You're listening to Once, episode 172, fall initial reactions.

Music Welcome back to another episode of Once, the unofficial podcast for ABC's TV show Once Upon a Time.

I'm Daniel J. Lewis.

I'm Jeremy Loughlin. And we hope that you

had a happy Thanksgiving. If you're not American, that's okay. We hope that you have our

blessing to not be American. And we hope you took a moment to be thankful. Anyway, maybe it's one way that

Americans can inspire you with the day set aside to stuff ourselves, go shopping,

and then be thankful for it all, apparently. But we just finished watching this episode,

fall, and it was a good episode. I'm kind of, I have a couple mixed feelings about it. In one way,

it felt a little bit like filler. And in in another way it felt like a really cool episode right

and i think the reason that it felt because i i thought it had a lot of good momentum and a lot of

really big things happened but i think the reason it might have had kind of a downer feeling a let

down for people is because the curse was so slow.

It was coming the entire episode.

And at least it hit.

If they had just sort of hunkered down and been like, here it comes any second.

And then they faded to black.

That would have been terrible.

Oh, yeah.

But, but yeah, we waited the whole entire episode and we didn't really get to see the fighting that we felt was imminent. As soon as they said that the curse would come. Not that we just want to see fighting, but you know. Yeah. But we kind of do want to see fighting. We kind of do. As soon as they said, the curse will be here at sundown, I realize this is not going to hit in this episode.

Or if it does, it'll be at the very, very end.

It makes me wonder, is this the slowest moving curse we've ever had?

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