i cant believe prince charming and snow white would actually find eachother in every universe, even in the one where they are actors on a ABC family show

My only criticism is that you didn't include Hook as Neil's step-father on Mila's side. Because that makes the family tree SO MUCH funnier (and more confusing) as the seasons go on.

The part of the family tree that gets me is that Mary Margret is not only Henry’s Grandmother but also his step sister making Henry his mother’s uncle. But yeah totally not complicated.

Neil deciding to marry a woman he like, just met, and telling her his whole backstory and magic family drama and history before the second date is honestly the most fairytale character thing he could’ve done

Tom Clark could have been the most hilarious and/or depressing character in the show but it never gets to play out Like imagine one day you’re outside your town line, feeling a bit weird, and the second you turn around six guys from your town are just. calling you Sneezy. And the entire town is pretending to be fairy tale characters. And you’re just being socially excluded coz you’re the only one who isn’t in on this weird larp session. It would be the weirdest mindfuck in the world Dude’s just the reverse Henry of the season but it barely gets addressed and that’s sad

so many iconic quotes in this “good news! she brought a gun to the enchanted forest” “we have to talk about necromancy” “i guess that’s an established part of being put magically asleep, you’re going to be stuck in the nightmare dimension after”

I think the reason Rumple keeps making deals where the cost is giving up ya baby is because of his deep guilt and self-loathing at the fact that he chose magic and power over being with Bae and now it comes out all twisted with him always trying to prove that any parent would give up their child for the right price.. and they kinda do be choosing their needs and desires over keeping their kids lol.

47:56 “david punches doctor whale for romantically pursuing his wife when none of them had memories and he was married and in a coma” excellent sentence, this show is amazing

I agree there's no real reason to dive into the ruby werewolf flashback however she does give this incredibly bisexual coded monologue about how her family always wanted her to either be full human or full wolf and snow let her be both and how happy that made her. and no spoilers but the bi thing may come up for ruby again fellow viewers

Only thirteen minutes in but I already feel so seen by the Gold-Belle hate. Their back and forth is honestly more frustrating than the family tree

Emma and Neal's incredibly inappropriate age gap when they met is something not talked about nearly enough. Probably because Jennifer Morrison didn't make a convincing 17-year-old so it's easy to ignore.

I’m coming back to this because I had a revelation: David and James are the Prince and the Pauper. But because it needs to be a _twisted_ tale, James dies and that’s why David is slotted in. Twin plots are old hat, especially in dramas, but I think this is meant to be a reference.

rumplestiltskins wife running away with captain hook is my favourite plot line in the whole show

it does make me incredibly sad to think of jefferson being so hastily written out of season 2 when he was clearly set up to be such a main player and his character was so cool. I'm happy for sebastian's success and i love bucky but i'll literally always wonder what would've been

Belle about Gold: I can fix him! Lacey about Gold: I can make him so much worse

I’m so glad you mentioned the weird relationship between Hook and Neal. Like, are they a pseudo father-son duo? Mentor-mentee? Best friends who haven’t talked in a while and barely know each other currently but remember random weird facts about their past selves? Older cousin younger cousin at a crappy family gathering vibes? School boys crushing on the same girl? Trauma bonded disaster men with trust issues? Mom’s old boyfriend who keeps appearing in my life even though I can’t decide if we’re chill or not because he’s into the mother of my child and keeps trying to kill my evil dad who I’m also undecided on liking? IT’S SO MANY THINGS AND SEASON THREE AWAITS THEM

I’m so excited to immerse myself in the weeds of Peter Pan in season 3. To speak of how he took tumblr captive by doing absolutely nothing but being a menace to society. The way 7th grade girls trembled at his feet. I cannot fathom hearing about him again.

As some who has watched 90% of this show it’s crazy to look back on it and see the things I just nodded and went along with laid out so plainly. This show was insane lmao

I'm literally only 5 minutes in but you started to talk about Ginny and Josh becoming a couple irl and announcing it around the time of S2, so I wanted to tell you a story here - around the time of the S4 premiere, I was in Vancouver on a mini-trip and missed a dinner reservation my then-bf had made for us to celebrate our anniversary. I was bummed because we missed it and I was looking forward to it so much so he said "I mean, we can still try to go! It'll probably be a wait since our table res was over an hour ago." So off we went - super late - walking to the restaurant. The ENTIRE WALK THERE (I mean that) I spent talking to him about the OUAT new season that was premiering and I'm not even kidding, I had the premiere in my phone's calendar so I wouldn't miss it. We finally get to the restaurant and they actually HELD our table for us even though we were genuinely over an hour late and so we were sat right away. But that wasn't the best part. No, the best part was the fact that I turned my head to the left and JOSH AND GINNY WERE RIGHT THERE. They were having dinner with the show's creators Adam and Eric and the restaurant was such a small little italian place so the tables were just insanely close to each other. Naturally, I freaking out internally (not wanting to cause a scene) so I grabbed my menu and not-so-sneakily told my then-bf the absolutely insanity that was happening to me right then and there and he kept telling me to chill out and not say anything so I didn't. I spent my entire dinner just doing my best to keep my head forward and stay as normal as possible. It was at the end of our dinner (they had finished a bit earlier than us cause they were there before us) but they were chilling and eating dessert. Josh had his 3rd? glass of wine by then and Ginny was pregnant so she was obviously sober. Adam/Eric were also drinking. Ginny goes off to the bathroom and then Josh turns to ME and says "Would you like a picture? I can tell you've been wanting to talk to us but you waited until after dinner and we really appreciate that." to which I absolutely died at and immediately said yes and got a picture with everyone (except Ginny who kindly asked not to bc she just wasn't feeling well which I of course didn't push her on). But it was SO funny because it was clear that Josh was very tipsy and Adam and Eric were as well so poor Ginny had to be like "Guess I'm the one ordering the taxi again!" and we all talked for like an hour while they ate their dessert and we finished our dinner, and then they left, and even paid for mine and then-bf's entire dinner!! I can genuinely say that Ginny/Josh's relationship was always super sweet and they were both some of the nicest people I've ever met. I was even able to gush and fangirl with Adam and Eric about their show and I complimented them and said how much I loved OUAT. They were also incredibly nice and it was just a 100/100 experience of my life. Okay back to watching your video. :)

Regina is the definition of gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss. She is and has always been my favorite character on this show. I literally still have my Evil Regal shirt from when I was like fourteen in a drawer in my room. Regina Mills is my wife, the atrocities she’s committed are a part of her and I’ve decided to accept it. I support women’s rights but I also support women’s wrongs.

I feel for Robert Carlyle's health. I mean, it's just season 2 and his back is already strained for carrying all of this

Emma Swan's taste in men; Dark hair, face stubble, mysterious, morally ambiguous Irresitible for her. Like Catnip

Cant wait to see you cover Belle inexplicably forgiving rumple 50 times

“Belle and Granny lock Ruby in a freezer overnight.. AT RUBY’S REQUEST” followed not long after by “except they leave Aurora there, tied to the bars of the cell.. WILLINGLY, SHE ASKED” is so fucking funny 💀 also your cat randomly showing up and being enraptured by your storytelling is everything 🐱

the pure gasp of joy and surprise that i made when i saw this video had come out is unmatched

Yes, I’m so happy the season 2 review is out!! The first one has become something I watch constantly. Thank you for suffering through this fairy tail soap opera for us

my favourite thing about the gold being poisoned arc is that outside of just these episodes where he's poisoned it is constantly stressed to the utmost importance that the dark one can only be killed by his dagger. but for these episodes it's like yeah poison whatever

I must say, the worst thing the creators of OUAT did was naming the two people closest to Rumple Belle and Bael... EVERY TIME someone talks about one of them in relation to Rumple I get confused about which one is being talked about!

This show casted young Snow and young Cora so perfectly. So why did they get so lazy with Emma and Neal? Why do flashback Emma and Neal look like they're in their 40s when they're supposed to be like, 18? 😅

one thing i’d like to add is that the seer doesn’t actually tell rumple he’ll die in battle. she says his actions in the war will leave his son without a father. he assumes this means he’ll die so he hobbles himself to get sent home but this is leads to him being labelled a deserter coward, milah leaving him, his humiliation leading him to become the dark one and eventually losing baelfire to the land without magic. so it’s one of those very roundabout damned if you do damned if you don’t prophecies i guess

The flashback of Snow White getting the fertility curse is so funny when so much of the show hinges on the rule that true loves kiss can cure any curse

Hey now, Killian can't stick to a plan for more than 20 minutes because of the repeated and continued heat trauma. He can barely keep the plan straight

Neal being the type of dad that drops insane lore out of nowhere makes so much sense to me

i do find it funny the villain who is basically a cartoon villain, Tamara, is one of the few villains who isn't from a cartoon

The way they could've broken the infertility curse with true love's kiss at their wedding and also have saved ruth

my favourite thing about this show is how fictional characters pop up like cameos in a Marvel movie. Like "hmm this person with no backstory is ALSO from the enchanted forest", everyones an X-Man and i love it.

They should retroactively give OUAT the tagline "Captain Hook Cucks Rumplestiltskin", if only because it so succinctly demonstrates the soap-opera levels of insanity that the show reaches. Fantastic follow-up to part 1! Thank you for making these; now I don't have to go through the ordeal of yet another OUAT rewatch lmao

Everything about Neal/Baelfire is a blur for me- so you're telling me, early twenties Neal hitting on 17 year old Emma is actually a *hundred* and twenty-somthing Neal? Or older? Wow. It's Twilight without vampires. Thanks I hate it 🤣

What’s ironic is that Snow White killed Cora with the very same candle Cora handed her all those years ago. Cora did say she’d keep testing Eva’s child and it’s so funny to me that the one time Snow gives in to the dark temptation is to kill the person who tempted her lmao

watching this show felt like reading game of thrones. just dragging myself through like ten storylines at once, keeping track of family trees, crying, forgetting everyone's names because they all have so many goddamn names.

When you said that no one remembers season 2, I was like "no, that's ridiculous! I remember it pretty well I think." And then nothing on earth could've prepared me for how deeply I forgot about Greg's backstory specifically. When I tell you that my jaw DROPPED. Literally just that part. I had no idea. Utter insanity.

1:30:57 the name "greg mendel" got my attention and i want so bad for the father of genetics to be considered a fairy tale character somehow in this show

"Can't do magic unless this tottaly random chick I definitely don't have feelings about touches me" gives off Willow and Tara vibes

2:27:06 wow I love all of OUAT's super diverse cast!!! we have: - evil black lady - morally dubious black man who's forced to be subserviant to a white woman - asian woman who's in the show for like three seconds. (i'm so sorry mulan but literally the only thing I remember about your character is the INCREDIBLY strong queer energy you radiate. is it canon that she has a crush on aurora or did i make that up from the massive lesbian vibes)

The way Hermes sometimes looks up at you so lovingly is wonderful

If you want too make the family tree even weirder Henry is Emmas' stepuncle, Snow Whites' younger stepbrother, and David's brother-in-law.

I promise you that if Mary Shelly watched the Frankenstein plotline, she would be PISSED.

Anton is such a sweet little character even if he was only in the season for like… less than 3 episodes or something, the fact that he got his own dwarf axe and everything made me SOB

I am so delighted everytime you mentioned how violent Gold is. LIke man has unfathomable power but his go to attack is attack people with my cane. Whats up with that. this show is fasinating and i am always so enthralled when i watch these videos

Cora being the girl from Rumplestiltskin shocked me way more than i think it should have

"aurora becomes a cellphone."

I’m so glad you talked about Lacey’s dynamic with Gold, it’s so much funnier than Belle’s. I love Belle when she’s not around Gold (the Belle-Mulan episode is the absolute peak for her, she’s impeccable), but the bad bitch x evil bastard is so great. Let them make each other worse

Neils relationship with Hook is WILD and I'm SO glad you're obsessed with it

can i just say the opening scene to season 2 is genuinely amazing. like a man we've never seen before in new york which hasn't been a relevant location to the show at all and its all handheld and very non once upon a time and then he gets the postcard and it ties it in. and like they don't actively bury the lead throughout the first half of the season if you're paying attention guessing who he is is pretty easy but its so fun i love to have fun!!!

“and then he flips a table and runs away” had me dying laughing 23:44

57:06 you said “Jack’s Skeleton” and I almost had a rage fit thinking they were gonna make him Jack Skelington

the entire "emma as a 17 year old" flashback is super funny to me (from the inherent comedy of these very adult people pretending to be kids) but the thing that sent me was the face pineoccio makes when neal hands him the money.

2:21:29 It’s implied that August used the money Neal tried to send to Emma from the watches. Neal tells August to send her 7k and the car keys. The keys are mailed to Emma from Phuket and Emma never gets the money. That’s what that joke about August stealing Neal’s money was.

It's also kind of ironic that once she got to the non magical world, she decided her purpose was to be a parent. Where if she could've not blamed the child for being tricked she could've had a similar relationship with Snow White.

Honestly Neil's quick moving with Tamara makes so much sense when you think about his life.. Of course he's desperate for someone to care about him he spent so much time being shown that he couldn't have that.

I love your style and your energy, but the bits where you baby hold the cat so all we see on camera are four skywards paws is just next level entertainment.

Leeroy screaming everytime he has news is my favorite thing

david has "never suffered a sleeping curse" but was in a coma for 28 yearsi feel like that should count

RIP Stealthy. Never Forget. May his name live on in the memes of our D&D group, because oh boy did we make a lot of them when we first watched this show.

Haley Whipjack on Prince Charming: love the determination, but if the universe keeps pulling y'all apart *maybe you should take the hint* Haley Whipjack, 3 hours later, on the making of this video: the universe DID NOT want this video to get made but I did it anyway

watching the show, you already know it's batshit, but the recaps just emphasise how batshit it truly is and I love how you explain it

Yeah! I was in the fandom at the very beginning and it was so cool when we were vindicated for the Baelfire theory! It was so much fun. And yeah, Hook gets knocked unconscious so much people joked that the pairing that got the most screentime was Hook x the floor. Also as one of the show's 12 existing fans, I HAVE to know if you're going to be covering Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. I need someone else to be as insane about Will Scarlet's bit in the main series as I am.

when you said season 2 was forgettable my thought was "no i remember like the whole second half so clearly!" and as we got to the end of the video i realized that i was remembering the start of season 3, and that i truly did forgot almost all of season 2 but some little bits and pieces

"Keep track of seven storylines?" Oh baby.. oh sweet summer child..

X chromosome from the Charming, Y chromosome from Rumples, Raised by Regina. Henry Mills was destined to be extra and unnecessarly dramatic

I feel like Lacey as a character had a lot of potential. Using her for a bit longer to build up some tension, then letting her revert to Belle and let Belle confront the knowledge that that darkness is somewhere inside her? But also confronting Gold and being all "You know that isn´t me. Why didn´t you help me earlier, when you knew you could?" I would have loved that.

these last four episodes just feel like the writers made the whole plot with Cora, then realized they forgot four episodes, so quickly tied together that thing with Greg and Tamara

the Mulan and Aurora storyline was so crucial to my bisexual awakening

Did anyine else notice that when belle was introduced in season one she had a crappy fancy english accent but over the next season they just drop that accent slowly for her actual Australian accent. It was like ross trying to drop his fake accent when he starts teaching 😂

the main thing that kills me about the tamara/august scene is that wood does not conduct electricity. the taser shouldn't have had any effect on him. they could've picked any weapon for tamara to use against him and they picked the ONE weapon that he should basically have a superhero-like immunity to

The thing that gets me is that we’re clearly shown that there are people in Storybrooke who were commoners in the Enchanted Forest, implying that everyone within a certain radius of the curse was sent to Maine. But Storybrooke is constantly called a small town. So… how big was the Enchanted Forest? And there are multiple seemingly unrelated Kings and Queens which implies there were multiple kingdoms. There can’t be like only a few hundred people within a kingdom right? Were there people in these kingdoms that were left behind to sort out themselves while their royals are gone? I have so many questions.

Oh this recap was fantastic. When Hook arrived tumblr exploded, him and his eyeliner owned tumblr for a while. Funfact I went as Hook for Halloween and omg the eyeliner was so hard to get right. I just settled for slightly raccoonish.

Cora is his step-great-great grandmother, his adoptive grandmother, & if i had it my way, his grandmother in law. The showrunners were COWARDS for the energy between Emma & Regina not resulting in a messy sapphic relationship & i will stand by it

This show is so unhinged at times and I truly enjoy it. Henry really did take it upon himself to try and fix everything while the adults were having existential dread about who they are. Also never really thought on it but Emma really has a thing for guys over 100 years old. Both her main men are SO MUCH OLDER. Killian being from the 1800's and Neil being an unknowable number due to Neverland but easily over 100 years old.

The Seer actually never tells Rumple that he will die in battle! She says the battle will "render his son fatherless", which I think is genius because it comes true either way. Of course Rumple believes that that means he will die (in which case the prophecy would come true), but what actually happens is that through Rumple crippling himself and becoming a coward, he later becomes the dark one, who lets his son slip away, leaving him to grow up fatherless in a different land. So no matter what Rumple would have done, the Seer would have been right, showing that future (or destiny if you will) can't be avoided!!

I actually genuinely enjoy season 2. I’d take it over seasons 5-7 in a heartbeat. Yeah Greg and Tamara are dumb but I have a blast with everything else. Lana Parrilla continues to be the sole reason Regina is a salvageable and somewhat sympathetic figure. The woman acts her ass off. Her and Robert Carlyle. Also, Mulan: Icon. Queen.

For context, the first zombie/Frankenstein episode was originally aired as a Halloween episode.

It’s so wild that Cora was the main villain for all of season 2 and then dies 4 episodes before the finale. And then they’re like “here’s a new villain for the last 4 episodes lol”

two thoughts i had once we started talking about dr. whale being frankenstein and his backstory: 1) how does mary shelley fit into all this? like i know they all came from written stories, but i'm extra curious about what her deal is supposed to be, considering frankenstein is so recent in the span of history (though i suppose the same thing applies to the wonderland crew and lewis carroll at this point in the show) 2) why ONLY frankenstein? presumably part of why he's there is that it's in the public domain, but what about the other classic stories from that era? we eventually get jekyll and hyde but like...what about...a certain other...19th century monster novel...basically what i'm saying is i think i would have been more inclined to accept dr. whale's presence in the story if dracula was also there.

The way the "creepy shit" said to Emma at 1:09:11 had a chokehold on 17 year old me and the rest of Tumblr

Your recap of season one made me realize I never watched the rest of it. So I'm now watching it all much to the amusement of my husband who calls it the "weird Rumpelstiltskin show" as we watched the first recap together. It's now made me even more excited to watch these recaps with him so he understands the insanity that is Once Upon a Time.

I do feel the obligation to point out that Archie WASNT originally a cricket, but also a fully human dude turned into a cricket and then turned into a dude with the curse

Some thoughts I had while watching (SPOILERS ahead for further seasons): Funnily enough Fhilip, Aurora and Mulan may not be a throuple but they are a love triangle. It's just that it's not Philip with two girls in love with him. It's Aurora with Philip and Mulan both in love with her. We will see more of Lancelot later. in fact we'll see the rest of the knights and king Arthur himself. in Maine. We will see king Arthur in Maine. Mother Superior does technically have a name. it's Reul Ghorm which just means blue star in Scots Gealic. Which is a whole nother thing. RANT UNLOCKED: The British Isles canonically exist in the enchanted forest. Everyone from Rumplestiltskin's area of origin is British. Rumple and his father are both Scottish. They have Scottish accents (thank you Robert Carlyle for your phenomenal performance)(his father becomes English later on. for reasons) Baelfire calls the Blue Fairy by her Scots Gaelic name. Hook is British (the showrunners didn't want Colin to use his Irish accent) and Milah is English. A version of Britain exist in the Enchanted Forest. And CAMELOT IS NOT A PART OF IT. IT IS IT'S OWN THING! Sure, king Arthur has a British accent. And he rules Camelot. Which is famously in Great Britain. But the OUAT version of Camelot is not in the OUAT version of the British Isles. And neither is Dun Broch by the way. You know, the place where Merida the Scottish princess lives? Not at all connected to where Rumplestiltskin with his Scottish accent and Scots Gaelic name for the Blue Fairy is from. RANT OVER And yes the Blue Fairy is a liar. She lied about the number of people who can go through the wardrobe. She lied about the last bean. She lied to Rumple telling him that there is no curse that could transport him to the Land Without Magic despite being present when the dark curse was created. And of course she lied when she said that fairies don't lie. And oh boy, if you're upset about Frankenstein being there just you wait for Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Now that one's something. Something good? it's something. And don't forget the rest of the crew from your high school reading list: Captain Nemo from Moby Dick, the count of Monte Cristo from The Count Of Monte Cristo and Beowulf. You know. From Beowulf. And yes, Cora's plan depended on Rumplestiltskin going to therapy. Which is really funny but what's even funnier is that he did. He did go to therapy. I assume most people here know about all of this already but if you've never watched the show or never watched it to the end? Yeah, it get worse. Which is great! But also not good. But I'm obsessed. I cannot wait for the Neverland arc, I am so excited for it.

I just love how it took 2 seasons and collecting like, 8 different names from being inserted into other fairy tales before we saw the fairy tale that Rumpelstiltskin ACTUALLY belongs in.

1:51:10 - Oh, I get it. "Dead firefighter." "Talks to Henry on the fire escape." I love it.

This show reached levels of unhinged that are usually reserved for later seasons of CW series. Even now, the fact that it exists both baffles me and brings me immeasurable joy.

Haley is giving slightly drunk bostonian uber driver gossiping with us and I am HERE FOR IT.

I always forget that August just… pretende to be Baelfire - surprisingly well too? Like fully goofs his dad and shit Also Bae has lived literally the most HELLISH existence. Like yeah Henry, Jefferson and Regina’s life in the time bubble sucked, but Bael ran though like three dozen dimensions and six pairs of adopted parental figures AND HE WAS FORCIBLY SEPARATED EACH TIME

26:28 "This bad boy can fit so many unhealthy family dynamics in it." Same. 28:35 "I just don't want my roommate to spontaneously be my mom." I can no longer relate.

seeing anton again after all this time and remembering how much little me loved him has me cryingggg he deserves the WORLDDDD

two things... 1. I love everything about this youtube series and Haley is an absolute legend for giving it to us 2. I want someone to look at me the way this cat looks at Haley

David wingmanning for Gold is like my favorite part of the entire show 😂

I actually remembered quite a lot of this season but I didn't remember the timeline even close to correctly. I thought Cora was around for a lot longer. I do agree this is the most interesting Snow ever gets. I also thought the show went a little longer before it went off the rails, but I watched it as it came out and I was 10 when season one aired so I'm not surprised I misremembered.

Heres the thing, i understand Emma not wanting to kill Regina. However, the MOMENT Emma is trapped in the enchanted forest the town would have just brutally murdered their former mayor.

no way. belle and anton the giant are both former lost cast members. good god.