You're listening to Once, episode 231, Souls of the Departed.

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 Jacqueline. And we are thrilled to be talking show Once Upon a Time. I'm Daniel J. Lewis. I'm Jacqueline.

And we are thrilled to be talking about Once Upon a Time again. This is great for it to be back.

Three months off. We're finally back. Yeah. And we hope that you've enjoyed the discussions we've had

in the meantime, like that packed spoiler episode that I did not listen to, and the

discussion about Gallivant and also our roundtable with some of our fellow once upon a time

podcasters and some of the other fun things that we've done. Now, Jacqueline, it's great

that you're here. You're filling in for Jeremy while he's out, and we're still trying to figure

out Aaron's schedule to see if she's still able to join us. But I'm really glad that you're here for this episode

because of your Greek mythology expertise. And I know you're going to be bringing a lot of that

to this conversation. Yeah, I saw a lot this week that I got really excited about. So I'm happy

to fill in for that. So before we jump in,

let me tell you that our show notes for this episode and the links if you'd like to share

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will be at oncepodcast.com slash 231. So let's jump in talking about the past. And we see flashbacks in this

episode. And at first, like I said in the initial reactions, I felt like, no, please, not more of this

Regina versus Snow White stuff. Agreed. They've drawn it out as long as they can at this point.

Yeah. But I'm glad that wasn't the only point of the flashbacks, that they weren't there

solely to show us. Here's another perspective of Snow White and Regina. Yeah, I think we got to see it more

from Regina's perspective and her struggle this time as opposed to Snow White's perspective.

But we also got to see the influence of other things and some pieces connect together.

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