Once Upon a Time's Josh Dallas and Ginnifer Goodwin Tease The Dark Swan

The couples on Once Upon a Time are about to be tested. Not only are Emma and Hook on the rocks because Emma has gone Dark, but Emma's parents, faced with attempting to being her back, are about to have a rough season. We caught up with Josh Dallas and Ginnifer Goodwin during a Comic-Con roundtable and got the scoop on what's up with the Charmings going into season five. Here's what they had to say about why we never see baby Neal anymore, how they're going to cope with the Dark Swan, and how on earth they keep up with all the storylines.

I want to know what is happening with the baby. Are you going to focus on the baby at all this season?

Josh Dallas: Baby, shmaby.

Ginnifer Goodwin: Who is babysitting the baby?!

JD: Yeah, I don't know if that is going to be the main focus.

GG: I will tell you why it is not a priority: when you have a baby on set, then you have 12 babies to play one baby, and babies don't like being held by strangers when they are newborns. It makes for difficult film days, and I think that that was realized, and now baby Neal always has a babysitter.

JD: And baby Neal is fairly safe and protected right now. Our first baby has gone very dark, and it is something that the Charmings tried to keep from happening along time ago. They did something really heinous to try to prevent her from going dark, but now she has gone dark anyway, and that is going to be the focus. Snow and Charming are going to some crazy lengths to try to get her to being back to the savior that she is. Of course, we have other worlds to go check out, too.

Are Snow and Charming going to have different approaches to dealing with Dark Emma?

GG: Oh, yes we are going to be tested.

JD: I think you can bet on some tension between Snow and Charming.

Is that going to be more of a strain on their relationship than something that brings them together?

GG: I don't know for sure because we haven't seen those scripts yet, but I can't imagine how something like that wouldn't cause some kind of strain on their relationship.

You mentioned Camelot; are there some cool flashbacks that we can look forward to? Especially because we have seen connections to Lancelot in the past.

GG: In the past and the present.

JD: I think [creator] Adam [Horovitz] said it is part present and future. Camelot is happening right now. In terms of Charming, you are going to see a bromance with King Arthur, and you are going to see Charming at his most heroic.

GG: That is a good role for Charming.

JD: He did sword fight with a baby in his arms, and we are going to see him even more heroic than that. I can't imagine what that is going to be, but I look forward to it.

Is he going to clash with Merlin?

JD: He might, I don't know, so we will see.

Do you find it hard to keep track of all the different storylines?

GG: 100 percent.

JD: Extremely.

GG: We ask producers all the time, "When is this happening?" Because sometimes a cast member will bring something up and all of us go, "Oh my gosh, we never even thought of that."

JD: I think what is important for me in particular, is that I can keep track of Charming/David/James. I can keep track of that in terms of the broader world — it is so broad now — it would be impossible for one person to keep track, which is why we have a whole writing team, so we can go back and check things out. The world is so dense and so complex so they all stay on top of it for us.