Following a screening of the first two episodes of Once Upon A Time Season 3 last week, show creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis talked with the press a bit about what else fans have to look forward to in the third year, which premieres TONIGHT (September 29) at 8PM (ET) on ABC. We’ll probably be sharing different things they say for several weeks, but for now, here’s what they had to say about the basics you need to know going in. Be warned; spoilers are discussed.
Why Neverland? “We have always wanted to go to Neverland, but we really wanted to focus on the core characters, and we thought because Neverland is a place where you don’t grow up, then you have to confront your past. Our inspiration was the idea that these characters have to return to who they were before the curse in order to kind of achieve this, and at the same time, we wanted to have them dig deeper into what everything means. Last year was such a bullet, and so we wanted to have time to reflect on what’s happened and what does it mean? Yeah, Emma looks at Mary-Margaret as her mom, but does she really, actually think of her as her mom?” Kitsis posits.
A prism: “In these first few episodes, we are really trying to use Neverland, and we continue to do it as the season progresses, as a prism through which we can see these characters hopefully more clearly and more equally. Layers will start to peel back on all of them, and that will continue going forward,” Adam Horowitz adds.
Defining the Charming family: “It’s complicated – and hopefully in a good way – which is, that they’re an unusual family,” Horowitz continues. “There’s this odd age thing going on between them – they’re the same age – and also they’ve been separated for many, many years, and now they’re thrown together on a mission, and really, for the first time, in an enclosed kind of space they’re able to start to deal with and sort out some of these issues that they have.”
“For Snow and Charming, they realize that in this moment that their daughter doesn’t really look to them for parental guidance, and that’s something hard to get. They’re realizing in a lot of ways, they need to earn it,” Kitsis says. “What is hard for the Charmings is that they realize their daughter grew up without hope, and that they have to instill it back in her and how do you do that when your son is kidnapped and in you’re in a place that’s making you confront your past? Because she has more in common with the Lost Boys than she does with Snow and Charming.”
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