They had an easy enough route to it via first adding characters from the animated Hercules (Hades would have been epic!) and having that introduce the idea of gods. Gods give us Odin and Thor and from there it's straight to Marvel. Or, Henry, as the author, accidentally leaves a comic book inside one of the "official" author books and they bleed through into Storybrook.
oH lOoK iTs gRoGu!!!! hEnRy, sAy hIgH tO gRoGu!!!! Fr tho, this ties in the fact that the evil witch and rumple force choke people in the show. All makes sense now.
Looking back, It's kind of impressive the creators of the show managed to NOT have inadvertent incest by retconning some characters relationship over time. They must have had a huge mural to connect the relationship of everyone and avoid that otherwise the Corporate Mouse would come down to smack them.
Actually… Emma’s son is Mila’s Grandson. Since she didn’t marry Henry’s father. Mila isn’t her mother in law. So there wouldn’t be an actual connection…🧐😅🧐
😂 I have never seen Riverdale, but I went to Riverdale high school… Know what I was going to say is that even though I haven’t seen it, I believe you, that sounds like it would be a good comparison
Some of it. Then there's some like her outfit during the frozen arc when she briefly gets turned evil again and when she snaps out of it she can't help start laughing at how ridiculous she looks
This series is the TV version of that one fic on AO3 with like 30 fandoms tagged and 60 ships that always is at the last updated no matter in which fandom or ship you search
Off the top of my head Save story Brooke from Regina and restore everyone's memories Save Henry from never land and Peter Pan Save sb from zelena Save sb from the queen of hearts That's all I got
Found it hysterical that they made Rumpel and Belle the couple from UP as well! I found it the most frustrating that they redeemed him for the end of season 3, then went right back to the town disliking him and him constantly turning to the dark side again. I was happy with the direction they took him for the final season though. He actually spent that season sticking to a good set of morals.
@@cinnabunny4175 I could, but I'd be lying. They basically wrapped up their love story with the pair moving to these magic falls. There's a montage of their life together, building the same house from the movie, then she dies of old age and he spends the rest of the season trying to destroy the darkness in him so that he can die and joint her. He spends years trying to do this and ends up becoming quite selfless in the process which I appreciate. But yeah, the UP thing is very true
Rumple going back and forth between being good and bad was the most exhausting part of the show. He was a really cool character for the first couple seasons, but I just got SO BORED of him!
@@Pandie2828 she is in fact Russel, cited from wiki; Alice is based on the titular character from Lewis Carroll's novels, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Alice from the animated Disney film Alice in Wonderland, and Alice Kingsleigh from the live-action Disney film of the same name. She also takes the place of the titular character from the "Rapunzel" fairytale and Rapunzel from the Disney film Tangled, and is an allusion to Sophie from the novel The BFG, Sophie from the Disney film of the same name and Russell from the Disney/Pixar film Up.
I've always been amazed that this show managed to keep an actor as high calibre as Robert Freaking Carlyle as a main character for like 8 seasons. Has nobody told him how good he is or something?
I thought the same thing and he has talked about it! Turns out his kids started going to school in Canada because his previous show shot there, and because OUAT shot there too he stayed on the show so he wouldn't relocate his kids. Honestly makes a lot of sense...
I just learned that the actors who played Prince Charming and Snow White fell in love on-set and got married in real life. I don't care WHAT happens on the show, that's my favorite story from it.
You missed the part where they both got divorced/separated from their partners (Snow White was dating, Prince Charming was married) so they could get together. Makes it a little more awkward lol
Regina's whole story is she gets close to being happy and then someone intentionally or accidently ruins her happiness. I know she tries to be good for Henry but like the show never lets her enjoy being happy.
Dude she gaslit Henry for years and still blames others when he gets made about that. She decided not to meet her true love when she had the chance then blames Emma for doing the right thing by saving someones life because Robin can’t/won’t now be with her. A nice chunk of the time it’s her own fault (or at least not anyone else’s) that she’s not happy. Even when it’s not her fault the world doesn’t really own the person who massacred a whole village because she had a bad anything. Like she had bad life but so did half the cast. Though it does get annoying to have constantly rest to an unhappy state but honestly I was never convinced that she had grown as character to a point where she should have a “happy ending “ just the show tossing things at her. She and rumple are the best characters though.
She finally gets to be happy in the finale and season 6. And to be fair she betrays at least one major cast member pretty much every season 1-5 either intentionally or indirectly in her attempts to be better.
" She was over Regina's lap getting a spanking like a naughty little kid. Emma buried her red face when the fourth spank landed and..." Everyone lives happily ever after in fanfiction. :)
I respect the OUAT writers they did whatever they wanted and they were as insane and ambitious and unique as possible without any restrictions they had complete creative freedom within their budget and they didn’t care what anyone thought and they had fun with it Edit: for all the seasons
Honestly we need more shoes like once upon a time. Sure it had its dumb story lines and the family connections are more complicated then the Greek mythology family tree. But they put a new twist on so many iconic stories which was honestly quite refreshing.
That intro scene of Regina getting pimp smacked by a ghost who then possesses Snow White is the most accurate representation of what this show was. That and an early 90’s point and click adventure.
The Evil Queen getting slapped by the ghost of her mother the queen of hearts whilst asking about her sister the wicked witch. The queen of hearts then decides to possess Snow White to talk about how she gave up the wicked witch, its hilarious when you imagine their animated/disney versions in their place.
Watching OUAT was probably the best decision i've ever made in my nearly three decades of life. It is pure cheese and often so over the top but still has charm. I feel like it has the "you won't believe what happened next" vibe that Riverdale tried to have but failed miserably
I said It before on the last one, and I will say it again. There is just something so hypnotizing about a completely convoluted mix mash conglomeration of Disney fairytales into an overly complex plot. Like kingdom hearts and this show. I just love em, even with all the nonsense.
The first season is really interesting to me, because the story is contained to that one season, and it has a stronger mystery vibe in season 1. You can tell that the writers weren't sure they'd have a second season.
Once Upon a Time started strong. The first three seasons were so good. There were three big issues that caused it to go downhill. The first is that they kind of stopped adapting characters and started pulling them directly from the source material, making them less interesting (The Frozen arc was especially bad about this, as all the characters looked and acted one to one exactly like the movie versions). The second is that every new character they introduced HAD to have a previous interaction with one of the main cast. This limited they storytelling of new characters backstories, as well as straining credulity. The third is that the longer it went on, the more and more the series started to contradict its own lore, and the main cast’s backstories and motivations. It made it really hard to follow by the end because nothing made sense anymore based on what we had learned before.
Yeah, that's why they needed to add time travel, dimensional travel, the Hades to bring back the dead, and all of that, cause they simply couldn't fit other characters with new storylines, they literally had to resurrect older ones.
I'll still be surprised and shocked that they okayed a plotline where the Wicked Witch cucks the Evil Queen by getting knocked up by Robin Hood while disguised as the mans dead wife all out of jealousy??
As insane as this show is, it has a charm that can't be denied. I have seen the show twice from beginning to end and I probably will watch it again at some point haha.
Just finished my third full watch-through today. I remember watching it every week when it first came out. To this day, it's one of my favorite shows. Once you get past cheap cgi and crazy plot lines, you see that this show has amazing messages and a lot of heart. It's a great comfort show to watch when you need an emotional boost :)
Yes. I grew up with The Young and the Restless, Hawaiian TV soap operas, etc.. and they all shared similar tropes. Evil lovers, people coming back from the dead more than once, McGuffins, love triangles, Rumpelstiltskin, I can keep going. 😂😂
I remember it actually managed to end on a pretty good note on the second to last season, only for the final one to just be a hodgepodge mash-up of ideas and story beats from yet more Disney properties (if I remember right, Regina ends up dating the villain from Princess and the Frog) and just goes wholesale into end of days with the final villain they go with. The ending is pretty tepid as a result, even if it's technically a super wholesome feel-good one.
I absolutely loved this show when I was younger, and it was absolutely crazy. You also come to the realization that almost everyone is related or has some history, it's a wild ride.
@@genericname2747 no if you’ve watched it that made sense, y’all are just used to boring unfunny shows who’s not stepping outside the mold. Even though it might seems crazy, all of the storylines were coherent and helped the show evolves. It’s ending was absolute perfect, unlike shows such as game of thrones and others.
Ok but are we going to forget this show was so big that it got a spin off? Like Once upon a time in neverland was a thing, just as crazy as the original show!
@caitlyncarvalho7637 I think they would not get human bodies like jimminy cricket because he was at one point human prior to being turned into a cricket. The characters in Charlotte's web are always animals so they would no longer be able to talk I guess. Honestly, that's one of the few rules I feel like the show stuck to for a while at least. I don't recall if the Cheshire cat obeys this rule or not from the wonderland spinoff
Me too and now I’m wondering if my mom was secretly cringing the whole time 😂 I mean I know she liked the show because we’d both get so excited for new episodes but she HAD to see how weird it is😂 but I totally didn’t
I rewatched this show about a week ago and what shocked me the most was how aggressively sexless it was. I remembered Charming, Snow and Hook to be these insanely hot people to my teenage self, yet here you have sexless pregnancy left and right. I'm not saying the characters should have been screwing, but I've never seen a show for a somewhat older audience go out of its way to avoid sex so strongly
Sex wasn't completely avoided. There's a scene where Emma and Henry get back to Snowing's apartment and then immediately leave again once Emma realizes they had been doing it and needed to clean themselves up.
@@PlagueDragonRat yes. and there's one scene after Regina and the 50 shades guy had done it. But that's two tiny scenes in a show so liked by grown women and teens. It made me wonder if the show has a Christian audience
@@upsetstudios1819 You all seem to forget this a family show on ABC network television primetime in the early 2010's. People just didn't do that kind of stuff on TV shows before 10pm and even if they did, it was limited to cable networks. But it was heavily implied on MULTIPLE occasions. I mean, there were even two implied but not shown r*pe scenes in the show and one was in season 1. You can't make this shit up.
Ya'll sexcrazed bastards will never once think of us asexuals and those who have trauma from sex. This shit is one of the only stuff I can watch because of my triggers!
I'm binge watching this show right now, between the repeated curses and the absurd family tree, I love this show. The costumes go so hard, meanwhile Disneys live action films can't hold a candle 😂
ITS NOT A COMPETITION STOP COMPARING THEM THEY ALL HAVE THEIR OWN UNIQUE CHARM don’t do that stop being negative you don’t have to tear something else down in order to uplift what you like if it’s truly good then they should have their own merits not be compared DO BETTER AND BE BETTER
You guys only think of yourselves not future generations remakes exist partly for a reintroduction to a new generation but also to renew the trademark so they don’t lose it It’s no different than our ancestors passing down campfire stories with details of that story being changed overtime That’s what remakes/reboots/sequels are campfire stories being passed down by our ancestors from generation to generation with details being changed overtime Because That’s your problem You guys really need to stop putting sequels/remakes/reboots/adaptations in the shadow of the originals and just let them have their own independent successes and be treated as something completely separate it’s a nasty habit that needs to be stopped Reboots and the originals can coexist stop making everything a competition It’s not horrible they were just going for what fits the tone If they had used the og design for a serious story it would have looked too uncanny the updated one isn’t made for old fans it’s made to bring in new ones who maybe didn’t know the original existed They check out the new one and maybe it leads them to discover the original Reboots put the original back in the public eye You don’t want what you grew up with to be forgotten do you? This is a way to keep it alive and relevant it’s beneficial for everyone Like I said That’s what remakes/reboots/sequels are campfire stories being passed down by our ancestors from generation to generation it’s not your problem anyway it’s for future generations you have yours let someone else have their own Streaming services can remove things so it can be gone forever at the press of a button so revisits are nice to have to keep it in the public eye It’s their property their rules You are just a mere passenger on their bus you can get off anytime you want but you don’t tell them how to drive We are guests in their house if we don’t like their rules we can leave Do you tell the home owners how to run their house No you don’t
@@madnessarcade7447 Reboot's can be good it's just disney is making a lot of them and we consider it lazy, plus the reboots are all bad , and we do have permission to critisize what they are doing since we are paying and viewing their content. We don't have a problem with reboots we just have a problem with bad content
@@madnessarcade7447 Disney's reboots are bad tho. That's not good. They should try to make good ones if they really want to since otherwise it dirties the name of whatever they're remaking.
I loved this show when it first came out. Like I watched every episode when it first came out until the obligatory frozen season because 1 I was getting sick of Frozen and 2 they didn't bother with adding them properly into the town. But I'm currently rewatching it. I love how ridiculous it is.
i literally was obsessed with frozen (it's still one of my favorite movies) and even i thought the frozen addition was completely unnecessary. it was just obvious product placement because the movie was successful
I agree about the unnecessary Frozen insert, however, it allowed them to use the Snow Queen a bit more as its pretty fair to say Frozen is VERY VERY LOOSELY based off the Snow Queen so I'll allow it
@@silverbrumbyfan I agree. I very much dislike Frozen. But I did like how they did it in the show incorporating The Snow Queen. Mostly I loved Elizabeth Mitchell. And her costumes.
@silverbrumbyfan I liked that part of it but that's it. It's better than frozen 2's explanation of Elsa's powers and it doesn't have another native American vs colonization thing even if it's in freaking Scandinavia and the natives Sami are also white
I love that the actress playing Snow White looked so weird when she ran that the director just left her out of all group running shots even if she was in the scene seconds before and seconds after the shot.
i remember watching this when it first came out and there were so many moments where things just got so wild that my family would look at each other in shock and then laugh. peter pan making eggs for rumplestiltskin, rumplestiltskin simultaneously being like 5 different fairytale characters with each being some dramatic twist reveal, (SPOILERS) neil randomly keeling over as soon as the characters figure out he's supposed to die, frozen becoming canon alongside the actual snow queen??? the first season is actually pretty entertaining despite all the cheesy effects, but past that it just kept losing me. i remember looking back at the wiki after it ended and every character's page was divided into like 8 curse sections 😭i was trying to explain rumplestiltskin to my friend a while ago too and i had to deliver like 5 pages of lore just for them to understand lol
This show had some really interesting takes and twists on fairytale which were usually pretty cool. Peter Pan being a villain and Rumple's father was arguably the best of the twists. The Shadows were really creepy too
Listen OUAT was one of the best thing to happen to tv at the time lol My best-friend got me to watch season one before season two premiered, and I was hooked after the 2nd Episode. Maleficent, Rumple, and Regina's dramatic episodes had me in tears😭 They were incredible actors who made you see the humanity in these villains. The writers crafted fun stories to follow. I enjoyed the twists and turns. Didn't finish the series though.
Never watched this show, but I always found it super funny that they cast a generic looking hot guy as hook, and just stuck a hook on him, like "See! He has the hook! It's totally him!".
More like a copy of him, not the original one since the storyline is completely different in this show. Each fairytale is set originally in different eras so the characters were never supposed to meet in the first place but this series put every character in the same timeline. This series is a one big fanfiction fairytale spinoff, with characters that act like americans rather than acting like europeans (most of them have american accents) that they are based on. Reminds me of marvel multiverse with timelines mashed together
This video was immaculatly edited. And even though we all know it, i gotta say you're a fantastic camera presence. Energetic but not annoying, and naturally funny. Good work dude. :) ❤
My favourite part was when they killed Henry’s father, for no other reason than they wanted Emma with Hook but they didn’t want her to actually make that decision. Because that could have been interesting.
@@kenna163 Yeah, honestly, I wished he'd stayed dead. Not only because I've come to hate his character after that, but because it was a good send off for him.
The Spinof for Alice in Wonderland is still my favorite, it's the only part of the show you can't own on DVD/Blu Ray which is a bit sad. But yeah, 1 to 3 included was honestly super fun.
OMG, I never knew how much I needed you to cover OUAT until I got the notification! I haven't been around in a while, so I can definitely say this was such a pleasant surprise! So happy to see you still going strong, Billiam! Been around since the Digimon videos 🥰
I want to see a diagram of Henry’s family tree because I’m pretty sure he is related to every major fictional character in literature through some connection… 14:17 whoops, spoke too soon, thanks for the hook up Billaim lol
Yes. But at least here, they don't have to insert some woke shits and social justice lectures and just make some princess characters just look badass beating their villains.
I binge watch the series during the pandemic and it was my first time watching the show. I really enjoyed the Peter Pan season and the way how they made him evil is well done and I wish Disney does it more with his character.
my brother watched this when we were younger so I'd get back from karate class and catch snippets like "oh it's the fairy tail show" and then a week later Dr. Jekyl shows up
The one fun fact thing I know about this show is that the Wicked Witch looks gross because the green used for the original Wizard of Oz Witch is trademarked so they had to use a really sweaty and gross off brand shade of green
@@Rose-np8qv You also have to remember these actors are on SUPER lighted green screen sets. It would be ridiculously hot and have no fans due to messing up the green screen.
My sister worked from home for awhile and would have this show on the TV while she was working. I can't tell you how many times I asked "What is this show even about?" I think a better question would have been, "What is this show NOT about?" 🤣
please tell me there's a part 2 where you cover Maleficent's daughter who came from a dragon egg or King Arthur being evil and that the dark one's dagger is the tip of Excalibur is or that the Jekyll and Hyde serum made an evil doppelganger of the Evil queen or ANY of the craziness that was season 7, including, but not limited to, Hook's daughter being Alice from Alice in Wonderland, the regular world being retconned into a world that previously had magic but then Mother Gothel from Tangled nuked the world and restarted evolution without magic so she canonically watched fish evolve into humans, and lastly there's a new version of the Enchanted Forest that's time dilated so they could age henry up and cast a new actor but still keep the other actors. i left a very similar comment on the previous video but i will never get over how wild the later season stuff is
The rabbit hole of Once Upon A Time is truly unending (unlike its spin-off show, Once Upon A Time in Wonderland which died upon arrival, RIP). My favorite thing about the later seasons is that they did a soft reboot for season 7... and it actually helped?? Mostly because the new characters didn't have previous on-screen growth that the show would've undone, lmao.
I loved this show! It's the only soap opera I've ever been able to watch, though full disclosure I didn't make it through all the seasons. I feel like there are two types of fan for this show: those who get the campy drama and enjoy it, and those who take it seriously and try to defend it. I'm in the "enjoy the campy drama" camp. I actually loved the Peter Pan season, and the kid who played him was awesome. Some of my favorite characters were the dwarves, the Huntsman, Hook (grr), Rumple (that dude threw himself into his role) and the Evil Queen. I also loved the crazy ups and downs with the Robin Hood / Evil Queen romance. I can't imagine watching it as a kid, though - not sure what would interest kids about this show. As much as I enjoyed it, I couldn't tell you much of what happened in that show or what season it happened in. I know I didn't see all seasons, but not even sure where I stopped. :D
I was obsessed with this show for 5 and a half years. Like OBSESSED. And one day I just gave up. I still love this show because nostalgia, but yeah I always recommend people stop at season 3. The plot just... Exploded
I got as far as Season 5 with the Arthurian mythos. After that I trailed off 'cause I didn't like what they were doing to it. But Belle banishing Rumple remains one of my top painful moments.
The flashbacks serve as a parallel. To portray a lesson or theme that the character in the present needs to reestablish. It's actually pretty poetic and helps give more insight to the audience
I have completely forgotten how far into this show I got, but I absolutely loved it as a kid. Thought it was peak storytelling because of how connected everything was.
the reason that they went from emma and henry losing their memories to suddenly playing diablo was because they went on a long hiatus in the middle of s3 for some reason LMAO but its definitely jarring rewatching it or watching it for the first time without a break
You didn't even get to the part where they genuinely tried to present Cruella as a powerful sorceress who could hold her own with Ursula and Maleficent. They gave her the power to control dogs, that's enough of a threat to the main characters right?
She could control all animals not just dogs and also she was cunning and managed to kidnap Henry, and would have been able to kill him if not for the authors restrictions on her. She's no Regina but I thought she was a good addition (plus omg her and Ursula were adorable together)
it's crazy, oftentimes a little cringey, doesn't always make sense, but I love it so much, it has a special place in my heart and I will defend it until the day I die
So I’m not saying it’s necessarily goood storytelling. But it is kind of impressive how the writers are able to continue to integrate so many new characters and complexities to the plot.
a ghost just absolutely decking someone before possessing someone else is probably the funniest thing I've ever seen 10 seconds in and Im already sold on this show I vaguely remember watching the first season of this and grim while my kidneys were playing up and since then I can't watch either show without feeling ill tho 😭
Your editing is incredible in this video. Thank you for the laughs and the unhinged recap! I would love to see you recap the rest of the show; I really want to know the heights of insanity this show reached.
I couldn't really get invested in any of the canon couples but SwanQueen kept me watching for like 5 seasons before I gave up on the show ever doing any actually good storywriting.
@@nelgluhak6709 not only would they tease it with obvious queerbait scenes but then absolutely mock people for shipping it. Like I do know some people in the fandom went way too far, but the crap the writers and some of the actors said was just really petty and mean to me.
I loved Once Upon A Time ALOT. It was one of my favorite shows to watch after the shows Lost and Desperate housewives ended. Rumple and Regina were my most favorite characters on the show. Season 3 was probably my favorite season because we mostly got to see both of those two iconic characters grow and evolve.
My flatmate at uni was bingewatching this show on netflix and it would often be on when I came into the kitchen, I would watch bits and pieces with her and it seemed insane. I thought that was just because I don't know anything about disney/fairytale lore but watching this video made me realise i wouldn't have understood anything even with the context lmao
Does anyone remember how Lancelot is really alive in the Camelot part in a later season. He just somehow managed to get away from one of the most powerful sorcerers ever? No explanation. And also Mulan and Aurora somehow brought Philip back to life and they never explained it.
@@strawberrypeppermint4185They said that it was possible to get souls back... And then never bothered showing us HOW is the annoying thing. Like that could've been a neat tie in to the Underworld appearing in Season 5 but instead Philip is just... there and alive again when we see the characters again and it sucked.
My best friend wrote a whole fanfic based in the neverland part of one upon a time. Honestly cannot stress enough how much fans were like "this part and only this part is good and that's enough"
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More once apon a time please
Can't wait for lost and found part rumpled foreskin the 3rd
Thanks for the work u put in these videos bro great work. U got me laughing so hard with the catching bouquet joke
does anyone know the goofy song playing in the background? 24:07
Hey Billiam, what's the rock instrumental music that plays during 15:42?
If this kept going on we would see the actual avengers in it.
Now that’s a thought
Spiderman was bitten by Charlotte, from Charlottes web, and she is actually a relative of Anansi, from Africa.
I guess Bucky is already the Mad Hatter, and maybe through the portal captain America follows him.
They had an easy enough route to it via first adding characters from the animated Hercules (Hades would have been epic!) and having that introduce the idea of gods. Gods give us Odin and Thor and from there it's straight to Marvel. Or, Henry, as the author, accidentally leaves a comic book inside one of the "official" author books and they bleed through into Storybrook.
oH lOoK iTs gRoGu!!!! hEnRy, sAy hIgH tO gRoGu!!!!
Fr tho, this ties in the fact that the evil witch and rumple force choke people in the show. All makes sense now.
Looking back, It's kind of impressive the creators of the show managed to NOT have inadvertent incest by retconning some characters relationship over time. They must have had a huge mural to connect the relationship of everyone and avoid that otherwise the Corporate Mouse would come down to smack them.
If Hook and Mila had married Emma would have ended up marrying her stepgrandfather. Yeah it’s impressive they did this.
@Elizabeth Noelle exactly. Always "Step".
Actually… Emma’s son is Mila’s Grandson.
Since she didn’t marry Henry’s father. Mila isn’t her mother in law. So there wouldn’t be an actual connection…🧐😅🧐
The mouse had Simba fucking his sibling.
Emma's stepgrandma was almost her baby daddy's sister and Emma's kid's aunt
Once Upon a time feels like you fell asleep watching Riverdale and then classic Disney started playing while you're dreaming. It's crazy.
This should be top comment
Not accurate at all 💀 Riverdale is trash and OUAT is way better
😂 I have never seen Riverdale, but I went to Riverdale high school… Know what I was going to say is that even though I haven’t seen it, I believe you, that sounds like it would be a good comparison
Well, OUAT it's not the greatest series of all time but... Riverdale...
OUAT pulled a reverse Heroes, it's 2 first seasons sucked a little and then S3 becomes the best one and everything else after was straight dog s***
The evil queens wardrobe is FABULOUS and I won't tolerate such slander against it, good sir!
Its shit.
Preach!
Some of it. Then there's some like her outfit during the frozen arc when she briefly gets turned evil again and when she snaps out of it she can't help start laughing at how ridiculous she looks
This series is the TV version of that one fic on AO3 with like 30 fandoms tagged and 60 ships that always is at the last updated no matter in which fandom or ship you search
that
😂😂😂
And it's like 600k words
I watched all 7 seasons and I couldn’t tell you what happens in this show
Fr. I can’t tell you one plot point it’s just… a blur
Off the top of my head
Save story Brooke from Regina and restore everyone's memories
Save Henry from never land and Peter Pan
Save sb from zelena
Save sb from the queen of hearts
That's all I got
Snow White is there sometimes.
U watched it but u didn’t pay attention
When I try to remember I only remember the first few seasons's broad archs before the frozen stuff
Found it hysterical that they made Rumpel and Belle the couple from UP as well!
I found it the most frustrating that they redeemed him for the end of season 3, then went right back to the town disliking him and him constantly turning to the dark side again. I was happy with the direction they took him for the final season though. He actually spent that season sticking to a good set of morals.
>they made Rumpel and Belle the couple from UP as well!
say sike right now
@@cinnabunny4175 I could, but I'd be lying. They basically wrapped up their love story with the pair moving to these magic falls. There's a montage of their life together, building the same house from the movie, then she dies of old age and he spends the rest of the season trying to destroy the darkness in him so that he can die and joint her. He spends years trying to do this and ends up becoming quite selfless in the process which I appreciate. But yeah, the UP thing is very true
Rumple going back and forth between being good and bad was the most exhausting part of the show. He was a really cool character for the first couple seasons, but I just got SO BORED of him!
@@jessicaable5095 That makes Alice(from lots of places) Russel XD
@@Pandie2828 she is in fact Russel, cited from wiki; Alice is based on the titular character from Lewis Carroll's novels, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Alice from the animated Disney film Alice in Wonderland, and Alice Kingsleigh from the live-action Disney film of the same name. She also takes the place of the titular character from the "Rapunzel" fairytale and Rapunzel from the Disney film Tangled, and is an allusion to Sophie from the novel The BFG, Sophie from the Disney film of the same name and Russell from the Disney/Pixar film Up.
I've always been amazed that this show managed to keep an actor as high calibre as Robert Freaking Carlyle as a main character for like 8 seasons. Has nobody told him how good he is or something?
I think that's EXACTLY it
I never thought he was that picky with his roles.
I like to think it was for access to Vancouver Whitecaps games
He was literally in mfing trainspotting and then goes and does this
I thought the same thing and he has talked about it! Turns out his kids started going to school in Canada because his previous show shot there, and because OUAT shot there too he stayed on the show so he wouldn't relocate his kids. Honestly makes a lot of sense...
I just learned that the actors who played Prince Charming and Snow White fell in love on-set and got married in real life.
I don't care WHAT happens on the show, that's my favorite story from it.
They also have two kids
@@BingQilin if they named them Henry and Emma I'm going to literally pass away
@@Tink00 *Neil and Emma, since in the show they named their second child Neil.
But nah, idk their real kids names either.
You missed the part where they both got divorced/separated from their partners (Snow White was dating, Prince Charming was married) so they could get together. Makes it a little more awkward lol
@@GummyDinosaursify I meannn, it's preferable to having an affair, I guess 😅
Still makes an interesting story lol
Regina's whole story is she gets close to being happy and then someone intentionally or accidently ruins her happiness. I know she tries to be good for Henry but like the show never lets her enjoy being happy.
she ruins her own happiness
Dude she gaslit Henry for years and still blames others when he gets made about that. She decided not to meet her true love when she had the chance then blames Emma for doing the right thing by saving someones life because Robin can’t/won’t now be with her. A nice chunk of the time it’s her own fault (or at least not anyone else’s) that she’s not happy. Even when it’s not her fault the world doesn’t really own the person who massacred a whole village because she had a bad anything. Like she had bad life but so did half the cast.
Though it does get annoying to have constantly rest to an unhappy state but honestly I was never convinced that she had grown as character to a point where she should have a “happy ending “ just the show tossing things at her.
She and rumple are the best characters though.
@@animasuperfreakgirl she also SAs the Huntsman for years.
She finally gets to be happy in the finale and season 6. And to be fair she betrays at least one major cast member pretty much every season 1-5 either intentionally or indirectly in her attempts to be better.
" She was over Regina's lap getting a spanking like a naughty little kid. Emma buried her red face when the fourth spank landed and..." Everyone lives happily ever after in fanfiction. :)
I respect the OUAT writers they did whatever they wanted and they were as insane and ambitious and unique as possible without any restrictions they had complete creative freedom within their budget and they didn’t care what anyone thought and they had fun with it
Edit: for all the seasons
Honestly we need more shoes like once upon a time. Sure it had its dumb story lines and the family connections are more complicated then the Greek mythology family tree. But they put a new twist on so many iconic stories which was honestly quite refreshing.
@@BlazeDupree1525 I think there are a lot of shows like it you just gotta know where to look and be open minded
@@BlazeDupree1525 fun not dumb and they weren’t as complicated as they look
George Lucas did the same thing with the prequels. I love the prequels.
That intro scene of Regina getting pimp smacked by a ghost who then possesses Snow White is the most accurate representation of what this show was. That and an early 90’s point and click adventure.
The Evil Queen getting slapped by the ghost of her mother the queen of hearts whilst asking about her sister the wicked witch. The queen of hearts then decides to possess Snow White to talk about how she gave up the wicked witch, its hilarious when you imagine their animated/disney versions in their place.
Honestly if halfway through Season 5 they just revealed one of the characters to be Guybrush Threepwood I wouldn’t have bat an eye
Once Upon of Time was like fanfiction come to life. I honestly like that show a lot. There was a lot of creative storylines.
Agreed.
It was at the beginning but at the end it went off the rails
Creative is certainly a choice word😭
"Oh wow, everyone's so creative!"
This entire video has that whole “introvert tells you of recent addiction” energy and I love it.
😂
somehow this comment feels like its calling me out 💀
Its called an autistic hyperfixation / special interest 😂
@@renoirrrsame
Watching OUAT was probably the best decision i've ever made in my nearly three decades of life. It is pure cheese and often so over the top but still has charm. I feel like it has the "you won't believe what happened next" vibe that Riverdale tried to have but failed miserably
I said It before on the last one, and I will say it again. There is just something so hypnotizing about a completely convoluted mix mash conglomeration of Disney fairytales into an overly complex plot. Like kingdom hearts and this show. I just love em, even with all the nonsense.
have u ever seen penny dreadful? its like ouat but instead of disney, its characters from classic gothic literature lol
I'd HIGHLY recommend Fables, it's OUAT but good.
Go watch 10th Kingdom
The first season is really interesting to me, because the story is contained to that one season, and it has a stronger mystery vibe in season 1. You can tell that the writers weren't sure they'd have a second season.
I just love this show for how bonkers it could be but I will admit they had an issue of constantly adding new characters and then abandoning them.
They kept the ones that mattered tho :)
Once Upon a Time started strong. The first three seasons were so good. There were three big issues that caused it to go downhill. The first is that they kind of stopped adapting characters and started pulling them directly from the source material, making them less interesting (The Frozen arc was especially bad about this, as all the characters looked and acted one to one exactly like the movie versions). The second is that every new character they introduced HAD to have a previous interaction with one of the main cast. This limited they storytelling of new characters backstories, as well as straining credulity. The third is that the longer it went on, the more and more the series started to contradict its own lore, and the main cast’s backstories and motivations. It made it really hard to follow by the end because nothing made sense anymore based on what we had learned before.
Yeah, that's why they needed to add time travel, dimensional travel, the Hades to bring back the dead, and all of that, cause they simply couldn't fit other characters with new storylines, they literally had to resurrect older ones.
I stopped after the frozen character got introduced.
The frozen one felt like I was watching those Elsa and spiderman's family drama on youtube. Not to mention how I DESPISE frozen in general 😭😭
I love this show for its pure insanity but I love when people who never watch it experience it for the first time ❤
right?? like its so ironically good??
@Paraone Ngatai You actually should. It's a good time
Just a sidenote, but that transition between old and newly cast Robin Hood was amazing, truly magical
I'll still be surprised and shocked that they okayed a plotline where the Wicked Witch cucks the Evil Queen by getting knocked up by Robin Hood while disguised as the mans dead wife all out of jealousy??
Omg I haven’t even seen the tip of the iceberg
@@billiam Oh GOD, it gets wild lmfao
Or the fact that 2 of the eventual heroes are canonical rapists...😐
@@MrMFoxd The Wicked Witch being one of them through necromancy
@@MrMFoxd sorry, what?
As insane as this show is, it has a charm that can't be denied. I have seen the show twice from beginning to end and I probably will watch it again at some point haha.
Just finished my third full watch-through today. I remember watching it every week when it first came out. To this day, it's one of my favorite shows. Once you get past cheap cgi and crazy plot lines, you see that this show has amazing messages and a lot of heart. It's a great comfort show to watch when you need an emotional boost :)
This is the saddest comment I've ever seen.
@@Zechariah3694it's not. It's a good comfort show, let people enjoy whatever they want
It's nothing serious
Honestly though! The actors are amazing and it's a great comfort show. :)
@@Zechariah3694 rude af
@@margaridatorres1273 No
"Everyone is related to or screwing everyone else"
Man... you weren't kidding. It really is just a soap opera.
Yes. I grew up with The Young and the Restless, Hawaiian TV soap operas, etc.. and they all shared similar tropes. Evil lovers, people coming back from the dead more than once, McGuffins, love triangles, Rumpelstiltskin, I can keep going. 😂😂
Like Riverdale and Vampire Diaries, just authors personal fanfictions coming to life on the screen
I remember it actually managed to end on a pretty good note on the second to last season, only for the final one to just be a hodgepodge mash-up of ideas and story beats from yet more Disney properties (if I remember right, Regina ends up dating the villain from Princess and the Frog) and just goes wholesale into end of days with the final villain they go with. The ending is pretty tepid as a result, even if it's technically a super wholesome feel-good one.
Dr Facilier deserves better than her
I still don't forgive them for what they did to Robin
When she kissed facilier for the first time I was like “Regina, Regina, Regina, Regina?! Regina!!! REGINA!!! 🤮🤮🤮
I absolutely loved this show when I was younger, and it was absolutely crazy. You also come to the realization that almost everyone is related or has some history, it's a wild ride.
This might be one of the only adaptations of Pan where he close to the original tale
Eh, still misses the point of Peter Pan. He's not evil. He's the embodiment of childhood. Children are cruel, but most of them aren't really evil.
@@genericname2747well no, in the series Peter Pan is an adult inside a child body
@@elcaillo This show is quite strange
@@genericname2747 no if you’ve watched it that made sense, y’all are just used to boring unfunny shows who’s not stepping outside the mold. Even though it might seems crazy, all of the storylines were coherent and helped the show evolves. It’s ending was absolute perfect, unlike shows such as game of thrones and others.
@@elcaillo ok chill
Ok but are we going to forget this show was so big that it got a spin off? Like Once upon a time in neverland was a thing, just as crazy as the original show!
It was “Once Upon A Time in Wonderland” I don’t recall a neverland themed show ever coming out.
@caitlyncarvalho7637 I think they would not get human bodies like jimminy cricket because he was at one point human prior to being turned into a cricket. The characters in Charlotte's web are always animals so they would no longer be able to talk I guess. Honestly, that's one of the few rules I feel like the show stuck to for a while at least. I don't recall if the Cheshire cat obeys this rule or not from the wonderland spinoff
@caitlyncarvalho7637 omg I totally forgot about Gus!
I remember watching this show with my mom when i was a little kid and when i rewatched it i couldn't believe how batshit insane it was 💀💀💀
Me too and now I’m wondering if my mom was secretly cringing the whole time 😂 I mean I know she liked the show because we’d both get so excited for new episodes but she HAD to see how weird it is😂 but I totally didn’t
I rewatched this show about a week ago and what shocked me the most was how aggressively sexless it was. I remembered Charming, Snow and Hook to be these insanely hot people to my teenage self, yet here you have sexless pregnancy left and right. I'm not saying the characters should have been screwing, but I've never seen a show for a somewhat older audience go out of its way to avoid sex so strongly
Sex wasn't completely avoided. There's a scene where Emma and Henry get back to Snowing's apartment and then immediately leave again once Emma realizes they had been doing it and needed to clean themselves up.
@@PlagueDragonRat yes. and there's one scene after Regina and the 50 shades guy had done it. But that's two tiny scenes in a show so liked by grown women and teens. It made me wonder if the show has a Christian audience
@@upsetstudios1819 You all seem to forget this a family show on ABC network television primetime in the early 2010's. People just didn't do that kind of stuff on TV shows before 10pm and even if they did, it was limited to cable networks. But it was heavily implied on MULTIPLE occasions. I mean, there were even two implied but not shown r*pe scenes in the show and one was in season 1. You can't make this shit up.
Ya'll sexcrazed bastards will never once think of us asexuals and those who have trauma from sex. This shit is one of the only stuff I can watch because of my triggers!
@@papaya216 They never bloody do...
BILLIAM
YOU HAD A CHANCE
"makes the plot of KH look SIMPLE and CLEAN by comparison"
IT WOULD'VE BEEN SO GOOOOD
We must take his life for his sacrilege.
I came here looking for this comment
nothing makes Kingdom Hearts look simple and clean.
@@TheAchillesShield Guilty Gear, BlazBlue….
I THOUGHT THE SAME THING
I remember watching this show and genuinely loving Regina as a character. It was the kind of show you could turn on at any point.
Henry doesnt have a family tree. He has a wagon wheel and hes the center axel.
The Neverland arc was my favorite! Peter Pan was such a good villain 😭
I'm binge watching this show right now, between the repeated curses and the absurd family tree, I love this show. The costumes go so hard, meanwhile Disneys live action films can't hold a candle 😂
100%. i love this show and the characters and the outfits were soo good
ITS NOT A COMPETITION STOP COMPARING THEM THEY ALL HAVE THEIR OWN UNIQUE CHARM don’t do that stop being negative you don’t have to tear something else down in order to uplift what you like if it’s truly good then they should have their own merits not be compared DO BETTER AND BE BETTER
You guys only think of yourselves not future generations
remakes exist partly for a reintroduction to a new generation but also to renew the trademark so they don’t lose it
It’s no different than our ancestors passing down campfire stories with details of that story being changed overtime
That’s what remakes/reboots/sequels are campfire stories being passed down by our ancestors from generation to generation with details being changed overtime
Because That’s your problem You guys really need to stop putting sequels/remakes/reboots/adaptations in the shadow of the originals and just let them have their own independent successes and be treated as something completely separate it’s a nasty habit that needs to be stopped
Reboots and the originals can coexist stop making everything a competition
It’s not horrible they were just going for what fits the tone
If they had used the og design for a serious story it would have looked too uncanny
the updated one isn’t made for old fans it’s made to bring in new ones who maybe didn’t know the original existed
They check out the new one and maybe it leads them to discover the original
Reboots put the original back in the public eye
You don’t want what you grew up with to be forgotten do you?
This is a way to keep it alive and relevant it’s beneficial for everyone
Like I said That’s what remakes/reboots/sequels are campfire stories being passed down by our ancestors from generation to generation
it’s not your problem anyway it’s for future generations you have yours let someone else have their own
Streaming services can remove things so it can be gone forever at the press of a button so revisits are nice to have to keep it in the public eye
It’s their property their rules
You are just a mere passenger on their bus you can get off anytime you want but you don’t tell them how to drive
We are guests in their house if we don’t like their rules we can leave
Do you tell the home owners how to run their house
No you don’t
@@madnessarcade7447 Reboot's can be good it's just disney is making a lot of them and we consider it lazy, plus the reboots are all bad , and we do have permission to critisize what they are doing since we are paying and viewing their content. We don't have a problem with reboots we just have a problem with bad content
@@madnessarcade7447 Disney's reboots are bad tho. That's not good. They should try to make good ones if they really want to since otherwise it dirties the name of whatever they're remaking.
I loved this show when it first came out. Like I watched every episode when it first came out until the obligatory frozen season because 1 I was getting sick of Frozen and 2 they didn't bother with adding them properly into the town. But I'm currently rewatching it. I love how ridiculous it is.
i literally was obsessed with frozen (it's still one of my favorite movies) and even i thought the frozen addition was completely unnecessary. it was just obvious product placement because the movie was successful
I agree about the unnecessary Frozen insert, however, it allowed them to use the Snow Queen a bit more as its pretty fair to say Frozen is VERY VERY LOOSELY based off the Snow Queen so I'll allow it
When I watched it I literally just got a few episodes into season five and skipped the rest of the season.
@@silverbrumbyfan I agree. I very much dislike Frozen. But I did like how they did it in the show incorporating The Snow Queen. Mostly I loved Elizabeth Mitchell. And her costumes.
@silverbrumbyfan I liked that part of it but that's it. It's better than frozen 2's explanation of Elsa's powers and it doesn't have another native American vs colonization thing even if it's in freaking Scandinavia and the natives Sami are also white
One time Prince charming jousted from his pickup truck, and I'll never forget that.
Fun Fact: Henry is related to you. He is your step-half brother twice removed
no, he's actually your uncle, get it right 😡
I love that the actress playing Snow White looked so weird when she ran that the director just left her out of all group running shots even if she was in the scene seconds before and seconds after the shot.
i remember watching this when it first came out and there were so many moments where things just got so wild that my family would look at each other in shock and then laugh. peter pan making eggs for rumplestiltskin, rumplestiltskin simultaneously being like 5 different fairytale characters with each being some dramatic twist reveal, (SPOILERS) neil randomly keeling over as soon as the characters figure out he's supposed to die, frozen becoming canon alongside the actual snow queen??? the first season is actually pretty entertaining despite all the cheesy effects, but past that it just kept losing me. i remember looking back at the wiki after it ended and every character's page was divided into like 8 curse sections 😭i was trying to explain rumplestiltskin to my friend a while ago too and i had to deliver like 5 pages of lore just for them to understand lol
This show had some really interesting takes and twists on fairytale which were usually pretty cool. Peter Pan being a villain and Rumple's father was arguably the best of the twists. The Shadows were really creepy too
Listen OUAT was one of the best thing to happen to tv at the time lol My best-friend got me to watch season one before season two premiered, and I was hooked after the 2nd Episode.
Maleficent, Rumple, and Regina's dramatic episodes had me in tears😭 They were incredible actors who made you see the humanity in these villains. The writers crafted fun stories to follow. I enjoyed the twists and turns. Didn't finish the series though.
Never watched this show, but I always found it super funny that they cast a generic looking hot guy as hook, and just stuck a hook on him, like "See! He has the hook! It's totally him!".
Well, to be fair, I feel like a lot of the male characters are "generic looking hot guy" like the Mad Hatter and The Huntsman 🤷🏾♀️
More like a copy of him, not the original one since the storyline is completely different in this show. Each fairytale is set originally in different eras so the characters were never supposed to meet in the first place but this series put every character in the same timeline. This series is a one big fanfiction fairytale spinoff, with characters that act like americans rather than acting like europeans (most of them have american accents) that they are based on. Reminds me of marvel multiverse with timelines mashed together
Colin is the most dreamiest man ever. He is perfection.
This video was immaculatly edited. And even though we all know it, i gotta say you're a fantastic camera presence. Energetic but not annoying, and naturally funny. Good work dude. :) ❤
I've been ripping my seat apart, waiting for this video. God this show went hard, thank you young knight, Billiam
The circle on Henry after “…I’ll just have to kill him!” Made me ugly snort! The editing is gold.
I was obsessed with this show and am just realizing how insane it was.
My favourite part was when they killed Henry’s father, for no other reason than they wanted Emma with Hook but they didn’t want her to actually make that decision. Because that could have been interesting.
emma was never ending up with that man get real
They killed off Neal so Rumple can be evil again, not because of the "love triangle".
@@jthrasher93 Yup. They kept flip flopping with his redemption. It pissed me off so much I started rooting against him.
@@kenna163 Yeah, honestly, I wished he'd stayed dead. Not only because I've come to hate his character after that, but because it was a good send off for him.
@@jthrasher93 Agree. The best ending for him was sacrificing himself
The Spinof for Alice in Wonderland is still my favorite, it's the only part of the show you can't own on DVD/Blu Ray which is a bit sad.
But yeah, 1 to 3 included was honestly super fun.
I love the wonderland spin off
You didn't mention that Millie Bobby Brown is in it as child Alice
@@kenna163 wait for real???
I hope you do more of these, and go into the sheer delightful lunacy that's Cruella De Ville.
OMG!!! She was my favorite!!! I absolutely loved how they portrayed her.
OMG, I never knew how much I needed you to cover OUAT until I got the notification! I haven't been around in a while, so I can definitely say this was such a pleasant surprise! So happy to see you still going strong, Billiam! Been around since the Digimon videos 🥰
I gasped when I saw it in my notifs haha so exciting
I want to see a diagram of Henry’s family tree because I’m pretty sure he is related to every major fictional character in literature through some connection…
14:17 whoops, spoke too soon, thanks for the hook up Billaim lol
captain hook and emma swan were my bisexual awakening
This show was a fever dream, i knew it was terrible but couldn’t stop watching
As someone said. It's the best trash show.
It was good at the beginning but bad at the end
Soooo is this how Disney tested the waters for live action remakes
Probably
Merida was also in it so. So was Ariel and I think Yvette Nicole Brown as Ursula
Yes. But at least here, they don't have to insert some woke shits and social justice lectures and just make some princess characters just look badass beating their villains.
I binge watch the series during the pandemic and it was my first time watching the show. I really enjoyed the Peter Pan season and the way how they made him evil is well done and I wish Disney does it more with his character.
Every season is the best season
It’s popcorn comfort tv and will always be a unique special gem and will always have a place in my heart
I honestly watched it just for Captain Hook after a while, and I’m not ashamed to admit it. That man’s so fine 😮💨
my favorite thing is them saying "dead is dead" so much but ALSO resurrecting characters. apparently dead is not dead.
my brother watched this when we were younger so I'd get back from karate class and catch snippets like "oh it's the fairy tail show" and then a week later Dr. Jekyl shows up
LMAO that was so wild
The one fun fact thing I know about this show is that the Wicked Witch looks gross because the green used for the original Wizard of Oz Witch is trademarked so they had to use a really sweaty and gross off brand shade of green
Is it different from Elphaba's green or is that trademarked as well? Elphaba's skin always looked good.
It looks like they just like. Didn't set it. Powder it down, get some hairspray. Come on.
@@Rose-np8qv You also have to remember these actors are on SUPER lighted green screen sets. It would be ridiculously hot and have no fans due to messing up the green screen.
OUAT is when I discovered my love for Sebastian stan
My sister worked from home for awhile and would have this show on the TV while she was working. I can't tell you how many times I asked "What is this show even about?" I think a better question would have been, "What is this show NOT about?" 🤣
Seasons 1-3 were the best with the first half of season 3 feeling like the actual final season.
please tell me there's a part 2 where you cover Maleficent's daughter who came from a dragon egg or King Arthur being evil and that the dark one's dagger is the tip of Excalibur is or that the Jekyll and Hyde serum made an evil doppelganger of the Evil queen or ANY of the craziness that was season 7, including, but not limited to, Hook's daughter being Alice from Alice in Wonderland, the regular world being retconned into a world that previously had magic but then Mother Gothel from Tangled nuked the world and restarted evolution without magic so she canonically watched fish evolve into humans, and lastly there's a new version of the Enchanted Forest that's time dilated so they could age henry up and cast a new actor but still keep the other actors.
i left a very similar comment on the previous video but i will never get over how wild the later season stuff is
Do make some of it up?
Curious
Please, are you joking or is this real.
@@ezonthethinker955 nope. all true
@@goldenhand9107 I'm going to scream in agony now
@@ezonthethinker955 this is all real. I watched the show.
The rabbit hole of Once Upon A Time is truly unending (unlike its spin-off show, Once Upon A Time in Wonderland which died upon arrival, RIP). My favorite thing about the later seasons is that they did a soft reboot for season 7... and it actually helped?? Mostly because the new characters didn't have previous on-screen growth that the show would've undone, lmao.
First time I have felt so overwhelmed
This show was truly something
I loved this show! It's the only soap opera I've ever been able to watch, though full disclosure I didn't make it through all the seasons. I feel like there are two types of fan for this show: those who get the campy drama and enjoy it, and those who take it seriously and try to defend it. I'm in the "enjoy the campy drama" camp. I actually loved the Peter Pan season, and the kid who played him was awesome. Some of my favorite characters were the dwarves, the Huntsman, Hook (grr), Rumple (that dude threw himself into his role) and the Evil Queen. I also loved the crazy ups and downs with the Robin Hood / Evil Queen romance. I can't imagine watching it as a kid, though - not sure what would interest kids about this show. As much as I enjoyed it, I couldn't tell you much of what happened in that show or what season it happened in. I know I didn't see all seasons, but not even sure where I stopped. :D
I was obsessed with this show for 5 and a half years. Like OBSESSED. And one day I just gave up. I still love this show because nostalgia, but yeah I always recommend people stop at season 3. The plot just... Exploded
This show is such a fever dream. But i really did enjoy it. It was all over the place. And rumple is by far one of the best things about this show.
5:26 One version of the the Arthurian legend of the Black Knight had Lancelot as the Black Knight. Just some food for thought.
21:10 it's deep in the night and I'm trying SO hard not to laugh out loud at Tink flopping all a$$ out like that!
I got as far as Season 5 with the Arthurian mythos. After that I trailed off 'cause I didn't like what they were doing to it.
But Belle banishing Rumple remains one of my top painful moments.
The flashbacks serve as a parallel. To portray a lesson or theme that the character in the present needs to reestablish. It's actually pretty poetic and helps give more insight to the audience
Oh, Emma is in the public domain, the Swan Princess.
The Ugly Duckling (according to the creators), but yeah.
But where is Derek though? The Swan Princess was supposed to end up with Derek, the prince, if that's the case
If emma was The Swan Princess than her name should have been Odette.
I have completely forgotten how far into this show I got, but I absolutely loved it as a kid. Thought it was peak storytelling because of how connected everything was.
1:44 I can never forgive you. The Simple and Clean joke was right there.
I love that the voice actor for Carth Onasi and Kaiden Alenko is Jimminy Cricket. I know that voice anywhere.
Why does the Mario video game music go so well with his retelling of this show? Am I the only one who thinks this?
the reason that they went from emma and henry losing their memories to suddenly playing diablo was because they went on a long hiatus in the middle of s3 for some reason LMAO but its definitely jarring rewatching it or watching it for the first time without a break
It’s so much and I absolutely love everything about it.
You didn't even get to the part where they genuinely tried to present Cruella as a powerful sorceress who could hold her own with Ursula and Maleficent. They gave her the power to control dogs, that's enough of a threat to the main characters right?
She could control all animals not just dogs and also she was cunning and managed to kidnap Henry, and would have been able to kill him if not for the authors restrictions on her. She's no Regina but I thought she was a good addition (plus omg her and Ursula were adorable together)
it's crazy, oftentimes a little cringey, doesn't always make sense, but I love it so much, it has a special place in my heart and I will defend it until the day I die
Thank you Billiam for doing the lawwwwds work. Especially with the Hook/Emma/Baelfire scandal. Hook really screwed him over twice in life 😌
'i don't think there's any show that got as ridiculous as once upon a time" Riverdale 'hold my beer'
So I’m not saying it’s necessarily goood storytelling. But it is kind of impressive how the writers are able to continue to integrate so many new characters and complexities to the plot.
a ghost just absolutely decking someone before possessing someone else is probably the funniest thing I've ever seen 10 seconds in and Im already sold on this show I vaguely remember watching the first season of this and grim while my kidneys were playing up and since then I can't watch either show without feeling ill tho 😭
I used to watch this show religiously with my family and this Billiam is terrifyingly accurate describing it
Your editing is incredible in this video. Thank you for the laughs and the unhinged recap! I would love to see you recap the rest of the show; I really want to know the heights of insanity this show reached.
I couldn't really get invested in any of the canon couples but SwanQueen kept me watching for like 5 seasons before I gave up on the show ever doing any actually good storywriting.
I will never get over SwanQueen and the creators CONSTANTLY teasing that ship. Queerbating at its worst.
@@nelgluhak6709 not only would they tease it with obvious queerbait scenes but then absolutely mock people for shipping it. Like I do know some people in the fandom went way too far, but the crap the writers and some of the actors said was just really petty and mean to me.
I loved Once Upon A Time ALOT. It was one of my favorite shows to watch after the shows Lost and Desperate housewives ended. Rumple and Regina were my most favorite characters on the show. Season 3 was probably my favorite season because we mostly got to see both of those two iconic characters grow and evolve.
The sound editing on this one is on point
Do you know the song @9:52?
@@JB-ij6sp It's Miss Piggy singing Cellophane
My flatmate at uni was bingewatching this show on netflix and it would often be on when I came into the kitchen, I would watch bits and pieces with her and it seemed insane. I thought that was just because I don't know anything about disney/fairytale lore but watching this video made me realise i wouldn't have understood anything even with the context lmao
I don't care what anyone says, OUAT was an amazing show! The mystery aspect of it made it very worthwhile.
“No moment to breathe” perfectly describes this show. There is literally no chill, just one crisis after another.
This show was insane and overtop the top in all the right ways.
Does anyone remember how Lancelot is really alive in the Camelot part in a later season. He just somehow managed to get away from one of the most powerful sorcerers ever? No explanation. And also Mulan and Aurora somehow brought Philip back to life and they never explained it.
Actually Mulan said that they can save souls. They did save people off-screen.
@@strawberrypeppermint4185They said that it was possible to get souls back... And then never bothered showing us HOW is the annoying thing. Like that could've been a neat tie in to the Underworld appearing in Season 5 but instead Philip is just... there and alive again when we see the characters again and it sucked.
My best friend wrote a whole fanfic based in the neverland part of one upon a time. Honestly cannot stress enough how much fans were like "this part and only this part is good and that's enough"