You're listening to Once, episode 286, 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, page 23, and I feel like this is a bit of a mixed bag of thoughts on this episode.

What did you think about it, Aaron? Definitely a mixed bag. I was really, really bored at the beginning,

to be totally honest. And then I'm leaving with this, this sense of

really, really liking parts of it. So yeah. Yeah. Mixed bag for sure. So let's discuss some of those

parts. These are only our initial reactions. So we might not get everything correctly and we might be a bit all over the place.

So Evil Queen has been literally written off the show.

This is not the direction I thought it would go.

Even when Regina had Evil Queen's heart, I thought, oh, yes, Regina is going to stick it back in

herself and we'll have reintegration finally. And then no, Regina pulls out her own heart. And I thought,

oh, okay, she's going to merge them and then stick the heart back in and we'll get reintegration.

No, we never got and never will get reintegration.

Evil Queen is now a completely separate person. No, wait, she's not completely separate anymore.

It makes it even more confusing. Well, she's separate in the sense that what happens to her

no longer impacts what happens to Regina.

Yeah.

I agreed.

I definitely thought that that's what was going to happen.

And it kind of did, like in a roundabout sort of way, there was a reintegration because now all of the good and the bad were remashed together. So they are essentially the same person now. They have the same memories. They have all the same good in them and all the same bad in them. So Regina's back to being herself with the darkness in her is what I'm, that's what I'm taking from this episode.

Yeah, and I like that. So she is now the complete person that she was before. Now Evil Queen

has all of Regina's good characteristics so she can run off and live her destiny, it seems.

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