'Once Upon a Time' Season 6 Spoilers: Will Storybrooke Be 'Impacted' By Hyde's Arrival? [VIDEO]
The sixth season of ABC's Once Upon a Time will mostly bring things back to the small town Storybrooke style of the first two seasons.
While the past three seasons have seen our heroes travel through Neverland and the Underworld, season 6 will be decidedly simpler. Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz spoke about this in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, revealing how Hyde (Sam Witwer) will also complicate things.
"The condition of life in Storybrooke is very important," Horowitz said. "Hyde's arrival impacts that. We're planning to explore a lot of what that's going to mean for the day-to-day life in Storybrooke."
"One of the things that we really want to get back to this year is that season 1 and 2 vibe of small town stories," Kitsis added, "being in Storybrooke and getting back to Mary Margaret [Ginnifer Goodwin] as the teacher, Emma [Jennifer Morrison] as the sheriff, Grumpy [Lee Arenberg] as the janitor."
Kitsis previously revealed how the upcoming season won't have the usual two-half structure, and how that lends to better storytelling in small town life.
"This season is going to be different from past because it's not going to be Hyde comes to town, we fight with him for 10 episodes, and then in the winter finale, he dies and we move on," Kitsis said. "We are changing around what we're doing this year and going back to that season 1 mentality of small town stories and smaller arcs."
Seasons 3, 4 and 5 featured various 10-12 episode arcs where our heroes have dealt with a threat who often died by the end of the arc.
"What's really exciting about it is, for season 6, really being in Storybrooke again," Horowitz said. "As we hinted in the finale last year, in seeing the Evil Queen [Lana Parrilla] split, it's allowing us to do that for a lot of our characters - not as literally - but it's turning inward on a lot of these characters that we've been with for five seasons so far."
Once Upon a Time is set to return this fall in its regular timeslot of Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.
