Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20151016201626/@comment-1894786-20151019033213

CoolDudeAl wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Eskaver wrote: Once19 wrote: So, just out of curiosity, do the writers actually watch their own show? I'm honestly confused. Someone asks about the Belle/Regian/heart dilemma, and they say, "Nope, Belle doesn't know anything about that... She doesn't know Regina took her heart..." Back when Belle got her heart back Gold told her that Regina stole her heart so that she could mess with him!? Why can't they keep track of their own show?! Well, chances are they don't, unless they need to. Or just want to. Writers, actors, and so on might not actually watch the episode when it airs, but they read the script and acted it out, so there's that.

The writers (based on Jane Espenson) get a lot inof information and if they ahve to write a 40 page script then there's a slight issue. If there are two writers, they might split it up in half. You might remeber what you have wriiten and you might have been in the meeting when they formulate ideas, but then you hjave to transfer that to a 20-50 page script, with snappy dialogue and exposition and it is quite a task to witness.

In a recent tweet, when asked the corresponding minutes to the the number of pages and the amount of flexibility, she said "A small amount of flexibility -- a 42 min episode might have a 55 page script, with the awareness things will get cut in edit.?"

So, whoever wrote the whole Regina/ Belle thing might remember, but then there is so much other stuff to put in as well.

They just need a continuity person and I can't blame them for forgetting, they are busy people. SO, it's not there job to keep track, but to hire someone to keep track. And if the continutiy person does a bad job, it's not really their fault......can't change it once it airs. Jane Espenson said on the "Mother" commentary on the DVD that Andrew Chambliss is the "timeline cop" in the writer's room. But that was in reference as to where on the timeline "Mother" takes place (which went unsaid in the commentary, except that it was before "Queen Of Hearts"... Which we obviously already knew), not in reference to the overall continuity of the show.

So maybe ask him for comments whenever we catch one of those continuity tweaks? Ugh, I remember that. Lana had a better grasp of the timeline than Jane did. I was like "really Jane, this has been your main job for how many years? You think you would keep a little better track since you have to write the darn things". XD Well, remember that Lana has to keep all of these different versions of Regina separate from one another. Of course she'll have a much better grasp when she has to think about it every single day. Jane is a writer on the show and has been since season 1, but she's hardly the only writer. She only has to make sure that the stuff she writes doesn't contradict anything else incredibly major.