You're listening to Once, Episode 191, Heart of Once, the unofficial podcast for ABC's TV show Once Upon a Time.

I'm Daniel J. Lewis, and right now I am solo. I'm in Las Vegas right now,

speaking at New Media Expo and the National Association of Broadcasters. So time-wise, it just

didn't work out for me to be able to record this with either Jeremy or Hunter or Jacqueline or

Aaron or really anyone. And our schedule this week is going to be a bit different.

But let's still dig into this episode a little bit because this was really an interesting

episode.

For a majority of this episode, I felt like this was just, yeah, kind of interesting.

But oh boy, that twist about halfway through to learn that

Zelina is back i knew zelina would be coming back i there are certain spoilers that i just can't

avoid and that was one of them that i knew that Rebecca made her who plays zalina would be back

in once upon a time i had heard that so i knewina, would be back in Once Upon a Time. I had heard that. So I knew

that she would be back. I had no idea to what capacity she would be back. I just thought

maybe it would be some flashbacks. And sure enough, we got some of those flashbacks. But to discover

that she has been Marion this whole time suddenly has my brain going in all of these directions

trying to figure out, does this fit? One of the things I think that it does make good sense of

is seeing Zelina's ghost go from the jail cell opening the time portal at the end of season three, I'd always

kind of wondered about that, just thinking, wait, how does a dead Zelina open a time portal?

And we wrestled with that a little bit with the previous episodes and once podcast.

It was one of those things I just figured,

I have to accept. Now, after seeing this episode, I have to wonder, did the writers plan this

the whole time? If they did, then big props to them, because I think that's awesome for them

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