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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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Sundays just got Revengier.

ABC is the third broadcast network to pull the curtain back on its 2012-13 schedule and the big news is that freshman hit Revenge is moving into Desperate Housewives‘ old Sunday/9 pm timeslot. Happy Endings and Don’t Trust the B—– In Apartment 23, meanwhile, will form their own a-mah-zing comedy block on Tuesdays at 9.

Among new shows, the Connie Britton-fronted musical soap Nashville has nabbed Revenge‘s former Wednesday at 10 pm perch, and the Shawn Ryan-produced undersea thriller Last Resort has landed the Thursday lead-off spot.

The complete schedule looks like this; new shows are in CAPS, click for details.

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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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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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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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‘Once Upon a Time’ star Josh Dallas teases what’s in store for his characters – David and Prince Charming – in Sunday’s season finale of ABC’s fairytale drama. (May 10)

Edward Kitsis: That is an interesting thing because if you’re going to enter into a negotiation like that, you need to have extreme leverage, because if you came to him, like, in the last episode, and said, “I’ll give you something that YOU want if you do this, I have Belle locked up,” and I’m Mr.Gold, I would probably just choke you and then go release her. So I’d say that for Regina to unveil that information has to be done in a way that won’t lead to her death. Because once he finds out what she’s done, God help us all.
Are we going to see Rumplestiltskin’s son, Bae, in the finale?

Kitsis: No.
If the curse were ever to be broken, would the people in Storybrooke age forward? Would Snow and Charming be 28 years older?

Adam Horowitz: The questions of what happens when and if the curse is ever broken, we have answers and we are excited to share them with the audience at the appropriate time, but we want them to experience it on the show.
What do you consider your most successful episode of the first season and why?

Kitsis: It’s hard to say because you always love the new episode best, it’s new, it’s fresh, it’s exciting. I don’t know that I could pick my favorite but I can say we really love the Mad Hatter episode and we love the Red Riding episode and I start realizing I’m happy with all of them…it’s like saying, “Which child is your favorite?”

Horowitz: It’s kind of the way we write the show is, we’ve got an amazing group of writers and we sit in a room and we kind of come up with these stories and these big arcs and this stuff for an entire season, so it’s kind of like one giant episode. So the most satisfying thing for us is to look back at the season and say, there was a story we set out to tell and we told it the way we wanted to. And we’re excited for the audience to see how the season concludes.
Well I know I personally want the show to go on forever, I love watching it and I know my readers love watching it, but how many seasons do you see it running for?

Horowitz: Oh, you know, it’s—that’s up to the audience. We have a lot of ideas for how we’d like to continue forward.

Kitsis: I think that, you know, for us we want to do something surprising that moves forward. It’s also an interesting thing that people are already calling for the end of a show that they love. So no, we don’t want to go Season 12 where we don’t recognize any of the cast members. But we’re only in Season 1 right now, we feel like we have a few seasons left in us.
So I have another question about the logistics of the curse: If Henry is the only kid aging in this town, how have the other kids and parents not noticed that he’s progressively aging while everyone else is still frozen in time?

Horowtiz: Well, that’s the curse!

Kitsis: In Episode 2—the clock started moving forward in the pilot, and time started to move forward and everyone started to age, and previously to that everyone kind of lived in what we call a “constant present.”

Horowtiz: The way we think about it is, the curse is an organic, active thing that was working on all these residents for these 28 years, and keeping them in this state of a constant present, and adjusting itself for Henry’s growth and aging. And so when Emma arrived and the clock ticked, that’s when all bets were off and things changed.
So Henry’s been kind of trapped in that constant present and vaguely aware of it?

Kitsis: Yes, and it wasn’t until he got the book and started to question it that he started to wake up. And when he started to wake up is when he started to look around and notice that no one was aging and things started to seem the same, like time was frozen, and he wanted Emma. And it wasn’t until the book that even he himself knew it.
Should we assume that August wrote the book because he repaired the pages?

Kitsis: I would not assume that.
Last question. They were able to snatch the apple in the last episode. Are you going to introduce any sort of time-traveling element to the logic of the show?

Horowitz: No, it’s not about time travel so much as, Jefferson says very carefully to Regina, think about a time and a place where this thing is, and that’s how magic was able to reach across time and space to bring it. It’s not about travelng back and forth in time or changing the past or the present. These are the things that happened.

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