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Season 7 Publicity Photographs - Alice (x)

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September 25, 2017

Pre-7.01

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August 29, 2017

Jennifer Morrison at the premier of “Tulip Fever” (x)

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OUAT Season 6 DVD - Deleted Scene #5 (**SPECIAL BLURAY SCENE #1)

(Note: The original videos from this morning were taken down on YT. I personally ripped these from my blu-ray, so they are 1080p. Please credit SBM.)

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OUAT Season 6 DVD - Deleted Scene #8 (**SPECIAL BLURAY SCENE #4)

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OUAT Season 6 DVD - Bloopers

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OUAT Season 6 DVD - Deleted Scenes #9-12

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OUAT Season 6 DVD - Deleted Scenes #13-15

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Adam’s finally questioning their behavior… Maybe he’ll let them stew and focus on the show itself?

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Edit: Guess I spoke too soon. lmao

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75 /365 days with Colin O’Donoghue ❤ (source)

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OUAT SDCC Panel 2017 (Part 1)

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The Return of Rumor Control:

With filming starting again on Thursday it’s time for some rumor control again.

The entire schedule for SDCC has not been announced.  There are several open blocks of time in Ballroom 20 still including two hours on Friday and the 10AM slot on Saturday which Once has always occupied.  The only ABC properties that have been announced are Marvel shows that were announced by Marvel studios.  There is at least one other ABC show that is certain to be at SDCC (because they’re already putting up the advertising in San Diego) that also hasn’t been announced yet.

The D23 panel is literally on Lana Parrilla’s birthday.  Do not read anything into her absence.  

Actors are paid by the episode not by the hour.  While they can film a bunch of scenes for different episodes while they have an actor in Vancouver (say Jennifer Morrison) they would have to pay her by the episode.  So 10 short three minute scenes spread over 10 episodes would cost them as much as having her full time there integral to the plot for ten episodes.  The same applies to all actors.  The show also has to pay actors if they use their face in either archive footage or pictures.  Not as much as if they were shooting new material but it’s not trivial.

They are not filming in Seattle.  They are filming in Vancouver.  They have not moved production.  They have changed primary setting.  Though apparently we’ve not seen the last of Storybrooke given the latest script tease.  So presumably there will be some Steveston filming still.

Actors union rules state that they have to have 12 hours from when they leave set (including getting out of wardrobe and makeup) to when they have to be there the next day.  This is called “turn around”.  There are fines to be paid if they violate turn around rules and if they do it often they will face serious repercussions from the union.  When you are watching filming reports keep in mind around when an actor left set.  So say an actor was filming until 2AM one night.  They can’t even be required to be in the makeup chair much less working until 2PM the next day.

Alison (and any other child actor to include Jared for any guest appearances) has limited hours she can work because of child labor rules for the entertainment industry.  She can’t work after a certain time of night.  She can only work a certain number of hours per day.  She has to spend a certain amount of time in school.  These rules are scaled by age so the younger the child the shorter the window of time the production can use them.  Infants can only be on set for very short periods of time which was why we saw a lot of very unconvincing dolls last year.

Studio space is expensive.  Standing sets are expensive.  While they can take them down and put some in storage they’ll need the space for new sets.  Don’t expect to see a lot of say, the Emma and Hook’s house because since the show isn’t primarily set in Storybrooke anymore they wont waste the limited space keeping that set up.  Given that the Charmings moved into another house we’ll likely never see the Loft again.

Remember that a scene that might take hours to film could be a minute or less of screen time.  Remember that exterior filming reports only tell us who has filmed outside and entire plots will be unknown simply because they will be shot on stages.  In previous years there was a certain amount we could tell by the cast’s social media use.  Rebecca Mader was particularly addicted.  Bobby, Colin, and Andrew rarely use social media in that way and Lana has done so less in recent years than she used to.  You should assume we will know less and have less information this year.

Once Upon a Time uses fake names and often writes either new dialogue or reworks old dialogue in casting to avoid spoilers.  The casting for Henry’s love interest whoever she may be calls her “Carol” and that’s almost certainly not her name and it uses dialogue lifted and only slightly tweeked from episode 1.17.

All set spotters have favorites.  When reading set reports try to remember that set spotters in this fandom have a history of a certain amount of misrepresentation either intentionally or not.  People who go to set may not want to take pictures of characters they don’t like.  Others will only take pictures of their favs.  Try and take things with a grain of salt and understand that the angle that a set spotter’s picture is at does not usually represent the angle you as a television viewer will see the scene.  Additionally, several set spotters have expressed disinterest in continuing to go to set because their favorites have left the show.  This is understandable.  Do not badger people about why they have stopped going.  That’s their business and their right.  But on the other side of the coin try to remember that some many be angry or bitter that the show has continued without their favorite.  Try and avoid getting drawn into active negativity without realizing it.

When you see a spoiler always ask yourself “how would a fan know this?  Is that information even in Vancouver yet?”  Try to be a smart consumer of information.  Most fan spoilers come from call sheets.  These are daily schedules (with predicted shooting for the three days after that day) that list what actors, locations, and a brief description of the scenes they are going to shoot that day.  So if you have one call sheet you can tell who will be filming for the next few days.

There are people who plant fake spoilers.  LChat, twitter, and anonymous messages sent to high traffic tumblr blogs are the way these are spread.  Question anyone who claims to work for the production or know the inner workings of what ABC will be doing.  Last year there was someone on one of these kinds of internet forums that claimed among other things that the show was not going to be airing certain days in December (it did) that it was being moved mid season (it wasn’t) and that ABC hadn’t even considered renewing it (it obviously was).  This guy literally talked about what the scheduling boards in the ABC executive suits looked like.  As if he was sitting in Channing Dungey’s lap.  Many people believed him.  Another person or persons repeatedly posted long sets of spoilers deliberately designed to anger fans by claiming that the show was all going to be about one ship and that this person was a production assistant and they were posting these things so the fans would know that they were being jerked around.  None of this person’s spoilers were true.  

Conversely if you do visit set don’t assume that what a given crew member tells you is real.  Some of them are bullshitting and don’t know (many especially on location days are hired for the day and know nothing beyond what is on their call sheet).  Some of them like the attention.  Some of them like to mess with people.  I have had a number of friends of mine go to set and be straight up lied to by crew people.  Often about things my friends knew to be untrue when they were being told.  Example a couple of people were told by some crew member that they filmed Emma and Hook’s wedding on the beach during the filming of 6.10.  Colin had been seen and photographed by a fan on his day off that day and the photograph was circulating on twitter.

Do not listen to fans to get your understanding of ratings once episodes air.  Go find an independent source and pay attention to the show’s relative ratings against the entire slate of ABC’s hour long dramas.  There were a lot of people who would have told you that Once was never getting renewed last year and those people ignored the dumpster fire the rest of ABC’s ratings looked like.  Several ABC shows that rated much worse than Once were renewed.  I recommend following The TV Grimm Reaper on twitter.  But be warned, he will make fun of fan theory nonsense.  Don’t get your feelings hurt if he mocks you or your favorite theory about if the show will be renewed or cancelled.  He’s a raw numbers guy.

The bottom line is this.  Be a smart consumer of information.  Try and learn a little about how television production works and it’s limitations.  Know that there are people in this fandom who actively want to ruin the viewing experience for others either because they ship something different or because they don’t want the show to succeed at all in it’s attempted re-invention.

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Eduardo Castro not coming back as costume designer for S7