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It's not easy being green.

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I'm Jeremy Loughlin.

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We just finished watching this episode. It's not easy being green. No, it's not.

I mean, yes, we did. This episode was a little hard to swallow, too, because it meant some of my theories were wrong. It meant some of my theories were wrong. I think they might be the same theories.

Zelina is truly Regina's half-sister.

Yeah, apparently.

Even early on, I thought, well, there's this, not masked, but this obscured figure in a top hat who is trying to make her think she's Regina's sister because he wants something from Rumpel Stiltskin.

Maybe the whole thing's made up.

He's showing her images, but it doesn't mean any of them are real.

We never saw Kora's face, although I'm sure that was Barbara Hershey availability, but we never saw Kora's face.

So I thought, well, it could still be fake. Zelina might actually believe it, which I didn't think she did, or she might have believed it back then then because I still don't understand the stealing

the blood thing but it looks like it's true yeah because rumple confirmed it and he confirmed

it with his little magical test tube right which that was what did you do take her hair I didn't

observe what he took yeah that interesting. I don't know how

Regina got there rereading that letter. That was a little strange. Probably in realizing now

that the letter doesn't actually describe her when all of her life she realized or she thought it did and now when

she reads it she realizes oh yeah this doesn't quite describe me and it's really describing someone

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