
“We love the notion that two of the people that she has unexpectedly grown closest to over the years, Regina and Hook, are both people who’ve battled darkness themselves,” Horowitz points out. So as you saw there, when you take the leader out, everyone starts bickering.”Įmma’s dark turn will also present opportunities for character growth among her former allies - most notably Regina and Hook. ‘Cause Emma came to Storybrooke a non-believer and now she is a leader and she’s united everyone.


We love the idea of watching Hook fight for her, as well as Regina and her family. “So we’re wondering, what happened? And how did that happen? That’s what we’re going to explore… what makes you succumb to the darkness? What makes you resist it? Her relationships with everybody are going to be tested. Kitsis points out that we saw Emma trying to resist the darkness in the premiere, but by the time six weeks have passed, she’s obviously had a change of heart. Emma’s journey is going to encompass the whole season.” We’re trying to tell two separate parts of episodes and connect them. While a lot of the story in the first half we tend to wrap up in the midseason, there’s bigger issues that are introduced as early as this episode that will carry over for the whole season.

However, Horowitz promises that “it’s not gonna be the whole winter before we catch up, and it’s not necessarily everybody at the same time.” Despite the influx of new characters in Camelot, Horowitz also insists that the story will focus on “our core group of characters and what they’re going through in Camelot with regards to Emma… We’ll see what seems to have happened to her and that mystery and how they can or can’t help her.”īad to the bone? Whether Emma manages to rid herself of the darkness or lets it take her over completely, Horowitz says, “it’s going to affect her, and the ramifications of what happened in this premiere are felt throughout the entire season. “We are going to be flashing back to Camelot and then present-day Storybrooke, with a few origin stories,” including backstories for Merlin, Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot and Merida, according to Kitsis. Kitsis compares the beginning of season five to the back half of season three, which jumped between the present day and the characters’ forgotten year in the Enchanted Forest under the rule of the Wicked Witch. Time on our hands: The show will once again utilize flashbacks to help tell the story of the past six weeks.
