2015/02/26 - Once Upon a Time Scoops
When The Author is found, if that person really only wants to give heroes happy endings, then will that person be persuaded to help these villains like Rumple and Regina?
Adam Horowitz: That's a great question. What The Author he/she wants or doesn't want becomes very important. Whether or not our heroes and villains will be able to use The Author to get what they want will be one of the central conflicts that unfolds.
Kitsis: And taking a step back, it's not just about finding The Author to get a happy ending, it's finding out what happy endings are for each of our characters. What is Gold's happy ending? He seems to have had two of them and he blew them. And Regina seems to have an inability to be happy. So there's an exploration of happiness and what that means to somebody is something we're also exploring.
Gold wants his happy ending, but does he truly believe he deserves one?
Kitsis: Whether he deserves one or not, he's really going to grab it.
Will his betrayal be the last straw for Belle (Emilie de Ravin)? Or will she always be able to forgive him?
Kitsis: Well, I think she kicked out of town, so she kind of reached her last straw, and it looks like she's moved on a little bit. I would say he has his work cut out.
The Queens of Darkness will be joining Gold to invade Storybrooke. Why these three villains in particular?
Kitsis: Maleficent (Kristin Bauer van Straten) was previously on the show, and we always wanted to get back to her, which is why we never fully killed her. Ursula (Merrin Dungey) we kind of set up a little bit and teased in the Ariel episode, and she is a lot of fun. And Cruella (Victoria Smurfit), we just liked her. There's a sass to her, and what we wanted was for Gold to take the lesson of the heroes who always worked together, and realized he needed to work together with the villains. So we just loved the idea of the team of evil.
Horowitz: And when you watch, you'll see that there's a connection between all of them and between our characters that will start to unfurl in those first two [episodes] that will hopefully make it clear why those three in particular.
Will we lose any major characters in this second half?
Kitsis: Major regulars? I mean, there's going to be some death.
http://www.tvguide.com/news/once-upon-a-time-emma-hook-queens-darkness/
