OnceUponATime

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He's so annoying and so full of himself. I honestly can't stand him when he's on screen.

I honestly would have preferred Emma to have stayed single than to have him as a boyfriend.

The insinuation that he got women drunk to sleep with them was also pretty disgusting.

He would've died a hero, and we wouldn't have had all this back and forth between him and Belle, and back and forth villain arc (one of the most outrageous parts of season 5 is when he gets his dark one powers again, even though he's been good the whole season 🙄🙄)

They could've still had him appear in flashbacks, but honestly that would've been a lot more impactful and would've challenged the writers to give Belle actual good storylines and have her be independent of Rumple.

When Once Upon a Time introduced Elsa and Anna in Season 4, | was excited to see how the show would bring them to life.

But one thing that really stood out to me (in a bad way) was their costumes—they looked more like store-bought Halloween costumes than real, lived-in outfits.

Elsa's dress, for example, was practically identical to the Frozen movie version, but the fabric looked cheap and too shiny, almost like plastic.

It didn’t have the intricate details or layered textures that would make it feel like an actual royal gown.

Anna’s outfit had the same problem—it was a near-perfect replica of her animated look, but it felt too clean and artificial, lacking the depth or realism that Once Upon a Time usually puts into its costumes.

Compared to other characters in the show, like Regina or Rumpel who had elaborate and textured outfits, Elsa and Anna's costumes felt like they were straight out of a Halloween catalog.

I wish the show had taken more creative liberties to make their outfits feel more grounded in the OUAT universe instead of just copying the animated designs.

What do you think?

Did their costumes take you out of the immersion, or did you like how faithful they were to the movie?

Would you have preferred a more unique take on their outfits?

Hi! I'm currently on a OUAT rewatch after a long time, and I'm wondering something:

The curse prevented the trapped characters from aging, right?

So the kids (like Hansel and Gretel) were still kids after 29 years of being on storybrook.

Henry arrives as a baby 11 years before the first season, during these 11 years, and before he finds the book, we can understand that he already saw strange things in the behavior of the residents, for example: anyone who tried to leave the city would get hurt, no one visited the city, the residents have no sense of time and don't know things about their past.

The lack of aging of classmates was certainly another indication. All of this culminated in Henry easily believing that the book was real.

However, what if Emma hadn't stayed in Storybrook (or if Henry never found her in the first place)?

Time would pass, Henry would grow up, become a teenager and then an adult and everyone, including the children he studied with, would remain exactly the same.

What would Regina have done about it?

She was barely able to convince a 11yo that she was not lying, imagine a 16yo or 20yo. Didn't she imagine this when she adopted Henry?

Would Henry eventually be affected by the Dark Curse and would he somehow stop aging and enter the " mental fog" that the other characters live in?

I know that everything happened as it was supposed to, and we can imagine that in all realities and universes Henry always finds Emma and she always breaks the Curse but that's just something I was wondering.

Sorry if it's hard to read, English is not my first language.

I recently made a post commenting on Henry being trapped in a "time loop" and what would happen if Emma didn’t break the curse. He would grow up and see everyone with the same age and kinda go mad (What would have happened to Henry if Emma hadn't shown up?.

Anyway, while I was rewatching the first season—something I’ve done multiple times—this time, one thing bothered me more than anything: Why does Henry hate Regina so much? Think about it—your child, whom you adopted and raised for the past 11 years, starts reading a random book, believes you’re the villain from the story, and overnight starts hating you, openly saying you’re evil, that you don’t love him, that you’re cruel, etc. What made me question this even more is that—it makes sense for Henry to believe in the book so easily (as I mentioned in my other post), but his hatred toward Regina seems a bit exaggerated.

Then, I understood. Henry was literally trapped in a time loop, and NO ONE believed him. In the second season, we see Regina’s first years in Storybrooke, enjoying her victory until the repetitive days start to frustrate her. Now, imagine Henry—a child—growing up in that. Every day (or every week or month) having the same lessons at school, the same conversations with people, asking others about their lives and being met with, "um... huh... I don’t remember," and a shrug. We see that Henry is a curious, smart, and precocious boy, imagine how strange and borderline insane he must have felt watching all of this happening!!

Now, imagine him confiding (or questioning) this to his mother—telling her how weird the people in town are, how they don’t seem to act normally or how they repeat theirs days, only for her to dismiss him, tell him he’s crazy, that he needs a dose of reality, and send him to therapy, just to hear, once again, that he’s delusional, needs to stop lying, and accept that he’s wrong.

I understand why Henry resents Regina, and after he believed in the book and saw all the horrible things she had done before, it’s understandable why he thought she didn’t truly love him. He believed she wasn’t capable of love, and he also believed that if she truly loved him, she wouldn’t lie to him or make him feel like he was insane.

Rewatching the first season, Henry’s comments about his mother irritated me deeply, but I understand that he was just a kid. An 11-year-old child, lonely, feeling rejected, and desperately wanting someone to believe him.

Anyway, this is more of a reflection post than a discussion one. Thank you if you read all of this, and let me know what you think!

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I'm rewatching this show, and I can't stop laughing.

Some of the funniest stuff is whenever Rumple beats the crap out of people with his cane, lolz and just how hardcore and intimidating he is with a disability, is literally inspiring.

He was never truly a coward, imho and the way he hands people their asses with his cane over and over without ever using an ounce of magic and having a fricking limp to boot, is a testament to that.

Also, the dynamics and dialog between the cast in the Dr. Frankenstein episodes had me dying and Hook's constant sexual innuendo, omg, hah-hah.

There's more I'm sure but that's all I can think of for now, lol.

What I love about this show is despite the outrageous plots and never ending problems, it still had value in it.

Out of all the themes and lessons tackled in the series, what was the one that stuck with you the most?

For me, its that "evil isn't born, its made".

This has been a constant with almost every villain. Regina and Rumple most especially. It was important to show that some of the people who enact terror were once good too- most of the time, victims.

It doesn't justify all of their actions later on but on some level, it shows what could happen if someone in the dark isn't guided, shown hope, or offered help by those capable.

Kind of what happens in real life too.

As a bonus, never underestimate someone's anger.

A small thing to you, could be their entire life to them.

We don't know if it's their final straw, so it's important to be kind as much as we can.

So I've been wondering who the Nurse, and the guy who is mopping, are, everytime I see them.

Hear me out here.

In season one, it’s clear than Henry is lonely, never had a single friend, had terrible parenting, and although he was right about the curse, it’s an insane thing to believe in as a boy, and center your entire life around.

He was OBSESSED with the fact that his teacher was SNOW WHITE and his therapist was Jiminy cricket??

Just from simply reading a book of fairy tails.

I guess you could say it was the real magic that made him believe.

“Heart of the Truest Believer” or whatever, but c'mon now, you can’t tell me, with this added, with the fact that he in extremely intelligent, he wasn’t a little autistic?

Either way, I feel like a few years pass, and all of a sudden we forget he was mental at one point, and now he’s normal, and live ships best life going to college with a big friend group and stuff.

I think him and Emma having to live in (?? I forget) for a while when one of the curses passed with no memories of their past life helped him a lot when he was an actual normal kid going to a real school with friends.

But still.

I don’t see this as a plot hole just something I think could have forwarded into his future life even adult him but was looked over as soon as the curse broke.

Robert Carlyle deserves an Oscar for all of his performances 😭.

I don’t know, I just think he’s absolutely perfect for the character, and I think he plays it well.

His giggles are so funny, his voice is perfect for it too, I just love this show so much lolll.

There’s little to no chemistry there. Dorothy comes off so cold and annoying, and Ruby’s like “I’ve never felt like this about anyone before” - but why?

The script says she loves her but nothing in their interaction gives us a reason why Ruby would be into her.

The one same sex relationship in the show (at that point) and they fumbled it so hard lol. It felt so random.

The nicknames “Wolfie” and “Kansas” are hilarious too.

Like the writers needed something to make it all seem cute.

I wish they could’ve just had Mulan and Ruby fall for each other since there was way more chemistry, and Mulan was a character we actually cared about.

She finessed him so hard lol.

Getting him to teach her how to spin straw into gold rather than doing it for her, then manipulates him into changing the contract so she can keep her baby.

Has him think she wants to kill the King, so he teaches her how to rip out hearts, so she can take her own out, and then basically says “well thanks…bye” 😂

I'm rewatching OUAT right now, and something I think is so funny is how much they travel between realms in this show lol.

Rumple spent so long trying to get to our world, created a dark curse, and manipulated everything to get to this point, all for the show to have everyone dipping in between realms like, AT LEAST once every season lmao.

And I know it's a lot harder to get in between magical and non-magical realms, but they kind of do that a lot too!

Idk, just something I think is kind of funny.

I've seen a lot of posts that tear her character to shreds, sometimes bringing other charmings down as well..

personally I never got that, as she was my second fave on the show after Regina.