I wasn't paying close attention but Emma was definitely calling her father "David" throughout s6 still.

In e17 (Awake) I noticed her calling him "Dad" instead at least twice.

For the true ouat buffs: is there an episode where she starts calling him David then changes to Dad for the rest of the show? Or is this a one-off episode?

I thought Emma had a super power where she can tell when people are lying. Except the first season glass is literally lying to her face pretending he is on Regina’s side. Is that not a major plot hole?? He’s always saying I tried this but failed or I hate Regina too I want to see her taken down as much as you.

Also when Gold is pretending to help Mary Margaret but that’s Gold I guess that’s understandable.

Heres why

1. Just because she found her true love doesn’t instantly mean she likes living in the Land of Oz.

2. Ruby wouldn’t be comfortable in a land filled with Munchkins, emerald buildings and other things.

3. It’s clearly obvious she was wrong about not fitting in Storybrooke despite what she said in Season 5.

4. The writers never mentioned what happened between the time skip specifically between the dinner scene of season 6 and the first scene of season 7.

5. Ruby’s real pack is everyone back in Storybrooke (Snow, Emma, Henry, Granny, Regina, David and Belle)

I want to clear this up because I’m still sensing a lot of confusion going on

In the once upon a Time universe
Someone recorded these stories for the land without magic and they recorded them incorrectly

According to what actually happened

Regina was always the Ursula pictured in the animated film. Somebody saw this occurring and thought that Regina was Ursula and then Ariel was the little mermaid. They got both of them wrong.

Clearly, we know that Regina was wearing a disguised as Ursula neither the goddess or the princess Ursula had anything to do with it

Princess Ursula is the little mermaid… her father is the king of the Sea who is depicted in the animated series

Stay with me

Ariel is not the little mermaid… notice. The animated series has more in common with princess Ursula’s story than it does with princess Ariel’s story.

It’s a mix of both but she still wouldn’t really be the little mermaid simply because Ariel inside of once upon a time, it’s actually a really dope character. She stood up to Regina…

She’s confident she’s strong. She’s brave. There’s nothing little about her…

on the other hand princess Ursula was little. She was afraid… she was scared. She was a damsel before turning herself into the sea witch…. And she has this mesmerizing voice.

Ariel doesn’t start off as a princess neither does she have sisters. She is just as beautiful, amazing character who just so happens to fall in love with the human being

now when these stories were written, a lot of things kinda got misplaced and that’s how we get to the point of having this amazing story, the animated one, the Little mermaid

And once you combine everything that I just told you, that’s how you get the Disney live action of this story

Edit:

Everything I’ve stated only applies in the world of OUAT I’m not trying to say why the writers did what they did just saying if we were in a position were these stories were taking place in the land without magic “Emma/neal/ Henery” this is how the story would have been… in that reality not this one… I totally understand that it’s not really how brothers grim wrote it

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I once wrote about this episode and said, “Can we just appreciate how deliciously psychotic Mayor Mills was in ‘Welcome to Storybrooke’?” There was more written, but you get the gist.

Some of the comments had me thinking I needed to reassure everyone: THE KID IS FINE. 😂

What I love about this episode: the flashbacks show us Storybrooke before the clock started. The little details help sell the earlier Storybrooke. The references to Star Wars lightsabers and “The Boss” the general nostalgia of the episode. Most of all, I love Lana Parrilla’s performance as Mayor Mills.

My original post was intentionally campy and focused on how much fun Mayor Mills was to watch. This episode is deeper than that. It functions as a character study of Regina and the psychology underneath her behavior. Regina gets exactly what she wants: revenge, power and control.

Then she gets bored.

She's lonely.

She's isolated.

There's that hole that can't be filled that she was warned about.

Owen and his father arrive, and they're something Regina hasn't had in a while: change. It's something new, something real, something outside the cursed world. And Owen is a child.

I've always thought Regina's relationship with children was one of the more interesting contradictions in her character. Although it seems some are confused by this. She can be controlling, manipulative and incredibly ruthless, while simultaneously having this very obvious longing for connection with children. Something that becomes especially important with Henry.

That's what makes her fixation on Owen so disturbing and so revealing. The desire underneath the behavior isn't necessarily difficult to understand. The way she acts on it is.

She doesn't know how to build connection without trying to control it. That's a recurring Regina pattern. Owen resists her. Years later, Henry does much the same thing. It's also something Once was particularly good at: using the past and present timelines as a mirror.

And yes, she is evil in this part of the story. 😂

I can appreciate this fictional story without reducing the character to a list of crimes or simplifying her to “Regina is evil.”

Sometimes it feels like she's hiding under someone's bed boogyman) because every attempt to speak about this character gets dragged back to the same repeated list of things she did. Like…

We know.

The writers know.

Regina knows.

The audience knows.

That's what's sometimes frustrating in discussions of Regina Mills. Consistently, it seems to be brought back to what she did. There's very little room left for context, psychology or the complexity of her character.

Every scene doesn't have to be reduced to one read. A scene very rarely means one thing. A scene can be disturbing and fascinating. A character can do something morally wrong and still be psychologically compelling.

And an actress can play a villain so convincingly that you're completely immersed in the story while still remembering that the woman on your screen is an actress playing a fictional character. 😂

So yes…

The kid is alright. And Mayor Mills remains deliciously psychotic. 😌👑

And god damn, I forgot just how much I adore Regina. She genuinely had me questioning my sexuality through my early teen years. She is again now tbh, lol. I somehow still recall every line, and every scene she's in. My face flushes every time I see her

I also forgot how much I love all the drama on this show. Currently on 3b, and can't wait for Zelena's relationship with Regina to be revealed, and for outlawqueen. Not at all looking forward to what happens with Robin though lol

Anyway, I'm sorry, I don't really know what this post is for, I just really wanted to express my utter adoration for Regina.

(Also, side note, if anyone has any fanfics in which Regina is the pregnant one in 3b, I am craving one rn, I vaguely recall reading one when I was 14. Thank you)

In season 2 Regina was pretty much going to do it to Henry, kill everyone with the curse reversal, use a bean to go somewhere else and use the love spell on Henry. She also pretty much did do it to Graham.
The black fairy possibly would of.

(Can include spoilers)- Hear me out on this theory

We know Emma has magic - so what if in the first episode when Emma blew out her candles, she wished not to be alone. (Stay with me on this). In the later seasons we learn that wish realms exist, and how do we open them? By magic, and of course wishing for something. Because of that, by wishing not to be alone she created an entire world, and that's why Henry came and few moments later to find her. What if storybrook and all the other realms that were in the series were just formed from a wish and that the town line is just a portal to go back from the wish world to the real world. What if everyone we ever knew ( except Emma) were "born" from her wish. Because she was so desperate for someone , it is rational that her wish was granted in such a strange form, after all- her family was from fairytales and included magic. We also know that in the wish world that was in the series, the characters were copies from the people in storybrook but different in their personalities. So what if in season 7 when for example Regina was different (Roni) , and they were in a city without magic, Emma just came back from the wish realm to the real world and these were the people from the real one. Maybe Regina was just a copy of Roni all this time, and like Hook was a copy of Killian( I don't remember his name in season 7). Of course there are more factors in this , but think about it for a second, wouldn't that be a cool plot twist?

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They were ready to play.

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Why does this masterpiece of a series have almost no German fanbase, and I know the series is available in German, so why?

I personally think its the Jabberwocky

Has spoilers…

So season 3, episode 9

Regina asks Sydney and Rumple to help her fill her heart with a child. She travels to Boston, meets the director of the adoption, or some other role like counsellor.

She takes Henry hope. She struggles to cope, and takes Henry back to the baby adoption store in Boston. (I couldn’t resist trying to be cheeky and make you laugh ❤️

So the question, how was Regina able to go to the adoption agency, to pick up her son, and again when she feels overwhelmed and needs a break from the crying.

If they can’t leave storybrook, the person who interviewed her in Boston, has never heard of Storybrook. As such, the director didn’t meet Regina in Storybrook, and Regina can’t leave.

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My girlfriend is getting me to watch once upon a time and we're almost done with season two, and I swear to god, every time this little shit is on the screen, I want to rip my ears and eyes out. I get the character is stupid and naive but omfg I cannot stand her, not so much the character but the breathy talking combined with the drawn out words just her creepy and annoying, she alone makes me understand the evil queen.

Listen, I know asking accurate ages/timelines from OUAT is too much, but I started my rewatch & this particular question has been on my mind for some time now. When was baby Hope approximately born? Two, three years after the final battle? I know we can’t calculate that timeline based on Henry’s adventures in the New Enchanted Forest, cuz time moves differently there. Another way to tell is by looking at prince Neal. Is he like 7 years old in the finale? That that’d mean Hope was born ~4 years after the finale battle, when Emma was ~37, right? Or maybe earlier? Or later?

I don’t know why I need this to know so badly, but I do lol

I re-watched season 5 recently, with the Camelot storyline and Violet's dad Sir Morgan. Then I discovered there is a Mark Twain book called a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, with the main character being Hank Morgan.

At the end of the Camelot arc, Violet tells Henry she and her dad aren't returning to Camelot with the others through the portal, her dad is originally from Connecticut and something about the Yankees?

Did anyone else catch this reference and I'm just late to the game?

Hi, a new community of ouat edits just opened, you are welcome to join. r/Once_Upon_aTime_Edits.

Like, there are these impossibly evil villains and the good guys keep giving them a pass OVER AND OVER AND OVER again. Regina literally mass murdered god knows how many people in in the Enchanted Forest and when Snow White saw that she was enraged and her reaction was the correct reaction: that bitch has to die. There's no forgiving people who do genocide.

But it gets even worse: Snow White kills someone who was determined to murder her and everyone she loves and FEELS GUILTY. I think the correct emotion you should feel after you've killed someone utterly dangerous to you and your loved ones is RELIEF. Regina teaming with Cora was whack: Cora killed your one true love in front of you, you don't become pals with someone like that.

It just makes me scream at the screen every time Henry is all like "There's good in (impossibly evil villain) we should save them!!"

Just one example: King George gets his memory back and literally tells David/Charming to his face he's going to destroy his life. Dude should have cuffed him, drove him to the edge of town in his cruiser, and tossed him onto the other side of the line. The guy would lose his memory and thus be harmless.

Sheesh

When we first see Ursula she's an allegedly long dead myth.

They have statues of her at Eric's castle (mansion?)

Regina impersonates her to get what she wants out of Ariel.

Ursula makes clear she does NOT approve by coming through Regina's mirror and threatening her. And Regina seems genuinely frightened of her.

This made Ursula seem very powerful, very mystical, very ancient and God like.

But later on when we actually meet Ursula.... she isn't really any of that. She's sort of a run of the mill villain tbh.

She doesn't seem so powerful or otherworldly at all. She certainly doesn't seem like she could stand against Regina very well.

She's just another villain with some cool abilities and a sad backstory.

I mean she was fine as a character. I have my issues with the whole villain gang thing and the author plot is dumb to me so far but Ursula isn't like a bad fit she just isn't what she was originally portrayed to be.

I sort of loved the idea of her being this old powerful being that scared even Regina.

UPDATE: I just found out they are not the same Ursula. Apparently Ursula was named after the sea goddess. My bad!

’ve always thought Katie McGrath would have been such a great addition to Once Upon a Time. She was incredible as Morgana in Merlin, and I’d love to know which character you think she could have played.
Could you see her as Regina or Red Riding Hood, or would you have cast her as someone completely different? 👀