You're listening to Once, episode 288, the unofficial podcast for ABC's TV show Once Upon a time.

I'm Daniel J. Lewis.

I'm Aaron. And we've just watched

this episode, A Wondrous Place. These are our initial reactions. We'll have our full discussion

coming up soon. And in the full discussion, I may be a little bit more positive than what I'm

about to say right now. This episode, at least in this initial viewing, where my thoughts are all over the place, I would say this is maybe, in my mind, right now at least, having just watched this episode, I feel like this is the worst episode of Once Upon a Time.

I also did not enjoy this episode. I found it very hard to follow, And I found that in moments where I thought they were going to rectify something, they then dropped the ball a few seconds later.

Yeah. Now, plenty of great lines. Some hilarious things in this episode. Some cool things, too. Some nice ties back to other episodes and a Once Upon a Time

in Wonderland, a lot of stuff that we'll get into in a moment. So there were some really cool things,

and I'm not hating on Once Upon a Time or hating on this episode. It's simply a bad episode,

in my opinion. And it was even a Jane Espens sewed. And it was, it was bad. It just,

it broke so many rules. I don't know where to start. And why I'm saying by rules,

so many things that we thought we knew how they worked. And also at the same time, it introduced

so many new things that it's a hard to follow episode, really, I feel like.

I definitely had a hard time following it. I, whenever there's timeline inconsistencies or specifically with me because I did the Wonderland

podcast and I'm so familiar with that series whenever that's brought in, if something's

inconsistent, I just cannot follow the episode because I'm too busy trying to figure out how it

actually fits in a way that makes sense. And I think in this episode, that was just a

futile attempt because nothing really makes sense. Yeah, there are a lot of things where how it should

have ended for this episode could have changed things significantly. Now, while we're recording

this podcast episode live right now, several in the chat room are saying not the worst

episode. Maybe the worst of the season. Some are even saying second worst of the season. So not the

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