OUaT’s “we were on a break!”

It’s backkk. Yes, even though Once stopped being recapped here by episode 12 last season, they were nice enough to let me have a crack at it for the new season. This is kind of magical for me for a couple of reasons, and I think it’s only fair to be upfront about it, which I address after the jump.

I did do my homework and went back to read Melissa’s recaps. I understand the whole Graham-related disillusionment, but while I did love him, it wasn’t a huge straw for me. Also, I think that right after the recaps stopped the episodes got really good.

If you gave up sometime during Season 1, I encourage you to seek out the recap special episode they did called “Magic Is Coming” (can be found on Hulu here). I watched it and it does a really great job of outlining and summarizing the important people/things/events, leaving out the more minor character specific stuff (like Jiminy and Grumpy’s backstories) and, most helpfully, in a much more linear timeline than how things worked out in the season. Even if you have watched all the episodes, I think it’s handy and would recommend it, as a refresher or for clarification.

I’ll still do a run-down of the last half of the season (episodes 13-22) and then we can get into the season premiere,  which was pretty darn awesome, a tiny bit disappointing and featured my favorite Disney princess + prince and a Disney character I have a special connection to. Onward!

So, my background (like, if you care. I don’t know, I just want to be upfront).

First, I am a huge Disney nerd. HUGE. I always have been a fan; I still have my Minnie Mouse ears from my first trip to Disneyland when I was 4. It’s gotten even worse in the past few years too; my first trip to Disneyworld occurred less than a month before I started university, so I was still on a Disney high and it sort of became my thing, and that’s okay to me, because there are definitely worse things that could have been my thing. So I leaned into it and now I have a wall in my last dorm room that looks like this (and yep, that’s the OUaT on the TV), and a bed that looks like this (the pillow says “happily ever after on the back”) and if you look at the rest of my tumblr for about the last month or so… yeah. If we’re twitter tweeps you also know that I spent a few days earlier this month at Disneyland (omg the new California Adventure ican’teven).

Basically, I was predestined to love this show. I also grew up loving twists on fairytales (Ella Enchanted – the book, not the crappy movie; Fables the comic, etc). I want to write a ton about fairy tales and mythology and magic and reality and all that jazz because I’m a sociology girl in some creative writing/poetry classes right now, and I just might on a week when we don’t have a new episode, but I’ll try to spare you from too much of that on a week-to-week basis.

However, I’m also a big ole women’s studies feminist person, which really fun when it comes to Disney, and especially this show. Last semester I was in a sociology of gender course and I actually wrote a paper on gender portrayals in Once Upon a Time, another one on them in Mulan, and I have another major one I’ll be working on for the next six months before graduation comparing the gender portrayals in three of the Disney Princess Classics with Three of the Renaissance Era Princess movies. So. In sum, I love Disney and I really love what this show gets to do because it’s owned by Disney, but I’m not unaware of it’s issues.

On to recapping!

After the last recap (of Belle and Rumple’s story) we got: a missing person/murder mystery/frame job in Storybrooke. In The Enchanted Land:

• 1×13: Great characterization expansion on Abigail (Charming’s ex-fiancee)
• 1×14: Grumpy’s story (his original name was Dreamy!)
• 1×15: Snow became BFFs with Red-Riding Hood (who was finally the version I have always dreamed of)
• 1×16: Some bad bad!ass Snow who without love in her heart, and more Snow + Charming love.
• 1×17: The Mad Hatter (Sebastian Stan!) whose curse is to be fully aware of the curse. Way sad.
• 1×18: Regina backstory (including how she met Snow and Barbara Hershey) Fantastic episode.
• 1×19: More Rumple and Bae stuff (including finding out that Bae left the Enchanted Land and may be in this one)
• 1×20: The introduction, mystery and reveal of August (played by Eion Bailey, who may do some to ease the pain of losing the man!candy of Graham).
• 1×21-22: Finally in the climax of the season, Henry’s sacrifice is the catalyst that brings Emma to believe in the curse, after which she use her father’s sword, fights Maleficent who was trapped in her dragon form and ends up saving dead Henry with her True Love’s Kiss for him. This breaks some of the curse, enough that everyone in Storybrooke gets their Enchanted Land (aka real) memories back, but they don’t return to that land. Also, the Mad Hatter (Jefferson) springs Belle from the hospital and sends her off to Rumple/Gold, and he goes off the drop the True Love potion (that he made from the hair of Snow and Charming, and that he had Charming hide in Maleficent and had Emma retrieve) into a well which brings a huge purple cloud into town. He brought magic into this realm, but it doesn’t always work the way it should here, because our world is not special like that.

Who’s the dude? No idea. I tried pausing and looking for possible clues in his apartment, but nothing jumped out at me. There is an interesting print on the wall, an old sign that says “Cleaners and Hatters”, various trinkets hanging by the door and a ton of vintage radios on the bookcase. Oh, look, someone’s already gone all OCD on this set so I don’t have to (and they also asked a co-creator about it). Probably popular theories are that he’s Rumple’s son Baelfire, or that he’s Henry’s father/Emma’s baby!daddy (or they’re one in the same?). Also begs the question: who sent the postcard? Mystery!

In the Enchanted Land, which suddenly looks like Arizona or New Mexico or somewhere definitely not Vancouver, two people ride towards a castle with very interesting design. I can’t put my finger on it. It’s definitely not European, like the classic Disney castles (and the other castles we’ve seen on the show).

The riders arrive and one of them, Prince(?) Phillip chops through some thorny branches like twice to get to a sleeping lady on a platform. Lame. He prepares to kiss her, but first says to his masked companion, “If this works, we don’t tell her everything. Not right away.” Ugh, sketchy. He smooches the girl, True Love’s Sonic Wave goes out and she wakes up. They call each other Phillip and Aurora but NOPEEEEEEEEE. I can’t, dudes. This is UNFAIR. How comes Snow, Cindy and Belle all match their Disney counterparts, at least on the hair color, but my fave, the one with blonde hair and brown eyes (just like mine!) is suddenly a blue-eyed brunette? I am legitimately upset. Even her costume is wrong! She’s wearing Disney’s Rapunzel’s dress. This is the only acceptable way for Phillip & Aurora to look:

RAGE BLACKOUT: [more Disney history you don't care about, but my on my 1st Disneyland trip when I was 4, I was too young to ride a lot of the rides, and my Grandpa didn't want to, so we ended up walking through Sleeping Beauty's castle over and over again, and I still always have to do it again when I'm back there. I still have my Sleeping Beauty Barbie doll from that 1995 trip, with her reversible pink/blue dress. And yep, I got the crown on my last trip.]

So show? On this front:

Okay, I’m back now. There’s a possibility that the show is fucking with us (me), because there’s some dialogue where Aurora says about Maleficent, “first she goes after my mother and then me”, so maybe the OG, Real Sleeping Beauty is this poser’s mom? There’s also some possible timeline shit, because remember in 1×02 when Regina visited Maleficent she said that Snow’s current age (at her wedding) was the age Maleficent was “when that sleeping beauty got the best of you”. And from what we learn about when this episode’s action is taking place, they really cannot be the same. I think it has to be this Aurora mom that was the Disney Sleeping Beauty.

Anyway, fake!Aurora and Phillip make out a little and his companion turns away, then they chat about going to a “safe haven” where their people have gather and that there are new dangers now. Since this storyline and the Storybrooke one don’t come together until the end, I’m going to stick with recapping the whole one here first.

Phillip’s masked friend feels on the castle tiles and the a motherfrakking Dementor pops out. Phillip super lamely waves his sword at it a few times, solidifying me not accepting him as actual Prince Phillip. Actual Prince Phillip was the most badass of the Classic Princes. This lame guy does cut off the Dementor’s necklace before flies away, and then picks it up, which was DUMB. Fake!Aurora asks what that was. Phillip: “Something bad.” (Henry said the same about the purple magic cloud. I love dialogue motifs.)

Great work, dude.

And we get another one, when Phillip’s friend finally removes their helmet and it’s Mulan! [Fun fact: one of my really good friends is the daughter of the co-director of Mulan. We actually watched the movie with the director's commentary and I kept having to ask "is that your Dad? is that him?" He also drew bubbles in The Little Mermaid and worked on Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. What is up.]

Fake!Aurora is a huge bitch about her. “I’m sorry, who is this?… You’re a girl?” Mulan: “Woman.” (Same thing Snow + Charming said upon first meeting in 1×03). Phillip’s like, yeah we’ve fought a lot of battle sand she’s awesome. Fake!Aurora, like “fought battles? With a woman?” Omg, why is she being the fucking worst? Mulan drops some Dementor knowledge: it’s actually a Wraith, but same soul-sucking MO and it also marks its victim. And because Philip picked up the amulet necklace he got a death mark on his hand, but he hides it from Fake!Aurora and they all head out.

Mulan is smart and knows when and where to camp; Fake!Aurora is a bitch to her and stands around while Philip sets up the tent. She also really doesn’t want to sleep. I don’t blame her for that. He gets angsty because he knows he’s going off to die, but says he’ll be back in 5 after some firewood collection. He kisses her, kisses the crap out of her and they ILU and he’s off. I didn’t mention before, but Philip is played by the super cute Julian Morris (Wren of Pretty Little Liars) and here he does the silent manly single tear almost as well as Josh Dallas.

See?

Fake!Aurora sits and plays with her hair while Mulan is busy working, trying to make fire. They hear the Wraith noise in the woods and F!A asks where Phillip is. He is not making fire like he said he would. Nope, he left and took the horses. Mulan figures out that he was marked and is sacrificing himself “for [F!A]“. Mulan goes off to help him, but isn’t interested in F!A coming because she’ll slow her down. F!A’s stupid and grabs her cloak (she doesn’t have any weapons, so…) and gets lost in literally a second and screeches for Mulan.

F!A finds one of the horses, probably not even on purpose and rides up to Mulan, who is like “can you not?” Mulan, always about honor, is trying to honor Philip’s wishes to keep F!A safe. She brats that she never asked for that, but he loves her so much she never had to: “Everything he does he does for you. Love is sacrifice, something you clearly don’t understand.” And he’s not going to facethe Wraith alone, because Mulan’s going to find him and actually knows how to fight, unlike F!A.

And then the WORST thing happens, because F!A calls Mulan out, accusing her of being in love with Philip. I just… hate this. So much. Why does it have to be that? Just because they fought together and she’s a girl and he’s a pretty boy that means she fell for him? So grossed out by this show right now. Mulan protests, and F!A’s like “I know love when I see it.” Shut. Up. The Wraith agrees with me.

They find Philip waiting for the Wraith and there’s screaming back and forth, all “It’s too late for me” and “I don’t want to live without you.” Mulan even volunteers to mark herself to save them, but it’s no use. Right before he gets soul-sucked, Philip turns his head halfway and says “I love you” to the ground. Basically, I think it’s supposed to be unclear whether he’s talking to Aurora or Mulan, but since he’s been all up on Aurora’s jock since she woke up (plus, True Love’s Kiss) and Mulan’s in the friend zone it is a pretty shitty move for the show to make that ambiguous.

So his soul gets sucked out by the Wraith and then it goes back into the talisman, I think? Or it’s Philip’s soul in there? Either way, they hold on to it and Mulan puts it in a nice little bag and gives it to F!A to hold on to. They brought Philip back to the same stone table bed F!A was on before, and apparently that’s the palace they were supposed to stay in for eternity, and F!A ended up there asleep because Mulan’s “not the only one who knows about sacrifice”.

The real question: where the hell is he?

So that’s technically not the very end of that story, but now it makes sense to re-cap the Storybrooke times, which were considerably less maddening, but more heartbreaking.

Snow and Charming are still in the middle of the street, right after their epic kiss and the magic purple haze coming in. They walk down the street and the first people they see are Granny and Ruby! Ruby’s “Snow!” TEARS. Favorite lady!friendship of the show! Look at their faces!

Then all seven of the dwarfs are there, with Grumpy saying “you highness” and they all bow to her and huge group hug! I’d put a gif if I could find one. Grumpy asks is the curse is broken, and Charming’s like, “I guess so?” What’s next? For Snow? Finding her daughter.

Emma’s right behind them. “So it’s true.” Yep, your parents are Snow White and Prince Charming. Emma’s still having a hard time processing, because she still has 28 years of not knowing anything about her parents, at all. But seriously, can we all take a second and just marvel at the acting of these three?

For Snow and Charming, Emma is the baby they just had, the one they just had to give up and now she’s this wonderful, beautiful grown-up woman. They just lost her, but she’s been lost from them for her whole life. And there’s Charming watching his wife and his daughter. And then there’s Emma, whose face just so perfectly reflects her conflict: she’s been both longing for and resenting her parents for so long, how do you even deal with something like that. I am just floored by this scene.

And then it gets better, because Henry’s there and calls Charming “grandpa”, and like, I’m out.

Actual photo of me, watching this scene.

Henry: “She did it. She saved you.” Snow: “She saved all of us.” Emma: “I… well-”. So. Awkward. They get down to business (to defeat… the Huns). Grumpy’s like “why are we still here?” Sneezy: “what was that smoke?” Doc(?): “who did this?”

“Magic. It’s here. I can feel it.” Thanks Blue Fairy. Unfortunately, she can’t do jack squat. They all blame Regina for the magic coming, but Emma knows that it couldn’t have been her, because she was still in the hospital when it came.

Nope, it was Rumple, who’s still out in the forest by the well with Belle, who had time to dye her hair a couple of shades darker. That’s nice. She explains that Regina abducted her (sometime after when she talked to Grumpy in 1×14) and locked her away in the Enchanted Land until the curse, then it was the asylum. Rumple’s pretty pissed, but Belle makes him promise not to kill Regina, not to give into his hate, and then they can be together. He promises, and they kiss. Happily Ever After! Maybe not so much.

Good luck with that.

The crew (Charmings + Reds + Dwarfs) head down the street. Snow’s like “let’s talk, please? Ask us questions? Let us ask you questions? Tell us about your life and let us tell you about ours. LET US LOVE YOU.” Emma’s trying to focus on finding Gold, why he double-crossed her and what he did (with the bringing magic). She wants to talk later,  ”like, with a glass of wine.. or several… bottles?” I love Emma. She’s my kind of girl.

Snow and Charming “don’t want to push” her, “but they’re waited for this moment for so long”. That’s when Emma snaps. “So have I! I’ve thought about this moment my entire life. I’ve imagined who you might be, but of all the scenarios that I’ve concocted my parents being… I just need a little time, that’s all.”

Luckily, there’s an angry mob to distract Snow and Charming from parenting Emma to death. Dr. Whale has gone all Gaston/Kill the Beast! and is leading the townspeople to go kill Regina. Good thing Jiminy was around to hear that plan, and he goes to the crew to beg them to intervene, because murder = bad. Henry also pipes up, and with more care for Regina than he showed in all of last season, begs them to help. Charming takes another tact, reasoning that if magic is back, then the townspeople might be marching to their own deaths. Basically, death = bad. There’s a great super!marrieds looks between him and Snow and then they all take off.

Rumple and Belle go back to his shop, and he tells her he’s going off to get her something other than a hospital gown to wear. How thoughtful. Only he goes in the back, bypasses a rack of (truly tragic looking) clothes and goes to a cabinet to fetch the Wraith amulet. Look dude, I think she wants new clothes before some cursed jewelry.

Whale and the Mob (good band name) have gotten to Regina’s, and she is kind of amazing when she opens the door.

Whale Sark’s it up, all “we’re going to make you suffer like you made us suffer”. Regina goes full evil queen mode, even throwing back her blazer with her arms like she’s still wearing one of her awesome capes, ready to magic it all up.

Whale’s just about to start the pain when Emma and her peeps show up, and she’s got authority, not only as the Savior, but also as the Sheriff. Charming physically steps in, but Whale tells him that he’s “not my prince”. Hrmmmm? Charming asks who Whale is, but that’s for later in the season, silly. Charming claims his business as “making sure this town doesn’t go to hell”. C: “So whether or not I’m your prince, isn’t the issue. We have a lot to figure out, and this isn’t the way to do it.” Snow steps up for some back-up, logically telling everyone that killing Regina won’t answer anything. She is going to be locked up, for her own safety and for the town’s.

Once she’s locked up, Charming asks her why they didn’t go back to the Enchanted Land once the curse was broken. She claims that it’s because “there’s nothing to go back to. That land is gone.” That seems… hinky.

They head off to find Gold, but then he suddenly appears to talk to Regina. How did they not all see him come in as they walked out? What the? They do their dance; this is great to watch if you’ve heard the commentary with Robert Carlyle on 1×12, where he talks about their scenes together. Regina: “I assume this is all your fault.” Rumple: “Most things are.”  He’s not there to kill her, because he promised, he’s just going to mark her with the Wraith amulet and have the Wraith kill her. Loophole!

He goes out into the woods with his fancy name dagger and the amulet: “The Dark One summons thee.” Regina jolts awake in her cell as the mark on her palms burns, and the Wraith comes out of the amulet.

Emma sends Henry off with Ruby, because best babysitter ever. Snow can’t help but keep staring at Emma, which Charming notices. “Don’t push it, Snow.” “I won’t.” Ugh, Marrieds! I love it. I’m so glad they are back as themselves. A second later she’s all over Emma again, “we need to talk” and Charming just hangs his head. Ha. This scene is great too.

Snow: “You’re my daughter, and I want to talk to you. I know that we have talked, but we didn’t know that we were talking. And we talked about things we probably shouldn’t have even talked about.”

Emma finally agrees to talk, and then things go from funny to kind of sad.

Snow: “We’re together, finally, and I can’t help but think you’re not happy about it.”

Emma: “Aw, I am. But, see, here’s the thing: no matter what the circumstances, for 28 years I only knew one thing. That my parents sent me away.”

Snow: “We did that to give you your best chance.”

Emma: “You did it for everyone, because that’s who you are. Leaders, heroes, princes and princesses, and that’s great and amazing and…. wonderful, but it doesn’t change the fact that for my entire life I’ve been alone.”

Snow: “But if we hadn’t sent you away, you would have been cursed too.”

Emma: “But we would have been together. Which curse is worse?”

I would have to go with the one that couldn’t have been broken. Emma’s done talking, and ready to go yell at Rumple. Snow and Charming hold hands.

They arrive at the shop and now it’s night. Emma and her parents are pissed about all the shit he pulled in the finale, especially the risking Henry’s life part, but he think’s he deserves and thank you, since Henry’s alive and Emma was reunited with the Charmings. He confirms the purple haze was magic, but isn’t telling why he brought it.

There’s a little earthquake as the Wraith rolls into town. It’s Rumple’s gift, what will take care of Regina. Emma’s parents tell her they need to go take care of things, but not before Rumple reminds her/us that she still owes him a favor.

The whole time Belle was lurking in the back, overhearing the whole thing. Rumple’s “hey” to her is great, as is her pretty new dress. She calls him out for lying to her, and she’s mad because she thought he had changed. R: “What in the hour you’ve known me?” WOW. SMOOTH. He tries to apologize, but she storms out, crying.

Wraith in the prison. It starts soul-sucking Regina but the Charmings come in to chase it off. There’s a great callback to the Pilot, with Charming yelling “Hey!” at it, the same way he did at Regina when he threw the sword at her at the wedding. Emma gets her first look at her mom’s awesome fighting skills when Snow uses a lighter and a can of hairspray as a makeshift flamethrower and gets the Wraith out the window.

Post-battle pow-wow: didn’t kill it, it’s regenerating, it’ll be back, it doesn’t stop until it devours its prey, can’t kill it because you can’t kill something that’s already dead. There’s the problem. Charming gets a little bit vengeful, but if they let it kill Regina, then the rest of them will be safe. “That’s quite an example you’re setting for your daughter.” Snow and Emma both roll their eyes amazingly at that. Emma reminds him that they promised Henry Regina wouldn’t die, and Snow smiles at her awesome daughter.

She asks for suggestions on defeating the Wraith. “Send it somewhere it can’t hurt anyone.” Yeah, about that…

They go back to retrieve Jefferson’s magic hat from Regina’s office, and Regina smile the tiniest of genuine smiles when Emma tells her that Henry really did ask for her protection. When Emma sees the hat she has yet another tiny freak out, because holy shit that crazy hat dude Jefferson! He was actually telling the truth. Man, that’s going to be an awkward apology. “Like, sorry I didn’t believe you but you were also acting like a TOTAL FUCKING LUNATIC.” Regina feigns knowledge of Jefferson, just liked she tried to with Rumple about Belle. I don’t think anyone’s buying what she’s selling, so I don’t see the point. Snow and Charming arrive with brooms to use as torches. Charming: “I know it’s old-fashioned, but so am I.”

The idea is to lure the Wraith into the hat, sending it back to the Enchanted Land realm. Snow points out that she said their land was gone; “it is, but sending it to a place that no longer exists, well that’s banishing it to oblivion.”

Wraith approaches and Regina tries to spin the hat but fails to make it work. I called this right here that it would be Emma and her magic that would jump-start it, but first we needed a fight scene with flaming broom torches and using alcohol to light a gate thing on fire. When Emma puts her hand on Regina, the hat finally starts, and they both look a little stunned about it, even as the Wraith is coming at them. Emma does the honorable thing and pushes Regina out of the way, and Emma would have been okay, except the Wraith is a meddling little bitch and snakes it’s hand-thing out, grabbing Emma by the ankle and pulling her into the portal too.

Snow’s like “fuck this, I’m not going to lose my daughter again” and jumps into the portal too. Charming has the same thought, but he has to vault over the fence and the portal closes just as he lands on the floor.

The portal is gone, the hat is smushed, Charming is pissed and without Snow to temper him he goes off on Regina, asking if they’re dead and where they are. I think Regina honestly does not know, IMO. David: “I should have killed you myself.” But unfortunately, Regina seems to have gotten some of her magic back, and traps him against the wall, with branches coming out of the wallpaper to choke him. “You think you’re some heroic prince? Please. You’re nothing but the son of a shepherd.” Ah, how does Regina know that backstory? I think there was speculation at one point that the “miller’s daughter” that Charming’s real mom floated as a marriage prospect might have actually been Regina (since her Storybrooke surname is Miller).

Just as Regina’s about to kill Charming, in comes Henry: “Mom? What are you doing? Are you trying to kill my real  grandpa? That’s so evil queen-y of you.” Henry asks about Emma and Snow, but “they’re gone”. Regina claims she sorry, but Henry calls bullshit and says he doesn’t want to see her again; until she gets Emma and Snow back, she should leave him and everyone else alone. In the meantime, he’s going to hang with Grandpa Charming.

Rumple’s actually spinning again when Belle comes back to the shop after a long walk. She sees Chip and is happy he kept it; to him, of all the things in the shop, it is the only thing he truly cherishes. But still he tells her to leave, because he knows he’s still a monster, but to her that’s exactly the reason she has to stay. She is his temperament, much in the same way Snow is to Charming. Without them, left to their own devices, and especially when it comes to Regina, Charming and Rumple are potentially capable of a whole lot.

Charming and Henry break into Snow and Emma’s house and Henry sadly looks at a really cute framed photo of Jennifer and Ginnifer Emma and Snow. Charming Grandpa’s it up: “Henry, don’t worry. Emma and Mary Margaret, they’re alive.” “How do you know?” “I have faith… I will find them. I will always find them.”

Alright, let’s wrap this sucker up with an awesome twist.

In the Enchanted Land, Fake!Aurora is still moping over Philip’s body, but Mulan tells her they need to move out again, and tells her the whole truth, the one Philip wanted to keep from her. Technically, F!A was asleep for less than a year, but:

“[Regina the queen] cast a curse on this land. A terrible, terrible curse. It ripped everyone away to another world.”

“But we’re still here?”

“This corner of the land was untouched. No one knows why, but something saved us. And for 28 years we were frozen. And then time started again. The Terrible Curse’s powered was weakened. Philip and I were able to resume our search. We found you, but the land is ravaged with dangers more fearsome than you can imagine. For those of us who remain, we found a safe haven. We must go there now.”

So that’s awesome, since originally I’m guessing everyone assumed this Enchanted Land story was pre-Curse, but now we know it’s post. And it goes a little towards explaining why that area looked so completely different than any other area of the Enchanted Land we’ve ever seen before.

But wait, there’s more! The floor chasm that the wraith came out of is making noise, because something else is there. Mulan investigates, pulling aside some plywood. “Mulan, what is that?” “That, that is what brought the wraith here. That’s what killed out prince.” Okay, calm down lady, because that…

That: is Emma and Snow White.

Okay, long post is already too long. I’m sorry. Premieres are hard, there’s lots and lots of things to cover. I promise this will get better. I apologize for all of my Sleeping Beauty ranting, and for all for all my Disney craziness. The men in coats are coming to take me away to Belle’s old room.

I’m sure there are lots of little things I wanted to mention but forgot, but anyway, I want to hear your thoughts! What did you think of the premiere? Were you cool with the Sleeping Beauty stuff and am I just the crazy one (yes)? Who do you think Dr. Whale is? What about August!? Is he okay? I wonder if I could ask my friend’s dad if he’s seen this episode and what he thinks about Mulan here? (Would people maybe be interested in that?)

Finally here’s the preview for what’s coming up this season. Yep, excited just by the preview of the preview. (HOOK!)