Once Upon A Time's Time Travelling Season Finale

From The Hollywood Reporter:

An unwanted trip to the past is in store for the season-three finale of Once Upon a Time {...}  In Sunday's two-hour closer, "Snow Drifts" and "No Place Like Home," Emma and Capt. Hook find themselves stuck in the Enchanted Forest of the past with any change in history threatening their existence and those around them.

"We really envisioned this to be a two-hour movie. It straddles the line between [being] self-contained and what we think is a satisfying climax to the year. All these questions that we've posed during the year will get answered in these final two hours," executive producer Eddy Kitsis tells The Hollywood Reporter.

{...} This year, we started out with Emma in Neverland being a leader getting her son back but we find out that emotionally she still felt like an orphan and right now, her greatest memories are fake ones of being in New York. Emma is a character who's looking for home, but because she's never had one she doesn't know what it's like. That is why the finale is called "No Place Like Home" because we are going to have Emma ask that very question. A fitting  end to our Oz-themed run.

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EW, Harrison Ford, and Han Solo

From EW.com:

It turns out that Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo’s involvement in Star Wars: Episode VII was never really a question.

As Darth Vader might put it: It was their dessss-tah-nee.

Details of J.J. Abrams’ new film are scarce as shooting gets underway, but as I headed up the hunt for EW, sources within the Death Star noted that although fans are rejoicing over the new cast featuring original trilogy stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and (most surprisingly) Harrison Ford, their participation has actually been one of the few guarantees ever since Disney bought Lucasfilm and announced the new slate of films in 2012. {...}

A long time ago (a windblown spring afternoon in 2008), not so far, far away from the galactic urban sprawl of Los Angeles, Harrison Ford hiked to the top of a rocky trail overlooking the Pacific Ocean and threw Han Solo off a cliff. We were on a trek through the woods as part of an interview about Indiana Jones, a character he cherishes as much as any fan. But whenever the conversation turned to his other cinematic rogue, Ford’s crooked smile tended to bend south and be punctuated with an eyeball roll. “He’s dumb as a stump,” the actor groaned.

For a kid who grew up on Star Wars, who grew up specifically loving Han Solo, the galactic wiseass, the man who made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs, this was a gasping betrayal – even though for over 30 years, the actor, now 71, has made no secret of his disdain. {...}

We galactic diehards always wanted Ford to love Solo the way we loved Solo. So why didn’t he?

“He’s got a good heart, but I think he’s certainly a much less interesting character than Indiana Jones,” Ford told me during that hike in Temescal Canyon. “The breadth of his story utility was never extensive. He was the foil between the other more compelling elements of the film, between the sage old warrior and the young hero. There’s not much breadth of character to explore beyond what we got out of him.”

How could the man who brought Han Solo to life misunderstand Han Solo so completely? Luke is the easy one to figure out – naïve and noble, he longs to venture forth and do the right thing, no questions asked. Leia is another born hero, brave and ready to show up those who underestimate her. Han Solo …? He’s not so sure he wants to be with the good guys. Good guys get stomped on by the Empire. You know who survives? The one who shoots first.

Han Solo’s enduring appeal stems back to that part in every one of us that feels a tug of selfishness that’s as strong as the tug of selflessness. He’s every malcontent, every loser, every smartass who was told by someone they weren’t good enough, and believed it. Luke Skywalker was born to attack the Death Star, but Han Solo flies back into that battle by choice. We love him because he’s not one of the good guys. He’s just good enough. {...} cont'd

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