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Oct. 5th, 2012
For the writers, how hard has it been balancing three story/time lines?
Jane Espenson: When we started the season with the three threads instead of two, we were all tentative. Will this work? It really quickly became evident that it was not just going to work, but it was going to step everything up. For the first time, you have story lines that are happening contemporaneous with each other. We always had those fairy-tale story lines from the past. We just felt this excitement when we got to the end of Episode 201, when we do that reveal that these two stories have been happening at the same time. We can still tell stories from the past, so we've got three different colors of story on the board; we write on the white board with different color ink. We've fallen in love with these stories.
In Sunday's episode, we'll see how Regina met Rumple
Espenson: [Laughs] Can an evil queen and a wicked sorcerer be friends? They are the main focus of this episode. I'd listen carefully to what Rumple says about their first meeting. Maybe this is their first meeting, but maybe they go even further back. There's an awful lot going on in town with David/Prince Charming as well.
For Snow and Emma, they're enemies of Fairy-tale land because of the Wraith. How are they navigating those waters?
Espenson: They've got a lot of explaining to do.
It's not just about explaining that it's not their fault, but where did they come from? Are they who they say they are? We don't know what relationships Mulan and Aurora had with the characters that we've seen in Storybrooke. Will they know the name Snow White? And Emma doesn't know anything about this world. We handed them a big old of bouquet of obstacles to deal with.
Not to mention, they're dealing with charred fairy-tale land. I'm reminded of cinder Earth from Battlestar Galactica and what happens when you find the place you've been yearning for and it's not what you thought it would be.
It's interesting for both sides. Aurora and Mulan are going to have to deal with who these people are, who they blame for this terrible situation. And we have to deal with Snow and Emma dealing with this strange world.
Nice Battlestar reference.
Espenson: We never say it explicitly in the room, and I don't think Adam [Horowitz] and Edward [Kitsis] have made the parallel, but when we talk about fairy-tale land, I can't help but think of cinder Earth. It's not narratively used in the same way, but I always think of that heart-dropping feeling of finding Earth and it's cinder.
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For the writers, how hard has it been balancing three story/time lines?
Jane Espenson: When we started the season with the three threads instead of two, we were all tentative. Will this work? It really quickly became evident that it was not just going to work, but it was going to step everything up. For the first time, you have story lines that are happening contemporaneous with each other. We always had those fairy-tale story lines from the past. We just felt this excitement when we got to the end of Episode 201, when we do that reveal that these two stories have been happening at the same time. We can still tell stories from the past, so we've got three different colors of story on the board; we write on the white board with different color ink. We've fallen in love with these stories.
In Sunday's episode, we'll see how Regina met Rumple
Espenson: [Laughs] Can an evil queen and a wicked sorcerer be friends? They are the main focus of this episode. I'd listen carefully to what Rumple says about their first meeting. Maybe this is their first meeting, but maybe they go even further back. There's an awful lot going on in town with David/Prince Charming as well.
For Snow and Emma, they're enemies of Fairy-tale land because of the Wraith. How are they navigating those waters?
Espenson: They've got a lot of explaining to do.
It's not just about explaining that it's not their fault, but where did they come from? Are they who they say they are? We don't know what relationships Mulan and Aurora had with the characters that we've seen in Storybrooke. Will they know the name Snow White? And Emma doesn't know anything about this world. We handed them a big old of bouquet of obstacles to deal with.
Not to mention, they're dealing with charred fairy-tale land. I'm reminded of cinder Earth from Battlestar Galactica and what happens when you find the place you've been yearning for and it's not what you thought it would be.
It's interesting for both sides. Aurora and Mulan are going to have to deal with who these people are, who they blame for this terrible situation. And we have to deal with Snow and Emma dealing with this strange world.
Nice Battlestar reference.
Espenson: We never say it explicitly in the room, and I don't think Adam [Horowitz] and Edward [Kitsis] have made the parallel, but when we talk about fairy-tale land, I can't help but think of cinder Earth. It's not narratively used in the same way, but I always think of that heart-dropping feeling of finding Earth and it's cinder.
( Read more... )