Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-173.251.92.250-20130325154637/@comment-7302713-20130504051027

Um, yeah, not exactly. They admit that they never saw the backlash coming and thought that the audience would just naturally assume that it wasn't a real taser. The thought that we might, just might, be intelligent enough to realise that given the whole magic thing there might be more to it than just tasing wood. They "f*ucked up" not by being incorrect, but by by not spelling out in big bold letters "THIS IS MAGIC".

I'm really freaking ashamed of fans of OUAT right now and I hate that the writers got wind of this. Honestly! The writers probably now think that everything has to be spelled out and they can't allow for nuance or shades of gray. Great. Just freaking great.

Oh, and for anyone who wants to know exactly what was said without reading a spoiler filled article, here it is:

"Here's the thing, we thought, 'We need a real world weapon.'" In the moments in making that decision we never realized the backlash that would be from a taser," Eddy emphatically said. "We just figured the audience assumed it wasn't a taser ... but they didn't. So I got a lot of history lessons about wood and conducting electricity. If I could go back one season and change one thing, I would have made it a syringe. If she had just taken a [glowing] syringe and shoved it into the dragon, no one would give a sh*t. I am sorry we chose a taser. We are willing to take the hit for the taser. We f*cked up."