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“I’ve Stopped Watching ‘Once Upon A Time’!” and 5 Reasons Why That’s A Bad Idea

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Now, *I* haven’t stopped watching “Once Upon a Time” (even though I struggled with Season 2), but many others have and that’s why I’m writing this post.

1. It’s not just about ‘ships or a particular character – it’s about the story. Would you stop reading a book because the story goes a certain way? No, you would be committed to the story to see how it ended. The same thing applies to Once Upon a Time.

2. The story may not have gone where you thought it should, but the story isn’t over yet. I’m not saying you will get your wish as far as where the goes, but if you give up before the whole story is told, you’ll never know where it went to get to the end.

3. (Most of) the characters in Once Upon a Time are still on the show and the story arcs are full (Evil characters can be redeemed, and Good characters can go bad – like real life) and fascinating. Watching Lana Parrilla act her way from the Queen of all Evil in Season 1 into a powerful, kind, forgiving woman season 4 that would make any person that never cheered for her during Season 1 get on their feet and cheer loudly for her now.

4. Some Disney fans struggle with Once Upon a Time, because they want the retelling of the animated features – that won’t happen (and I’m happy about that). One of great things is that it’s like the camera kept running after the Disney animated classics ended – and we see our heroes and villains in real life. What an amazing thing to see the Evil and or Good characters answer or regret decisions they made. Characters from the stories we remember in real life that we know. It causes them to be characters we can relate to, instead of “perfect” heroes that never make mistakes.

5. You (and your viewing numbers) have left/are leaving Once Upon a Time when they need you most. There has always been the talk of OUAT being canceled (Even going back to Season 1, btw), but it can’t go on forever. I’m convinced that Adam and Eddie have an end game story, and they will need all the previous watchers to return to give them a better chance to finish the story.

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Regal Con Special Episode – Interview with Roxy and Liz – 272

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Regal Con Special

Interview with Roxy and Liz

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Episode Number: 272

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Regal Con to the Wyndham Garden Grove Hotel in Anaheim, CA on May 8-10 2015

– What makes Regal Con different than something like a Comic Con, for example?

– What would a 3-Day General Admission ticket to Regal Con get someone access to?

It’s not just Cast Q&A panels its covers Cosplay and other parts of fandom

– Let’s discuss the event Add-Ons;

Evil Regal Cocktail Party

– Do you have to be 21 to attend?,

Saturday Night Ball

– We discussed dress options, and

VIP Dinner Banquet

– There is admission ticket to the banquet, plus Special Add-On Packages for the banquet, as well.

– Let’s discuss the other Add-Ons;

Autograph and Photo opportunities

– What if someone can’t attend Regal Con, how can they experience some of it from their home?

Follow @Regal_Con on Twitter

Streaming. Videos and Photos on their site.

T-Shirts – Character themed shirts and Regal Con shirt.

Order signed pictures that will be delivered to your home

– How can we help you make Regal Con as successful as it can be?

Spread the word on Social Media

Regal Con Tips

– Study and Learn the schedule

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Poor Unfortunate Soul Analysis – Main Show – 270

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Main Show

Episode Number: 270

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Poseidon, not Triton

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Hook learns from the savior

Hook and Poseidon parallels

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From Chris Tipton

Wow what a spectacular episode. The show is getting better and better each week. Im Lovin’ it!!
Before I begin I wanted to throw my hat in the ring as it were about the “plot holes and inconsistencies.” I feel like people need to calm down about this. There hasn’t been anything major in my opinion. This show is 4 seasons deep. Its, bound to happen. I say just let it be and enjoy the show for what it is. Now, off the soapbox and on to my points

Regina speaking through snow was so good!! I laughed so hard at that!!!

Belle continues to dissapoint. They practically spelled it out for her and she still couldn’t connect the dots!! Shes a far cry from s1 Belle.

They continue to cheapen portals. In s1 we were led to believe all there was was Magic beans. Not so now. I cant even count all the ways they’ve revealed since!

I like the turn they took with Emma. Saying Gold wants to turn her completely dark for good makes a lot more sense sense then just saying she has the potential for great darkness or light.

August was so good in this episode. I loved getting a reference to the dragon from s2. Hopefully he’ll play into this somehow. I loved the inclusion of August’s built in lie detector. The effects were great! Cruelly face when Rump turned August into wood was priceless. It was questioned if they would go full torture mode on a family show and they did. Rump threatening to burn his face off was super dark! I love that were getting more about the author. The sorcerer trapping him in the book makes sense, but why? I still say the door is in Jefferson hat. The hat is in Story broke after all. Spencer did burn it so that’s a problem but I’m sure they can find a solution.

Ursulas Backstory / Redemption
It was cool getting to see Killian working for Pan again. I think they referenced every major arc in this episode. Poseidon was a great character, and im glad they didn’t just call him Triton. The Disney force was already strong enough with this episode. Speaking of disney, i loved how Ursulas story paralleled Ariels from the movie. Its amazing how they managed to make me go from not giving a crap about Ursula to loving her the next episode. Everything that happened to her was truly cruel and made me sympathize with her whole heartedly. I wonder who the Pirate was that killed her mom. Blackbeard perhaps? It was nice to get the correlation between the ursula Goddess we saw in s3 and this one. Im so glad they redeemed her without killing her, although im surprised it was done so early. Her reconciling with her father was one of my all time favorite moments and brought me to tears. Well done!! I wonder if well see her again.

This was a phenomenal episode. 9.9/10 leather pants

My fb says cruelly, i meant Cruella’ lol

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From Trace

Hi Colleen and Jeff, another fun and enjoyable episode.

Loved the Ursula/Little Mermaid/Greek Mythology mash up. I’ve been humming the mermaid song all week. Poseidon being her father was very cool, and using parts of the original story like the mermaids summoning sailors with their singing. Do you think we’ll see Ursula again? We didn’t see her be evil at all, yet she was banished from the sea. Her mother was killed by a pirate…Blackbeard? Maybe the same will happen with Cruella? Back story, happy ending, then adios muchacha. Then the focus will be getting Maleficent’s baby back. All 3 Villainesses getting their happy endings this arc. Which hopefully means they will be back and join the good guys against Rumple. He doesn’t deserve a happy ending…YET. He has a lot of work to do to deserve it first.

Side note: I am so torn. The reason I fell in love with this show was Belle and Rumple. My nickname for my husband is “beast” before this show even started because no one sees the real him but me, and many wonder why I have stayed with him so long, but he loves me and I love him and I get to see the man no one else does. When this story arc was established and he was her “beast”, it really did hit home for me. I have hope they will work this all out, but she has a lot of forgiveness to accept. And I understood why she did what she did and how she’s trying to find some inner peace with Will.

Back to it: I believe that her and Will are rebounding and will end up helping each other and becoming close friends like Alice was to him. I am so intrigued on how Will fits into this whole story. Ok, So…Belle is worse at keeping secrets than Snow, but nice that they didn’t drag this plot out, and they all know Rumple is back. I really hope Hook was Hook when Ursula was she was spilling his plan. All the scenes with August were great, I was so hoping we’d see the nose come in to play and was not disappointed. It seemed like Regina was protecting him and I liked seeing her remain strong. The scene in the cabin with Ursula was awesome, the Scooby gang showed up and did good- nothing better than a frying pan K.O. delivered so well by Bandit Snow. All we needed was flying little puppies over Cruella’s head after she got knocked out. And, Oh My…that scene with Hook and Emma when she finally realized she was his happy ending and they kissed with that single tear on her cheek…(insert a bit of boo-hooing here). I am not convinced that Hook was ever really a villain to be honest, well evil anyway. He did some piratey things but all in all-he’s always had a good heart. What do you think of Regina’s dream? Why was evil Queen trying to protect Robin from Regina?

Things that made me go hmmmm…what’s up with Henry? Where’s he been? Maybe he’ll jump in Blue’s clues style to the book and they’ll all have to go get him, or the door will appear and only certain people can go through? And the whole Jolly Roger thing was a bit rushed. They must need that ship back for an upcoming plot is all I can think of, very convenient even though I loved seeing Ariel and that cute little ship in the bottle. Elsa can shrink ships? Nice. She does have other powers-she can bring inanimate objects to life like snowmen and can create things like ice skates so why not! Loved the reference anyway. Holy long email Batman! Sorry! Big love Oncers!! Trace

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From Katie

Hi, Jeff and Colleen!

I liked Ursula’s story! It was a nice twist on the sirens and The Little Mermaid. Young Ursula had a nice voice. Although I am glad Ursula got a happy ending, I thought it would take longer.
It was nice to see Ariel again, especially since she saved Hook. Hopefully, something can be done to save her kingdom.
I wasn’t expecting the author to be trapped behind the door in the book. The main question is who trapped him in there and why.
I hope August stays for awhile. I have a feeling that if Emma turns evil or is about to turn evil he would be the main one to get her to join the good side again. Though Hook and Henry might be helpful as well.
Have a great day!

Katie

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From Brad

Hello Jeff and Colleen, I sure hope you and the listeners are having a relaxing weekend just stretching out your tentacles. Now unto the things I learned this week on the episode, Poor Unfortunate Soul.

#1. Winston went from chasing
ghost to killing pirates.

#2. Regina is an excellent
ventriloquist.

#3. When planning a surprise
party, keep Belle in the dark.
She’s terrible at keeping
secrets.

#4. It’s not polite to insult the size
of a man’s ship.

#5. August is now perfect for the
remake of Roxanne.

#6. When Ursula finally has
children, those 8 hands will be
a godsend.

#7. No timber for Cruella, she’s
into the scruffy looking nerf
herders.

#8. ALWAYS lock the back door
when planning a villainous
scheme.

#9. Threatening a deity is not the
smartest of plans.

#10. Don’t put Mr. Smee in charge
of keeping tabs on the food
cargo, no matter how much
he begs.

OBSERVATIONS:

FATHOMS BELOW

After hearing Ursula sing Fathoms Below, it makes me think that a singing episode could be amazing if it was done right (Jeff, you can begin your sighs and moaning now). I’m not sure how they could do this, maybe a filler episode that’s really a dream? I would even take it as an extra on the bluray that is not tied to the main storyline.

GLOWERHAVEN

Ursula tells Hook she is saving money to travel to Glowerhaven. In The Little Mermaid, there is mention of the Princess of Glowerhaven. She is an unseen character and is only mentioned once as a woman brought to Prince Eric to be considered for marriage.

THEORIES:

THE DOOR

What if the door is actually keeping the author locked outside of the book, while at the same time keeping the whole world of Once Upon A Time inside? If this is true, a representation of who the author is, may already be in Storybrooke. The two most likely candidates could be Emma, the savior or Henry, the truest believer. This would explain the extra pages as well, which are illustrations that were scraped and didn’t make it into the story but are somehow bleeding through. The characters have now become self aware, leading everyone to search for the same thing, the author. A somewhat similar idea is seen with Bastian from the Neverending Story. As he reads the book, the characters become aware of his existence. Could this be a glimpse into the final conclusion of the entire series?

BURNING QUESTIONS:

SQUID INK

Was squid ink used to write and paint the illustrations in the book?

POSEIDON

If Poseidon could zap the squid ink out of Ursala’s hand, why not do the same with the shell? I totally did not understand why a deity would be helpless to a pirate with one hand. Did I miss something?

THE SEA GODDESS

Ursula said that she was named after the sea goddess of old. Was the gold statue that threatened Regina the real Ursula?

– Brad

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Poor Unfortunate Soul Review – First Thoughts – 269

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First Thoughts

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Episode Number: 269

Show notes can be found at:

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Notes:

Killian on another trip for Pan while he plots to destroy the Dark One.

Mermaid songs. Siren songs. We’ve already seen a Siren and Mermaids.

Rocks did Ursula make them appear – with her song?

Ursula could sing – very Ariel like. She wanted her voice to make people happy, like her Mother wanted. King Triton wanted her to use her voice to lure ships toward them to destroy the person that killed her Mother.

Who killed Ursula’s Mother? Hook?

Regina removed the knife, before it harmed August, then used the threat of fire.

August – The Dragon was looking for the Author for years, then August took his research.

Gold and the Queens still don’t trust Regina completely.

Gold to search August’s trailer.

Regina pulled a play from the movie “Ghost” playbook and inhabited Snow to relay her message. She told them that Gold is in town and planning something “bad”.

In Gold’s shop. Belle now learns that she was tricked again by Gold. Emma helps Killian not act in haste.

August knew about Robin Hood, because “Just cause the boy doesn’t remember being me, doesn’t mean I didn’t remember being the boy”.

Killian calling Ursula with the Conch shell. So, it not only calls Squids, but Ursula, too. Killian to return Urs’s happy ending for info about Gold.

Young Ursula had a beautiful singing voice. Hook bought her a drink for allowing his ship to escape. She broke into King Triton’s vault and stole the bracelet to allow her to walk on land.

King Triton used to be happy, before his wife

Turned my voice into a weapon. “Love is a weapon…”

Her voice can soothe even the most haunted soul. Her voice took away the pain Hook was carrying for Milah’s death by Rumpelstiltskin.

Saving for passage to GlaworHaven (Like MistHaven?). Hook will take her.

Piece of Iridium. Something on the Jolly Roger will give her her singing voice back.

Urs was banished to this world.

King Triton can enchant items. He told Killian about the Squid Ink to paralyze, in return for Killian to steal Urs’s singing voice. Triton also wanted Killian to show her how awful human’s can be.

Will helps Killian.

Robin – is that really Robin? Or Gold? Damn nightmare.

Regina, don’t take Mal’s sleeping potion.

Gold didn’t even search August’s trailer. He got a spell from the fairies’ power (How did he do that?) to undo the magic the fairies did, like making August a real boy from wood.

Snow is worrying that Emma is turning to the dark side.

Built in lie detector potion with a nose growing booster.

August removed the page about the door, so he was hiding it from those who read it.

Sorcerer’s Mansion search.

Kind of like Sea Monkeys, but make ships in bottles grow to full size.

Killian was honest with Ursula.

Villains can’t have Happy Endings.

Killian vs. Ursula

Ariel!

She always slaps him.

I thought Ariel was in

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Enter the Dragon Analysis – Main Show – 268

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Episode Number: 268

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Regal Con

Regal Con 2015 is a fan convention dedicated to the hit ABC TV show Once Upon A Time, and will be coming to Anaheim, CA May 8-10 at the Wyndham Anaheim Garden Grove Hotel.

Confirmed guests;

Sean Maguire (Robin Hood),
Rebecca Mader (Zelena/Wicked Witch),
Eion Bailey (August Booth/Pinnochio,
Lee Arenberg (Leroy/Grumpy),
Faustino Di Bauda (Sleepy),
Michael Coleman (Happy),
Gil McKinney (Prince Eric),
Beverley Elliot (Granny) and
David Anders (Dr. Whale).

Get all the information at www.regalcon2015.com

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From Aleana

Loving the bad Regina, even if she’s just pretending 🙂 August is Back!! Please!!!! Don’t de-aging him keep him as August
Maleficent; “Are you a bad girl.”
Regina: “The worse.”

Cruella’s game of don’t be a hero was fun… Maleficent defending her was really nice, “She’s just rusty.”

Their friendship really has developed a lot, Emma worrying about Regina.
Haha, Maleficent having a bad hair day.

“Pain always makes your stronger.” Poor Maleficent.
“Because if someone as powerful as you can’t get there revenge, that means I’ll never get mine too”, the struggle for happiness is truly hard, poor Regina 🙁

Poor Mal, “I lost the fire along time ago.” Lol, loving how Regina doesn’t want to be seen with the Charming Softball Team, “I can’t be seen with you.”

Emma and Regina: “I’m going to stick by you.”

Seeing Belle and Will on a date breaks my heart, what about Ana 🙁
I love how Regina helped Maleficent to help reignite her fire within, I guess thats why she’s gave Regina the benefit of the doubt.

Everyone wants Pinocchio, do they have Amber Alerts in Storybrooke lol. So cool how the villains are taking a page out of the “Heroes Playbook” and so the even the playing field they have to do the same. The struggle to attain happiness is heartbreaking.

Nice to see Aurora back, Regina: “That was inspired”, “You reminded me of who I am, thank you.” Aww Maleficent 🙂

Damn, plot twist, Belle gave Rumple the dagger as Hook. “I don’t know if I can ever be over him.”

Regina is in on the plan now, “You didn’t think I would stay banished for long.”
“Sometimes the teacher needs to learn from the teacher, sometimes you need to fall very far, too see the light.”

Rumple: “Have you gone soft.”
Regina: “Never!”

Hey I have a theory what if the villains did succeed and tip the balance and the villians won and the heroes didn’t in the season finale and we think Emma the one who might become a villain but since Charmings went to great length for that not to happen the villains kidnapped baby Neal and magically aged him to twenty-one years old and instead of Emma being the greatest villain baby Neal is and next season is them saving baby Neal and tipping balance back what you think of these guys to play baby Neal

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From Trace

Hi Colleen and Jeff!

Missed you this week-glad you’re doing 2 podcasts-double the fun! Hope your feeling better.

Here are my thoughts for the week. Wow…a lot happened this episode, and I loved it. The “mean girls” of evil so funny. Though, if doing shots and partying too much is a sign of being evil, then call me a Queen of Darkness! I thought Emma’s concern for Regina was a great sign of their growing friendship. The fact that Regina lied to her was bad. But as irony would have it, at the same time it showed that Regina was keeping Snow’s secret-I think Lana did a great job of showing that she really didn’t want to lie, but had to. The heroes are not very good at covert operations, Regina is going to get busted for sure if the Scooby gang isn’t more careful. Oh, Belle, belle, belle!!! Isn’t she the smart Disney Princess? I suppose book smart and street smart are not the same. But she knew in her gut that something was wrong and didn’t trust herself. Bad bad Rumple! Not a great way to get her to trust you again. I feel like if all the hero’s would just sit down in a room and spill all their secrets to each other-they’d be a lot better off. Do you think Rumple was Hook when they all met at Granny’s and knows Regina is a mole? Maleficent the 80’s drug addict-so awesome. So, cross Stephan off the list of baby daddy’s now that he’s been “taken care of.” I still think the Sorcerer is the father, I hear a lot of people saying its Rumple-but I get no sense that they had a “intimate relationship”, well not yet anyway, this IS Once Upon a time after all. Poor poor Marco. I’m happy to have August back cuz I thought it was kind of creepy he was Pinocchio again, but how much can this man take? Regina said she would never let them hurt a child-but he’s now not a child-be careful August!

Things that made me go hmmmm…where did the train come from? Was it magical as part of the initiation? How did Belle not figure this one out? Why would Hook be sooo concerned about the dagger all of a sudden and she even said she sensed Rumple was around?? That’s it? One 1 minute scene of Aurora? I hope we get more when we find out who the Father is in a backstory. Maybe there won’t be anymore because they are taking the story in a different direction?

Lastly, I do agree that Rumple’s end game may not be what we all think. If is happy ending is Belle, then he could turn out to be a hero after all. He only needed the evil duo to get into Storybrooke. If he does know Regina is playing both sides and not giving her up might show he’s playing both sides as well. I feel like we all give Rumple a pass when his evilness is for a greater purpose (like finding Bae), so maybe this is the same thing-the means will justify the end? My hope for the season: That the “Charmings” get the chance to help Maleficent find her “lost” baby so all can be forgiven and she’ll get her happy ending and be redeemed.

BIG LOVE ONCERS!! Patience everyone-only the 3rd episode and a lot to cover. Talk to all you “Poor Unfortunate Souls” next week! Trace

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From Brad

Welcome back….dearies!
I hope you both are looking and felling better than Maleficent did. Now, shall we begin. Here are the things I leaned this week on the episode, Enter The Dragon.

#1. If you’re not drinking, burning
and destroying things, you’re
not having a good time.

#2. These spell books are like
trading cards.

#3. Maleficent was one smooth
criminal.

#4. Regina’s code name in this
episode could have been
Bonnie Brasco.

#5. Ursala is not the only one who
drinks like a fish.

#6. Turning into a dragon can be a
bit showy but ripping
someone’s heart out and
crushing it in front of them is
perfectly acceptable.

#7. A piece of wood from the
forever burning tree would be a
wood cutters dream.

#8. At least Cruella’s
enchantments can drive better
than her.

#9. Gold took the Jungle Book
song, “I wanna be like you”, to
a whole new creepy level.

#10. Even those skilled in Dark
magic realize the raw power
that is duct tape.

BURNING QUESTIONS:

If Cruella can persuade dogs, bugs and vehicles, can she do the same to people?

HIGHLIGHT:

One word, AUGUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

– Brad

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From Reagan

Jeff,

This is Raegan from Utah. We met early this month near the flag pole in DCA. You came in with Tommy Alison of the DisGeek and Cruise Dudes Podcast.

I downloaded every episode of your Podcast and am looking forward to listening in. This is what I did with DisGeek too. I came in about 15 or so episodes.

It was great to meet you with Tommy in the Parks. I think the Podcast community is a pretty interesting and cool group of people. I am happy as a fan. I don’t know what I would have to say about anything on a weekly or monthly basis.

Thanks,

Raegan

I started your podcast but it seems to be mid season and started with the miller’s daughter. Is there a different podcast of yours that started with episode one season one?
Thanks,

Raegan

Link I mentioned: http://onceuponatimepodcast.com/ouatstart

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