#6x4 strange case

[wander-wren]

now, i want to preface all this by saying i do *not* have the capacity to run anything right now, but if someone else did i would gladly hop on board. also, no one asked me to do this but i hyperfocused a lil bit and by the time i stopped doing that i was 2+ hours deep and had to finish, so

*deep breath* may i present......

supernatural, most unhinged and nonsensical version:

SEPTEMBER

10th- 5x1 (Sympathy for the Devil)

13th- 1x1 (Pilot)

17th- 5x2 (Good God, Y'all!)

18th- 4x1 (Lazarus Rising)

20th- 1x2 (Wendigo)

23rd- 7x1 (Meet the New Boss)

24th- 5x3 (Free to Be You and Me), 6x1 (Exile on Main St)

25th- 4x2 (Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester)

27th- 1x3 (Dead in the Water)

28th- 2x1 (In My Time of Dying)

30th- 7x2 (Hello, Cruel World)

OCTOBER

1st- 5x4 (The End), 6x2 (Two and a Half Men)

2nd- 4x3 (In the Beginning)

3rd- 8x1 (We Need to Talk About Kevin)

4th- 1x4 (Phantom Traveler), 3x1 (The Magnificent Seven)

5th- 2x2 (Everybody Loves a Clown)

7th- 7x3 (The Girl Next Door), 10x1 (Black), 11x1 (Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire)

8th- 5x5 (Fallen Idols), 6x3 (The Third Man), 9x1 (I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here), 15x14 (Last Holiday)

9th- 4x4 (Metamorphosis)

10th- 8x2 (What's Up, Tiger Mommy?), 15x1 (Back and to the Future)

11th- 1x5 (Bloody Mary), 3x2 (The Kids Are Alright), 14x1 (Stranger in a Strange Land)

12th- 2x3 (Bloodlust), 13x1 (Lost and Found)

13th- 12x1 (Keep Calm and Carry On)

14th- 7x4 (Defending Your Life), 10x2 (Reichenbach), 11x2 (Form and Void)

15th- 5x6 (I Believe the Children Are Our Future), 6x4 (Weekend at Bobby's), 9x2 (Devil May Care), 15x15 (Gimme Shelter)

16th- 4x5 (Monster Movie)

17th- 8x3 (Heartache), 15x2 (Raising Hell)

18th- 1x6 (Skin), 3x3 (Bad Day at Black Rock), 14x2 (Gods and Monsters)

19th- 2x4 (Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things), 13x2 (The Rising Son)

20th- 12x2 (Mamma Mia)

21st- 7x5 (Shut Up, Dr. Phil), 10x3 (Soul Survivor), 11x3 (The Bad Seed)

22nd- 6x5 (Live Free or Twihard), 9x3 (I'm No Angel), 15x16 (Drag Me Away [From You])

23rd- 4x6 (Yellow Fever)

24th- 8x4 (Bitten), 15x3 (The Rupture)

25th- 1x7 (Hook Man), 3x4 (Sin City), 14x3 (The Scar)

26th- 2x5 (Simon Said), 13x3 (Patience)

27th- 12x3 (The Foundry)

28th- 7x6 (Slash Fiction), 10x4 (Paper Moon), 11x4 (Baby)

29th- 5x7 (The Curious Case of Dean Winchester), 6x6 (You Can't Handle the Truth), 9x4 (Slumber Party), 15x17 (Unity)

30th- 4x7 (It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester)

31st- 8x5 (Blood Brother)

NOVEMBER

1st- 3x5 (Bedtime Stories), 14x4 (Mint Condition)

2nd- 2x6 (No Exit), 13x4 (The Big Empty)

3rd- 12x4 (American Nightmare)

4th- 7x4 (The Mentalists), 11x5 (Thin Lizzie)

5th- 5x8 (Changing Channels), 6x7 (Family Matters), 9x5 (Dog Dean Afternoon), 15x18 (Despair)

6th- 4x8 (Wishful Thinking)

7th- 8x6 (Southern Comfort), 15x4 (Atomic Monsters)

8th- 1x8 (Bugs), 3x6 (Red Sky at Morning), 6x8 (All Dogs Go to Heaven), 14x5 (Nightmare Logic)

9th- 2x7 (The Usual Suspects), 13x5 (Advanced Thanatology)

10th- 12x5 (The One You've Been Waiting For)

11th- 7x8 (Season 7, Time for a Wedding!), 10x5 (Fan Fiction), 11x6 (Our Little World)

12th- 5x9 (The Real Ghostbusters), 9x6 (Heaven Can't Wait), 15x19 (Inherit the Earth)

13th- 4x9 (I Know What You Did Last Summer)

14th- 8x7 (A Little Slice of Kevin), 15x5 (Proverbs 17:3)

15th- 1x9 (Home), 3x7 (Fresh Blood), 14x6 (Optimism)

16th- 2x8 (Crossroad Blues), 13x6 (Tombstone)

17th- 12x6 (Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox)

18th- 7x9 (How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters), 10x6 (Ask Jeeves), 11x7 (Plush)

19th- 5x10 (Abandon All Hope...), 6x9 (Clap Your Hands If You Believe...), 9x7 (Bad Boys), 15x20 (Carry On)

20th- 4x10 (Heaven and Hell)

21st- 15x6 (Golden Time)

22nd- 1x10 (Asylum)

23rd- 13x7 (War of the Worlds)

25th- 10x7 (Girls, Girls, Girls)

26th- 9x8 (Rock and a Hard Place)

28th- 8x8 (Hunteri Heroici)

29th- 14x7 (Unhuman Nature)

30th- 13x8 (The Scorpion and the Frog)

DECEMBER

1st- 12x7 (Rock Never Dies)

2nd- 7x10 (Death's Door), 10x8 (Hibbing 911), 11x8 (Just My Imagination)

3rd- 6x10 (Caged Heat), 9x9 (Holy Terror)

5th- 8x9 (Citizen Fang), 15x7 (Last Call)

6th- 14x8 (Byzantium)

7th- 2x9 (Croatoan), 13x9 (The Bad Place)

8th- 12x8 (LOTUS)

9th- 10x9 (The Things We Left Behind), 11x9 (O Brother Where Art Thou?)

10th- 6x11 (Appointment in Samarra)

12th- 15x8 (Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven)

13th- 3x8 (A Very Supernatural Christmas), 14x9 (The Spear)

JANUARY

6th- 7x11 (Adventures in Babysitting)

10th- 1x11 (Scarecrow)

11th- 2x10 (Hunted)

13th- 7x12 (Time After Time)

14th- 9x10 (Road Trip)

15th- 4x11 (Family Remains) 16th- 8x10 (Torn and Frayed), 15x9 (The Trap)

17th- 1x12 (Faith), 14x10 (Nihilism)

18th- 2x11 (Playthings), 13x10 (Wayward Sisters)

20th- 10x10 (The Hunter Games), 11x10 (The Devil in the Details)

21st- 5x11 (Sam, Interrupted), 9x11 (First Born)

22nd- 4x12 (Criss Angel is a Douchebag)

23rd- 8x11 (LARP and the Real Girl), 15x10 (The Hero’s Journey)

24th- 14x11 (Damaged Goods)

25th- 2x12 (Nightshifter), 13x11 (Breakdown)

26th- 12x9 (First Blood)

27th- 10x11 (There’s No Place Like Home), 11x11 (Into the Mystic)

28th- 5x12 (Swap Meat), 9x12 (Sharp Teeth)

29th- 4x13 (After School Special)

30th- 8x12 (As Time Goes By), 15x11 (The Gamblers)

31st- 1x13 (Route 666), 3x9 (Malleus Maleficarum), 14x12 (Prophet and Loss)

FEBRUARY

1st- 2x13 (Houses of the Holy), 13x12 (Vrious and Sundry Villains)

2nd- 12x10 (Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets)

3rd- 7x13 (The Slice Girls), 10x12 (About a Boy), 11x12 (Don't You Forget About Me)

4th- 5x13 (The Song Remains the Same), 6x12 (Like a Virgin), 9x13 (The Purge)

5th- 4x14 (Sex and Violence)

6th- 8x13 (Everybody Hates Hitler)

7th- 1x14 (Nightmare), 3x10 (Dream a Little Dream of Me), 14x13 (Lebanon)

8th- 2x14 (Born Under a Bad Sign), 13x13 (Devil's Bargain)

9th- 12x11 (Regarding Dean)

10th- 7x14 (Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie), 10x13 (Halt & Catch Fire), 11x13 (Love Hurts)

11th- 5x14 (My Bloody Valentine), 6x13 (Unforgiven)

13th- 8x14 (Trial and Error)

14th- 1x15 (The Benders), 3x11 (Mystery Spot)

15th- 2x15 (Tall Tales)

16th- 12x12 (Stuck in the Middle [With You])

17th- 7x15 (Repo Man), 10x14 (The Executioner's Song), 11x14 (The Vessel)

18th- 6x14 (Mannequin 3: The Reckoning)

20th- 8x15 (Man's Best Friend with Benefits)

21st- 3x12 (Jus in Bello)

23rd- 12x13 (Family Feud)

24th- 11x15 (Beyond the Mat)

25th- 6x15 (The French Mistake), 9x14 (Captives)

27th- 8x16 (Remember the Titans)

28th- 1x16 (Shadow)

MARCH

1st- 13x14 (Good Intentions)

2nd- 12x14 (The Raid)

4th- 6x16 (...And Then There Were None), 9x15 (#THINMAN)

7th- 14x14 (Ouroboros)

8th- 13x15 (A Most Holy Man)

9th- 12x15 (Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell)

12th- 4x15 (Death Takes a Holiday)

14th- 14x15 (Peace of Mind)

15th- 2x16 (Roadkill)

16th- 7x16 (Out with the Old), 15x12 (Galaxy Brain)

18th- 9x16 (Blade Runners), 10x15 (The Things They Carried)

19th- 4x16 (On the Head of a Pin)

20th- 8x17 (Goodbye Stranger)

21st- 14x16 (Don't Go in the Woods)

22nd- 2x17 (Heart)

23rd- 7x17 (The Born-Again Identity), 11x16 (Safe House), 15x13 (Destiny's Child)

25th- 5x15 (Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid), 9x17 (Mother's Little Helper), 10x16 (Paint It Black)

26th- 4x17 (It's a Terrible Life)

27th- 8x18 (Freaks and Geeks)

29th- 13x16 (Scoobynatural)

30th- 1x17 (Hell House), 7x18 (Party on, Garth), 11x17 (Red Meat), 12x16 (Ladies Drink Free)

APRIL

1st- 5x16 (Dark Side of the Moon),10x17 (Inside Man)

2nd- 4x18 (The Monster at the End of This Book)

3rd- 8x19 (Taxi Driver)

4th- 14x17 (Game Night)

5th- 13x17 (The Thing)

6th- 1x18 (Something Wicked), 11x18 (Hell's Angel), 12x17 (The British Invasion)

8th- 5x17 (99 Problems)

11th- 14x18 (Absence)

12th- 13x18 (Bring 'Em Back Alive)

13th- 1x19 (Provenance), 12x18 (The Memory Remains)

15th- 5x18 (Point of No Return), 6x17 (My Heart Will Go On), 9x18 (Meta Fiction), 10x18 (Book of the Damned)

18th- 14x19 (Jack in the Box)

19th- 2x18 (Hollywood Babylon), 13x19 (Funeralia)

20th- 1x20 (Dead Man's Blood), 7x19 (Of Grave Importance)

22nd- 5x19 (Hammer of the Gods), 6x18 (Frontierland), 9x19 (Alex Annie Alexis Ann), 10x19 (The Werther Project)

23rd- 4x19 (Jump the Shark)

24th- 3x13 (Ghostfacers), 8x20 (Pac-Man Fever)

25th- 14x20 (Moriah)

26th- 2x19 (Folsom Prison Blues), 13x20 (Unfinished Business)

27th- 1x21 (Salvation), 7x20 (The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo), 11x19 (The Chitters), 12x19 (The Future)

29th- 5x20 (The Devil You Know), 6x19 (Mommy Dearest), 9x20 (Bloodlines), 10x20 (Angel Heart)

30th- 4x20 (The Rapture)

MAY

1st- 3x14 (Long Distance Call), 8x21 (The Great Escapist)

3rd- 2x20 (What Is and What Should Never Be), 13x21 (Beat the Devil)

4th- 1x22 (Devil's Trap), 7x21 (Reading is Fundamental), 11x20 (Don't Call Me Shurley), 12x20 (Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes)

6th- 5x21 (Two Minutes to Midnight), 6x20 (The Man Who Would Be King), 9x21 (King of the Damned), 10x21 (Dark Dynasty)

7th- 4x21 (When the Levee Breaks)

8th- 3x15 (Time Is on My Side), 8x22 (Clip Show)

10th- 2x21 (All Hell Breaks Loose [Part 1]), 13x22 (Exodus)

11th- 7x22 (There Will Be Blood), 11x21 (All in the Family), 12x21 (There's Something About Mary)

13th- 5x22 (Swan Song), 9x22 (Stairway to Heaven), 10x22 (The Prisoner)

14th- 4x22 (Lucifer Rising)

15th- 3x16 (No Rest for the Wicked), 8x23 (Sacrifice)

17th- 2x22 (All Hell Breaks Loose [Part 2]), 13x23 (Let the Good Times Roll)

18th- 7x23 (Survival of the Fittest), 11x22 (We Happy Few), 12x22 (Who We Are), 12x23 (All Along the Watchtower)

20th- 6x21 (Let It Bleed), 6x22 (The Man Who Knew Too Much), 9x23 (Do You Believe in Miracles?), 10x23 (Brother's Keeper)

25th- 11x23 (Alpha and Omega)

Between Dracula Daily happening again and all the posts about enjoying old(er) media during the writers' and actors' strikes going on in Hollywood right now, I feel like there's an opportunity for someone to organize a rewatch of some show, using the original air dates of the episodes as a guide.

I have too much life stuff going on right now to do it myself, but if you've heard of someone doing this (or you're inspired to do it yourself), share in the notes?

[onceuponaseriesrewatch]

Once Upon a Series Rewatch Press Release--6x4 Strange Case

6x4 Strange Case

Summary: The Evil Queen and Hyde continue on their quest to steal Dr. Jekyll’s serum; Snow looks forward to her first day back as a school teacher; and while Emma looks forward to Hook moving in with her, Hook finds himself trying to protect Belle from Mr. Gold, who has made sure she can’t leave the confines of the pirate ship.  Meanwhile, back in the past, Rumplestiltskin helps Dr. Jekyll complete his serum to separate a man’s personality into two—good and evil—but his help comes with a hefty price.

Written by: David H. Goodman, Nelson Soler

Directed by: Alrick Riley

Staring: Ginnifer Goodwin (Snow White/Mary Margaret); Jennifer Morrison (Emma Swan); Lana Parrilla (Evil Queen/Regina); Josh Dallas (Prince Charming/David); Emilie de Ravin (Belle); Colin O’Donoghue (Hook); Jared S. Gilmore (Henry Mills); Rebecca Mader (Wicked Witch/Zelena); Robert Carlyle (Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold)

Guest Starring: Lee Arenberg (Leroy/Grumpy); Sam Witwer (Mister Hyde); Hank Harris (Doctor Jekyll); Karen David (Shirin); David Avalon (Doc); Olivia Steele Falconer (Violet); Jonny Coyne (Dr. Lydgate); Jordyn Ashley Olson (The Oracle); Elizabeth Blackmore (Mary); Reilly Jacob (Tom Sawyer)

Strange Case airs December 8 at 9:00 pm EST

[alaffy]

More Riverdale thoughts.  This is more of a general post, based on a couple of things I mentioned earlier today, some of Roberto’s comments, and what we’ve seen so far for season 6.  And this is 100% speculation. Just a warning, there will be some possible spoilers (assuming if what was leaked is true) for 6x4 under the cut. 

Okay, so Roberto keeps mentioning this good vs. evil and that we’ll find Veronica and Jughead on different sides then Betty and Archie.  Well, Roberto also talks about Abigail and the curse. So guessing Abigail’s side, that’s the side of evil.  Ok, there is a moment in the season 6 teaser where Cheryl is in the dressed all in red and behind her are a bunch of townspeople dressed in, let’s say, cult clothes.  If you look at the full photo, you can clearly see Jughead and Veronica in the background.  Now, there are people that are definitely behind Cheryl that I can’t see, but as far as I can tell Archie and Betty aren’t in that group.  Now, it’s also clear that Betty and Archie aren’t shown in the preview because that want us to guess what happened after the bomb. But if Veronica and Jughead are there and they are supposed to be on opposite side of Betty and Archie, that would suggest that Betty and Archie aren’t part of the cult or will leave the cult. 

So, picture this...we open season six a few months after the end of season 5. And it seems like everybody’s been going on with their lives.  But as time goes on, and things keep happening, Betty and Archie (again, the ones who were in the house with the bomb) start to realize that something unnatural is happening in the town. Maybe they start mentioning it to others, but they’re dismissed.  But more and more people seem to be fallowing the cult of Cheryl, until it’s just Archie and Betty against the town.

Now, according to some sources Sabrina is supposed to come in the picture in episode 6x4 to help Cheryl save the life of a beloved Blossom family member.  Now, this isn’t verified at all, so very much speculation.  At first, I was wondering if Cheryl is trying to bring back Jason.  And, at the moment, I still strongly wonder if this is the case. However, there is another possibility.  We have to have a moment where Cheryl realizes things have gone to far (or, at least, that seems to be how it worked in Sabrina).  So, what if a Blossom family member is gravely wounded?  Like, something happens to Nana Blossom...or Betty?  Betty’s last name is Cooper, but she is of the Blossom family.  Either way, something happens that maybe Cheryl didn’t want to happen, and she’s trying to find a way to fix it.  Enter Sabrina.  And with Sabrina’s help Cheryl is able to undo the curse and, most likely, reset the timeline so these events don’t happen.  

I figure, if I’m right about the AU/timeline reset, physically we’ll be back to the time not long after the bomb went off.  Now, just how they play off the curse, or rather at what point the curse started, I think may be more of a dialogue thing.  I don’t think they’re going to erase two whole episodes (mostly because of Polly’s death and Hiram leaving).  But they could indicate that certain things may have happened because, say, when Cheryl prayed at the mine shaft she managed to awaken the spirit of Abigail and that’s why people started acting strange.  That sort of thing. 

And it seems to me we have three possibilities of where the AU could start.  One is at the time of the bomb, one is when Cheryl invokes the curse, and one at the mines.  The interesting thing about this is how it coordinates with the different relationships.  All the new ships are together when the bomb goes off.  Betty and Archie/Veronica and Reggie have yet to get together when Cheryl invokes the curse.  None of the new relationships are together when the Cheryl prays in front of the mine.  It’s almost as if the writers, again speculation, did recognize that whatever they’re doing may not work out well, so they’ve given themselves some options as to continue the relationships for a long time, continue them for a short time, or abandon the whole thing as quickly as possible.  

Like I said, this is pure speculation and a bit of fun on my part.  I don’t expect any of this to be true (although it would be kind of fun if I got some of this right), just thinking of the type of horror movies this could play into, this plot kind of would make sense to me.

[luulapants]

Digging into the Teen Wolf credits

So I fell into a bit of a rabbit hole researching the shift in writing and directing credits in Teen Wolf, trying to find some explanations for the lack of continuity, whiplash change of directions on storylines, and the messiness of the later seasons. A lot of people (myself included) tend to focus on casting issues and Jeff Davis as the be-all-end-all of these issues, but here are a few interesting things I’ve put together:

1. Waning involvement from the original producers/directors - 

Russell Mulcahy was a producer/exec on all 100 episodes and directed 39 episodes, including every season finale and all but one season premier (5a). He was a big-shot music video director in the ‘80s. According to his Wikipedia, “Mulcahy's work is recognisable by the use of fast cuts, tracking shots and use of glowing lights, neo-noir lighting, windblown drapery, and fans.”

Tim Andrew came on as a supervising producer and progressed to executive producer, holding a producing credit for all 100 episodes. He directed 35 episodes, including some of fan-favorite suspense episodes like Night School, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, and Riddled.

While their producer credits stayed steady, it’s the director credits that interest me. Between the two of them, they directed 75% of S1, 100% of S2, 83% and 75% of 3a and 3b. S4, it drops to 58%. Back up to 70% and 90% for 5a and 5b, then plummeting to 60% for all of S6. It’s worth noting that S4 is the first season where we start to notice that whiplash effect, not really sure what characters’ motivations are. In one episode, the focus seems to be family financial drama, and then we forget about that and focus on Lydia’s powers. Then the focus is assassins, then Kate Argent - and what the hell is up with Peter?

It’s hard to say for sure, but one could draw the conclusion that the decline in director credits from Andrew and Mulcahy also suggest a decline in interest from them in maintaining the show’s storylines.

In fact, in 5b and season 6, you see a third long-time producer, Joseph Genier, step in to direct a few episodes: the rather sloppy Maid of Gevaudan, Blitzkrieg, and Genotype. We can’t give him too hard a time over it, since his only other directing experience ever was a 2016 Netflix horror movie The Secrets of Emily Blair, shitty even by Netflix standards. He also has some late-season writing credits, but we’ll get to that later.

2. The curious case of Angela Harvey - 

In order to understand the writing on TW, you need to know Angela Harvey. She climbed the ranks from personal assistant to writers’ assistant, then, starting in 3a, staff writer.

A staff writer is a salaried, stable figure in the writing department, who works with what is often a rotating door of producers and head writers. They’re usually not the “ideas” person and don’t get the final say, but they help the head writer work through the story and stay on track. Most larger shows have a whole team of staff writers. TW never had more than one at a time.

Shortly after her promotion to staff writer, Harvey got her first full writing credit for Frayed, which is a controversial episode! It’s both praised and detested for the non-linear storyline, the sometimes confusing flashbacks, and Allison’s emotional hallucination of her mother.

After that, she went back to staff writer and was a rock for the show for all of S3 and 4. In S4, she got full writing credit for I.E.D. and Time of Death. Both got mixed reviews on-par with the rest of the muddled mess of S4, but I will note one thing: the human factor. I.E.D., for me, was the first episode that really gave a more rounded picture of Liam, who until that time felt very much like a new puppy coming in to replace our favorite old dogs that went to live on the big farm in the sky.

S5, Harvey gets a promotion to ‘story editor,’ which is pretty much just a title and pay promotion. She wrote A Novel Approach and Strange Frequencies, two more mixed-bag sort of episodes with some golden moments and some crippling larger-story issues. Then she writes the slightly stronger The Sword and the Spirit and... 

Gone. She vanishes from the credits for the rest of season 5. I haven’t been able to find any specific explanations, but I did find a rather telling quote from her in an article about how black writers get hired but not promoted in TV:  “I repeated staff writer four times,” she said.

Harvey then returns for 6x2 with a shiny new title: executive story editor. I can only draw one conclusion from this sequence of events, which is a contract dispute. Harvey demanded a promotion (as she should have, given her longevity on the show!), was denied, and walked off. The show floundered in her absence and begged her back with the new title.

She got full writer credits for two more episodes for S6 but left the show for good after the second, After Images.

To me, it seems clear that they had a strong, stable voice in Angela, but her commitment to the project waned as she realized that the show had no commitment to her. She may not have been the strongest head writer, but she was an essential core, a beating heart of the show. Her contributions were undervalued and, ultimately, the show suffered because of it.

3. The rotating door of writers - 

It’s not unusual for head writers to come and go on shows. Then again, most shows have a stable core in the writers’ room to host those head writers. TW had Jeff Davis, who has frequently been acknowledged to be overly hands-on with the writing (even in episodes he did not take writing credit for), and a single staff writer: Angela Harvey and, before her, Andy Cochran (who was staff writer for S2).

S1 did not have a staff writer, but that was because Jeff had a very firm grip on the story and also because there were only four writers other than Jeff Davis (and the original Teen Wolf movie writers). Interestingly, none of those 4 writers ever returned to the show after S1. This would become a theme for TW writers.

Jeff kept even tighter control on S2, writing 8 of 12 episodes with the help of Cochran. Other than them, there were four other writers, two of whom were a writing team.

Jeff wrote 15 of 24 S3 episodes and brought in 6 new writers and one S2 writer, Christian Taylor who also produced and directed. Of the new writers, only Ian Stokes, who wrote The Fox and the Wolf would become a regular writer afterward (though Alyssa Clark did write two more episodes in S4). Stokes wrote three S4 episodes and three for 5a.

Jeff wrote 6 of 12 episodes in S4, 5 of 10 in 5a, 4 of 10 in 5b, and then did not write again until the series finale.

Starting in Season 4, the writing credits are all over the place. Most writers come in for a single episode and never again. The few notable exceptions are:

Eric Wallace, a later seasons producer

Will Wallace (not sure if related) who was a writers’ assistant that seems to have been randomly granted writing credit for 5a’s Ouroboros, despite having no other writing credits to his name previously. He got writing credit for 4 other episodes in S5 and S6, plus a random staff writer credit for 6a’s Ghosted. 

Lindsay Sturman, a lalter seasons producer who now writes and produces for Supergirl. 

And producer Joseph Genier who, as he had been allowed to direct later seasons with no previous directing credits, was also allowed head writer credit with no previous writing credits.

What can we divine from this? Chaos, honestly. An inability to resist the uninformed and careless whims of the producers. The lack of lower-level writing staff, who are usually the ones there to give stability and cohesion to the story, meant that every new writer brought in new and contradictory ideas of what the story was about and where it should go. Looking at these credits, I can’t tell if the problem was that everyone wanted to write and writing spots were being given as thank-yous in exchange for producers laying down money or if they had such a difficult time finding quality writers willing to work in that environment that producers had no choice but to step in and write as well as they could given a lack of resources.

4. The vanishing first assistant director - 

Compared to the other issues, this one seems minor. However, it seems like TW gave up on the position of ‘first assistant director’ at some point. This position is essentially the right hand of the director, making sure that set runs smoothly and the director has everything they need. 

James J.D. Taylor held the position for 50 episodes, including all but 4 episodes in S1-3a. In the first 3, Jeffrey January filled in. For the fourth, Eric Sherman, who would come to be Taylor’s backup, it seems. For 3b and the first half of S4, Sherman and Taylor traded off every other episode. Taylor tried his hand at directing for S4′s Monstrous, at which point Sherman started trading off episodes with Matt Rawls.

Taylor went back to first assistant director for S5, but intermittently and with no backup for his position. 8 of 20 episodes in 5a had no first assistant director. Taylor directed 6x2 and was first assistant for 6x4 and 6x5, but 17 of 20 episodes of S6 had no first assistant. 

Sure, there were second assistant and second second assistants, but it seems very odd to neglect such a pivotal position. What is especially baffling is that 6b had first-time directors Tyler Posey, Linden Ashby, and Joseph Genier all working without a first assistant director. To me, this speaks to staffing issues and difficulty organizing a show that was clearly on its last legs.

In summary -

Where the early seasons had focused attention and investment from the original core producers, directors, and the show runner, clearly their attention and care for the project waned over time. They failed to promote the show’s most valuable workers and failed to bring in lower-level staff to do the grunt work in the writers’ room. Instead, they pulled in more and more higher level executives, who tend to have lofty ideas about where a show goes but no willingness to dig into the nitty gritty details. Film schools could make a study of Teen Wolf: “How to run a show into the ground.”

[anannoyingoath]

Vasily Kafanov, “Mirage in Fog” 

Vasily Kafanov, a Russian-born artist currently living in New York, has given us our third and final vision of 'the end.' It takes the form of a large (48''36'') canvas of mixed media, depicting a soft and blurry perspective in total greyscale which peers out at the foggy setting from within what appears to be a semi-circular columnar structure, like an aqueduct. The border of the rectangular canvas is a dark shadow, and the canvas itself appears to have been laying folded in tight squares (a 6x4 pattern, resulting in 24 small squares), whose stark, textured lines contrast sharply with the foggy content of the strange and apparently antique cityscape that the perspective yields to us. The shadowy 'aquaduct' bends across the middle of the canvas, its columns creating four arched colonnades within which stand four fountainlike figures. These figures are discernibly anthropomorphic (despite the smog) with heads, arms, torsos and legs. Their loose, hanging sleeves even seem to be visible, particularly on the three figures from the right. This is because their 'arms' are outstretched; do they face the viewer, or outward to something beyond the thick mist? They stand on the next-to-last row of squares before the absolute bottom of the canvas, and within this last row of squares is a mirrored and even foggier reflection of the cruciform figures, suggesting water, glass, or some other reflective material for a floor.

The lens of squares---so regular, ridged and geometrical---and the vaporous, smoky figures and architecture seen through them, create a tension in the piece between clarity and opacity. The entire view is notably translucent. The presence of this tension as a visual theme in the painting is further supported when one looks closely at the canvas itself. Within each square can be seen a complex---and often organized---group of textures, splatters, scratches, crinkles, and fissures. Not unlike how one can recognize forms or concepts by gazing at various cloud, rock or star formations, there are numerous places in which vaguely recognizable symbols and shapes appear. Particularly striking is the group of textures and shadows clumped in the top-center of the painting, which looks arguably like a tree with its root system, floating like a chandelier in the middle of the composition. In the same gaze, the 'tree' also looks like a much larger, inverted cruciform figure, just like the ones standing in the colonnades. When we relate this hazy object back to the figures-with-the-outstretched-hands, we may be able to suggest that they are facing toward it rather than us, welcoming--or worshiping--the tree/figure in the center of the city. In any case, the painting evokes a complex and rich vision of the dyadic relationship between clarity and obscurity, light and dark, knowledge and ignorance, seeing and dreaming, and memory and vision.  

[whimsicallyenchantedrose]

Once Upon a Series Rewatch: the Complete Schedule

With only three weeks to go before the rewatch we thought we’d give you the full rewatch schedule.  All times listed are Eastern Standard Time.  

August 26, 2018. 8:00 pm: 1x1 Pilot; 9:00 pm: 1x2 The Thing You Love Most

September 9, 2018. 8:00 pm: 1x3 Snow Falls; 9:00 pm: 1x4 The Price of Gold

September 16, 2018. 8:00 pm: 1x5 That Still Small Voice; 9:00 pm: 1x6 The Shepherd

September 23, 2018. 8:00 pm: 1x7 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; 9:00 pm: 1x8 Desperate Souls

September 30, 2018. 8:00 pm: 1x9 True North; 9:00 pm: 1x10 7:15 a.m.

October 7, 2018. 8:00 pm: 1x11 Fruit of the Poisonous Tree; 9:00 pm: 1x12 Skin Deep

October 14, 2018. 8:00 pm: 1x13 What Happened to Frederick; 9:00 pm: 1x14 Dreamy

October 21, 2018. 8:00 pm: 1x15 Red-Handed; 9:00 pm: 1x16 Heart of Darkness

October 28, 2018. 8:00 pm: 1x17 Hat Trick; 9:00 pm: 1x18 The Stable Boy

November 4, 2018. 8:00 pm: 1x19 The Return; 9:00 pm: 1x20 The Stranger

November 11, 2018. 8:00 pm: 1x21 An Apple Red as Blood; 9:00 pm: 1x22 A Land Without Magic

November 18, 2018. 8:00 pm: 2x1 Broken; 9:00 pm: 2x2 We Are Both

December 2, 2018. 8:00 pm: 2x3 Lady of the Lake; 9:00 pm: 2x4 The Crocodile

December 9, 2018. 8:00 pm: 2x5 The Doctor; 9:00 pm: 2x6 Tallahassee

December 16, 2018. 8:00 pm: 2x7 Child of the Moon; 9:00 pm: 2x8 Into the Deep

December 23, 2018. 8:00 pm: 2x9 Queen of Hearts; 9:00 pm: 2x10 The Cricket Game

December 30, 2018. 8:00 pm: 2x11 The Outsider; 9:00 pm: 2x12 In the Name of the Brother

January 6, 2019. 8:00 pm: 2x13 Tiny; 9:00 pm: 2x14 Manhattan

January 13, 2019. 8:00 pm: 2x15 The Queen is Dead; 9:00 pm: 2x16 The Miller’s Daughter

January 20, 2019. 8:00 pm: 2x17 Welcome to Storybrooke; 9:00 pm: 2x18 Selfless, Brave and True

January 27, 2019. 8:00 pm: 2x19 Lacey; 9:00 pm: 2x20 The Evil Queen

February 10, 2019. 8:00 pm: 2x21 Second Star to the Right; 9:00 pm: 2x22 And Straight on ‘Til Morning

February 17, 2019. 8:00 pm: 3x1 The Heart of the Truest Believer; 9:00 pm: 3x2 Lost Girl

February 24, 2019. 8:00 pm: 3x3 Quite a Common Fairy; 9:00 pm: 3x4 Nasty Habits

March 3, 2019. 8:00 pm: 3x5 Good Form; 9:00 pm: 3x6 Ariel

March 10, 2019. 8:00 pm: 3x7 Dark Hollow; 9:00 pm: 3x8 Think Lovely Thoughts

March 17, 2019. 8:00 pm Save Henry: 3x9; 9:00 pm: 3x10 The New Neverland

March 24, 2019. 8:00 pm: 3x11 Going Home; 9:00 pm: 3x12 New York City Serenade

March 31, 2019. 8:00 pm: 3x13 Witch Hunt; 9:00 pm: 3x14 The Tower

April 7, 2019. 8:00 pm: 3x15 Quiet Minds; 9:00 pm 3x16 It’s Not Easy Being Green

April 14, 2019. 8:00 pm: 3x17 The Jolly Roger; 9:00 pm 3x18 Bleeding Through

April 28, 2019. 8:00 pm: 3x19 A Curious Thing; 9:00 pm 3x20 Kansas

May 5, 2019. 8:00 pm: 3x21 Snow Drifts; 9:00 pm 3x22 There’s No Place Like Home

May 19, 2019. 8:00 pm: 4x1 A Tale of Two Sisters; 9:00 pm: 4x2 White Out

June 2, 2019. 8:00 pm: 4x3 Rocky Road; 9:00 pm: 4x4 The Apprentice

June 9, 2019. 8:00 pm: 4x5 Breaking Glass; 9:00 pm: 4x6 Family Business

June 23, 2019. 8:00 pm: 4x7 The Snow Queen

June 30, 2019. 8:00 pm: 4x8 Smash the Mirror, pt. 1; 9:00 pm: 4x9 Smash the Mirror, pt. 2

July 7, 2019. 8:00 pm: 4x10 Fall; 9:00 pm: 4x11 Shattered Sight

July 14, 2019. 8:00 pm: 4x12 Heroes and Villains; 9:00 pm: 4x13 Darkness on the Edge of Town

July 21, 2019. 8:00 pm: 4x14 Unforgiven; 9:00 pm: 4x15 Enter the Dragon

July 28, 2019. 8:00 pm: 4x16 Poor Unfortunate Soul; 9:00 pm: 4x17 Best Laid Plans

August 4, 2019. 8:00 pm: 4x18 Heart of Gold; 9:00 pm: 4x19 Sympathy for the De Vil

August 11, 2019. 8:00 pm: 4x20 Lily; 9:00 pm: 4x21 Mother

August 18, 2019. 8:00 pm: 4x22 Operation Mongoose, pt. 1; 9:00 pm: 4x23 Operation Mongoose, pt. 2

August 25, 2019. 8:00 pm: 5x1 The Dark Swan; 9:00 pm: 5x2 The Price

September 8, 2019. 8:00 pm: 5x3 Siege Perilous; 9:00 pm: 5x4 The Broken Kingdom

September 15, 2019. 8:00 pm: 5x5 Dreamcatcher; 9:00 pm: 5x6 The Bear and the Bow

September 22, 2019. 8:00 pm: 5x7 Nimue; 9:00 pm: 5x8 Birth

September 29, 2019. 8:00 pm: 5x9 The Bear King; 9:00 pm: 5x10 Broken Heart

October 6, 2019. 8:00 pm: 5x11 Swan Song; 9:00 pm: 5x12 Souls of the Departed

October 13, 2019. 8:00 pm: 5x13 Labor of Love; 9:00 pm: 5x14 Devil’s Due

October 20, 2019. 8:00 pm: 5x15 The Brothers Jones; 9:00 pm: 5x16 Our Decay

October 27, 2019. 8:00 pm: 5x17 Her Handsome Hero; 9:00 pm: 5x18 Ruby Slippers

November 3, 2019. 8:00 pm: 5x19 Sisters; 9:00 pm: 5x20 Firebird

November 10, 2019. 8:00 pm: 5x21 Last Rites

November 17, 2019. 8:00 pm: 5x22 Only You; 5x23: An Untold Story

November 24, 2019. 8:00 pm: 6x1 The Savior; 9:00 pm: 6x2 A Bitter Draught

December 8, 2019. 8:00 pm: 6x3 The Other Shoe; 9:00 pm: 6x4 Strange Case

December 15, 2019. 8:00 pm: 6x5 Street Rats; 9:00 pm: 6x6 Dark Waters

December 22, 2019. 8:00 pm: 6x7 Heartless; 9:00 pm: 6x8 I’ll Be Your Mirror

December 29, 2019. 8:00 pm: 6x9 Changelings; 9:00 pm: 6x10 Wish You Were Here

January 5, 2020. 8:00 pm: 6x11 Tougher Than the Rest; 9:00 pm: 6x12 Murder Most Foul

January 12, 2020. 8:00 pm: 6x13 Ill-Boding Patterns; 9:00 pm: 6x14 Page 23

January 19, 2020. 8:00 pm: 6x15 A Wondrous Place; 9:00 pm: 6x16 Mother’s Little Helper

January 26, 2020. 8:00 pm: 6x17 Awake; 9:00 pm: 6x18 Where Bluebirds Fly

February 9, 2020. 8:00 pm: 6x19 The Black Fairy; 9:00 pm: 6x20 The Song in Your Heart

February 16, 2020. 8:00 pm: 6x21 The Final Battle, pt. 1; 9:00 pm: 6x22 The Final Battle, pt. 2

February 23, 2020. 8:00 pm: 7x1 Hyperion Heights; 9:00 pm: 7x2 A Pirate’s Life

March 1, 2020. 8:00 pm: 7x3 The Garden of Forking Paths; 9:00 pm: 7x4 Beauty

March 8, 2020. 8:00 pm: 7x5 Greenbacks; 9:00 pm: 7x6 Wake Up Call

March 15, 2020. 8:00 pm: 7x7 Eloise Gardener; 9:00 pm: 7x8 Pretty in Blue

March 22, 2020. 8:00 pm: 7x9 One Little Tear; 9:00 pm: 7x10 The Eighth Witch

March 29, 2020. 8:00 pm: 7x11 Secret Garden; 9:00 pm: 7x12 A Taste of the Heights

April 5, 2020. 8:00 pm: 7x13 Knightfall; 9:00 pm: 7x14 The Girl in the Tower

April 19, 2020. 8:00 pm: 7x15 Sisterhood; 9:00 pm: 7x16 Breadcrumbs

April 26, 2020. 8:00 pm: 7x17 Chosen; 9:00 pm: 7x18 The Guardian

May 3, 2020. 8:00 pm: 7x19 Flower Child; 9:00 pm: 7x20 Is This Henry Mills?

May 17, 2020. 8:00 pm: 7x21 Homecoming; 9:00 pm: 7x22 Leaving Storybrooke

[my-beautiful-wickedness]

The Queen’s wardrobe

6x4 Strange Case

[not-talking-about-pancakes]

A Pirate’s Treasure

This was my contribution to the Captain Swan Storybook, Part 2 which can be found here. I am just finally getting around to posting it in full here and on A03. I hope you read it and enjoy this little deleted/cannon divergent scene from 6x4-”Strange Case” of Killian moving in and Emma going through his box of memories, kind of like the way he went through her’s in season 3. Enjoy! Art work is by @jemmingart

Find it HERE on A03!

“Well, this was definitely not how I’d imagined today going,” Emma said with a sigh as she unlocked her front door and walked inside, Killian following behind her.

“Aye, love,” he agreed, shutting the door behind them, “though we ought to have learned by now that plans never work out well in this town.”

Today had definitely not gone as planned, though it had started out nice. Her parents had come over with her baby brother to make breakfast for her and Henry under the guise of celebrating her mom going back to teaching. But Emma was pretty sure this had more to do with her father trying to hide the fact he was a little upset his (not so) baby girl was having her pirate boyfriend move in with her. David had come around quite a bit on his feelings towards Killian, but he seemed to be harboring some reservations about something. And she didn’t think it was just a fear of fewer family get togethers at Granny’s like he claimed. (Killian would have teased him about being old fashioned and not wanting his daughter to shack up with a man before she was married. Only Killian would have said it with more fancy words.)

Things had quickly gone down hill from breakfast however when first, Regina and Jekyll showed up at the house to tell them that Hyde had broken out of his cell. While she and David went off to find him, Killian called to say that Gold had showed up and in an effort to protect Belle from Mr. Hyde, had placed a protective spell on the Jolly Roger, effectively trapping Belle on board. He didn’t want to leave her if she was in danger, so had agreed to stay a while.

But naturally, all hell had broken loose when the good guy turned out to be the bad guy, a fight took place and Jekyll and Hyde had both ended up dead. Which of course left Regina believing that the only way to stop her evil half was for both of them to die. Emma wasn’t so convinced, and as the Savior she was determined to find a way to stop the Queen and not harm Regina. But right now, she just wanted to curl up on the couch with her boyfriend, order some take out, and maybe watch a movie before bed.

“I know,” Emma replied as she toed off her boots, letting them fall where they did. “I just wish there’d been another way to stop Jekyll and Hyde.” She shrugged out of her jacket which she tossed towards the coat rack next to the door but didn’t much care whether it actually landed there or not. When she looked back up at Killian he had an eyebrow raised and a crooked smile on his face.

“What?” she asked

“Nothing,” he answered, shaking his head and still smiling at her. “I just fancy observing you in your natural habitat.”

Emma gave him an indignant look. “Are you making fun of me?”

“Not at all, darling,” he assured her, his grin widening. “In fact, I find your untidiness charming.”

Emma’s face softened and she moved to stand closer to him. “I’ll pick them up in the morning, alright,” she promised with a slightly whine in her voice, “It’s been a long day and I’m tired.”

“It’s your house, Swan,” Killian replied, “who am I to judge?”

“Hey,” Emma said, taking his hook in her hand tugging him towards the living room, “this is our house now, and I want you to be happy here.”

She lead him over to the couch and he set the small chest he’d brought with him on the coffee table as they sat down. “You certainly pack light,” she teased. “Is that everything you have?”

“When you live on ship, that doesn’t leave much room for possessions,” he answered with a smile. “Even if you are the Captain and have the largest quarters on board. However, the things in this box are the ones most important to me, and I like to have them close.”

Emma slid closer to him and reached out to run her hand along the top of the box, taking in the carvings and dents worn into wood that had clearly seen better days. She looked from the box to Killian, smiling softly. “May I have the honor?” She asked, repeating the question he’d asked her about her own box of belongs.

“Of course, love,” he nodded.

Emma tenderly opened the box, and was greeted by quite an assortment of objects. Some of them she recognized for what they were, others she wasn’t sure about. But it was clear, even just looking at the items, that they had been around for centuries and she hoped someday he’d tell her the stories on how he had acquired all of them. The first item she picked up was a shark tooth, and she held it up to show Killian.

“So, did you wrestle a great white using only your hook?” She teased.

Killian chuckled. “Nothing of the sort,” he told her. “It was merely a trinket from a sailor I met in a port as a boy. He said it would bring me good luck, and us pirates are a rather superstitious lot, so I’ve held on to it. Just in case,” he said, giving her a wink.

Emma smiled and put the tooth back in the box. Next she pulled out a rather old and weathered piece of paper that was rolled and tied with a ribbon. She opened it up to reveal a charcoal sketch of a woman she recognized as Milah. Emma had only seen her in Underworld, where she had looked a bit tired and worn from years of serving her penance for having turned her back on her son. But this drawing was clearly a younger Milah, who looked quite happy.

She looked from the sketch to Killian, and saw him looking at the drawing his jaw a bit tight and that slightly twitch he got in his cheek when she knew he was holding back a bit of tension. Emma placed her hand over his brace, which drew his gaze to her. “Hey, it’s okay,” she assured him. “I know she meant a lot to you.”

“Thank you, love,” he said, giving her a small smile, and placed his hand over hers. “I only wish I’d a chance to see her one last time before Hades decided to push her into the River of Souls.”

“I know,” Emma nodded. “She wanted to see you, too. And I really wanted you both to have a chance to make amends. I feel terrible.”

Killian sighed and nodded. “Perhaps we still will someday.”

Emma leaned in to place a kiss on his cheek before putting the drawing back, and pulling out a few of the coins from the bottom. “I thought pirates buried their treasure,” she teased. “What are these, your ‘seven pieces of eight’?”

“I’ve no idea what that is,” Killian said, giving her a confused look. “How can you have seven pieces of eight?”

“Never mind,” Emma shook her head. “It’s just a silly thing from a movie. So, are they doubloons or what?”

“Actually,” he replied, taking one gold coin and one silver from her hand, “they, like the shark tooth are a bit of a sailor's good luck charm. Before leaving port for a journey, you would throw a few coins into the ocean as an offering to Neptune, God of the Sea, in hopes of a safe voyage. Then, you’d take a gold coin,” he held one up, “and placed in the keep of the ship for good luck. The silver,” he held up the other coin, “was placed below the mast to ward off storms and keep your crew safe.”

Emma took the coins, turning the over in her hands. “Wow, you pirates are a superstitious bunch,” she said. “Though, I suppose when one is sailing in a realm after The Dark One, you need all the good luck charms you can get.”

“Aye,” Killian smiled. “Not that they were any match for him really.”

Emma put the coins back, and reached for another item, one that was more familiar. “Alright, I definitely know what this is,” she said, holding up a compass. “But I’m betting you didn’t have to fight Cora to get this one.”

“No,” he chuckled. “Actually, it was a gift from Liam. He bought it for me when we were still rather young lads, just before he joined the navy,” he explained. “I begged him to let me come with him, but I was still two years too young.” He took the compass from her, turning it over in his hand. “It’s broken though, I er...might have thrown against the wall of the captain’s quarters one night in a drunken rage. It wasn’t one of my best moments.”

“Well all have those,” Emma told him. “But you aren’t that man anymore, and you know your brother is in a better place. Even if I still don’t think he was a big a fan of me.”

“Don’t be ridiculous,” Killian scoffed. “He was just protecting me, like he always did. Given time you would have grown on him. Just as you grew on me,” he winked.

“I don’t know,” Emma took the compass from him and placed it back in the box. “But I’m glad you made peace with him and he’s in a better place.”

“As am I,” he agreed. “But I know he’d happy and, despite what you think, I know he’d want us to be happy.”

Emma smiled softly and turned to the box, closing the lid. All the objects tucked safely back in place, Emma closed the lid of the trunk, her hand lingering on the lid. The more she’d gotten to know Killian over the years, she realized how much they really had in common. It was no wonder she’d felt drawn to him almost from the beginning, which is what initially made her pull away. She hadn’t wanted someone getting too close, because she was certain it would only end in heartache when he figured out how broken she was and, sooner or later, he’d leave because he didn’t want to deal with the broken lost girl.

But he hadn’t gone away, even when she’d tried to push him. Instead he broke down her walls, helped her to heal, and had taught her how to open her heart again. He made her feel vulnerable, yet safe enough to tell him her deepest secrets and know he wasn’t going to use them against her. Rather, he comforted her and slowly but surely, she had begun to heal. She trusted him more than anyone.

It was that trust and love that had brought them to this next stage of their relationship. Killian moving in. Yes, Emma was nervous she was going to do something to screw it up, but more than anything she was happy. Happy and excited to start this new chapter of their story, where she got to wake up beside him every morning, and kiss him every night before they went to sleep.

She felt his hand come to rest over hers and realized she must have been lingering too long in her thoughts. She turned to look at him with a soft smile.

“Everything alright, love?” He asked, looking at her with a bit of concern in his eyes.

Emma leaned in and gave him a quick kiss. “Everything is perfect,” she assured him. “Thank you for letting me rummage through your box.”

“Any time, love,” he smiled warmly at her. “But, something is clearly on your mind. Care to share, Swan?” He asked, raising those eyebrows and giving her a look that he knew she was having deep thoughts. She always was an open book to him.

Emma sighed. “I was just thinking about far we’ve come to get to this step,” she answered truthfully. “But, I’m nervous I’m going to screw something up, or you’re going to get tired of me being a slob, or hogging the bed and decide it’s too much and you want to move back onto your ship.”

Killian just laughed softly and used his hook to reach up and brush a stray strand of hair behind her hear. “Emma, you’re not going screw anything up,” he assured her. “ I enjoy your...what did Henry call it? Ah, yes, your ‘quirks,’ at least those I’m aware of so far. I look forward to learning more of them, and I hope you’ll learn to love mine. As for hogging the bed,” Killian slipped his arm around her waist and pulled her closer, “you’re welcome to hog the bed any time. It simply means we get to be closer.”

“Okay, Romeo,” Emma laughed, “I got it. What say we order some takeout and then see just how much you enjoy me hogging the bed? I’m exhausted.”

“I think that sounds lovely,” he smiled and placed a kiss on her forehead.

“Good, I’ll order the food, you get the wine out of the fridge.”

It might not have been their most romantic night, but they enjoyed it nevertheless, and there would be plenty of nights in their future for romance, once Emma figured out this vision of her dying, stopping it, and enjoying her life with the man she loved and her family by her side.

[ao3feed-captainswan]

A Pirate's Treasure

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2id1UR7

by thegirlwhowaited82

This was written for the Captain Swan Storybook, Part 2, which can be found on the CS Storybook Tumblr page. This is a deleted cannon divergent scene from episode 6x4-"Strange Case" of Once Upon a Time. It's just a little fluff piece about Killian moving in with Emma and a sort of parallel to the scene in season 4 when Killian goes through Emma's box of memories at the Sheriff's station. In this story, Emma is going through Killian's box of treasures and learning more about her pirate.

Words: 2253, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: Emma Swan, Captain Hook | Killian Jones

Relationships: Captain Hook | Killian Jones/Emma Swan

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2id1UR7

[onceuponaseriesrewatch]

Join us this Sunday, December 8 at 9:00 pm EST for 6x4 Strange Case!

If you’d like to be added to the hangout chat, just send us your email address

[onceuponaseriesrewatch]

Join us this Sunday, December 8 at 9:00 pm EST for 6x4 Strange case!

If you’d like to be added to the hangout chat, just send us your email address!

[my-beautiful-wickedness]

The Queen’s wardrobe

6x4 Strange Case

[csstorybook]

CS Storybook--6x03 Update

Three weeks ago we announced plans for an upcoming second edition of the Captain Swan Storybook.  (If you missed the initial post, you can find it here.)  Several of you have already signed up for episodes in which to set your story, but there are still plenty of really good CS moments left!

Under the cut is a list of episodes with some of the best Captain Swan moments.  Those that are already taken have been crossed off, but everything else is fair game.  If you haven’t signed up for a story yet (or if you’re an artist/edit maker who is interested in helping to “illustrate” the book) send an ask to @csstorybook or an ask or message to @whimsicallyenchantedrose. The more people who sign up, the better our storybook, our tribute to our favorite Pirate and Savior, will be!

The deadline for signing up for a story is June 4—that’s SUNDAY, but don’t wait too long!  We are looking for only one story per episode, so if you wait, someone else may take your favorite!

After June 4, current participants may check out the list of still-available episodes and sign up for a second if they choose.

2x5—The Doctor

2x6—Tallahassee

2x9—Queen of Hearts

2x12—In the Name of the Brother

2x22—And Straight on ‘til Morning

3x1—The Heart of the Truest Believer  

3x2—Lost Girl

3x5—Good Form

3x6—Ariel  

3x7—Dark Hollow

3x11—Going Home

3x12—New York City Serenade

3x14—The Tower

3x16—It’s Not Easy Being Green

3x17—The Jolly Roger

3x18—Bleeding Through

3x20—Kansas

3x21—Snow Drifts

3x22—There’s No Place Like Home

4x1—A Tale of Two Sisters  

4x2—White Out

4x3—Rocky Road

4x4—The Apprentice

4x5—Breaking Glass

4x7   The Snow Queen

4x8—Smash the Mirror

4x9—Fall

4x11—Heroes and Villains

4x12—Darkness on the Edge of Town

4x13—Unforgiven

4x15—Poor Unfortunate Soul

4x19—Lily

4x20—Mother

4x22—Operation Mongoose: Part 2

5x1—The Dark Swan

5x2—The Price

5x3—Siege Perilous

5x4—The Broken Kingdom

5x7—Nimue

5x8—Birth

5x10—Broken Heart

5x11—Swan Song

5x14—Devil’s Due

5x15—The Brothers Jones

5x20—Firebird

5x21—Last Rites

5x23—An Untold Story

6x1—The Savior

6x3—The Other Shoe

6x4—Strange Case

6x6—Dark Waters

6x7—Heartless

6x11—Wish You Were Here

6x12—Murder Most Foul

6x13—Ill Boding Patterns

6x14—Page 23

6x15—A Wondrous Place

6x16—Mother’s Little Helper

6x17—Awake

6x18—Where Bluebirds Fly

6x19—The Black Fairy

6x20—The Song in Your Heart

6x21-6x22—The Final Battle

[csstorybook]

CS Storybook Update: 6/3

A month ago we announced plans for an upcoming second edition of the Captain Swan Storybook.  (If you missed the initial post, you can find it here.)  Several of you have already signed up for episodes in which to set your story, but there are still plenty of really good CS moments left!

Under the cut is a list of episodes with some of the best Captain Swan moments.  Those that are already taken have been crossed off, but everything else is fair game.  If you haven’t signed up for a story yet (or if you’re an artist/edit maker who is interested in helping to “illustrate” the book) send an ask to @csstorybook or an ask or message to @whimsicallyenchantedrose. The more people who sign up, the better our storybook, our tribute to our favorite Pirate and Savior, will be!

The deadline for signing up for a story is June 4—that’s TOMORROW!

***Schedule update***

June 4:  The first round of sign-ups ends.

June 5-June 18:  Authors already signed up will have the opportunity to sign up for a second story.

June 18-June 30: The moderators will organize “cooperative stories” to fill out any important episodes still not taken.

July 1: Illustrators will be assigned to stories.

August 1: All stories and illustrations should be submitted to @flslp87

2x5—The Doctor

2x6—Tallahassee

2x9—Queen of Hearts

2x12—In the Name of the Brother

2x22—And Straight on ‘til Morning

3x1—The Heart of the Truest Believer  

3x2—Lost Girl

3x5—Good Form

3x6—Ariel

3x7—Dark Hollow

3x11—Going Home

3x12—New York City Serenade

3x14—The Tower

3x16—It’s Not Easy Being Green

3x17—The Jolly Roger

3x18—Bleeding Through

3x20—Kansas

3x21—Snow Drifts

3x22—There’s No Place Like Home

4x1—A Tale of Two Sisters  

4x2—White Out

4x3—Rocky Road

4x4—The Apprentice

4x5—Breaking Glass

4x7   The Snow Queen

4x8—Smash the Mirror

4x9—Fall

4x11—Heroes and Villains

4x12—Darkness on the Edge of Town

4x13—Unforgiven

4x15—Poor Unfortunate Soul

4x19—Lily

4x20—Mother

4x22—Operation Mongoose: Part 2

5x1—The Dark Swan

5x2—The Price

5x3—Siege Perilous

5x4—The Broken Kingdom

5x7—Nimue

5x8—Birth

5x10—Broken Heart

5x11—Swan Song

5x14—Devil’s Due

5x15—The Brothers Jones

5x20—Firebird

5x21—Last Rites

5x23—An Untold Story

6x1—The Savior

6x3—The Other Shoe

6x4—Strange Case

6x6—Dark Waters

6x7—Heartless

6x11—Wish You Were Here

6x12—Murder Most Foul

6x13—Ill Boding Patterns

6x14—Page 23

6x15—A Wondrous Place

6x16—Mother’s Little Helper

6x17—Awake

6x18—Where Bluebirds Fly

6x19—The Black Fairy

6x20—The Song in Your Heart

6x21-6x22—The Final Battle

[csstorybook]

CS Storybook--5x22 Update

Two weeks ago we announced plans for an upcoming second edition of the Captain Swan Storybook.  (If you missed the initial post, you can find it here.)  Several of you have already signed up for episodes in which to set your story, but there are still plenty of really good CS moments left!

Under the cut is a list of episodes with some of the best Captain Swan moments.  Those that are already taken have been crossed off, but everything else is fair game.  If you haven’t signed up for a story yet (or if you’re an artist/edit maker who is interested in helping to “illustrate” the book) send an ask to @csstorybook or an ask or message to @whimsicallyenchantedrose.  The more people who sign up, the better our storybook, our tribute to our favorite Pirate and Savior, will be!

The deadline for signing up for a story is June 4, but don’t wait too long!  We are looking for only one story per episode, so if you wait, someone else may take your favorite!

         2x5—The Doctor

·         2x6—Tallahassee

·         2x9—Queen of Hearts

·         2x12—In the Name of the Brother

·         2x22—And Straight on ‘til Morning

·         3x1—The Heart of the Truest Believer  

·         3x2—Lost Girl

·         3x5—Good Form

·         3x6—Ariel  

·         3x7—Dark Hollow

·         3x11—Going Home

·         3x12—New York City Serenade

·         3x14—The Tower

·         3x16—It’s Not Easy Being Green

·         3x17—The Jolly Roger

        3x18—Bleeding Through

·         3x20—Kansas

·         3x21—Snow Drifts

        3x22—There’s No Place Like Home

·         4x1—A Tale of Two Sisters  

·         4x2—White Out

·         4x3—Rocky Road

·         4x4—The Apprentice

·         4x5—Breaking Glass

·         4x8—Smash the Mirror

·         4x9—Fall

·         4x11—Heroes and Villains

·        4x12—Darkness on the Edge of Town

·         4x13—Unforgiven

·         4x15—Poor Unfortunate Soul

·         4x19—Lily

·         4x20—Mother

·         4x22—Operation Mongoose: Part 2

·         5x1—The Dark Swan

·         5x2—The Price

·         5x3—Siege Perilous

·         5x4—The Broken Kingdom

·         5x7—Nimue

·         5x8—Birth

·         5x10—Broken Heart

·         5x11—Swan Song

        5x14—Devil’s Due

·         5x15—The Brothers Jones

·         5x20—Firebird

·         5x21—Last Rites

·         5x23—An Untold Story

·         6x1—The Savior

·         6x3—The Other Shoe

        6x4—Strange Case

·         6x6—Dark Waters

·         6x7—Heartless

·         6x11—Wish You Were Here

·         6x12—Murder Most Foul

·         6x13—Ill Boding Patterns

·         6x14—Page 23

·         6x15—A Wondrous Place

·         6x16—Mother’s Little Helper

·         6x17—Awake

·         6x18—Where Bluebirds Fly

·         6x19—The Black Fairy

·         6x20—The Song in Your Heart

        6x21-6x22—The Final Battle

[csstorybook]

CS Storybook--5x22 Update

***This is the most complete list of episodes taken and remaining as of the evening of 5x22***

Two weeks ago we announced plans for an upcoming second edition of the Captain Swan Storybook.  (If you missed the initial post, you can find it here.)  Several of you have already signed up for episodes in which to set your story, but there are still plenty of really good CS moments left!

Under the cut is a list of episodes with some of the best Captain Swan moments.  Those that are already taken have been crossed off, but everything else is fair game.  If you haven’t signed up for a story yet (or if you’re an artist/edit maker who is interested in helping to “illustrate” the book) send an ask to @csstorybook or an ask or message to @whimsicallyenchantedrose.  The more people who sign up, the better our storybook, our tribute to our favorite Pirate and Savior, will be!

The deadline for signing up for a story is June 4, but don’t wait too long!  We are looking for only one story per episode, so if you wait, someone else may take your favorite!

        2x5—The Doctor

·         2x6—Tallahassee

·         2x9—Queen of Hearts

·         2x12—In the Name of the Brother

·         2x22—And Straight on ‘til Morning

·         3x1—The Heart of the Truest Believer  

·         3x2—Lost Girl

·         3x5—Good Form

·         3x6—Ariel  

·         3x7—Dark Hollow

·         3x11—Going Home

·         3x12—New York City Serenade

·         3x14—The Tower

·         3x16—It’s Not Easy Being Green

·         3x17—The Jolly Roger

      3x18—Bleeding Through

·         3x20—Kansas

·         3x21—Snow Drifts

       3x22—There’s No Place Like Home

·         4x1—A Tale of Two Sisters  

·         4x2—White Out

·         4x3—Rocky Road

·         4x4—The Apprentice

·         4x5—Breaking Glass

           4x7   The Snow Queen

·         4x8—Smash the Mirror

·         4x9—Fall

·         4x11—Heroes and Villains

·       4x12—Darkness on the Edge of Town

·         4x13—Unforgiven

·         4x15—Poor Unfortunate Soul

·         4x19—Lily

·         4x20—Mother

·         4x22—Operation Mongoose: Part 2

·         5x1—The Dark Swan

·         5x2—The Price

·         5x3—Siege Perilous

·         5x4—The Broken Kingdom

·         5x7—Nimue

·         5x8—Birth

·         5x10—Broken Heart

·         5x11—Swan Song

       5x14—Devil’s Due

·         5x15—The Brothers Jones

·         5x20—Firebird

·         5x21—Last Rites

·         5x23—An Untold Story

·         6x1—The Savior

·         6x3—The Other Shoe

       6x4—Strange Case

·         6x6—Dark Waters

·         6x7—Heartless

·         6x11—Wish You Were Here

·         6x12—Murder Most Foul

·         6x13—Ill Boding Patterns

·         6x14—Page 23

·         6x15—A Wondrous Place

·         6x16—Mother’s Little Helper

·         6x17—Awake

·         6x18—Where Bluebirds Fly

·         6x19—The Black Fairy

·         6x20—The Song in Your Heart

       6x21-6x22—The Final Battle