Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-9241531-20150811165057/@comment-25926288-20150818150513

I think Gold will be in a coma for at least half of the first arc. Otherwise, it'll downplay the whole "being Dark One for centuries". Now, he could awaken, but not so soon. I think the Apprentice will fill in for Rumple for a while before he awakens. But, I haven't any clue hinting towards that.

I think there will be character focused episodes, but maybe not the typical EF flashbacks to random event #43. I guess you could call them centrics too. I think Charming "bro-ing" out with Arthur to be heavily focused on him, but everyone else decently shown. But I have Robin Hood on the mind and his recent centric episode sort of seemed like it detracted from the main plot. I going on by what I see since we can't see into every scene it could still be centrics, but not the typical centric episodes with all the colorful flashbacks.

Unless, it's Camelot stuff is the flashbacks and Storybrooke stuff is the present (sort of confusing to me what's the order) then, I see their being centrics. But I'll hold my thoughts on that until I see more.

So far, it seems to be: Ensemble, ???, David, ???, so I don't know. It doesn't seem besides Charming and Belle being spoken of whether there are other clear cut centrics. I imagine it maybe like 3x15 Quiet Minds, which was Rumple, Neal, Emma, and maybe Belle all taking prominent spots in the episode. Probably was a Neal centric, but it felt more balanced among the three to four of them.

Yeah, this episode seems ensemble, but it could totally be a "Arthur-Gwen" centric as well.