Gale in the Secret Circle Chapter 7, a queer as folk fanfic

A/N: I didn't think there would be anything else to update with... silly me. Never have I been happier to be wrong. Interesting articles, these, yes... but there is also a link to ... a 37 minute interview with Andrew Miller and Gale Harold... yes, I said 37 minutes... and, it's only part 1. Part 2 will be available on their site tomorrow... so I will be posting it then. :) Enjoy.

'The Secret Circle': Gale Harold and EP Andrew Miller tease Jake's motives, tonight's shocking fall finale

by Shaunna Murphy

Tonight's game-changing fall finale of The Secret Circle will reveal some shocking secrets about Cassie (Britt Robertson) and the gang, and leave audiences with a major cliffhanger to torment their brains during the holidays. Sound juicy? You bet! Fans of Chris Zylka's Jake will be a huge fan of tonight's episode, "Balcoin," as Cassie learns about her past and is confronted by the evil witch-hating council. EW got the scoop on tonight's installment and more during a recent screening of the episode, during which executive producer Andrew Miller and star Gale Harold left us with some great teasers going into the new year. SPOILERS AFTER THE JUMP!

The fall finale unearths some of Jake's motivations, but don't expect to learn everything about this mysterious bad boy just yet. "I'm not sure we can trust Jake," Miller said. "He's still kind of an enigma." We do find out how he feels about Cassie, but his feelings about the rest of the group (and whether or not he'll still kill them) are still pretty open. Miller said that Jake would probably sacrifice the rest of the circle if he could, though "he really does care for Cassie. I don't know where that leads him, because he's a weird guy."

As for Zykla's current non-regular status, well, Miller was pretty cryptic about that one. "We like Chris Zylka a lot," he said. "He's a fun character, and he's brought a lot out of Cassie. We hope to use him in more episodes down the road, and we're figuring that out right now."

We'll also be seeing more of Isaac and his witch-hunting friends in the council, who have emerged as the big bads this season. They make a major play tonight that will have dire consequences for at least one witch, and Miller said we have much to learn about them in the future. "We started with Isaac; he's become a really interesting character for us," he teased. "But he's one of many. The history of the council will surprise us, and goes back longer than anyone thinks right now." For anyone who thinks that Jake is crazy for listening to a witch-hating psycho over the beautiful door next door, Miller had this to say: "There is a hold that Issac has on Jake. Isaac has a lot of confidence, and over the last two years their relationship has grown. It's a little father-son, it's a little student-mentor."

Charles and Dawn are as bad as ever tonight, but don't expect last week's memory-erasing spell on Jane to come without a price. The consequences will be felt tonight, when Charles sees just how badly he screwed things up for Cassie. "We're seeing in this episode that the spell that Charles put on [Jane] didn't work as well as they might have hoped, and it's going to cause immediate problems for them," Miller said. "For Cassie, it's going to toss her world around, because in some sense, the last family member she has is drifting away from her. It will affect her drastically."

Harold noted that his character has also been affected drastically, but by last month's shocking murder. This will start to weigh heavily on the already complicated relationship between Charles and Dawn. "Their relationship has been changing in the last few episodes because of what happened to Nick," Harold said. "It's created a wedge in between them. Charles has really stepped up and is grabbing the power back in the form of this crystal. What we'll find in the next few episodes is that as that divide increases between them, they'll have to seek up support. A guy who might come into the middle of that power struggle is Ethan Conant."

Finally, expect to learn more about Cassie's innate dark magic before the night is over. We've already seen a snake-demon and some pretty nasty spells, and Cassie's new powers will bring more even new evils in the near future. "There are other things that are possible in the world of The Secret Circle," he said. "It may not be vampires and werewolves and mummies, but we're going to be dealing with other supernatural forces. Once you deal with this kind of power, they're bound to come calling."

That's all for now! Any predictions on tonight's fall finale? Share them in the comments!

The Secret Circle airs tonight at 9 p.m. E.T.

We Preview Tonight's Magical Mid-Season Finale of THE SECRET CIRCLE with Star Gale Harold and Executive Producer Andrew Miller [Video]

By Tiffany Vogt on November 10th, 2011

It is that dreaded time of year again as some of your favorite shows will go on a winter hiatus, returning after the New Year in 2012. For fans of THE SECRET CIRCLE, tonight's episode "Balcoin" is going to leave with them with a nice mini-cliffhanger to tide them over for the next six weeks.

So what can we look forward to in the Fall finale tonight? Lots of witchy-goodness as Cassie (Britt Robertson) finds out a lot more about her family tree and what Jake (Chris Zylka) is really up to — but not before putting her heart on the line; Adam (Thomas Dekker) and Faye (Phoebe Tonkin) make an unusual alliance in the quest for the truth; and Diana (Shelley Hennig) takes a stab at moving on from her doomed romance with Adam. Then, on the adult-front, Charles (Gale Harold) and Dawn (Natasha Henstridge) begin to realize something about their own precarious relationship, and Jane (Ashley Crow) feels the after-effects of Charles' spell, which made her forget about what she saw at Henry's lake house.

So with preparations underway for a charity event, Melissa (Jessica Parker Kennedy) and Diana are keeping their minds off their respective lost-loves when Melissa's cousin Holden (Arlen Escarpeta) arrives in town to help with the festivities. Meanwhile, Jake tries to find out more about Cassie's lineage and a way to get closer to her without setting off the alarm bells. But there is more at play than just the young coven of witches and their scheming parents. Isaac (JR Bourne) and his lethal witch-hunting crew are not about to just leave Cassie and her coven intact. They are out for blood and, even if Cassie is a descendant from Blackwell's line, they remain undeterred in rooting out the evil infestation in Chance Harbor.

Then for the New Year when THE SECRET CIRCLE returns, the sudden and mysterious deaths of Amelia (who died in a fire), Nick (who died drowning) and now Henry (who had an alleged heart-attack and whose body was left tied up in the lake), as well as the disappearance of Calvin (the curio shop owner) and the brain-addled state of Jane (Cassie's grandmother), all this is going to provoke at least one of Elders to return to Chance Harbor to see what is really going on. For Charles Meade, as if there were not enough complicated women in his life, one more is coming to town – mommy-dearest; and if Dawn thought Charles was a handful to manage, wait and see how tricky things become with an angry and suspicious mother-hen witch hovering around.

With the blood-thirsty witch-hunters circling around and the Elders becoming more and more interested in what exactly their children and grandchildren are doing in Chance Harbor, there is likely to be a violent collision looming on the horizon. Soon everyone will be forced to pick a side and align themselves in order to survive.

At a special screening at The CW, executive producer Andrew Miller and star Gale Harold chatted with the press about what the Fall finale cliffhanger could mean for the Chance Harbor residents – especially for the evil-duo Charles Meade and Dawn Chamberlain whose plans may be back-firing upon them and attracting unwelcome attention.

The following is a 37 minute video with Andrew Miller and Gale Harold (and... it's part 1): youtube (dot) com/watch?v=A0fP9n7ysek&feature=player_embedded

As a reminder, look for part 2 of the video interview with Andrew Miller and Gale Harold tomorrow as some of the information they shared was simply too spoillerrific to post today!

And be sure to watch the Fall finale episode "Balcoin" tonight at 9PM on The CW. A dark secret is revealed and it is going to change everything!

Tiffany Vogt is a contributing writer to The TV Addict. She has a great love for television and firmly believes that entertainment is a world of wondrous adventures that deserves to be shared and explored – she invites you to join her. Please feel free to contact Tiffany atTiffany_Vogt_ or follow her at on Twitter (TVWatchtower). Tiffany also writes as a columnist for NiceGirlsTV.