What do you think they will do if Jennifer decides to leave the show after season 6?
How will the character be written out?
What will the rest of the characters react to the way Emma leaves?
What do you think they will do if Jennifer decides to leave the show after season 6?
How will the character be written out?
What will the rest of the characters react to the way Emma leaves?
I stand by my view that Emma is the core of the show. This is her fairytale. They cannot kill her off because, as fairytales go, the story has to end with her Happily Ever After.
Most fairytales originally did not have happy endings. There are plenty of stories where the hero dies.
You know, if the show was called "The Jennifer Morrison Show", or "Emma Swan", I would agree that you can't have the show without Jennifer. But the show is called "Once Upon a Time", and is built around an ensemble cast. Yes, Emma's story has been central to the show up to this point, but the show is, in a way, as much about Henry as it is Emma, and if you go the route of Time Jump and have an adult Henry (portrayed by a much stronger actor than Jared), then removing Emma may be exactly what the show needs.
I want Emma to stay, so I hope they find a way to keep her around. But, if something happens and Emma is no longer there, they can adjust.
And I don't mean for my comment above to be disparaging to Jared, because he's done a respectible job, but Jared is not yet strong enough to actually take the lead role, he's still more of a supporting type actor. He needs to learn how to chew the scenery (the way Lana, Bobby, and Bex do).
Even more important, than a strong actor for an adult Henry, is the writting being strong and innovative. One of the biggest problems with OUaT is that the show feels stale, and is really starting to show its age.
I stand by my view that Emma is the core of the show. This is her fairytale. They cannot kill her off because, as fairytales go, the story has to end with her Happily Ever After.
True, but this is an ABC/Disney 'family' show that promotes "Happy Endings". So giving everyone a happy ending except the main hero/the princess is pretty much the anti Disney way.
I mean, not for everyone, the new teaser says "some" will get a happy ending, and for some it will be the final chapter (of their life?). My guess is who deserves it, will get a happy ending, who doesn't will get death as usual on the show, this time it may be Rumple.
Ok, let's take the more general discussion of the midseason promo and potential character disappearances and season finale to a different thread. This thread is primarly to discuss the potential for the show should Jennifer leave (or be otherwise written to be gone).
That's the problem with having a double narrative – past and present: Rumple and Emma have a different value relative to the two different narrations. And these two narrations have drastically different elasticity.
In the present, what you sau is true: Emma is the core and she balances the action, while when Rumple isn't there, that simply means fewer problems to deal with. BUT the thing with the present storyline is it can evolve. Part of the other characters' growth may include learning not to disband whenever Emma isn't around. The storyline might revolve around something else entirely: take S3B, which was entirely Regina's arc, in which Emma served two purposes – bringing Henry back to Storybrooke and kickstarting the next arc once the Wicked vs Evil was over – but other than that didn't do anything relevant. You could have omitted Emma completely and the basic storyline would have remained intact. True, while Emma does thing, Rumple is mostly a liability because he needs to be shady, otherwise he would solve the heroes' problems in no time at all, but that has really gotten tired…
…but then you have the flashbacks. The present, you can adjust to anything you like, but the past is fixed. If the show suddenly only focussed on Rumplestiltskin-free flashbacks, that would become conspicuous after a while. True, anyone could turn to any magical pratictioner for help, but how would that fit into the arefully masterminded timeline that produced the present day events? That's a much harder thing to pull off IMO.
Anyway, I guess we'll see.
Someone said Robert Carlyle's contract was already up a couple of years ago, does anyone know about this?
In the present, what you sau is true: Emma is the core and she balances the action, while when Rumple isn't there, that simply means fewer problems to deal with. BUT the thing with the present storyline is it can evolve. Part of the other characters' growth may include learning not to disband whenever Emma isn't around. The storyline might revolve around something else entirely: take S3B, which was entirely Regina's arc, in which Emma served two purposes – bringing Henry back to Storybrooke and kickstarting the next arc once the Wicked vs Evil was over – but other than that didn't do anything relevant. You could have omitted Emma completely and the basic storyline would have remained intact. True, while Emma does thing, Rumple is mostly a liability because he needs to be shady, otherwise he would solve the heroes' problems in no time at all, but that has really gotten tired…
…but then you have the flashbacks. The present, you can adjust to anything you like, but the past is fixed. If the show suddenly only focussed on Rumplestiltskin-free flashbacks, that would become conspicuous after a while. True, anyone could turn to any magical pratictioner for help, but how would that fit into the arefully masterminded timeline that produced the present day events? That's a much harder thing to pull off IMO.
Anyway, I guess we'll see.
I guess I see your point about the flashbacks. It might seem somewhat conspicuous if Rumple just vanished. And I have to admit I'm somewhat biased, since Emma is one of my favorite characters and I've never much liked Rumple.