You're listening to Once, episode 159, Whiteout.

You're listening to Once, 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 Jay.

And we're so happy to have you listening and discussing this with us. You sent us some great feedback for this episode as we'll be talking about Whiteout. And to let you know ahead of time,

we're going to try a little bit different of a format for our discussion. So we would love your

feedback on this discussion format where we try

to focus on the highlights of this episode, instead of breaking it down scene by scene and

sometimes focusing on the monotonous tiny little details that don't matter sometimes.

And I'm speaking to myself when I say that.

So please comment on the show notes at oncepodcast.com slash 159 with what you think about this

format. It's okay if you want to give us some constructive criticism, some ways that we can improve it.

Think about the direction we're going with it, not necessarily how we do this particular time.

But let's get into this episode. We've got several great highlights to discuss from

feedback that you've given us and from things that we've noticed ourselves. And the first thing

is we have yet again another curse keeping people in Stroybrook. I'm starting to wonder,

are they ever going to leave? Ever. Because

Storybrook keeps being recreated. It keeps being, well, not it keeps being recreated. It was

recreated once. It keeps being saved. But they can't leave Storybrook. Only Emma, and we learned

Regina and a couple others, can actually leave Storybrook. So is this like the curse of the show that the characters can never make it off the island? I mean, out of Storybrook?

Well, I don't know, but if they didn't do something, we might wonder why some of them didn't choose to leave and also why more people didn't wander in.

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