You're listening to Once, episode 265, Street Rats, Initial Reactions.

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 Aaron. And we just watched this episode, Street Rats. And we want to share with you our initial reactions. We're going to be a bit all over the place. We may not get everything right. We want your feedback for our upcoming full discussion, which is on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Eastern Time at oncepodcast.com slash live. Go to the show notes for this episode

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this episode out. And thank you for sharing the podcast with others. First of all, this episode,

I felt like it was kind of mixed to me. Like there was some really cool stuff,

some other stuff that was just like, eh, that's not all that great. What did you think of it,

Aaron? Yeah, I felt like this was one of those episodes that kind of set up a lot of things,

maybe resolved a couple of things. Yeah, there were some really good moments and then

there were a couple eye rolls as well. Yeah, now we got to learn more about Aladdin and Jafar's

history, which I'm not so sure if we're complete with that. I feel like since Jasmine said

their kingdom is in trouble, that means Jafar is still being a menace to their kingdom, which kind of kills the idea that Jafar is secretly the oracle.

And maybe even Evil Queen killed that idea kind of literally in this episode as well. Yeah, I was thinking the

same thing as you when we were watching at the beginning that the Oracle was maybe not really dead,

but then, like, they explained it very quickly that the evil queen had maybe tortured her for

some information that she wasn't willing to give. And so I do believe that she is dead now.

But yeah, my, like, I'm having a hard time separating this from the Wonderland spin-off

and putting it in a timeline.

If we're not supposed to be doing that, I guess, then perhaps Jafar is still there and

tormenting Agriba or he could even still be gone and

have done that whole other journey with the genies and the lamps that we saw in the spin-off.

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