Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25551215-20160315233708/@comment-1916997-20160905184538

Hmcooper4 wrote: OK, maybe it's just me (and maybe I'm just really old school), but I find it difficult to believe that a script would be written with the 'F'-bomb the way this was presented. Seeing something like this would make me question the veracity of the leak. Particularly since Once is a family show, I would hope that the writers take opportunites to refrain from dropping such bombs, even in the non-dialogue parts of the script. But that's just me.

That being said, I am not surprised that Belle would know the gender of her unborn child. It's not that hard to find out the gender of a child before it's born, it happens all the time. And would probably be easier with Magic. Who knows, maybe Belle got hold of Snow's charm that predicts the gender of your firstborn before you even get pregnant. Point being, knowing the gender is not that big a deal.

And, if the leak is valid (I still have my doubts, personally), it is an encouraging sign. It means that they haven't superspeeded the pregnancy (yet), and they are also not moving time forward too quickly (though I still hope for something 1-2 weeks advancement with each episode). And, let's face it, Emilie has lots of practice at being pregnant for the better part of a season on a show (Claire was pregnant most of the first season of LOST). Like Nightlily says, the non-character dialog parts of the script contain profanity. And I bet it is that way with most modern tv scripts. I'm assuming they figure the actors don't mind, and may even like that they are treating them like adults, even if the show itself is limited to certain words with its rating. You can also see examples of this in a Dead of Summer script page that Adam posted on his Twitter. I do get your point as well though. If they can write the dialog without using the not allowed words, they should be able to write the other parts of the script that way as well. It's not like Emile wouldn't have understood the sentence if they had used "hell" instead of "f***".