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Once Upon A Time 4x15 “Poor Unfortunate Soul” Recap

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“Poor Unfortunate Soul” served as yet another reminder that our conscious choices are what have the greatest affect on our happy endings. 

Enchanted Forest Flashbacks: While searching for ways to get his revenge on Rumple, Hook and his crew hear a mermaid’s gorgeously haunting voice while sailing away from massive rocks and learn that she has no intentions of harming them. However, while having drinks with his crew, Killian sees the same mermaid singing and recognizes her voice. The two share drinks and confide in one another and he plans to help her leave from father. Poseidon finds Killian and tells him that if he takes Ursula’s voice instead, he’d give him squid ink that’ll paralyze Rumple. Wantingto keep to his code, Killian asks Ursula to steal the squid ink but an argumentwith Poseidon forces him to make the wrong choice by stealing Ursula’s voice.Filled with hatred towards humans and anger, Ursula turns herself into the legendary goddess and leaves her father’s home for good.

Present Day Storybrooke: While attempting to find out  where Regina and the villains took Pinocchio, Regina takes over Snow’s body and tells them their location along with the fact that Rumplestilskin is back. And when the Charmings visit Belle to summon him with the dagger they learn that he had disguised himself as Killian to take it from her. After he fails to give Ursula her voice back and she throws him overboard the Jolly Roger, Killian’s saved by Ariel and the two of them bring Poseidon back in order for him to remove the shell’s enchantment. Ursula chooses to keep her promise, and therefore, before she leaves with her father, she tells Killian that Rumple’s agenda is to fill Emma’s heart with darkness.  

Tonight’s episode is without a doubt our favorite since “Shattered Sight” and if there’s anything we love more than a beautiful backstory, it’s a fantastically driven plot that’s bound to make the rest of the season incredible.

Once Upon A Time 4x12 "Darkness on the Edge of Town" Recap

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Asalways Once Upon A Time resumed with a strong premiere reminding its viewersthat this is a series filled with an insanely talented cast and fiercely badass women.

Enchanted Forest Flashbacks: Rumplestilskin lies (shocking) and the Queens of Darkness manage to escape from the Chernabog.

Present Day Storybrooke: Things are finally calm in Storybrooke and it sadly doesn’t stay this way for long. Killian helps Belle search for a way to free the fairies from the hat. Emma continues to help Regina find the author of the book. Snow’s teaching again. And the lovebirds manage to have a quick moment which a quaint stroll. It was unbelievably nice to get a glimpse of what their lives are like now as it did a great job of taking us back to the show’s first season. Domesticity in Once Upon A Time is one of the primary reasons we fell in love with the series in the first place and it was incredibly nice to see our heroes living their lives uninterrupted in our world. If there’s one thing we’d like to personally see more of throughout the season it’s the quiet moments.