Potions and witches and questionable decisions, oh my – Once is back!
Welcome back,Oncemen!
As in Sheriff Skinnyjeans?
Credit: Jack Rowand/ABC
Maybe I should have thought this one through.)
After a three-month Hiatus Curse, our story returned tonight in fine form.
Or, you know, in some kind of form.
Thought it was a delightful way to introduceOnces sure-to-be-warped version of Oz?
If so, you were probably on board with New York City Serenade.
Fall closer to the you havegotto be kidding me!
end of the spectrum?
If so, you were probably… less enthused.
After they leave, though, Aurora and Philip have a tense conversation.
She tells him that they have to let her know that the Charmings et al have returned.
Who might they be talking about?
Lets just say if you care to find her,look toward the western sky.
Unless that horse was a human in Storybrooke and is actually named, like, Frank.
And soon enough, another angsty reformed villain elects to strike out on her own.
NEXT: Emmas deeeluxe apartment in the sky
Oh-ee-oh, yo ho!
Much like many good romances, its quasi-dislike at first sight for Regina, anyway.
And that furniture shop owner named Walsh, which will be important later wants to marry her.
Naturally, hearing his proposal sends commitment-phobe Emma into a tailspin.
Theyve only known each other eight months!
She has Henrys needs to consider!
Walsh is secretly a flying monkey!
Memory-wiped Henry, for one, is in favor of an Emma/simian match.
Pretty sure I pass that guy on my way to the train every morning.
NEXT: Why youshouldtake candy from strangers
Emma immediately dies of ricin poisoning.
So now things are just a wee bit more complicated than they were before.
If their memories were wiped, how does Charming know a year has passed?
Cue Snow, waddling into the room and sporting an enormously pregnant belly.
Hey, thats one way to haveart imitate life!
Now I shall get my revenge, she purrs.
The queen may be evil, but Imwicked.
And wicked always wins.
Well, unless its an alphabetical contest.
NEXT: The return of Breadcrumbs!
Breadcrumbs
Christopher Gorhams character is named Walsh.
The actor who played the lead Flying Monkey inThe Wizard of Ozwas namedPat Walshe.
The more you know!
We see Robin Hood and Little John but wheres their fellow Merry Person Mulan?
Thought Rumpelstiltskin was really dead?
Given what Jennifer Morrison told me when we chatted last week, you might want totemper that expectation.
(Also: Seriously, someone thought he was really dead?)
89 Wooster Street, where Nealfires apartment is supposedly located,actually looks like this.
Hook calls his New York cell the most barbaric prison he can imagine: They force-fed me something calledbaloney.
Props to Lana Parrilla for making that sentence sound threatening.
Why doesnt Henry get his memory back?
Because Hook only had enough potion for one person, naturally.
Who fought off the Flying Gorham?
Why, it was Emma, on the roof, with the lead pipe!
Next week: Its a Jane Espenson episode.
