In a new interview, the executive producers Adam Horowitz and Ed Kitsis tease tomorrow night’s Rumpelstiltskin episode, and also look ahead to more fairytale characters they’ll be exploring this season. Beware of spoilers.
Speaking to Spinoff Online, the writers explain how they started out with telling the stories of some of the most iconic fairytale characters, but will be moving on to tell the stories of the more marginal characters too:
Episode 5 was Jiminy Cricket’s back story. And we’ll be telling you the Magic Mirror’s back story. And on top of Hansel and Gretel, we’ll tell you Grumpy’s story. So for us, there is no hard and fast rule. It’s just what excited us that week. We’ve mapped out the season, but we’ve done it in a way where every four or five episodes, we go, ‘What are we most excited to play with?’ and then we just do that.
Tomorrow night’s ‘Desperate Souls’ episode will reveal Rumpelstiltskin’s origin story. On the episode, Kitsis reveals:
I would say that part of the fun in the first seven episodes was just setting him up and watching him be unpredictable. For the rest of the season, you’re going to see much more. In episode 8, you’ll learn how Rumpel became Rumpel, so to speak. It really is his origin story, and I think everyone is going to look at him in through a new light and in a new way.
Fans may also be relieved to hear that the writers aren’t planning to drag out the memory loss storylines until the series’ end. Kitsis says:
The Evil Queen cast the curse to bring them to a place where she can win, and that’s our world. She transported them from that realm to this one, and it took away their memories, but even if their memories come back, they’re still stuck here. And they still have problems. So Geppetto already knows that he doesn’t have a kid, but if he wakes up tomorrow and realizes that he’s Geppetto without a kid, sure he’s got more knowledge, but he’s struggling with the same issues.
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On the Evil Queen, they also reveal that her reasons for hating Snow White will be a part of the end of the season! Horowitz says:
It goes right back to that question of ‘Why is the queen evil?’ and taking an iconic character and making her as real as we can. Something happened to this woman to make her want to do these things. Something happened to make her hate Snow White, and the ‘fairest of them all’ story that we all grew up with is only the tip of the iceberg for the story we’re telling.
Read the full interview with the showrunners here at Spinoff Online.
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