You're listening to Once, of Once, the unofficial podcast about ABC's TV show Once Upon a Time.

I'm Daniel J. Lewis. I'm Jeremy Loughlin.

And we're missing Jenny tonight. But we are excited to talk about this episode, Manhattan, which I think

probably my favorite episode of Once Upon a Time so far. The season one finale was great.

The pilot was great. The season two premiere, I think, was also good. But this one,

I think really Manhattan was probably my favorite episode. Yeah, it's hard for me to say,

because standalone, it's definitely my favorite of season two. I don't know if it's my favorite

favorite, but it's sort of the culmination of so many things.

And it was so well written and acted and very well produced, the shots, the music.

It was a lot of what made me love once upon a time to begin with.

Yeah.

The emotions in this were so strong and so well-active and so realistic, I think, too, with just the disappointment.

You could feel the anger, everything going on with this was fantastic.

I really, really liked this episode. So let's

get into talking about this. Let's start with the Enchanted Forest. Rumpel Stiltskin and Mila

were happy. Like, really happy. It was great to see that. It was. She's still kind of fickle.

It's hard for me because I know what she was like later, but it was nice to see them happy.

Well, then again, Rumpel Stiltskin later.

This was a time that we've never seen Rumpelstiltskin or Mr. Gold like this. Yeah, as the dark one, he had some

kind of happy moments. But this is where he's genuinely happy. He's excited. He's looking forward to

the future. He's ambitious. All of this stuff. And apparently not so cowardly. Yes. And he felt like

going to the war, he was so excited that he was drafted into the Ogre's War,

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