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Farerb wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Farerb wrote: Lady Junky wrote: Adam does what he wants. if him and his team want to consider STM as 408a/b, ABC should have follow them. Adam works for ABC. Not the other way. But ABC doesn't decide what happens on the show. They can deside they don't want the shows to be TV-MA, so someone has to dial it back, they can decide to cancel a show that is not doing well, they can decide when and how to schedule a show, but they can't decide the plot of the show nor should they. You are absolutly right. It still doesn't change that Adam is the one working for them. And like you said, they decide how to schedule a show - They decided to air Smash the Mirror as it was aired (not Adam) - that's why they are the ones that decides the viewing order (not Adam).

Adam and Eddy are the ones deciding the plot and how the episodes are produced and the order of their production. But they do not decide in what order the episodes are to be viewed (Take for example - Firefly).

You'd be amazed at how much power ABC has over the show that can affect the plot of the show. They decide the budget (which rumor has it that budget was not enough to include Sean McGuire as regular cast member - most of it went to the Frozen cast and effects). They can decide whether or not they want to hire/fire an actor on the show (which rumor has it that they didn't want MRJ anymore and that is why his charater had to die). And they can decide when to end the show. - All that I've stated are thing that do affect the plot eventually. The creators don't even know when the show is going to end.

A lot of rumors. All false. Sean did not want to be a starring cast member this year, because he had a planned film to shoot. That's why he is absent, that's why Robin had to leave. Both Adam/Eddy and MRJ confirmed Neal's death was a plot device, to continue the story of the Wicked Witch/Rumple. And yeah, showrunners have a word about the end of their show. Look The Client List on Lifetime; the showrunner wanted something, Lifetime something else. The showrunner left and it result at the end of the show.