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SNEAK PEAK: Once Upon a Time Season 5 Recap (Pt 1)

It's the Dark Swan arc! I didn't like it very much, but I did have a lot to say about it! Are you surprised?? You shouldn't be!

Currently finishing the script for part 2, if this video isn't complete and on YouTube by the second week of December I'm going to start tearing down my walls, I have been haunted by Onceuponatime Season 5 for so long now.

If you're at the tier for it, you will be getting this months Patron-exclusive video in just a few days (would you believe I'm still on a Gravity Falls kick. Because you should believe that.) and I'll deliver some Hermes to everyone's front door step tomorrow as well!

Hope you like the video!!!!! 

Comments

I had to look up how to spell committed, i spelled it comited. I failed spelling in second grade i swear. I cant spell sophmore either im a sophmore in highschool rn and I still cant spell 😔😔

onomatopoeia

HAYLE PLEASE DO ONE OF THESE FOR SEASON 7 IM IN SO MUCH PAIN RN 😭😭😭 IM COMMITTED TO FINISHING THE WHOLE SERIES AND ITS NOT THAT BAD BUT THE TIME LINE IS SO WACKKKKK IT MAKES NO SENSE IVE NEVER BEEN MORE CONFUSED PLEASE HELP HAYLEEE 🙏🙏🙏

onomatopoeia

fun fact zelena also canonically DIED BY THE DARK ONE DAGGER. rumple literally stabbed her and rendered her to dust. why the hell is she alive. and her magic got untethered from the jewel after she died, so the pendant is not needed anymore probably

Raven Rey

i found a complaint about this arc i wrote over four years ago: Killian gets sliced by the broken Excalibur when Emma rescues everyone from Arthur. Nobody notices and says “Hey, you need help” except for Emma, and they both think her little healing touch right there fixed it. And they have every reason to think this; no one ever mentioned a wound from the sword being unhealable, and since Emma possessed all of the dark magic in the multiverse, there was no reason to think her trick wouldn’t be the end of it. But at the most opportune moment, when everyone was gathered around to see her unite Excalibur with the Dagger in order to eradicate the Darkness, he collapses in pain and we see his wound reopened. Now, witnessing this, we have Regina, the former Evil Queen; Belle, arguably the smartest fairy tale character; Henry, the gosh-darn Author; Emma, the Dark One (meaning she’s possessed by ALL the evil magic); and Merlin himself, the most powerful sorcerer anywhere, ever. But still, not one person has a solution that would save Hook’s life.

Deborah Endris

HALEY: I’m AT. my LIMIT. HERMES: *flails, also at his limit* 🤣

BedknobsandBookshelves

i watched like 20mins of this and RAN to ao3 for emma/regina fanfics

Mimi

HALEY i have a suggestion. season 7 is a little divorced from the rest of the show. i wouldnt be upset if you didnt cover it. but if you do, what do you think about doing it BEFORE season 6? hear me out hear me out season 6 is a much better note to end the series on, and therefore a better note to end your video series on! i can think of only 1 thing watching them out of order spoils for you, and even without watching season 6 you probably knew this thing was going to happen. just for your consideration.

Deborah Endris

ive often wondered what it would be like to watch multiple seasons back to back!

Deborah Endris

im so sorry! i think it was a poor choice for them and executed even more poorly. but i hope you give season 5b and/or season 6 a try!

Deborah Endris

agreed!

Deborah Endris

"no matter how many convincing texts i send her!!!"

Deborah Endris

I just marathon watched seasons 1-4 again over the past 1.5 days so that I could settle and enjoy this!!!!!! I remember this arc happening in real time and I saw some episodes but I didn't watch it close enough to follow any of the plot --- all I knew was that Emma was the Dark One and that something was messed up in Camelot. The Dark Trio (?) of 4b arc was actually the first recap I got to watch of an arc I apparently watched very little of, or at least remember very little of, but so far *37 min in* this one is way more fun. Also, super happy to see Boyd again! Boyd, you escaped from Derek to become a Knight and we're totally ignoring the murdered by Cora eventually part. Yay for Boyd. Two questions: 1. I have absolutely never heard of 5b arc. I'm sorry, HADES? Does he have blue flame hair? 2. Haley have you thought about trying to actually construct a working timeline of what chronological order the flashbacks take place in?

Megan Elizabeth Cobb

Henry having four parents in the world’s craziest polycule would have been the greatest ending in the history of television and since I have not seen the show I will continue to believe that’s where it all ends up

Michael West

someone i believe (my memory is tricking me, i have to rewatch 5x09) specifically says something along the lines of "why did you think your true love's kiss didn't work" so yes, him being the dark one rendered the kiss useless. you can't put out a fire while being on fire yourself. it was a foreshadowing (a poor one, i would rather see hook awake at random times at night wondering why he couldn't sleep or healing some minor scratches in record time)

Raven Rey

The amount of hatred I have for the whole concept/inception/existence of Dark One Hook cannot be fully describe into words. For me it was an assassination of character development for Emma, for Hook, for their relationship and I wasn't even that invested in Emma/Hook relationship in the first place. It is the actual reason why I stopped watching the show.

Marcela Santos

i like emma's flower girl fit. i could write an essay on that particular ball, and one paragraph if not one page would be dedicated to the symbolism of her dress.

Deborah Endris

this is a question ive had for almost 10 years. when killian kissed emma. if SPOILERS if they have true love which it's confirmed later that they do, why doesnt the kiss break her dark one curse? it doesnt make sense to me for it to be because emma doesnt believe she's cursed. Rumple viewed being the dark one as a good thing, too. and yet when Belle kissed him the curse started to lift (idk why it only went partway and they wouldve had to keep kissing, that's a whole nother discussion.) Sleeping curses are broken by true love's kiss no less than 3 times, which render the cursed person unable to have an opinion about whether the curse needs broken. am i forgetting an instance once Killian is revealed to be a second dark one, in which someone calls out that this is the true explanation for why their kiss didnt work? it just kinda... canceled itself out? who knows

Deborah Endris

Every. Time. Belle forgives Gold, he lies to her and messes everything up! Run for the hills Belle, please!

Vioname

Only halfway through this but 30 min worth of the simmering rage you serve in this video shall sustain me through thanksgiving

Babbity Kate

probably the funniest move they've ever made, tbh. just make it super red, and you can reuse all your sets and call em hell

Haley Whipjack

I'm so ready for the second half of season 5 where a red filter gets slapped on Storybrooke!!

Moon Noodles

also “magic always comes with a price” is clearly BULLSHIT because 1) everyone is constantly doing small magic without any sort of price (conjuring a cupcake for henry should mean that regina trips down the stairs or something) 2) rumplestiltskin is able to bypass collecting a price for saving david from certain death via dreamshade because neal tells him not to do that shit anymore 3) merlin is doing HUGE magic all the time in flashbacks without any sort of price. “magic always comes with a price! 🤪” no. magic only comes with a price when the narrative needs stakes

Sarah Sunshine

I have a lot of thoughts about this arc but what's always stuck with me ever since i watched it as a kid was that Merida kidnapped Belle and nobody else in the party even noticed she was missing and I feel like this could be used as an analogy for how the show treats Belle-

August Solaris

i thought that zelena was supposed to be powerless without her giant green pendant??? what the hell happened to that???

Sarah Sunshine

now that i think about it maybe hook didn't know that he's the dark one because of the dark curse. the curse isn't just a memory wipe+portal, it can give you a whole new personality. so technically he was cursed properly most likely because it would be hella awkward if he didn't sleep the entire time he was in storybrooke with no explanation. i would be concerned at least. i still imagine he didn't but was convinced that him not being able to sleep is normal behavior

Raven Rey

I can't believe you didn't mention my favorite part of the season: the Dark One boar that can breathe fire??? It's such a confusing concept. How'd this pig manage to kill a magic demigod with a dagger? Where did they keep it? Why does Rumple have them on speed dial?

ashraven

Oh my… oh my god. I stopped after the queens of darkness arc and this is hard to parse lol. I’m loving it though

Spapples

according to wikipedia, the round table *is* supposed to symbolize that everyone there is equal, but it does have the siege perilous as the designated chair for the guy who has accepted the quest to find the holy grail. so. onceuponatime is messing with the timeline of arthurian legend here so that their dark one dagger can have been excalibur/the holy grail this Whole Time.

Deborah Endris

As someone who watch this as it was airing the hook dark one reveal and merida helmet episode were back to back on the same night. That was a baffiling 45 minutes of nothing to do with dark one hook

Thomas Guzzo

The way this show tries to retroactively overlap characters and motivations is just.... so much. It's like watching a kid mix together colours for the first time, and at first they're figuring out the combinations and it's kinda cool, but then they keep adding and mixing and slowly, but inevitably, they create sludge grey. So I guess what I'm saying is these videos are a version of those colour matching guys, masterfully discerning exactly what combination got us here? This metaphor may not have logical consistency but hey neither does the show.

ArgentumInc

I am truly thriving because I have fully been hyperfixating on these ouat summaries

Sunny Solstice

I had an idea for the death x(‘s) should be like a red see-through cellophane for dead characters but those who show up in the afterlife and are present in the show. Dead but not entirely gone.

Chris

It was the perfect culminating to the incredibly confusing and large family tree

JaaMan02

Belle reminds me of this girl I knew who just refused to permanently break up with her boyfriend no matter how many times he would cheat on her and she found out every time, we literally encouraged her every time she broke up with him and then would scream and cry and shout when she would come back a week later like "he said he was sorry!" GIRL he does it bc he knows he can get away with it!!!

Vesper Sinclair

excited for the second half of the season to be supernatural I guess????

Lydia Galarneau

"Would you believe I'm still on a Gravity Falls kick" yes. because I am too. I can't stop being unwell about those sad old men

Roman Lanslide

I'm more mad about the lost potential than i am about 5a. i would like lizard Emma, or truly evil Emma or alternatively Emma and Hook could've gone Harley and Joker and then the heroes would need to fight them and reform. merlin was underutilized somehow, like he has been in a tree for a thousand years and still had the apprentice? and still projected into a movie theater to warn emma? while the dark ones just couldn't do stuff this powerful? insane

Raven Rey

i do! love the dark swan ark just for this minute clever moments and fun dynamics. rumple and emma: first he coaches her to be good while his eviled hallucination is present and in the end of the season he is in fact the evil mastermind. the entire plan to destroy the dakness through zelena also amazing truly. yes hook being the dark one is the downside but the reveal how the curse was cast had my jaw on the floor. i just can't admit i don't like 5a, it was too cool... sometimes... occasionally. waiting for 5b patiently because oh hell it's a doozy. the roundup as well

Raven Rey

55:00 tbf i think emma was the one who set the horse loose so she'd have this mission with Henry. manipulative

Deborah Endris

ever so briefly!

Deborah Endris

"so the show is wrong" relatable. this is the season- if it wasn't already in 4- when i started to wonder if i knew the canon better than the writers.

Deborah Endris

Also omg I do love how Emma gives the dagger to Regina loll

ClaireOnline

Man I love this series so much loll, longform series overviews are just kinda my jam, but what with how *wild* ouat is and how fantastic your speaking style and everything is, I rewatched the entire series again in preparation, and I'm so excited for this part loll

ClaireOnline

"David and Arthur go to a mushroom mission" sent me 🤣

Joanna Wiorek

I just imagened Rumpelstiltskin being crowned king in the Westminster Abbey

Joanna Wiorek

It's a wolf thing 😏

Joanna Wiorek

“If you can say Snow White woulda done it too its not a Dark One coded action” Idunno I think stealing a baby so you can imbue the concepts of evil and hatred into it for your personal benefit is a very Rumplestiltskin/Dark One move and Snow White did that last season

Agumame

Loven the oh crap what did I start energy. Gonna feel good when u finish but I been there before and hectic mindscapes is the best description I can come up with

Joshua Caliendo

oh nevermind THERE'S the scales

Ji dem

scrumpt?

Deborah Endris

hey yeah i guess gold didnt know he could've sqooshed merlin's heart/couldnt get merlin out of the tree. and im sure it's rare for dark ones to have true loves, so i doubt any of them between nimue and gold had true loves he could exploit. definitely not because the showrunners hadnt thought of this yet and we're retconning, nooo!

Deborah Endris

d'you mean belle? gold hadnt met her yet when he trained regina to cast the dark curse

Deborah Endris

i-

Deborah Endris

hey you're right, the people of storybrooke had to to without Granny's for six whole weeks! they also did without any of their usual leadership (mayor mills, mayor mary margaret, team double sheriff, volunteer librarian/researcher belle) but i mean. no grill chee?

Deborah Endris

also this matters to no one but me but when i rewatched 5a last year i realized that the knight from the opening that fucking disintegrates and is there for 30 seconds plays agent stone/eggman's boyfriend in the sonic movies and i was going crazy and pointing at my screen. also lancelot was boyd in teen wolf. this isnt important but im going to pretend that boyd just got to become a cool knight forever.

Avery Little

god season 5a is so. i rewatched it about a year ago and it is such a strange ride, the storybrooke stuff kind of bored the hell out of me except when they did stuff with hook or henry. I do kind of adore dark one hook bc the moment he goes full evil you can TELL how much fun the actor was having and it made the scenes really fun to watch for me. The merida stuff was so pointless though why is she here . I was just fully obsessed w hook in this season especially in the beginning bc of how annoyed he is with literally everyone its so entertaining. I originally watched the season when it aired back in middle school and all i remembered was the scene of emma being forced to kill hook. I am SHOCKED that people dont like the underworld arc though, the orpheus and eurydice stuff made me absolutely insane upon rewatch, AND AND AND *THAT* scene when they enter the underworld??? FUCKKKK that stuff is so good. also i love how many guys they just being back for shits and giggles. dont get me started on the mayor of the underworld though. we dont talk about that, everyone else is funny though. like yes of course lets put peter pan in a silly little suit.

Avery Little

yeah even though she said i summon thee, since she didnt have the dagger he could have chosen not to appear it is weird that Henry says it 3x tho

Deborah Endris

Okay first of I love this series so much I can't even. Back when OUAT was airing this show almost 100% passed me by except for two scenes which I caught by accident. The first was Rumple and Ashley at the ball and the second time was the scene where Zelena stole Meridas bow. Without any context I was absolutely perplexed why there was a live action Merida and why she had beef with a witch and some knight - hilarious. Anyway as much as I love Zelena please never stop dragging her for filth it's the funniest shit ever

Marco Kohler

hey, why isnt emma scaley ?? shouldnt she have scales ? or did the dark one curse decide to yassifie rumple specifically and no one else ?

Ji dem

When I tell you I *screamed*

chronic_escapee

I think the “Henry saying Emma’s name” thing is kind of the same as when Regina went “rumple stilt skin I summon thee” in the enchanted forest

chronic_escapee

this arc really makes me appreciate just how good rumpelstiltskin is at being the dark one. everyone else just can't measure up to the scaly lizard man's kind of evil (also rip baelfire, turns out someone can be the dark one and a good parent at the same time)

Jasmine

So after watching this I realized I had no memory of basically all the events of this season besides Emma's bleach blond hair, Ruby and Mulan running away together and the twist with Killian. I know I watched this season as it came out too, but dang nothing stuck with me. Honestly from this season on my memory of the plot just blurs away.

Kazran

you and me both man, there is witchcraft in that woman

Haley Whipjack

i do not need him and neither do yall!!!!

Haley Whipjack

yeah they left that part out of the bible for some reason

Haley Whipjack

no i am 100% with you, that scene bowled me over and made the whole show worth it

Haley Whipjack

Every time Ruby is mentioned, I start giggling and kicking my feet

Chris

also idk if i realized this when i first watched the show, but nimue's mistake here was definitely the fact that she projected her own fears onto emma, or assumed that would be emma's deepest fear as well. meanwhile emma has already moved past that lie when her childhood in an unknown number of foster homes tried to force her to believe it- or at least, she's currently winning her fight against that lie. more on that in season six.

Deborah Endris

i fell asleep to this last night, i remember waking up briefly when i heard the FANTASTIC line i could never sleep on: "I'M NOT NOTHING I WAS NEVER NOTHING! THE POWER YOU HAVE, I DON'T NEED." thank you for including that!!

Deborah Endris

THANK YOU FOR BEING SO MAD ABOUT THE 'SECRET DARK ONE' PLOT - granted, the only episode of season five that i know i watched is the mulan/merida one because, well, mulan was in it and i am a simple person, but! i still understood the rough shape of the actual plot of the show and that always pissed me off

digimaniac33

"but it might have something to do with head" LMAOOOOOO

Cat in a skin suit

“I missed Dr. Whale, wish he wasn’t blonde about it.” Look, that whole iZombie virus is a hell of a thing, and the cure didn’t stick. We 👏 are 👏 all 👏 caught 👏 up 👏 on 👏 the 👏 iZombie 👏 Once Upon a Time 👏 crossover 👏 universe 👏 👏 👏

Site-42 (TheeSherm)

I love this season, this was the last season I watched. I love Dark Swan, but I truly believe the entire second arc can be justjustified by the single scene where SPOILER WARNING Emma talks to her Ex's mother and her current boyfriends ex

JaaMan02

IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS VIDEO AHSGJSSB

Wren!!

This was the last arc of OUAT that my mom and I watched, back in the day when it aired, and it’s just as bonkers as I remembered. lol I didn’t remember any details of this season clearly, apart from: - Hook was secretly a Dark One, with no memory of it - Merlin was involved with the creation of the Dark One, via Nimue - Camelot was involved somehow - Yet another dark curse was cast - Merida from Brave was there - Henry had a crush on a girl and it was awkward The rest was just a hazy memory that radiated pure OUAT batshittery. I vaguely remembered liking it, but still finding it just a bit much. lol 😅 I very much look forward to part two, for the Underworld arc, because it will finally be a recap of an arc I never watched before, and I’m looking forward to finding out what craziness I missed out on! 😁

Trisidael

I love that they truly did not care even a little bit that the guy who plays Dr. Whale bleached his hair for iZombie XD It doesn't even look like Whale's back, it looks like Blaine iZombie showed up to pretend to be a doctor in Storybrooke Maine for shits and giggles

Heather Reid

I know for a fact I watched this season as it premiered and I know that I watched all of ouat last season, but if you had asked me to describe any of what happened this arc, I think my only things to grasp onto would be (a) Emma has a house now, that’s cool, and (b) they teleported basically the only restaurant in the town out of town for a while?? Loved the vid as always!!! (Also love the dedication to not covering up Will, Anton, and Ashley by just going outside of the board. They are wonderful and it will be a sad day when they get covered)

Cerulia

also by drawing the sword from the stone, does that mean mr gold should have The Rightful King of England as a nametag

Trashley

So you are telling me jesus christ drank out of what would one day become the dark one dagger

Trashley

oh today has been the worst day ever and I have been crying and disassociating to the first 4 of these for the 100th time all day, I cannot even begin to explain how bad I needed this oh my godddd what perfect timing I cannot wait to devour this video rn

Gracie

Yesssss!

Kazran

I still can't believe they called it the "Dark Swan" arc. c'mon. Black Swan was RIGHT THERE

Roman Lanslide

the charmings were so... they made such a blunder by not telling ANYONE they suspected Arthur or about their plan to test him. they could've avoided getting magic mind-controlled, or at least they couldve been freed from it sooner, if they'd been smart about it

Deborah Endris

RIP merlin. "couldve ended it forever, ended up a tree"

Deborah Endris

covering up isaac (formerauthor) without a WORD when Merida needed a spot is hilarious

Deborah Endris

From the studio that brought you Elsa Frozen™ and Anna Frozen™... ...Merida Brave™.

Scoobert Doobert

The scream I scrum, I been waiting on this one man!!

Kianna Moore

WOOHOO! THANK YA!

Deborah Endris

I think Regina summoned ru.ple by saying it three ti.es once he popped in and told her she said it wrong? Maybe it's kinda more like a phone call to ask them to appear rather than force them to appear like the dagger?

Anthony Lugo

If you could use any dark ones true love why did rumple need Regina to cast the original curse

Matt E.

My cat walked across my keyboard while I was watching this and put my computer in airplane mode

Hannah

I'm so excited for this

Marc

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who likes the Underworld arc 😅😅

Sarah Sunshine

Lovely

Zakarie Wayman

OH HELL YEAH 😼

aidan

This is exactly what I needed today

Jet

The way I'm so unreasonably excited for this!!!

The Plum Satyr

Ohh my gosh i'm so stoked. I need to go to bed but i'll be listening on my commute tomorrow!

Kira Day


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