You're listening to Once, episode 210, Siege Parallus.

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.

I'm Aaron. And we're happy to have you joining us for this. Our full discussion, now that we've done some more research, gathered some of your feedback, rewatch the episode at least a couple

times, and we're ready to talk about this. And boy, we've got some great theories going on

with all of this. So make sure that you go

to oncepodcast.com and subscribe to the podcast if you aren't already. And the show notes for this

episode, if you'd like to follow along, we'll be at oncepodcast.com slash 210. Let's start off as we

usually do talking about the past six weeks ago. They're talking about

the tree and the mushrooms, or rather the toadstool, yeah, which they discovered could be a thing.

And they did put out this idea, which makes me think, okay, when they put out an idea like this, that's the actual

truth. And that is that Merlin isn't in the tree. Merlin is the tree. So burning it to get him out

would be a bad idea. Yes. Maybe. Regina clearly from her days on the island and Lost learned one very important thing, how to waste an entire sheet of not so common paper to express one thing.

That happened a lot on Lost, and here she writes one gigantic question mark to stick in the book.

And apparently it is in her handwriting very clearly.

Nobody else writes a question mark quite like that.

Apparently, yes, a gigantic question mark, which is not in handwriting.

But it did serve a purpose later.

So I guess maybe she foresaw that somehow.

Emma is looking shockingly good in all of

these scenes in the past. Like they're trying to make her look like the savior that she's not

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