Once upon a time TV series.

My wife and I love Once Upon a Time and its Lost roots.

I've Watched A Few Episodes Its a pretty good show but its no Dexter or The Walking Dead

ABC was originally working on a Fables TV show. Here's what Wikipedia lists:
"On December 8, 2008 it was announced that ABC had picked up the rights to develop a pilot of Fables for the 2009-2010 television season. Six Degrees creators and executive producers Stu Zicherman and Raven Metzner were writing the script for the hourlong drama, again set up at Warner Brothers Television, while David Semel had come onboard to direct.

There has been no news since concerning a series based directly on Willingham's series. Instead, ABC has announced a new series called Once Upon a Time, which features fairy tale characters such as Snow White and Prince Charming exiled in the "real world". The show's creators, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, stated that they "read a couple issues" of Fables but believe that while the two concepts are "in the same playground," they are "telling a different story."

Just started watching this a few days ago......5 episodes in and must admit it has been presented pretty well so far.

Yeah, this show quickly became part of my Sunday night ritual last fall after I got hooked by the trailers leading to the premier. With this, Dexter, and Walking Dead, Sunday was easily my "TV Night." Lana Parrilla as Regina/Evil Queen is a homerun, she literally makes me want to stab her at pretty much all times. The Red/Ruby reveal episode, Eion Bailey discovering his past and the reveal of who he turns out to be, the Mad Hatter tie in, and the weird power struggle between Gold, Regina and Emma, there are just so many things I completely love about this show.

Needless to say, I grabbed the first season on DVD last Tuesday and I'm going to try and re-watch it before the end of the month when Season 2 starts. I'm hoping Sheriff Graham makes a return at some point since that story with him and Emma was just getting good before it was cut prematurely short. Not sure how they would get around it, but he started to take on the "Bigby" type character exceptionally well imo. Really excited for this to be back soon.

As far as Fables, ABC bought the rights from NBC and I personally believe fully intended on making a full blown adaption. However, I think they saw the script and decided to develop something that was more translatable to television. Which, as a fan of both the show and the book, I completely agree with the decision. I would have loved to see them play out the war between the Adversary and Fabletown, but it's such an elaborate story and the Farm scenes would have been over the top and Snow and her cross breed cubs, Flycatcher being a weirdo, and Boy Blue's past, and it's just too much. I would have LOVED to see how the puppet army vs Fabletown showdown in the street played out in live action. We still get plenty of Fables elements though and I do think Once Upon a Time has carved its own path now.

This is one of my favorite shows on television. I love watching the real world of Storybrooke link with the fairy tale characters. It blends really well and I love the cast specificially Lana Parilla as Regina Mills aka The Queen and Robert Carlyle as Mr. Gold aka Rumpelstiltsken. Jennifer Morrison and Ginnifir Goodwin do well in their respective roles. I love the Ruby aka Red Riding Hood character in this as well. If anybody has seen Trick R' Treat, the Red storyline has a nice twist to it that I first saw in that. I thought the August situation was well done. I liked how they approached that. It is fun to watch and I like the characters in both worlds. I had been initially interested from the trailers. Sunday nights were great because it was Once Upon A Time and then Desperate Housewives. I don't have Showtime, so I watch Dexter the next day online.

I like that Mulan and Aurora will have roles in Season 2. I am looking forward to more Maleficent. I want to see the clash between her and Regina continue. There's going to be some interesting things carrying over into Season 2. If anybody has seen the teaser trailer for Season 2, it appears that Captain Hook is going to be a chief villain. We didn't see his face, but somebody in Storybrooke is obviously him. I am very interested to see who Dr. Whale turns out to be in the fairy tale world (most likely Monstro).

And lest we forget...Jorge Garcia as the Giant.

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I guess fairy tale characters must really hate cancer.

I love this show. My wife and I just picked up the season 1 dvd, can't wait for season 2 to start.

Mr. Gold is my favorite character. It would be a good show without him, but he makes it a great show.