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My Hope for Once Upon A Time

Every day I'm reading new articles about what's going on with Once Upon a Time and it has me both excited and scared for the series.

For those who aren't up to speed on Once's new season, I will tell you. They are rebooting it, wiping the slate clean with most of our favorite character's stories concluding with the sixth season finale. Emma Swan, the protagonist, fights the battle against evil and succeeds in vanquishing the Black Fairy and releasing Storybrooke from dark magic. Happily ever after is in the air for our characters and the story is complete. However, as we have learned with this series, nothing is as it seems.

Before you read ahead, beware that there are spoilers ahead. If you haven't seen the season sixth finale, please for your own self-preservation go watch it before reading onward.

The last few seconds of the finale see us following a young girl as she disembarks from a bus, a book of fairytales in hand. She enters an apartment building and proceeds to knock on one of the doors. A young man opens the door revealing himself to be the adult Henry Mills and the little girl knocking at his door is proclaiming to be his daughter, Lucy.

Here are the interesting tidbits that are going to be interesting to see unfold. We have a new actor, Andrew J. West, stepping in as adult Henry. Jared Gilmore who currently plays Henry, along with Jennifer Morrison, Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Dallas, Rebecca Mader and Emile De Ravin will not be returning in Season 7. Jennifer Morrison is contracted to appear in at least one more episode though if it will be this season remains to be seen.

A new actress has been hired to play Cinderella. The creators of the show have explained that this new actress will be playing a different version of Cinderella than previously shown in the series. It will be explained that Henry has traveled to different realms in search of variations of the stories that his grandparents and parents had had and to make a name for himself as an author.Somewhere in his adventures is where he is supposedly cursed and requiring his daughter to go in search of him.

The remaining cast will be slightly altered versions of the characters that we've come to know and love. And here is where I foresee some problems. We've already come to know these characters, know their struggles and triumphs. To see them start over as different people are going to be difficult to watch. For me personally, it has been fascinating to watch Regina evolve over the seasons. It has been reported that she has a new name and an altered cursed backstory. Regina is one of my favorite characters on the series and I would hate to see her character cheapened in this reboot. Captain Hook and Rumplestilskin also appear to have new cursed identities as well.

I always have concerns about new characters being added to the series because Once Upon a Time has proven time and time again that they don't know what to do with a character once a storyline has been completed. For example, Robin Hood. It was great to see Regina received a love interest after all the heartache she went through. They fell in love and then it seemed like the writers didn't know what to do with him because he wasn't actively involved in the plot. Killing him was just a method of creating drama and a lax way of story telling. I hope the fates of the new characters are planned out.

Then there is the another concern: the curse. Apparently, our heroes are finding themselves under a new curse. I will ask the writers of OUAT to stop with the memory wipe curses. You've killed it to death. It was a good plot point in the first season but now with the seventh season on shaky ground, I'm hoping that it's something more than they don't remember their true identities or they can't remember what happened to them a few days prior. It's old. Please move on.

With the new season coming fast, I look forward with excitement and fear over what the new season brings. The new cast will give the series the chance to explore different variations of the classic stories that we all know and love. It will also have the opportunity the explore other stories that the show has yet to touch on. I cannot wait to see what they have in store.



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