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Will Once Upon a Time explain how Mulan and Aurora helped Phillip get his soul back from the wraith? –JJ
Series cocreator Adam Horowitz confirms that yes, that burning question will be addressed during Season 3 — and likely on the sooner side, I reckon, since Jamie Chung and Sarah Bolger have midseason pilots (NBC’s Believe, ABC’s Mixology) to get to!

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In the closing moments of the Season 2 finale, Prince Charming (Josh Dallas), Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin), Emma (Jennifer Morrison), Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle), Regina (Lana Parrilla) and Captain Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) set sail for Neverland to chase after Greg (Ethan Embry) and Tamara (Sonequa Martin-Green), who had kidnapped Henry (Jared Gilmore). Foes-turned-friends will have to team up to track down the one they love — which should be interesting since they’ve spent decades trying to destroy each other.

“What’s exciting to us is what happens when you take characters who have been at each other’s throats from the beginning and give them a common goal and throw them together on a little pirate ship,” executive producer Adam Horowitz tells TVGuide.com.

This journey to rescue Henry will force each member of the ragtag group to channel what executive producer Edward Kitsis calls their “core character.” “Snow needs to be Bandit Snow, the Snow we saw who wielded the sword in the beginning,” he says. “Emma is going to need to be the savior. Rumplestiltskin is going to have to be the dark one. Prince Charming needs to be Prince Charming right now.”

What that means for Regina — the former Evil Queen who succeeded in her attempt to get redemption when she planned to sacrifice herself to save Storybrooke in last season’s finale — and her quest to be good remains to be seen. Just because Kitsis didn’t mention her, doesn’t mean she won’t need to channel her dastardly evil side on their mission to retrieve Henry. “One of my favorite things is when Regina says, ‘Everyone thinks I’m the Evil Queen. Let me die as Regina,’” Kitsis says of the season finale. “This is before they took her son, so right now, on that ship, she’ll do whatever it takes to get her son back. If that means Regina is required, she’ll be Regina, but if that means the Evil Queen is required, watch out.”

“I don’t think Regina thinks of it in terms of good and evil the way the other characters look at her and paint her with those strokes,” Horowitz adds. “Regina thinks about it in terms of what she wants, what her pain is, what she needs and how she’s going to get it. How everyone else interprets it is on them.”

While Regina continues her struggle with what magic does to her — the producers love to liken it to how alcohol affects an addict — Emma will be exploring her new expertise. As evidenced in the finale, Emma has more power than she could imagine after helping Regina stop the trigger from destroying Storybrooke. But her knack for magic is something she hasn’t had time to explore since she first used it back in Season 2. “In Season 3, you’re going to see Emma questioning why she has magic, what does it mean to be the savior and what about her happy ending? Or is her job just to make sure everyone else has one?” Kitsis says.

Although the producers previously dealt with only “Neverland-adjacent” stories, Once will actually venture to Neverland in Season 3, following Captain Hook’s ship, the Jolly Roger, being swallowed by the portal. “It’s a world we’ve glimpsed and now it’s a world we’ll explore,” Horowitz teases.

Waiting there is Peter Pan, who has been searching for Henry for centuries — certainly longer than Emma’s son has even been alive, which makes it all the more curious how Pan’s Lost Boys already had a perfect drawing of Henry handy. Don’t worry, the why behind Pan’s fascination will be explained post-haste. “That is a huge part of what Season 3 is meant to be about,” Horowitz says. “That’s something that we don’t intend to hold on to for the entire season. We want to reveal it and make it a big part of what the show’s about.” For the record, Horowitz notes that Greg and Tamara were “unwittingly working for Peter Pan,” so we’re looking forward to the magic haters discovering who their real boss is.

With Once introducing Neverland, stranding the still-living Neal (Michael Raymond-James) in fairy tale land and leaving a group of characters back in Storybrooke, the third season could quickly get convoluted. But the producers say the division of the upcoming season — the first 11 episodes will air uninterrupted in the fall, with a break until spring — will help alleviate that problem. “The first 11 episodes are its own season, so we get to be a little more focused and a little more in depth and we’re probably less hopping around,” Kitsis says. He adds that they’re not hesitant about continuing to show multiple worlds next season. “Even in beginning, it said the curse will cross all lands. It’s about doing it in a way that doesn’t overwhelm our core characters and it doesn’t overwhelm the viewer in a way where they have to follow a flow chart. We’re not going to make the show so complex that there are five different timelines.”

“Even if we are in different worlds, hopefully the story and the characters will carry you through,” adds Horowitz: “It’s about the characters, not the world. So if you’re with the characters, where they are is secondary to what they’re going through.”

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Once Upon a Time returns this fall on ABC.

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With the Charmings et al on a mission to save Henry, Neal stuck in the Enchanted Forest, and Belle in charge of Storybrooke, Season 3 is already raising the stakes. In a Once Upon a Time panel at the 2013 ATX Television Festival in Austin, co-creators Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz dished on what Oncers can expect in Season 3. Plus, they gave Wetpaint Entertainment and other OUAT fans the inside scoop on how the hit ABC series came to be.

Season 3 picks up right where we left off.

Adam revealed the third season “won’t skip ahead 10 years.” Oncers, you can expect Season 3 to start right where we left off, with the Jolly Roger sailing to Neverland to save Henry. However, Eddy said the “core dysfunctional family” won’t be separated forever.

Meanwhile, back in Storybrooke…

Don’t worry Oncers, the folks left in Storybrooke, including Belle, will not be forgotten. In fact, Adam said the show will delve deeper into each of the characters back in Storybrooke and will examine how they’ll react to situations. Sounds interesting! The characters in Storybrooke have always been so dependent on the Charmings, so it will be interesting to see how the Storybrooke residents reacts to not having their fearless leaders to look up to. Perhaps this means someone new will step up to become the town’s protector?

Season 3 will have two distinct acts.

Eddy and Adam also revealed how Season 3 is going to be thematically different from the two previous seasons in that there will be two separate, 11-episode acts — one in the fall and one in the spring. Therefore, they’re approaching Season 3 like two seasons, both containing a beginning, middle, end, and journey for these characters.

However, in order to make this happen, that means OUAT will most likely go off the air for 11 weeks after the fall season. Eddy and Adam gave a bit more intel about the hiatus. It looks like the first part of Season 3 will air September through December, and then it will come back in the spring for act two — 11 straight episodes. We have to admit we were wary of this in the beginning, but the thought of airing both parts of the season uninterrupted by breaks has us excited for what’s to come!

Will Rumple still be out for Henry?

When the seer told Rumple that he needed to destroy Henry, we were immeditately worried for Henry’s safety! However, Eddy said, “He went [to Neverland] with a very focused attitude of saving Henry.”

“At first he just wants to do the easy thing and the dark thing, and then once again he realizes he did the wrong thing and lost his son,” Adam added. When he was told Neal died in the Season 2 finale, he realized “it was time to do the right thing.” According to Eddy and Adam, he knows he has to go and honor his son by getting his grandson back.

However, that also meant he had to leave his True Love Belle behind. “It’s going to be another challenge to [Rumbelle’s] relationship now that they’re separated,” said Eddy. “He left her behind to protect her.”

Snow White, the hero of Season 3?

Eddy and Adam dished that Snow’s journey in Season 3 is taking the hard path. With Henry gone, in this mission, she has to be the “bandit Snow — it’s time for her to rise to the hero that she was.” We don’t know about you, Oncers, but the thought of Snow returning to her bandit ways is one of the more exciting aspects of Season 3. We love Snow, but ever we have to admit, she was getting a little too whiny in Season 2. But now that we know she’s returning to her badassery, we can’t wait to see her be the heroine she once was.

Regina’s happy ending?

According to Eddy, the Evil Queen is trying to find her “own happy ending,” but she hasn’t found it yet. Unfortunately, we all know what happened to Daniel, and poor Sheriff Graham got his heart crushed — literally! — by The Evil Queen herself. “In a lot of ways, all of the characters are looking for love,” he said. So where’s Regina’s True Love?

“Regina is definitely a character who has found love and lost it,” Adam said, before Eddy added, “I would love to see Regina dating. See someone give her a mixtape — she’s earned it. She might have to rip his heart out to get it.”

Emma dives deeper into magic!

“Emma realized she had magic and kind of was in denial of it, then at the end, she’s not really in control of it, nor has she had time in Season 2 to contemplate that,” Eddy dished. However, “Season 3 is definitely going to have her ask the questions: what are my abilities? What does it really mean to be the savior?” The co-creators also revealed that Season 3 will dive deeper into Emma’s past.

With Emma learning about her magical abilities, will Regina step in and help train her former foe? “Her parents may have an opinion about being trained by her, but circumstances may call for it!” Adam said.

He added that we’ve seen instances where Regina and Emma work together (um, like saving Storybrooke from imploding in the finale?) and seen their “connection” at times. So this could lead to more interaction between OUAT’s favorite frenemies.

Did you know… ?

— “In first draft of pilot, Charming died!” said Adam. Both Adam and Eddy expressed interest in exploring Charming’s backstory.

— Are all magic beans gone now? “YES,” both Adam and Eddy said.

— The showrunners got a note from ABC calling for “more guyliner” for Captain Hook. “Like he’s going to a Depeche Mode concert.”

— Adam said originally Regina had three children.

— Did Adam and Eddy write the characters with certain actors in in mind? “Bobby Carlyle was someone that when we imagined Rumplestiltskin, he was the one,” said Adam. Eddy added that it was the same with Ginnifer Goodwin. Josh Dallas, however, came in and “blew us away.” He was so good that they expanded the character, since Charming was meant to have a small role in pilot.

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Series co-creator Adam Horowitz first shared the plan with us at ABC’s Upfront party on May 14, and on June 7, it was confirmed as officially a done deal.

After making his Once debut as Emma’s ex/Henry’s father Neal Cassidy aka Baelfire in the Emma-centric episode “Tallahassee,” Raymond-James heavily recurred in the last string of Season 2 episodes, as Rumple discovered his son in New York City and circumstances then led them back to Storybrooke.

When last seen, Neal had been shot by Tamara, fallen through a portal and ultimately washed ashore in The Fairytale Land That Is, where he was tended to by Aurora, Mulan and Phillip.

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