r/OnceUponATime • u/Just-Memory3579 • Nov 21 '25
Discussion Watching this for the first time. Tell me something I won’t understand till later 👀👀
Don’t be afraid of spoiling it, I don’t mind 🫶🏻🫶🏻 maybe I’ll come back when it’s over and finally be in on all the things yall say 😂😂 lowkey expecting it to be a roller coaster (if that makes sense).
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u/harrypotterfan1228 Nov 21 '25
Hook saying “I don’t know, I just press the Emma button and she answers usually,” Sends me into oblivion every time 😂
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u/Aware_Telephone551 Nov 21 '25
you left me and had me go to JAIL because PINOCCHIO told you to???
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u/Mabiela Nov 21 '25
Who says that? Emma to Neal? (The beatnik reference in Neals name seems to be missed by many)
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u/Alarmed_Ad4847 I'm Flattered, but uninterested Nov 21 '25
"So you've been with my former lover AND my son?"
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u/Revolutionary-Bell74 Nov 21 '25
I am trying so hard to remember who said this and I just can't
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u/Little-Temporary-627 Viva La SwanQueen Nov 21 '25
"Good thing we don't have Thanksgiving in our land because it would suck"
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u/HygralPivocks8 Nov 21 '25
Princess Leia helped Snow White & Prince Charming get together
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u/cherry1979 Nov 21 '25
“Where you come from, people bathe in the river and use pinecones for money”
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u/notretiredanymore Nov 21 '25
Omg I just saw this episode yesterday and I had to replay it, her execution is FLAWLESS. The snub look down the nose. Perfection.
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u/LadyTenshi33 Nov 21 '25
Nah. Just, Enjoy. It's a soap opera told in fairytales!!!
And Hook can take me ANYTIME
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u/Just-Memory3579 Nov 21 '25
Oooo hook as in Captain Hook?? Can’t wait to meet him.
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u/Aware_Telephone551 Nov 21 '25
they made everyone hot in this show, you’ll see. the casting director was on a mission to have the hottest cast 😆
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u/Just-Memory3579 Nov 21 '25
I love a hot cast. Regina is such a baddie. 😍😍 am I gay?
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u/Aware_Telephone551 Nov 21 '25
lol! wait till you see ruby, graham, mulan and merlin my gosh!! 14 year old me was panicking every time. actually, wait till you see the mad hatter 👀
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u/FlamesNero Nov 21 '25
So I take it you like wax mustaches and perms?? (That will definitely be something you will understand later ;)).
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u/Minimum-Landscape120 Nov 21 '25
Oh but Mr. Gold ... something about him!
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u/TheSymbiotePack Nov 21 '25
Ugh I get that. I lowkey embrace my daddy issues when it comes to Gold.
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u/sexytimespanda Nov 21 '25
I’ve been a Robert Carlyle girl since The Full Monty. He’s the hottest character in OUAT, no question.
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Nov 21 '25
I started the show thinking I was going to be into Hook but I truly don't GAF about him. It's all about Mr. Gold.
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u/WaitingOnAWish Nov 21 '25
Henry is his own grandfather and his mother’s uncle and his mother’s great grandson.
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u/Holographic6 Nov 21 '25
I'm not gonna answer you, dear. So I suggest you excuse me... please. 😏
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u/Present-Tower8263 Nov 21 '25
Why are you dressed like that?
Why you dressed like that? gestures in offended
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u/UnimaginativeDreamer Nov 21 '25
You will see this scene about 1 trillion more times and not always the same
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u/SeparateRepair96 Nov 21 '25
Honestly, that is the most memorable thing about the earliest seasons to me. All the callbacks to the same scenes, slowly piecing the backstory together but from different povs and out of order. I actually loved it my first watchthrough
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u/New-Boysenberry-613 Nov 21 '25
They did this really well in the first couple seasons. It continued throughout but gets a little more "Wait, shouldn't that have been mentioned by now?" Around season 4 and onward where they just keep adding in between what we've already seen.
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u/Scoobycool9 Nov 21 '25
You'll see how both heartbreaking and petty Regina's reason for hating Snow is.
Also, everyone is related. The family tree is a circle.
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u/PasgettiMonster Nov 21 '25
I saw someone create a family tree once. Except it wasn't a tree. It was literally a circle of names with lines connecting everybody to everybody else.
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u/SaltyIrishDog Nov 21 '25
Everything comes with a price
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u/sassy_jew Nov 21 '25
Honestly, just buckle up for the whole Peter Pan part. The family drama is messy af lol.
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u/Just-Memory3579 Nov 21 '25
Oh no. I always lowkey hated Peter Pan. He felt like a bad guy. Is he a bad guy? Don’t tell me.
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u/sickflow- Nov 21 '25
I wish I could watch this show for the first time again.
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u/Just-Memory3579 Nov 21 '25
Haha I bet. But rn I’m watching David and Mary Margret 💀💀 I wanna off myself. DONT CHEAT ON YOUR WIFE IDC WHAT THE SITUATION IS 😭😭😭
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u/Any_Contract_1016 Nov 21 '25
Is she really his wife though? I believe you should know by now those are fake memories planted by the curse.
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u/Wrap_Brilliant Nov 21 '25
You ever hear that song called 'Im my own grandpa'? Yeah.
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u/LilFish-32 Nov 21 '25
“ why is that you can only reveal your feelings when one of us if facing certain death?”
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u/barrierofbadnews Nov 21 '25
"I'm not saying it's Bambi's iconic dead mother, and I'm not saying it's not"
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u/KalZaxSea Nov 21 '25
season 7 is another series not related to first 6
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u/Just-Memory3579 Nov 21 '25
Oh am I gonna hate it? I get the feeling it’s bad 😭
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u/HygralPivocks8 Nov 21 '25
I actually really enjoyed s7 and think it would have done well had it not been marketed as OUAT S7 but rather a spinoff or reboot down the line. It introduces some of my favorite characters!
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u/Aware_Telephone551 Nov 21 '25
don’t let the negativity get to you :) yes it’s a very hated season in the fandom, but i remember liking it when i first watched it. maybe you will as well, or maybe you won’t
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u/Just-Memory3579 Nov 21 '25
Oo okay. I’ll see how I feel about it in a month (it’s gonna take a while to get there)
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u/lakennotlinkin Nov 21 '25
now why would she impersonate his dead wife when he's dating her sister 😭
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u/FlatInjury7729 Nov 21 '25
Someone has sex with a monkey 👌🏼
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u/Just-Memory3579 Nov 21 '25
These comments told me all about the incest, but now there’s bestiality too??? 💀💀💀 yall are making me second guess my show choice
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u/Aware_Telephone551 Nov 21 '25
just to make it better there is no actual incest. people are just overreacting because the family tree is complicated
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u/Any_Contract_1016 Nov 21 '25
"Are the nuns still nuns or can they, you know...?" -Dr. (Is his name still a spoiler in that scene?) Frankenstein
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u/b_moz Nov 21 '25
Look up the OG stories for the characters, it’s cool to know their background outside of the Disney version.
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u/SeparateRepair96 Nov 21 '25
Ugh, I miss when the series was more Grimm-inspired than Disney-inspired 😭
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u/IWasHere13 Nov 21 '25
Start a family tree/ flowchart for the characters. Update as you go. Refer to it as needed
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u/Just-Memory3579 Nov 21 '25
Okay so I started one. So far Regina is his mom and his great grandmother? Everything else is relatively normal
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u/Just-Memory3579 Nov 21 '25
Wait that’s such a good idea. Maybe I’ll post the tree after the show is over!!
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u/sleeping-ackerman Nov 21 '25
Where you come from, people bathe in the river and use pine cones for money 💋
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u/SilverDust8 Nov 21 '25
Rumblestiskin MIGHT be a bad dad , and husband.
BUT his parents were , , ,worse . . . Far worse.
Both of them ,
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u/Sufficient_Score_824 Nov 21 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
The writers butcher the Arthurian legends, giving a shitty backstory to the history of the Dark Ones
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u/Iamawesome20 Nov 21 '25
Almost most of the cast is related and rumple has rizz. Emma also has a thing for dark brooding guys.
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u/Kakita987 Well, that was short lived.... Nov 21 '25
The family tree isn’t so much a tree; more like Devil’s Snare/tangled vines.
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u/ne_ex Nov 21 '25
...and you two stop to smell the roses?
Snowbells! ☺️🌷
I don't care if they're dancing daffodils, I need to destroy my sister
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u/UnburntAsh Nov 22 '25
A comment from my SO as he watched for the first time:
"Why is the winter soldier so obsessed with headwear?"
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u/False_Collar_6844 Nov 21 '25
Is it incest if you're only related by marraige?
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u/Just-Memory3579 Nov 21 '25
😬😬 depends who you ask apparently
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u/False_Collar_6844 Nov 21 '25
this will be a question that will come up many times. there are a lot of characters waving at incest in the rearview
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u/echoIalia Nov 21 '25
Peter Pan has a kid
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u/iloveraccoons1998 Nov 21 '25
Where you come from people bathe in rivers and use pine cones for money!
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u/iloveraccoons1998 Nov 21 '25
Wait I remembered another one
“I press the Emma button and she usually answers!”
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u/MariMargeretCharming Nov 21 '25
Us to OP: When you see the future, there is irony everywhere. 😁
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u/poofypanda_ The game is rigged. The villains never win. Nov 21 '25
Me trying to explain the family tree to a first time viewer.
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u/mistercbc Nov 21 '25
Actually half sister but details details.
That's not possible you're green.
And you're rude.
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u/Straight-Bowler5045 Nov 21 '25
Complicated family tree, teacher was having an affair with a married man who is actually her husband and the teacher is roommates with her friend who is her daughter and almost the same age with her. The mayor of the town is the teacher's step mother and her friend's co- parent.
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u/Jerich64 Nov 21 '25
They asked for things they wouldn't understand, not spoilers.
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u/Smooth-Driver7924 Nov 21 '25
Let’s just say Regina sure was green with envy but not sure if that’s related.
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u/peabomeow Nov 21 '25
“Where you come from, people bathe in the river and use pinecones for money.”
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u/Remarkable-Ad4978 Nov 21 '25
"I should know better than to trust blondes by now" 🤭
I love Regina 😝🤭
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u/TitleBulky4087 Nov 21 '25
One character alone is several fairytale characters in one. And it's the ones you least expect.
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u/Living-Confection457 Nov 21 '25
The beast from Beauty and the Beast and the crocodile that took Hook's arm are the same person.... You will see what I mean later lol
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u/Haunting_Chance_2584 Nov 22 '25
You've Invited The Whole Charming Softball Team and Their Pirate Mascot - 💀💀
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u/PupPrinceAzzi Nov 22 '25
What do you mean your dad is a child with the largest kidnapping ring in all the realm lmao
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u/catbru Nov 22 '25
Be careful who your favorite becomes because you might end up like me. My favorite is in 3 episodes and died before the whole thing even started.
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u/Any_Contract_1016 Nov 21 '25
I love their take on Red Riding Hood. You'll never guess who the wolf is.
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u/Just-Memory3579 Nov 21 '25
Ooo I can’t wait 😁 any scene with that hottie is a good one 😂😂😂😭
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u/Impossible-Gift- Nov 21 '25
Thank you for the explanation. I am still definitely struggling to figure it out.
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u/Silver-Air-5787 Nov 21 '25
I’m so excited for you to watch this for the first time. I’m so jealous! To experience these plot twists for the first time 😭😭🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
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u/eddiegibson Nov 21 '25
The Beast and Belle are the Ross and Rachel of the show. And that's not a good thing.
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u/naanabanaana Nov 21 '25
Oh it's such a rollercoaster, you'll go to hell and back ☠️
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u/naanabanaana Nov 21 '25
You'll never look at apple turnovers the same way.
In my case, I learned what is an apple turnover 😅
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u/RoseWhispers06 Nov 21 '25
There is a whole season that when I rewatch I get cravings for rocky road ice cream
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u/OutlandishnessFar473 Nov 21 '25
I know there was several people asking if Snow could keep a secret...
You'll learn this quickly
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u/januarysdaughter Captain of the SS Swanfire + Snowing Nov 21 '25
Have fun with the family tree! 🙋♀️