Kelly’s conundrum, Dr. Facilier’s game, and more as we dig into the 150th episode directed by none other than Lana Parrilla. Plus, some Easter Eggs, how the flashbacks fit in the timeline, storytellers and sociopaths in this full-discussion of 7×17 “Chosen”!

We really liked this episode. It’s not what we expected at all.

I was kinda hoping for a more show spanning 150th episode but with not that many episodes left in the series it makes sense to keep moving the show forward.

— Melanie

Since Zelena is off to San Francisco with Chad, will we see her again for the finale? If this isn’t the last time we’ll see her, how will her story wrap up?

It was ashamed that majority of the East Coast didn’t get to see the last few minutes of the episode due to the breaking news that was shown towards the final scene of the episode. Apparently, Dr. Facilier took out the little dust and sprinkled some trust dust on it, stuck a pin in it, killing Nick. At first, we thought it was Gothel who is going to walk in but it was Dr. Facilier. Where is Gothel? It has been two episodes since we last saw her.

Gingerbread House Flashback

The way “Chosen” started was sort of disorienting. It felt like it was a mid-scene; they should’ve focused on the sky or a tree for just a second or two, and then zoomed out. However, we did get an interesting feedback about a couple of Easter Eggs from the episode:

This was honestly one of the best, if not, the best episodes of Once Upon a Time this season. Where have these writers been all this time?

Hansel’s address on his apartment door is 1812, the date the Grimms brothers released the first edition of Hansel and Gretel.

I’m sure many people are confused as to when the flashbacks could have taken place, but judging by the age of Hansel and Gretel 2.0 and with them being the same age as Henry, this could place this around the time of season two, but no later than the Neverland arc of season three as we first met Zelena during the second half after the curse was broken in 3×11 Going Home and everyone was taken back to the Enchanted Forest.

Apart of me was rooting for Hansel to be redeemed so I was kind of sad to see him go.

I find it interesting that Henry’s first friends in the entire series were Hansel and Gretel back in 1×09 True North and the first friend he makes in Enchanted Forest 2.0 is Jack who turns out to be Hansel.

— DeAndre

What is in Henry’s books exactly? Isn’t his book in Hyperion Heights just the story of his life in Storybrooke? Did he include all the stories in the other Once Upon a Time book along with his stories? Henry spoke, when he was trying to relate to Hansel but thinking Hansel’s crazy, of things that he would remember if he were awake, which means that they have to be in his book, which means that his book has to include stuff from wherever he was. Perhaps he knew, when he was writing about Hansel in the book, it’s the other Hansel and he would’ve written only about Jack? If the book ended with him meeting Cinderella, then all of that previous stuff with Jack would still be in the book, because that was when he was younger and anything after meeting Ella was not in the book.

Why are Hansel and Gretel from Oz? If not, what are they doing in Oz? On the other hand, Zelena seems greener than previous episodes. These flashbacks, while they seemed to just poofed into existence to make the story work, we liked this story as we haven’t seen a lot of good vs evil conflict from Zelena from during that time. We have previously when Rumplestiltskin was training her.