#edward kitsis

[beasanfi1997]

When i see Apple White with Raven Queen or even Raven Queen with Madeline Hatter i was stop thinking about Once Upon a Time when i watched only two First seasons because One i see Mary Margaret and Regina Mills since they First meets in the episode 18 from season One and then One episode before we see Regina Mills that She want the help of Mad Hatter to search her father in Wonderland and even She didn't notice that her mother Cora was disguised as Queen of Heart since She sent her in episode 2 from Once Upon a Time season two when She won't to marry Snow White's father After Daniel's death.......

But now i realize that It was Peter Pan's fault because the Blue Fairy see that Rumpelstilskin was taking from his parents Peter Pan and Fiona the Black Fairy and It that because She tried to help Bealfire to convince Rumpelstilskin to return in London. That's Rumpelstilskin did It with the Fairy of Cinderella in the episode 4 from Once Upon a Time, was a truly meaning because of his parents and even that episode predicted the future of Henry Mills that he will marry Cinderella and they will have Lucy and together they will fight against Lady Rapunzel Tremaine and Mother Gothel transforming them into a tree in the Last season of Once Upon a Time. But if Alice was young in Once Upon a Time season One with Henry Mills, and meeting the Mad Hatter and made him compassion without to see the presence of Cora in Wonderland, did Alice and Peter Pan knowed each other before the spells and the events of Once Upon a Time? And because Alice and Peter Pan were from London and Alice in Wonderland was created by Lewis Carroll in 1865 and Peter Pan was created by James Barrie in 1904.

[heronroseeros]

super incredible personal life-changing vital to me that Storybrook's clock tower is set to 8:15 aka Oceanic Airways Flight 815 in the Once Upon a Time pilot. Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis deserve a fun treat for that.

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1989, the CEO of ENCOM Kevin Flynn mysteriously disappeared. What no one realized was that Flynn had become trapped in a computerized virtual reality world by his own computer avatar CLU. (“Tron: Legacy” flm)

[ljones41]

Favorite "ONCE UPON A TIME" (2011-2018) Episodes

Below are my favorite episodes from the ABC fantasy series, "ONCE UPON A TIME". Created by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, the series starred Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Lana Parrilla, Josh Dallas and Robert Carlyle:

FAVORITE "ONCE UPON A TIME" (2011-2018) EPISODES

1. (4.12) "Darkness on the Edge of Town" - Rumpelstiltskin aka Mr. Gold returns to Storybrooke with Ursula and Cruella De Vil in tow. Meanwhile, the Nolans (aka the "Charmings"), Regina Mills aka the Evil Queen and Killian Jones aka Captain Hook set about freeing the fairies from the Sorcerer's hat and deal with a threatening Chernabog demon, which had also freed.

2. (1.18) "The Stable Boy" – This very interesting episode revealed the origins of the Evil Queen’s antipathy toward Snow White. In the present, Mary Margaret Blanchard (aka Snow White) faces prosecution for Kathryn Nolan’s alleged murder.

3. (3.13) "Witch Hunt" - Following the return of Enchanted Forest characters to Storybrooke, Maine; Emma Swan works with Regina to find out who took everyone's memories from the past year. Flashbacks in the Enchanted Forest show the Evil Queen and Robin Hood attempt's to break into her castle, which had been overtaken by the Wicked Witch of the West.

4. (4.16) "Best Laid Plans" - While Rumpelstiltskin and the Queens of Darkness continue their search for the "Author" of the town's Fairy Tale Book, Mary Margaret and David Nolan (aka Prince "Charming") try to stop them in order to keep their daughter Emma from discovering their past misdeed, which is finally revealed in flashbacks.

5. (3.11) "Going Home" - In order to prevent Peter Pan aka Malcolm's plans to cast a new curse upon Storybrooke and create a new Neverland. Both Mr. Gold and Regina are forced to make big sacrifices.

6. (7.20) "Is This Henry Mills?" - Regina aka Roni enlists the help of her adopted granddaughter Lucy Mills to wake her son Henry Mills from the recent Dark Curse created by Eloise Gardner aka Mother Gothel. Rumpelstilskin aka Detective Weaver and Wishverse Killian Jones aka Captain Hook aka Detective Rogers go to Margot West aka Robin Hood in hopes of getting through to his daughter and the latter's girlfriend, Alice aka Tilly.

7. (3.09) "Saving Henry" - Emma, Mary Margaret and Regina struggle to prevent Peter Pan from absorbing a dying Henry Mills' heart into his body. Flashbacks reveal how Regina had ended up adopting Henry.

8. (2.16) "The Miller's Daughter" - While Regina and her mother Cora Mills aka the Queen of Hearts hunt for Rumpelstiltskin's dagger in Storybrooke in this spine-tingling episode, Cora's back story as a poor miller's daughter, who becomes the wife of a prince, is revealed in flashbacks.

9. (1.11) "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree" – This episode reveals the back story of newspaper editor Sidney Glass’ life as a Genie in the Enchanted Forest, and how his relationship with the Evil Queen led him to become the Magic Mirror.

10. (2.10) "The Cricket Game" - Following Cora and Captain Hook's arrival in Storybrooke, the former set about framing Regina for Archie Hooper's "murder" in an effort to emotionally break the former mayor. Snow White and Charming disagree over how to handle the captured Evil Queen in the Enchanted Forest flashbacks.

Honorable Mention: (5.08) "Birth" - Hook risks everything to uncover the truth about what his lady love Emma, the new Dark One, did while they were all in Camelot.

[fuckyeahbelleandrumpelstiltskin]

Oh lord, this whole plot was such a clusterfuck from start to finish.

Basically there was a leaked ABC recap where it is stated that Regina takes Belle's heart without Belle's permission. However the show muddled that up by either deleting the scene or never filming it.

Then, I kid you not, A&E just forgot all about her knowing. Because Belle getting used and abused to hurt Rumple is no big deal right? Why should anyone care? It's just Belle after all. (Sarcasm)

I hate this show. 🤮

I made a recap with the receipts here for anyone interested to revisit the madness.

i've probably ranted about it a hundred times already...

but BUT the way regina stole belle's heart? the scenes don't make sense. the characters don't make sense.

i liked the rumple&will team up to steal belle's heart, but on belle's side, it's not making sense! regina asked belle for her heart, and yet she's clueless when it was returned? regina's not supposed to pull hearts and order people against their wills either! there was no need! she overstepped! and did i mention how it never got brought up again!?

the subplot ends with belle looking at rumple longingly, like she remembered that "oh! i love him." then follows the apparent breakup between belle and will. (oh, and his place in this show also doesn't make sense!)

ergo, this is my most hated plotline. above all the s5-s7 weirdness, this is one where i don't even consider it canon. there's always a better, alternate version of the situation in my head. my headcanon pieces this stupid stupid situation together.

[zukkaoru]

forgot to schedule an annoying barrage of posts but happy 8 year anniversary to the death of robin hood ouat. i'm still bitter. btw

[colinodonoghue]

3Olympia Theatre: ✨Meet the cast ✨ Colin O’Donoghue will be playing the role of ‘Sam’ in the hit play ‘2:22 – A Ghost Story’ coming to 3Olympia Theatre this summer, running from June 20th – August 11th 2024 Colin O’Donoghue can most recently be seen in the highly anticipated Appian Way/Nat Geo series The Right Stuff opposite Jake McDorman and Patrick J. Adams. He has just completed filming in civil war spy series The Gray House for Paramount that Roland Joffe has directed. In film, Colin stars in Susan Johnson’s Carrie Pilby alongside Bel Powley, as well as the independent feature The Dust Storm. He also starred opposite Anthony Hopkins in Mikael Hafstrom’s The Rite for New Line, Johannes Roberts’ independent film Storage 24, Gary Fleder’s Identity, alongside Angela Bassett and Fairytale of New York, opposite Jim Belushi and Miranda Raison. In TV, Colin can be seen in Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis’ hit ABC drama, Once Upon a Time, recurred on the Irish TV series, The Clinic, which has won various Irish Film and Television Awards and appeared on Showtime’s The Tudors. Do you dare to join us? Book your tickets to 2:22 A Ghost Story now 👻🎟️ https://www.3olympia.ie/whats-on/222-a-ghost-story #222AGhostStory

[strangesmallbard]

see i want to agree that people who like non-canon ships need to cope with their non-canon reality, but i also know in my heart of hearts that adam horowitz & edward kitsis were wrong for literally all of that. swan queen WAS the moment and they simply didn’t seize it 😔

[dorothydalmati1]

Obscure Animation Subject #122: Tron: Uprising

Due to the death of a certain someone, I didn’t write this until now at the end of the day. Okay, now moving on…

A one-season series of 19 episodes developed by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz for Disney XD, produced by Disney Television Animation and lasted from May 18, 2012 to January 28, 2013. Taking place between Tron and Tron Legacy, we follow Beck who becomes the new “Tron” and leader of a revolution. I was expecting this to be pretty straightforward and simple, since the first movie was like that but instead I got something a lot better than I expected. A show that explored this digital world a lot more than the film itself did. Tron Uprising took more focus on The Grid and how it works, in the movie it just existed. Like, it was there but they clearly didn’t want to do much with it, but here t’s awesome. We see how people’s normal lives are like in this world and their culture is well explored. This show has great characters and good character development, the visuals also look stunning. In certain scenes it can look slow and choppy but it’s not a common issue, the rest of the show looks great. The show has a more mature tone than any other Disney cartoon and the plot can be very complex, especially for kids. Sometimes it's hard to remember this is still a Disney show lol, but that just shows you how good it is.

Cancelled after one season and it’s super unfortunate. It’s peak Tron and enhanced its worldbuilding and characters. I like the films fine enough but this show had the best storytelling and is what really made me be a Tron fan. I would love a continuation and the Tron franchise can be alive again but it's been over a decade now, but who knows? Only time will tell.

[kelyon]

I recently saw a take that Mr. Gold is antisemitic and was so confused??? What do you think?

Oh yeah, I've seen takes like that too. I think the takes are valid (especially when they're made by actual Jewish people who know more about antisemitism than us goyim.) Obviously, I don't think it makes OUAT "irredeemable media," but it is a lens by which we can and should analyze the work.

For the record, I don't think Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz set out to create an antisemitic character. (Eddie's wikipedia page says he's Jewish. Adam's doesn't, but Horowitz is a pretty Jewish last name so I'm making an educated guess.)

Long story short: Antisemitism is one of the backbones of Western society, whether we want it to be or not. It's in our stories (and especially our fairy tales), even when we have no malicious intent.

Let's start with the fairy tale. The story of Rumpelstiltskin has a lot of antisemitic tropes. It's a story about a weird little guy with easy access to gold deceiving a pretty young woman into giving up her child. We've got all the hits here! Any story about stealing babies is probably rooted in antisemitism. Stealing them, eating them, drinking their blood/adrenachrome (I refuse to google that word in order to spell it correctly)--bigots have been saying that about Jewish people for a very long time.

All of the tropes from the fairy tale get translated into modern times with Gold. He is rich and shady and he's always playing people and he can't be trusted. He knows things other people don't know, he dresses differently than the heroes, he's always apart from the crowd so he must be plotting something.

Then we have Bobby, who is not Jewish as far as I know, but who is short and has a big nose. I've seen people headcanon Gold as Jewish as a positive thing, and I can definitely see that. Intelligence and "tricky" cleverness, being small and still outmatching much larger foes--these are traits valued in Jewish culture, and they should be celebrated in characters.

(I've long wanted to read a version of Beauty and the Beast where Beauty is a Jewish woman. It makes so much sense--a woman who loves knowledge and is ostracized by the greater community, who can look a monster in the face and see his humanity, who has faith that if she does the right thing she will make it through this time of trouble, who has gorgeous curly brown hair! But I digress.)

The problem is, that even when Rumple is good, he's not trustworthy. Even when he's part of the group, he's still different. When something goes wrong, he's the first person the heroes blame. He's self-serving, he cares more about himself and his family than whatever the heroes need from him at that moment.

We lovingly call Rumple a lizard man, but the conspiracy theory of lizard people working their will behind the scenes is an antisemitic classic.

Before I end this, I want to go back to the idea of intention, and what we can learn from analyzing a story this way. A lot of the tropes that have antisemitic roots can be dismissed as "Yeah, that's just villains!" That was my response for a long time. Of course villains are well dressed and intelligent, of course they're deceitful, of course they have bad intentions for children--that's what bad guys do.

Then you have to think about real life. Stories--especially children's stories--are lessons. They're cautionary tales that tell us what dangers are out there, what we should be afraid of. As much as I agree that there is a difference between fiction and reality, we need to be cautious about who we think the "bad guys" are in real life. Because once we learn that certain traits equal villainy, we can assume that people who have those traits might be villainous. It's especially insidious when one of the traits in question is deceit. You can't trust any of them! They're capable of anything! We all know that, we've been told it since we were children!

And that's how innocent people in real life get murdered at a synagogue.

Watch out for the things that are in your brain. I said earlier that antisemitism is a backbone of western society. It's also like lead pipes: We modern, well-meaning people didn't put lead pipes in to carry our water around. We know lead is bad for us. We don't want it here. But it is here and taking it out would be a lot hassle and cost a lot of money. So maybe later. Meanwhile, the lead of antisemitism keeps leaching its way into our drinking water and our bloodstreams and it's never going to go anywhere unless we do something now.

[beasanfi1997]

I was completely wrong about Kevin Pearson and Rumpelstilskin because i was though that they are Animals because Rumpelstilskin replace the Beast from Beauty and the Beast and Crocodile from Peter Pan and Kevin Pearson was a racist. I was wrong about them because Stanley the grandfather of Kevin Pearson and Peter Pan the Father of Rumpelstilskin were real Beasts. I was fool. I was accused for nothing the two series Once Upon a Time and This Is Us because i thought that they are true responsable to interrupted Star Wars the clone Wars and star wars Rebels because i want to see the reaction of Ezra Bridger and Ahsoka Tano that they sense Anakin Skywalker kills Palpatine as i would like to see Ahsoka's reaction when She sense Anakin fell in the dark side of the Force. My family too were wrong about Darth Vader, my father too was wrong about Ezra and even my Older sister was wrong about the possible love between Ezra and Sabine Wren. We were wrong. We are the family of fools.

But i think that Shannara Chronicles and Fate the Winx Saga were actually the worst series

[themattress]

OUAT Observation

I’ve said this before, I’ll say it again, I’ll say it forever:

Why did this show not wrap up at Season 5!?

Beyond factors like shows going beyond a fifth season are generally difficult to maintain, that ending at Season 5 would have put the final episode count at 111, and how Seasons 6 and 7 were widely considered to be the lowest points of the series quality-wise so they could have avoided that and gone out on a high note, just look at the Underworld Saga. Not only were the heroes going up against a god, in the realm of the dead that was just a stone’s throw away from Heaven and Hell, but the villains involved included Prince James who was the way he was due to major Season 1 baddie King George, Cora who was the Big Bad of Season 2, Peter Pan who was the Big Bad of Season 3A, Zelena who was the Big Bad of Season 3B, Cruella De Vil who was the most evil of the Queens of Darkness in Season 4B, and of course Rumple / Mr. Gold who’s been a major villain almost the whole way through and who now held the power of all Dark Ones, all the way back to Nimue herself. Add to that all of the redemption work and emotional closure provided to Regina and Hook as well as Zelena, and to Season 5A’s King Arthur of all people at the last minute, plus the perfect set-ups for Emma, Snow, Charming, Henry, Belle and Robin Hood’s conclusions right there...this was the most ideal time the show’s narrative could possibly wrap up at! It was like the whole show’s history coming together for one final bow before the curtain closed on it! Any showrunner or network executives with actual integrity would have recognized that and shaped the finale accordingly.

Sadly, Once Upon a Time didn’t have showrunners or network executives with actual integrity in charge of it. It had the immature and morally warped Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis as showrunners, and the chronically greedy and incompetent ABC executives overseeing them. They gave the show another season order, which meant that Robin Hood got killed, Rumple received no comeuppance, the other heroes were granted no sort of emotional closure or happy endings, and we were given a finale that had jack shit to do with the preceding story arc since its primary focus was setting up Season 6...and the most appealing aspect of that set-up, the Land of Untold Stories, didn’t even end up getting utilized much in Season 6!

The conclusion of the season could have been so much better; Hell, the season itself could have been so much better. But they blew it. The penultimate episode before the finale that wrapped the Underworld arc up was called “Last Rites”. That ended up being way too appropriate of a title, although the writers had no way of knowing that when they chose it.

[figtrad]

Why ABC canceled Once Upon a Time in Wonderland after one season

Jack Rowand / ABC For all the blood, sweat and manpower ABC poured into finding a successor “Lost” (a show that shaped the course of television in the early 21st century)I'll bet donut dollars the network never bet it would take the form of Once Upon a Time . Conceived by Lost alumni and TRON Legacy writers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, Once Upon a Time stars House, MD veteran Jennifer…

[gamistuff]

Why ABC canceled Once Upon a Time in Wonderland after one season

Jack Rowand / ABC For all the blood, sweat and manpower ABC poured into finding a successor “Lost” (a show that shaped the course of television in the early 21st century)I'll bet donut dollars the network never bet it would take the form of Once Upon a Time . Conceived by Lost alumni and TRON Legacy writers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, Once Upon a Time stars House, MD veteran Jennifer…

[damindf]

Why ABC canceled Once Upon a Time in Wonderland after one season

Jack Rowand / ABC For all the blood, sweat and manpower ABC poured into finding a successor “Lost” (a show that shaped the course of television in the early 21st century)I'll bet donut dollars the network never bet it would take the form of Once Upon a Time . Conceived by Lost alumni and TRON Legacy writers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, Once Upon a Time stars House, MD veteran Jennifer…