Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24114452-20160511113326/@comment-25926288-20160615202708

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Sean did get burned a bit, and has a right to be mad. However, this is part of the job of an actor who works on television, it is not like Sean was specifically targeted. He made a blanket statement that he has never come back to reprise a role once he is written off or whatever, because he feels he is done with that role and has moved on, and my point is that is a selfish way of thinking. It is not his place to say, "well, I feel like we've explored that character fully, so I'm over it". And this is also damaging to his career to say so. For example, if I was a writer for a tv show, I would not want to have him cast on the show, because I wouldn't want to have to worry that if I killed his character off or wrote off his character, that he wouldn't come back later to reprise the role. Hopefully, Sean realizes why what he is saying is not smart, and comes back to Once at some point, when Adam and Eddy have something important for Robin to do (assumably in a flashback). You seem to forget that most actors do that. Once their character is written off, they move on to another project and do not look back. It has nothing to do with Sean being upset, about how Robin was treated as a character. As for his acting career.... Sean is a former child actor, and has been in the industry for over 30 years.

As for the writers.... perhaps they should have considered that many actors do not return, when they dropped the Robin Hood backstory? To add onto the last part, after doing such a terrible job with Will (see other threads, even the screentime thread), Once isn't having a great record currently with new "regulars", at least except Zelena.

The writers should have properly planned Robin's death since the beginning of the season. If Sean knew in July and not six months later after doing massive changes then I'm sure all would be alright.

I even saw elsewhere on things like Rebecca's return that she said she just got a call one day talking about not being dead, etc with all the Marian-twist that was not foreshadowed. Guess that not even the narrative is affected by poor and improper planning.