Master storytellers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz ("Lost," "Tron: Legacy") invite everyone to Storybrooke, Maine, a small town that probably won't show up on one's GPS, but it's a place where magic is coming!
To ensure that no one in fairytale land – especially Snow White – had any more "happily ever afters," Evil Queen Regina cast a curse which trapped the fairytale characters, frozen in time, and brought them into our modern world. Although still alive, they had no knowledge of their former selves and were sleepwalking through life – ageless -- for 28 years, until a savior arrived in the form of Emma Swan. Unbeknownst to Emma, she was the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, who had whisked her out of fairytale land and into our world as an infant to save her from the curse. Abandoned as a baby, Emma's life was anything but magical; her last job was as a bail bondsperson, but she mostly drifted without much of a life plan. When her 10-year-old son, Henry -- whom she had given up for adoption years earlier -- appeared on her doorstep with a book of fairytales and a wild story about how Emma was the progeny of fairytale characters trapped in a town called Storybrooke, she thought he was crazy. But curiosity got the better of her, and when she brought Henry back to the town – where Regina, ever the control freak, had made herself mayor and was also Henry's adoptive mother -- Emma soon discovered that Storybrooke was more than it seemed. Over time she came to believe the stories were true, began to see cracks in the curse, and was finally able to break it.
Reality and myth were merged as the fairytale characters began awakening, once the curse was lifted, and remembered who they were. But to their dismay they were not transported back to fairytale land. And to make matters worse, Rumplestiltskin – aka Mr. Gold – in an effort to gain the upper hand in his power struggle with Regina, introduced magic into the town. In fairytales magic has its place, but in our world it can have unfathomable consequences. Now the fairytale characters must contend with magic in their quest to find a way home, as new fairytale characters are revealed, old acquaintances are revisited, and some we had come to believe could be trusted will turn against their own kind.
"Once Upon a Time" stars Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret, Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, Lana Parrilla as Evil Queen/Regina, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/David, Emilie de Ravin as Belle, Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills, Meghan Ory as Red Riding Hood/Ruby and Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold.
UPCOMING EPISODES
2.15 The Queen is Dead
MARY MARGARET VOWS TO KEEP RUMPLESTILTSKIN'S DAGGER AWAY FROM CORA AND REGINA, AND THE BLUE FAIRY OFFERS SNOW WHITE AN UNCONVENTIONAL SPELL THAT COULD HELP SAVE HER DYING MOTHER, THE QUEEN, ON ABC'S "ONCE UPON A TIME"
Lesley Nicol (Mrs. Patmore on "Downton Abbey") Guest Stars as Queen Eva's Servant, Johanna
"The Queen is Dead" - Upon discovering Cora and Regina's plan to find and take possession of Rumplestiltskin's dagger, Mary Margaret, with the aid of David and Mother Superior, makes it her mission to find it first; and while Mr. Gold continues his quest in New York to reunite with son Bae, Hook devises a plan to rid himself of a crocodile. Meanwhile, in the fairytale land that was, the Blue Fairy offers Snow White an unconventional enchantment that could help save her dying mother, Queen Eva, on "Once Upon a Time," SUNDAY, MARCH 3 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET STV) on the ABC Television Network.
"Once Upon a Time" stars Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret, Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, Lana Parrilla as Evil Queen/Regina, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/David, Emilie de Ravin as Belle, Colin O'Donoghue as Hook, Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills, Meghan Ory as Red Riding Hood/Ruby, and Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold.
Guest starring are Barbara Hershey as Cora, Keegan Connor Tracy as Mother Superior/Blue Fairy, Michael Raymond-James as Neal Cassidy, Bailee Madison as young Snow White, Lesley Nicol as Johanna, Rena Sofer as Eva, Duncan Ollerenshaw as royal doctor and Sonequa Martin-Green as Tamara.
For episode 2.15, the guest role of Edith is being cast. She's 50, kind, and serves a wealthy family whose members think of her as one of their own, and to whom she's very loyal. (Source)
Tamara is described as African American, Late 20s to mid 30s.
She's beautiful, artistic, relaxed, friendly, charming and smart. She's also ambitious, fearless and a born leader, and she won't stop until she gets what she wants. (Source)
@londontheatric Congratulations to @lesley_nicol who will start 2013 filming a guest lead role in Once Upon a Time for ABC America
For episode 2.16, the guest role of "King Xavier" is being cast. he's 45, has a mean sense of humor, and worries about being able to maintain his extravagant lifestyle since gold has become more scarce in his kingdom. Also being cast is the co-star role of a 20-something "Prince Henry" (Regina's father as a young man), whose marriage could change King Xavier's fortunes. (Source)
Thomas: I'll take some Once Upon a Time spoilers!
In the March 7 episode "The Miller's Daughter," Rose McGowan kills it as a young Cora and we get to see how Regina's evil mother became the power-hungry person she is today. We'll also see her first meeting with Rumpelstiltskin, which is, in a word, seductive. (Source)
2.17 Welcome to Storybrooke
2 guest star roles are being cast for episode 2.17: Owen, a free-spirited 10-year-old who is mourning his mother's tragic death; and Ben, a 40-year-old, kind widower who is trying to help his son deal with the loss of his mother. (Source)
For episode #218 of Once Upon a Time, a guest role (preferably with an Asian accent) is being cast: The Healer. He's 60, mystical, powerful, helpful to those in trouble, and makes predictions that can be difficult to understand. (Source)
2.19 Lacey
These 2 roles are being cast for episode 2.19: A Thief, who is male, 30 years old, brave, honorable and steals magic from Rumpelstiltskin; and Keith, who is 35, bitter due to a hard life, and likes to chase women. (Source)
There are “major plans” for Cora this season (possible 3-episode arc)
We'll learn Charming's real name.
Question: I have a burning Once Upon a Time question — was the outside world affected when the curse was broken? —Jen
Ausiello: That’s what EP Adam Horowitz referred to as “an excellent question” when it was lobbed to him at Comic-Con over the weekend.
“I think the best way to answer that,” he responded, “is to say that that will be explicated rather quickly.” Explicate: To analyze and develop (an idea or principle) in detail. (Source)
Question: Any scoop on August from Once Upon a Time? Please don’t say they’re not bringing him back. —Rae
Ausiello: “We are definitely going to tell what happened to Pinocchio,” EP Edward Kitsis assured us at Con. “The last we saw, he was wood.”
Added Horowitz: “We gotta figure out what happened to him. We started the story and we intend to finish it.” (source)
Alexa: What's next for Snow and Charming on OUAT?! Please tell me they won't be getting new love interests!
Relax! It seems like the show's creators are more interested in exploring the relationship between the couple and their daughter than any prospective love interests. "There's a lot of challenges, in terms of this new relationship with their daughter. Rather than focusing on last season, where it was they didn't know who each other were and whether they'll get together and will we overcome the Kathryn of it all, this year it's a whole different set of challenges that this new familial relationship presents," Adam Horowitz explains. (Source)
Loved the Once Upon a Time midseason finale. What's coming up when the show returns? — Joan
NATALIE: The Charming family has been reunited, but look for more bad news on the horizon. When we asked Ginnifer Goodwin and Jennifer Morrison about the joyous reunion, they both offered up ominous answers that may or may not have to do with the arrival of Hook and Cora. "It's, of course, short-lived because yet another obstacle is going to be thrust between all of these characters," Goodwin says, with Morrison adding, "New terrible things need to happen for us to work out." Any guesses as to what's in store for the Storybrooke gang?
Question: Is the Mulan/Aurora arc over on Once Upon a Time? Are they done for the season/forever? –Mary
Ausiello: Mitovich — who just spent a long weekend in Vancouver, where Once shoots — hears that one of the princesses will be seen soon after the show returns from its holiday break (on Jan. 6). (Source)
Adam Horowitz @AdamHorowitzLA Charming's real name coming up soonish. #OnceUponATime #holidayspoilers
COMING UP NEXT | "No one's going to be happy" about the arrival of the pirate brig's passengers, says Jennifer Morrison. "It's too much of a threat to everything that we care about." Speaking in character, she adds, "I don’t really know that much about all these people from this other land, but I do know that those two are dangerous, so I'm certainly not going to want them anywhere near my kid." Also, as revealed in recent weeks: Mulan, Prince Phillip and Smee will each make encores; viewers will meet Dr. Frankenstein's father and brother (played by Gregory Itzin and Chad Collins); Emma's baby daddy Neal Cassidy will be seen again; and Ethan Embry (Can't Hardly Wait) and Sonequa Martin-Green (The Walking Dead) will surface in secret roles. (Source)
Will anything surprise us about the upcoming episodes of Once Upon a Time? — Megan
NATALIE: We know that the flashbacks lead to Regina enacting the curse, but coming trips to the past may surprise you. "We're going to show you some things in our world that you didn't even think were an option," executive producer Edward Kitsis says. Will we see flashbacks to other lands — say, Oz? Kitsis remains coy. "[They'll] center on our characters, but in surprising ways." (Source)
Now that Once Upon a Time‘s Hook is out in the open, will we get to see him interact with the other residents of Storybrooke? –Stefanie
You mean, presuming he survived getting mowed down by The Outsider, right? (Of course he lives.) Well, to perhaps – perhaps! – answer your question, I’ll offer up this scooplet. “Emma’s love life is going to get really complicated,” series cocreator Adam Horowitz told me last week. In fact, across Storybrooke at large, he said, “The permutations of romance will continue to turn as we move forward.” (Source)
Ausiello: Yes! While speaking with Josh Dallas about this week’s David/Charming-heavy episode, Matt Mitovich picked his brain about Brothers & Sisters alum John Pyper-Ferguson’s character, who thus far has only been described as the widowed father to a young boy. “I can’t tell you anything,” Dallas hedged. “Just know that he’s an outsider.” Speaking of outsiders, Dallas was slightly more forthcoming with a status report on wayward driver Greg Mendell, played by Ethan Embry. “In this Sunday’s episode, you see Greg grilling Belle about what she actually saw that night at the car accident,” he said, musing: “Hmm, why does he want to know…?” (Source)
What time will the Once Upon a Time Lightning Round article be posted? —Hannah JoAnn, via Twitter
NATALIE: Soon, Hannah. Better yet, because I'm feeling generous today, I will give you a sneak preview! Will poor Belle ever get her memories back? The answer is... yes! "If it was permanent, that would be the most bleak end," executive producer Edward Kitsis says, noting that how Gold helps her gets her memory back will certainly be a story line to watch out for. Let's take a moment to breathe a sigh of relief. Good? OK. (Source)
Any plans for Mulan to return to Once? — Alyson
“We’re not going to rule anything out and there are some surprises we want to keep in store for characters who may be coming back later in the season,” says executive producer Adam Horowitz. “So we’re not going to rule anything out nor will we confirm or deny.” Source
Now that Once Upon a Time‘s Emma has disappointed Henry by lying to him about his father, will Regina have a chance to really reconnect with her son? –Vicki
That is totally where I thought this was going, too, but it appears we’re both wrong. As Jennifer Morrison explained to me, “Unfortunately for Regina at this point, she is so wrapped up in her own sort of mess with her mother being in town and the complications of that relationship, and sort of her failing at trying to not use magic, she sort of misses seeing her opportunity [with Henry]. She does make a move to get him back, but she doesn’t necessarily make the most strategic move, based on the circumstances.” (Source)
OTHER SPOILERS
Any chance Maleficent will return next season on Once Upon a Time? — Rosie
NATALIE: Seeing as Sleeping Beauty was just added to the second season, it's likely we haven't seen the last of Maleficent.
Kristin Bauer may have Rumplestiltskin to thank for that. "I was hoping when that mist strolled into town that that meant that anything is possible," the True Blood vixen tells us. (Source)
Rumbelle's spoilers for "The Miller's Daughter"
If they’re going to be in separate rooms, I wonder if he is going to be outside of her hospital room and they talk like that. If they do that, it got me thinking about Snow/Charming when Charming was in the cell in the Enchanted Forest and when Snow went to rescue him, he wasn’t there and there was just a mirror but they touched their hands together on the mirror. I wonder if the writers are going to do that with Rumbelle.
Ay I would so If something like that happened...... so romantic.
I hope so too. But that's why I don't think and hope Rumple doesn't go dark next season. It think it would be redundant since Regina fell off the redemption path this season.
I don't excuse her, or Rumple' s past, but there has to be a point you forgive the past ( not forget) if that person really wants to be redeemed. If you don't forgive then you are condemning them and that's not what the good side is about....
I've been taking lessons from Snow...
The only way I can see Rumple going dark is if either Belle or Bae dies, they're his humanity and the both people he loves more than life itself.... I can see him being filled with hatred and revenge if one of them died at the end of the season. He was even more unhinged when he thought Belle was dead it would be worse for him now I think Belle is safe but I wouldn't be sure about Bae.... UGH I hope he becomes a regular.
I can;t see henry becoming the Dark One, I wonder if the knife is in the outside world and destroyed - what would happen to Rumple.. would he still be the dark one? or would he too be destroyed?
or Henry's love for him is his undoing.. oooooo this is going to be good!
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Ay I would so If something like that happened...... so romantic.
The only way I can see Rumple going dark is if either Belle or Bae dies, they're his humanity and the both people he loves more than life itself.... I can see him being filled with hatred and revenge if one of them died at the end of the season. He was even more unhinged when he thought Belle was dead it would be worse for him now I think Belle is safe but I wouldn't be sure about Bae.... UGH I hope he becomes a regular.
I hope he becomes a regular too. He adds such an interesting dynamic.
I think the writers would save Rumple going dark for a later season to make it interesting.
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I can;t see henry becoming the Dark One, I wonder if the knife is in the outside world and destroyed - what would happen to Rumple.. would he still be the dark one? or would he too be destroyed?
Good question. The dagger obviously holds some power in Storybrooke too, Rumpel used it to summon a wraith and stuff like that. But on the other hand his appearance is normal even in SB, so exactly what hold the curse has on him in this world I'm not sure. Cora obviously believes it will be able to control him in SB, so maybe the dagger works the same as in FTL within the town limits, but outside? It may be different.
I hope he becomes a regular too. He adds such an interesting dynamic.
I think the writers would save Rumple going dark for a later season to make it interesting.
Yep. And i still don't understand why the writers dropped the ball on Regina's redemption story. Both Rumple and her were being redeemed in the first half of the season and now all of a sudden the breaks were screeched on Regina and it's only Rumple who continues to be redeemed. I guess the writers thought it would be sappy to have both of their original intended villains to be good at the same time, once one is almost at redemption they'll stop and focus on the other one....
Yep. And i still don't understand why the writers dropped the ball on Regina's redemption story. Both Rumple and her were being redeemed in the first half of the season and now all of a sudden the breaks were screeched on Regina and it's only Rumple who continues to be redeemed. I guess the writers thought it would be sappy to have both of their original intended villains to be good at the same time, once one is almost at redemption they'll stop and focus on the other one....
I don't think that Regina was supposed to stay redeem I think the show will always have her as a grey character who sometimes does evil things and can't be completely trusted .
Good question. The dagger obviously holds some power in Storybrooke too, Rumpel used it to summon a wraith and stuff like that. But on the other hand his appearance is normal even in SB, so exactly what hold the curse has on him in this world I'm not sure. Cora obviously believes it will be able to control him in SB, so maybe the dagger works the same as in FTL within the town limits, but outside? It may be different.
I don't think the dagger works outside of Storybrooke as there is no magic outside. I believe even Cora said in the last episode that they will use the dagger WHEN he returns to Storybrooke.
On another note I think if the dagger is destroyed that Rumpel will lose his power. I think that's the only reason he kept it this long. Why not just destroy it if he can, considering how dangerous it is for him? In the promo for the next episode Emma says something about the dagger being the source of his power. In my opinion if they destroy it he won't have magic anymore.
Yep. And i still don't understand why the writers dropped the ball on Regina's redemption story. Both Rumple and her were being redeemed in the first half of the season and now all of a sudden the breaks were screeched on Regina and it's only Rumple who continues to be redeemed. I guess the writers thought it would be sappy to have both of their original intended villains to be good at the same time, once one is almost at redemption they'll stop and focus on the other one....
That's why I don't think they will have Rumple turn evil next season. He already proven that he's trying to stay away from dark temptations. When he told the Charmings he needed to leave because every minute of him staying in SB was closer to him making Hook. He made that promise to Belle to not give into his hate, something both David and Emma reminded him of at the town line when Belle was shot. She was his reason to leave so he wouldn't do anything bad.
So he wants this because he has Belle. Plus it still would look like poor writing to have one original villain turn from redemption, and next season the other.
Do you think they will release any new spoiler info fir the next episode? I have no patience..lol
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RumplestiltskinBelle. "Love only brought me pain. My walls were up. But you brought them down. You brought me home. You brought light into my life and chased away all the darkness" ~ Rumplestiltskin
Yep. And i still don't understand why the writers dropped the ball on Regina's redemption story. Both Rumple and her were being redeemed in the first half of the season and now all of a sudden the breaks were screeched on Regina and it's only Rumple who continues to be redeemed. I guess the writers thought it would be sappy to have both of their original intended villains to be good at the same time, once one is almost at redemption they'll stop and focus on the other one....
It probably has something to do with Regina turning on Cora in the finale or something like that. It can only come as a "shock" if she's a villain.
About Tamara: I actually think Regina will be glad that she's in Neals life. Henry suddenly having a dad is bad enough, but how much worse would it be if Neal and Emma would fall in love again. They would be a "real family".
By the way I'm not trying to start anything here. IMO a single mom and her child/children (whether they're adopted or not) are just as much a real family! i'm just saying I think Regina wouldn't like it at all.
If something like that happened...... so romantic.
I think Belle is safe but I wouldn't be sure about Bae.... UGH I hope he becomes a regular.
Belle. "Love only brought me pain. My walls were up. But you brought them down. You brought me home. You brought light into my life and chased away all the darkness" ~ Rumplestiltskin 
