RUMPLESTILTSKIN ONCE UPON A TIME SERIES

So now the story is for the Oncers and they can go do what they want with it.вЂќД«ut getting that final story on the page was not easy, with Horowitz and Kitsis going over and over the specifics of the ending multiple times before they chose the final product you saw on the small screen tonight.ДЄlso Read: 'Once Upon a Time': Jennifer Morrison, Ginnifer Goodwin, More Stars to Return for Series Finale And thatвЂ™s what a fairytale is, right? ItвЂ™s something you hear by the fire and then you bring it to your village and someone brings it to their village. The fan fiction, and peopleвЂ™s minds, and peopleвЂ™s imaginations. And also we donвЂ™t get to see it every week, but it now lives in the community of Oncers. An ending for everyone else is that adventure continues. вЂњRumpleвЂ™s death was what a happy ending looks like. вЂњWe love the idea that the episode and the ending symbolize what the show as about, which was the journey, not the destination,вЂќ Kitsis said.

Gilmore) - along with Season 7вЂ™s new characters - to continue their stories. Watch it.) His death is what set of the chain reaction that allowed for Regina (Lana Parrilla), Captain Hook (Colin OвЂ™Donoghue), Emma (Jennifer Morrison), Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin), Prince Charming (Josh Dallas) and Henry (Jared S. (Again, this all makes sense inside the show. You wanted to hear the hits!вЂќДЄlso Read: 'Once Upon a Time': Roni and Lucy Set Out to Save Henry With 'Operation Bromance' (Exclusive Video)ДЄnd that final villain being Rumple meant the final hero also had to be Rumple. Kitsis adds it wouldnвЂ™t have been right to do it any other way: вЂњItвЂ™s like going to see a band, and then they play their new stuff at the end. вЂњAnd thatвЂ™s what it was about, which is really we wanted to see вЂfull RumpleвЂ™ again.вЂќ (Oh and we did - glittery, golden makeup, creepy giggling and all.) Toad appeared and he was the villain the audience would not be as interested or as engaged as really bringing it back home,вЂќ Horowitz added. вЂњWe felt like if in the finale, suddenly Mr. вЂњFor us, there was no one, nobody - and selfishly, as writers, we just wanted to see Robert Carlyle do it one more time. вЂњAlways, always,вЂќ Horowitz said of the plan to end with the evil OG Rumple as our heroesвЂ™ final obstacle. Horowitz and Kitsis told TheWrap why they hadВ to go back to Rumple as their final Big Bad after six seasons of new villains and why his death was what they needed to end this thing right. And he knew that meant giving up any chance he had of reuniting with his one true love Belle (Emilie de Ravin).Д«ut he did it anyway, and was rewarded with seeing Belle again in the afterlife.ДЄlso Read: 'Once Upon a Time' Creators Talk Series Finale - and Why They Don't Regret the Season 7 Reboot The final episode of Adam Horowitz and Eddy KitsisвЂ™ fantasy drama on ABC, titled вЂњLeaving Storybrooke,вЂќ aired Friday, and with it came the bittersweet reveal that in order for everyone else to be saved, Rumple would have to sacrifice himself in a battle against himselfВ (it makes sense if you watched it). Sadly, Robert CarlyleвЂ™s Rumpelstiltskin did not make it to end of вЂњOnce Upon a Time.вЂќ But that doesnвЂ™t mean he didnвЂ™t get to live happily ever after, just like all the other fairytale characters we have come to know and love over the last seven seasons.

(Spoiler alert: Please do not read ahead unless youвЂ™ve seen the series finale of вЂњOnce Upon a Time.вЂќ)

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