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She: “So you really thought I’d like this? It’s awful.”

Me: “I think it’s gross, but you said you always like the most expensive thing, and this was the most expensi-”

I know Mitovich said the news was scheduled to be delivered by media on the same Monday but…in my opinion it means nothing.

The news was supposed to go out? Fine. There are 2 parts in this negotiation: the network and JMO.What Mitovich said simply means JMO’s management already delivered the news and it was scheduled to be released on Monday after the musical episode.

Is there an OFFICIAL ABC statement? I don’t think so, unless I missed it.

JMO’s management delivered the news to the media, she published her instagram message a few hours before the articles were released, and the fact that no one heard a word from the network should tell you they didn’t like it and they never wanted to deliver it before the finale.

JMo announcing that she’s walking before the network has announced whether OUAT will be renewed is a cunning move. It’s a win-win for her. If OUAT is cancelled, it makes it look like she was carrying the show and OUAT can’t survive without her. If it gets renewed, the rest of the cast look like a bunch of losers she left in the dust (who probably also agreed to a pay cut). I suspect the decision to cancel OUAT has already been taken and that it is cancelled, that JMo somehow got word of it, and beat the network to the punch by saying she decided to walk before any decision is announced. If the network had announced that OUAT was cancelled before JMo announced that she’s leaving, then JMo wouldn’t have got a lick of media and nobody would have cared. Better to be the dumper than the dumpee. 

Those negotiations must have been really bad - like big pay cut bad. I’m sure she was making the most out of the cast (with the exception of Bobby Carlyle why else would he have stayed this long? he must have been raking it in). If OUAT is being renewed then it would have best served JMo’s interest to hold out as long as possible - or hold off threatening to walk - until the last minute. 

If OUAT is (by some miracle) renewed you can bet JMo walked because either: 

she wanted more $$, 

wouldn’t agree to a pay cut, 

wouldn’t allow another lesser-known actor/actress to be paid the same as (or more than) her (cough, Lana, cough cough) 

Nevertheless, it’s pretty poor form to say you’re walking before the season finale has aired, but right now (right before the 2hr season finale) is the only time when she would have been 100% sure that her announcement would get maximal coverage and, crucially, there was 0% chance of the network announcing OUAT’s cancellation. By announcing she’s leaving before the finale airs, JMo managed to look like a star carrying a failing series. 

Photos below are of Yu Xu and her teammates.

There ain’t no bitch like a bitter bitch

That crew that bust their collective asses behind the scenes? They should absolutely be paid a hell of a lot more and be treated a hell of a lot better. There are Unions and other avenues to pursue that when and if they decide they’ve had enough. As a greatly underpaid worker in an At Will conservative republican based State I would kill for even a fraction of those options. Do I begrudge them those options? Not in the slightest. They banned together and suffered and worked even harder just to have those choices. If the people in my industry can’t figure that out as a whole then who the fuck am I to begrudge another industry the choice to exercise the rights that they’ve fought for.       

My annoyance is with the tone deaf entitlement dripping from that interview. Having the means to fly back and forth to see your friends and family is a privilege. Being employed for 13 years straight is a privilege. Having a career spanning a lifetime is a privilege.

I can think of at least three of her co-stars who were homeless or on the verge thereof at some point in their careers. We know Bex struggled before OUAT because she told us about it. How much you want to bet she’s thrilled at the reality of being able to travel now.

She has many reasons to be bitter. She was turned into a love interest on her own fucking show. Her big arc was stolen. She was overshadowed from day one by someone who was at that point a NOBODY.

I’m also wondering if I’m the only one who noticed Lana didn’t mentioned her once in the last conventions. She talked about SQ of course but she avoided JMO name in all the replies to the questions about the cast. She loves working with Ginny, Josh, Bex, Sean, Bobby….these are the ones she mentioned. There’s only one missing. lol

And yeah I agree with her privileged tone in the interview. I don’t live near my friends and family. I also don’t have a job that allows for nor the money to flit off to see them every other weekend. That would be nice wouldn’t it?

JMo grew up in a privileged life. She didn’t have to struggle for much. I can’t help but wonder what people like Bobby and Bex and Lana, who did NOT grow up privileged and had to work their ass off for even the smallest opportunity, have to say about her attitude.

Granted she chose to snub the fandom that wanted her to remain the star of the show and embraced the one that wanted her to be nothing but a bland self insert.

That’s something a child would say, not a woman in her 30s. Grow the fuck up and behave like a grownup. 

IMHO Eddie and Adam bear 100% responsibility for Emma’s character assassination. I can’t blame her for not wanting to continue. But...

I think her announcement was intended to scoop the announcement that OUAT won’t be renewed. And it makes her colleagues look like desperate losers for not walking too. I can’t wait to read about what really happened on the Blind Gossip. Sounds like JMo was a nightmare on and off the set.

Also, bejeezus Christ at that level I’m going to assume it’s more than about the color. It would be about the history of the color. It’s impact. Why it became so important.

I think what you hate is certain art movements (possibly modern art, definitely postmodern art). The term ‘art’ is all encompassing, from the early cave paintings all the way to Swan Queen fanart (which is actually a part of the current contemporary art era). Art is a series of eras and movements that sometimes co-exist but basically follow each other, but they all start and end for a reason and they are all important.

The modern art era ran from 1860 to 1970 and it was the time when people decided that art could be more than painting a scene as is - it could be used for freedom of expression. While a lot of it might seem ridiculous (and pretentious and pointless) it’s part of a movement in which people decided art didn’t have to conform to a rigid structure and anything you created could be art.

Postmodern art immediately followed and was a contradiction to the modern art era. It was relatively short-lived, and a time when people decided that the artist doesn’t have exclusive rights to tell you what their art means, and people got to decide what it means to them. It’s not exactly pretty to look at and mostly confusing, but the movement itself restructured art all over again.

We are currently in the contemporary art era, which was born from postmodern art, and will also end and something else will arise from it (or in response to it), but I think it’s important to note that things like fanart are a part of contemporary art. With postmodern art, there was a distance that existed between the artist and the viewer (hence the rise of art snobbery) and in contemporary art that distance isn’t so important. The artist and the viewer can connect on a different level through the art. Fandom is helping to shape the art of today in a way, and when this era ends, future generations will be able to look back and see how our current world impacted the art of this time and learn about what our society was like.