware, and i'm only basing this on the fact that they went to atvfest together when colin only had a cameo in that screening. i know, i know, perhaps he was the only one free and that's why they brought him... but usually when stuff like that happens and one of the actors leaves, while the other doesn’t, they try to get their audience used w/ the idea by trying to separate the actors at cons – for e.g not seating them together, avoid qs about their ship… that’s why it wouldn’t make sense in my book, to bring them both to atvfest if they knew that jen would be out- colin only had a cameo in that ep, so why bring him when they could’ve just avoided having jen and colin together?i’ve seen it happen before and that’s the standard procedure
)…And also, 3.5 months ago colin might have been auditioning… he posted that boomerang vid on ig made by a casting director, so who knows?
That being said, I don’t think they’ll get another season, in whatever form.… I know that castle had some bts drama, but that show was cheaper, had better ratings, and yet they canceled w/o announcing the final season.
I only wish for everybody to get their HEA w/o a shadow of a doubt and if it were for jen to truly leave while colin would still be on the show, that couldn’t mean good things for cs, right? I’d hate another tvd repeat, and I’ll stop watching. I’m never wrong about endgames, and if if it were for colin to stay they would most likely mess everything up… and that’s not something that I would be willing to accept b/c I crave closure. Hopefully they’ll announce something soon and even if they won’t, things will ‘leak’ soon