An old nemesis becomes a threat, and a previous threat comes under control.

These are just our first thoughts about this Once Upon a Time episode, and we’ll share more in our upcoming full episode.

Ruby’s fear about turning into a wolf during the first curse-free Storybrooke full moon is confirmed when one of the town’s residents is viciously murdered, and Ruby is the prime suspect; Decker – aka King George – threatens to expose David as a shepherd, not a prince, and not fit to run the town as sheriff; and Leroy stumbles upon some treasure in the Storybrooke mine that could help bring Mary Margaret and Emma back into our world. Meanwhile, in the fairytale land that was, Red Riding Hood finds a kindred spirit in Anita (Annabeth Gish), a charismatic and mysterious leader of a pack of humans who, like Red, turn out to be wolves.

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Initial reactions

Some of our interesting discussion points (in no particular order):

* Henry and Aurora are seeing each other in the nightmare, but Henry learned how to control it! They are even communicating.

* The flames from Henry’s dream are actually burning him because the nightmares are actually another realm, between life and death.

* Will Henry be the hero and help communicate between Present-Day Fairy Tale Land and Storybrooke?

* The dwarfs found diamonds. If they can make fairies have magic again from the fairy dust?

* The story in Enchanted Forest seems to be one month after “Red Handed.”

* We loved seeing Billy, also known as Gus the mouse from Disney’s Cinderella. But he was too young to die!

* DA Spencer may have burned Jefferson’s magic hat, but what about the one Emma made in “Hat Trick”?

* Red learned to control her powers! We expected this based on her helpfulness in previous episodes.

* Whose sunken castle was the werewolf pack hiding in?

We gave everything a brief overview and would love to hear your thoughts!

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Important OUaT and podcast schedule

There will be no episode of Once Upon a Time on Sunday, November 18, so we’ll take the week off the podcast. So we’ll have a podcast on November 14, and then the next on November 25.

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