Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151116014923/@comment-25926288-20160229210424

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COD-Colin O'Donoghue

W, W2, or whatever are Jerome Schwartz and David H. Goodman

"W2: Here’s a little bit of setting up the squid ink that obviously we’ll see later. We’ll see Hook use. But also behind the curtain there, there had been a little bit more to do with that snow globe you see at the top of the scene. We had written that Gold had created kind of a Dark One detector to try to know when Emma was coming, and the idea was that it goes off here, and Hook thinks that Emma is outside, but we all know on second viewing that it was because Hook himself was a Dark One and walked in. Ultimately, once it got shot, it didn’t really play, but it’s funny, you can see in the exterior shot, when Hook goes outside, you can see him holding the snow globe in his hand, and it’s not something you’d ever really notice otherwise, but it’s a little bit of a hanging chad from something we ended up having to cut out of the show.

W: Yeah, I was wondering if people would notice him holding that snow globe and ask about it, and on Twitter, they definitely did. What’s going on with that snow globe?

'''COD: Oh, did they? '''

W: We thought it would be great on second viewing, but then on first viewing, it didn’t make that much sense.

COD: [laughing] 

'''COD: It’s a shame, though, because I actually—it is one thing that I actually remember thinking about that scene that you kind of don’t know. '''

W: We’re glad you liked it, because we did too. And many things we like, sometimes, it doesn’t work.

COD: Yeah.

W2: And now fans that are listening to this can judge if they like that idea or not.

'''COD: Instead it just looks like Hook, he felt the need to pick that up. "'''

'''So yeah, the Snow globe was indeed a Dark One detector....which is sort of weird that Rumple would have one when he was the only Dark One during his tenure. Guess that's why they cut that scene (also for time) out of the episode.'''