April 23, 2022

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Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz admitted their biggest Season Two regret was the tasing of August in Selfless, Brave and True. As the episode was being written, they thought Tamara needed to use a real world weapon, so they picked a taser. Eddy explains that they "figured the audience assumed it wasn't a taser... but they didn't", so fans began to give them history lessons about wood and conducting electricity. Eddy adds that if he could change it, he would pick a glowing syringe that Tamara would have shoved into the Dragon and August.
For the scenes with a wooden August, Eion Bailey wore a green SFX hood and motion capture dots on his face.