Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20150313202428/@comment-25703308-20150423135654

Hmcooper4 wrote: On a more realistic note regarding who will be seen.

This is the season finale, and Once has pretty much blown budgets out up to this point with CGI (Primarily Frozen, though a lot of the stuff done on this show is Green Screen). They have had several one episode guest stars (Sebastian Roche, for example). If they are getting Granny, all 7 dwarves, August, Mother Superior, Plus Lily and Maleficent, PLUS Cora (I could be wrong, I don't remember if Barbara Hershey was guest appearing in the Finale or in "Mother"), and possibly Cruella and Ursula, That is quite a few guest stars right there, and a significant chunk of the Guest Star Budget. There may seriously not be that much left to bring in any others, just for the sake of bringing someone in. They would have to contribute to the story in order to A & E to justify the additional expense.

I will gladly accept any others that appear, but I think the expectation at this point should be that what we've seen so far is going to be it.

Remember, the winter Finale for 5A is going to be right around episode 100 for the series, and that may be another opportunity to get more of the previous guests to return for an episode (or 2). This sounds reasonable plus Robin Hood and Zelena on the finale. They do go a bit over the top on the finales, remember  3B's finale?

To me, the reason Emma is (if she is indeed) the Big Bad for 5A is to save money (besides the twist etc). They'll save money on big guest stars and much CGI but I wonder what the flashbacks will be like. Also they might have time to develop Will's story.