Once Upon a Time | Now that magic has come to Storybrooke, will the Evil Queen be in need of her magic mirror? Because he might be a little busy given that Giancarlo Esposito (who also played Sidney Glass) is now a cast member on NBC’s Revolution. But in a pinch, “I think I can [pop up on Once],” the onetime Breaking Bad guy tells me. “And I would love to be able to do that. I am so happy about their pickup, because it’s a show my kids can watch! So you know I’m going to be trying to go back and forth.”

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Flytheocean: We will see the Charming family’s first real reunion in the s2 premiere of OUAT, yes?
“I’m hoping for a family reunion!” Ginnifer Goodwin tells us of Once Upon a Time’s second season, while Jennifer Morrison spills that she’s been told that Emma will be “exploring the relationship with her mother now that she knows who her mother is.”

snow_bluebird: Magic is back Regina will be powerful again, is she not afraid of Rumpel’s revenge?
While Lana Parilla couldn’t tell us too much, she says viewers will see a more evil side of Regina and yet continue to see flickers of humanity. “A combination of both,” she teases. “I think she softened with her relationship with Henry. I think she’s afraid to lose him!”

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Question: If anyone would have the answer to this, I know it would be you: Could you find out when the second season of Once Upon a Time will pick up (i.e. minutes later, weeks, etc.)? —Megan
Ausiello: How about instead I share with you two fun facts and one scooplet? Fun fact No. 1: The smoke that poured out of the well and swept through Storybrooke was originally going to be green, to match the mist that consumed fairytale land in the pilot. But it was changed to purple to be “more symbolic and magical,” Lana Larrilla tells us. Fun fact No. 2: Ginnifer Goodwin has a tattoo of a tiny apple (heh) on the inside of her right forearm, “though they won’t let me [display] it on the show,” she laments. And now for that scooplet: As Josh Dallas reminded us in our Q&A, we still don’t know Charming’s real name, but co-creator Adam Horowitz says it will definitely be revealed in Season 2. Please let it be “Morty.”

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After a few slow weeks, last night Once Upon A Time finally let all its cats out of the bag and then chased them around town with a vacuum. So let’s break this mother down, because we have a lot of convenient ground to cover. Spoilers ahead…

While I’m kind of ticked at Once for cramming all the good stuff in the final episode of the season, I am glad they finally “went there.” I only wish one of the 99 plots from the first season’s conclusion could have been sprinkled over the previous four weeks. Unfortunately, in the course of trying to do everything at once and cram in as many Lost nods as possible, the heart kind of fell out of the bottom. But we did get a dragon, and more Maleficent — and that’s always nice.

The final episode’s fairy tale story starts a few hours (or so) before the original pilot. Snow White has bitten the poison apple, and Charming is locked in the Evil Queen’s dungeon. Thanks to the help of one very not dead Huntsman McSexy Beard! Wasn’t it nice seeing him again? Poor Emma, doomed forever to get splinters dry humping the wooden corpse of her next potential boyfriend (more on that later).

Prince Charming is running around fantasy land, looking for Snow. Where is Snow? How can I be with Snow? But instead of finding Snow, he finds Rumpelstiltskin (or Rumpel finds him). Rumpel promises to help Charming find Snow, but only after he completes this one convenient plot point. See, Rumps has known what the Evil Queen was up to all along, and has hidden an emergency exit within the wicked curse, his true love potion. But to keep it safe, he needs Charming to get it inside the belly of the dragon — because this is the finale and there should be a fuckin’ dragon, amirite? Bodda bing bodda boom, Charming fights and Maleficent delivers this wacky line: “I’m gonna need a smaller egg,” and then Snow awakens from her slumber. Everyone wins, until they don’t, and the Evil Queen makes the curse and kills a bunch of people. But for now, it’s a win.

Meanwhile in Storybrooke, Emma gets blammoed from picking up the Once Upon A Time book (because now she wants to believe?) Presto chango, Emma is all, “All right, we’re all fictional characters now,” and moves forward with the wacky plan to retrieve the True Love potion from the belly of the Dragon Maleficent (who is trapped under the library and PISSED). This is one of those moments I wish would have happened in another episode, so we could have been there when Emma starts screaming, “holy crap you’re a werewolf, holy bejeezus there are other worlds, I’m the same age as my parents, TALKING CRICKET MAN!” But she doesn’t, because this is the finale, and we have a dragon to slay.

However, one thing that happens in the real world that is totally awesome was when Emma starts smacking Regina around. It’s about damn time. Emma’s got a violent streak in her, and we got no problem seeing it pop out here. Regina deserves that and more — let’s not forget she killed Huntsman Skinny Jeans, and other people who are not attractive enough for me to remember at this moment. Also, Emma got to make this face with a zoomy lens.

Now that Emma “believes” she can also see August in his true form. And of course she walks in, right as he turns into the creepiest wooden man sex doll of all time. Good lord, it’s moments like this that make me go “awwwww, I love this show.”

But the Snow White and Charming’s proposal story, Emma suddenly believing, breaking the curse, slaying the dragon (twice, kinda), saving Henry, and watching Pinocchio go full wood wasn’t the ONLY storyline up in the air last night. The Mad Hatter is also in play. Pissed that Regina didn’t hold up her end of the deal, Hatter sets Belle free (who then reconnects with Rumpelstiltskin). It’s a great set-up for the new season, as not Rumpel and Regina will be even more angry at each other. But again, I just didn’t feel the love between these two, because there was too much going on!

Sidenote: is this the White Rabbit? If so, adorable. Also did everyone see that Sidney Glass had been banished to the secret loony bin? Poor Sidney.

Finally Henry just ups and dies, both moms run to his side to that classic “this is a sad moment on Lost” music. Emma kisses him and presto, he comes back to life, because True Love! This also breaks the curse and everyone in Storybrooke realizes that they’re fictional characters! Charming and Snow are reunited (Snow’s fantasy persona is obviously much more forgiving of him for thinking she’s a murderer). Regina runs out of the hospital (but not before telling Henry she loves him and we believe her, Lana Parrilla kind of nailed it in the finale). And the cherry on top — more things for people to do! Rumps heads to the wishing well with his last bit of True Love bottled up and brings magic to the real world. Shock and awe pass over the town in the form of a giant purple smoke monster. The last thing we remember is the look on Regina’s face, a smile, because magic is power.

Until next week, may the nuns get back into the push up bras and giant heels — but this time in the real world!

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And here we are guys, the end of this marvellous 1st season, don’t be afraid, ABC confirmed it’ll come again with a 2nd season. Here below I’ve added screencaptures of one of the most amazing finale that ever aired.

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HD Screencaptures > 1.22 “A Land Without Magic”

This Sunday’s ‘Once Upon A Time’ season finale promises to shock and awe us all. There are going to be some unexpected surprises that will change the course of the show in season 2; unimaginable twists will make us gasp and the cliffhanger conclusion will beg the question: Where do we go from here?

Below is a compilation of highlights from ‘Once Upon A Time’ co-creators Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz’  interviews throughout the week. But before we see what they have to say, check out the slideshow and watch a few sneak peek videos for clues from Sunday’s epic finale.

“A Land With No Magic” slideshow

When a comatose Henry flat-lines in the hospital, Regina and Emma must figure out a way to save him. Most of the preview images depict scenes in the hospital with Emma, Regina, Dr. Whale, and Mother Superior in shock over Henry’s condition. Be sure to look closely at the last two images; it appears that Emma pays August a visit because that looks like his room. But what does she find when she opens the door? Can she finally see August as Pinocchio? Has he completely transformed into a wooden man? Hopefully she will have enough time to save both August and Henry. Check out the slideshow and share your thoughts.

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Neither Prince Charming nor his Storybrooke self have been living a charmed life on ABC’s Once Upon a Time.Charming is currently held captive by the Queen, whose evil plan bore fruit when she poisoned Snow White with one rotten apple. David Nolan, meanwhile, has Regina repeatedly spelling trouble for him and Mary Margaret.

The prince, at least, is destined to soon revive and rescue his one true love — or is he? Or might a new twist rewrite even that happy ending? With Once‘s Season 1 finale arriving Sunday at 8/7c, Josh Dallas dished on the “epic” events and “crazy-bananas” surprises ahead.

TVLINE | Charming is currently still imprisoned and trying to get to Snow White. When we next see him, will it be at her coffin-side?

It is possible…. There’s going to be a lot of pieces we hinted at and left unanswered in the pilot that will be answered in the finale, for sure.

TVLINE | So you’re saying that whether people realize it or not, there are blanks to be filled between where we left off on Sunday and the opening scene of the pilot?
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. A lot of things are filled in, and there will be a lot of surprises coming at you. I mean, the finale is crazy-bananas. It’s like a train that keeps on going and won’t stop. And like the last episode, which was really centered around Snow’s side of the story, this one is very much Charming’s side of the story.

TVLINE | My concern, and I brought up with your bosses, is that once he arrives at Snow’s coffin we’ve come full circle. I don’t know why we would ever revisit Snow and Charming in Season 2.
That’s interesting. But we still have magic afoot, and magic can do a lot of things. And Rumplestiltskin still has an agenda, and we’re not really quite sure what it is or what it might turn into. And the Evil Queen will still have her agenda…. Anything can happen. So I think in Season 2, not only with Snow and Charming but all the characters we set up, there is still so much more that we can discover, even in flashbacks. We still don’t even know Charming’s real name!

TVLINE | Meanwhile in Storybrooke, is David with Mary Margaret holding vigil at Henry’s bedside?

No, he might not become aware of that. Kathryn’s back, and I think they’ve kind of made their peace about what their relationship was, because obviously that was something planted by Regina. It wasn’t real. So at the moment that we see David in the finale, he’s got a decision to make. David has had tough time with this curse.

TVLINE | Oh, it’s totally kicked his ass.
It’s totally kicked his ass! In my opinion, he’s been affected more than anybody else. I mean, he gives her the wrong [Valentine's] card…. He’s a real tool, sometimes, and I feel sorry for him. But I love the fact that I as an actor get to play the two different emotional speeds of the two guys. They’re the same character, but they have different experiences that make them inherently different people. David has all that Charming stuff inside of him trying to get out, and by the finale, hopefully, fingers crossed, Charming is going to come out.

TVLINE | Is it safe to say that even if he does once and for all smooth things over with Kathryn, that by the end of the finale yet another obstacle will be thrown in his and Mary Margaret’s way?
There are obstacles thrown in everyone’s way by the end of the finale.

TVLINE | How has Once Upon a Time been for you versus what you went into it expecting?

Oh, it’s gone beyond every expectation I ever had. When I first read the script during pilot season, I thought it was something so unusual and something I’d never seen on television before, and it was definitely something I wanted to be a part of because of [series creators] Eddy [Kitsis] and Adam [Horowitz]. It was a chance for us to tell these characters in a new and modern way, and in a way reinvent them. But saying that, because it was something I had never seen before on television, and because it was kind of out of the left, you didn’t know if it was going to work.

TVLINE | That’s what I said all last summer: It’d either open big, or…
Or crash and burn. For sure. So there was a lot of anxiety, because we all loved working on it so much. And when it caught on and opened in such a big way, and people stuck with us every week, it become the best time ever. It’s always great to be part of a show where people can’t wait until the next episode comes along. We can’t make this for ourselves; we’re making it for people to enjoy it.

TVLINE | Turning back to the finale, is the very final scene a case of, “Oh, so that’s what Season 2 will be about”?
No. [Laughs] You’re going to say, “What the hell is going to happen now?”

TVLINE | Oh, now you’re just quoting Adam and Eddy, word for word.
Did they say that? [Laughs] It really is true. “What the hell is going to happen now?” Something is going to happen that the fans are not going to expect. It’s big, it’s epic…. So many questions are answered and things are resolved, but that just means there’ll be a whole other load of questions!

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