Warning: This story contains major spoilers from the series finale ofOnce Upon a Time.
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It’s not a happy ending, Regina says, but a second chance.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: This is the second series finale that you’ve been involved in that included purgatory afterLost!
Why did Rumple in particular need to die?
His whole thing has been that he’s been frightened, he was the coward.
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Was Regina being crowned the Good Queen what you always envisioned for Regina’s happy ending?
And in a low moment, he arrived to give her hope and inspiration when she needed it.
So we really loved that as well.
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Is there a part of you that wishes you could’ve explored more of Robin and Alice’s story?
Do you wish you had done Wonderland with this Alice?
and I’d watch that.
I think those two are fantastic.
So I do wish we could explore more.
We’re done telling our side of the story.
Now the characters belong to Oncers and they should go out and play with them.
Did you feel obligated to the fans because that question has come up so much?
KITSIS:We did feel obligated.
Were there any alternate lines that you would’ve slipped in there?
Is there anything that ended up on the cutting room floor?
HOROWITZ:No, I think we able to really include everything we had hoped.
I don’t think there was anything significant.
Was there, Eddy?
You had a plan for a potential season 8.
Is there anything you’re able to say as to what that would’ve been?
KITSIS:No, that would have been figured out this week.
HOROWITZ:And it’s also the kind of thing that organically grows out of the season.
So no, there isn’t a concrete plan for what season 8 would have been.
KITSIS:Always the coronation.
We learned early enough in the season we were ending, so it was all driven towards that.
We knew it was going to end and then we just wrote towards it.
KITSIS:Point of pride for us is the fact that we got to season 7 and episode 155.
I wouldn’t change a thing.
Everyone we [asked] to come back said yes, and so I love that two hours.
I really loved this finale.
I don’t think I would change a thing.
HOROWITZ:I wouldn’t either.
When the series finale ended, I felt very proud of what we’ve done and very emotional.
I really couldn’t have asked for more.
What’s your point of pride, Adam?
That is something that will stay with me for the rest of my life.
Read Lana Parrilla’s reactionto Regina’s happy ending.
