Peter Pan Stole My Son (Once Upon a Time: Season 3 Recap) 

i LOVE that when gold meets up with felix and he calls him Rumpelstiltskin, he does his little pose but he does is so half assed, like he doesnt give a single shit anymore

Snow turning into a bug and charming recognizing her as a bug gives me real, “would you love me as if I was a worm?” energy

As a fellow Neal lover, I am also devastated by all the lost potential of even more weird family dynamic and Henry having just SO MANY parents

“i do not ship the pirate with that man. what they have is a lot weirder and sadder than that” is my new favorite way any relationship in any work of fiction has ever been described

Ok I just zoomed in closer on the whiteboard and Granny having 2 name tags that are Both “Granny” is SO fucking funny

Ah lovely, the season where they realize "ah fuck we ran out of backstory to tell in flashbacks" so they just have a timeskip memory potion so that they can have the flashbacks still

Totally totally totally agree with you on Neil -- completely wasted potential for the character relationship shenanigans. It would give Emma the opportunity to have AN ACTUAL FRIEND BESIDES HER WEIRD MOM. And Henry can have an adult he actually trusts. And Belle can have a support to hold on to for when Gold is an actual evil person again and again again. And the fact that they killed him in the worst way possible is just so disappointing

I'm so glad you acknowledged how fucking weird the Charmings are to Emma this season. They keep trying to parent her, but any time they have an opportunity to like replace her with another baby or abandon her to go live in Neverland forever, they will take it. Also it's just assumed that David is the person Snow loves most. Emma's name isn't even brought up. I'm just saying, Emma's abandonment issues aren't going anywhere anytime soon.

"THEY'RE ALL IN THE ARMS OF THE ANGELS" bestie, sweetie, i think Cora went the other way

"my special ability? i'm a mother" is the funniest thing you could say to the woman who's son you stole

Truly incredible that Gold/Rumplestiltskin wasn’t the Cowardly Lion analog since his whole story is about him being a coward and learning how to have courage without hiding behind his power.

The bit where Pan makes an offer to Hook, tells him not to tell the others then Hook immediately tells the others lives rent free in my mind

i am OBSESSED with felix and pan. that is a crazy dynamic. i need you to imagine being felix for a second. youre his right hand man. youre his attack dog. youre more loyal to him than you are to yourself. he trusts only you. hes the only thing you need. you love him, in whatever way you want to define it. he loves you, in whatever way you want to define it. he lets you in on every plan. he trusts you to be the one to bring him what he needs to survive. he promises you eternal youth and immortality ruling as his right hand man. and then. when hes not even in his own body. he kills you. as you beg for your life. because youre the only thing hes ever loved. that is a CRAZY ASS dynamic and i NEED to know more about it. why is felix like that. why.

Can't believe that The Solar Eclipse summoned the Whipjack Once Upon a Time Season 3 video. Hopefully we won't need to wait for the next astrological phenomenon for Season 4.

3:41:02 I can't believe Snow actually pulled a "would you still love me if I was a worm" and it WORKED

It would genuinely be so funny if Henry tried to explain a non-magical version of how Emma and Hook met. Just trying to tell a girl he likes about how his mum’s partner used to date his paternal grandmother then later adopted his dad. Between that and his adoptive mother being his step great grandmother, he’s got a great litmus test to see how people will react to the magic

The Neil Cassidy Alternate Future Ted Talk is now my headcanon, it’s brilliant and the show can’t take it away from me thank you.

Her mentioning the Black Fairy and that this is the first time we've heard of her, within the same two minutes as laughing that we simply don't know who Rumplestiltskin's mother is??? that's sixteen-shadowing or something my guy

I know its because Sebastian left to go to the MCU (and good for him because i am, at the end of the day, a Bucky Barnes *Stan*), but I love that Jefferson and his daughter just fuck off after Season 2. They find each other, they fuck off, and presumably live happily ever after in... Somewhere? Absolute King behavior 👑👑

i remember being sooo into peter pan when i watched this at the age of 12... finding out he was in fact a middle-aged deadbeat father SHATTERED me lmao but it also was the plot twist that convinced me this was the best tv show of all time

41:44 Peter Pan being the Pied Piper makes the most sense of anything else lol

I wish we got more ‘Maternal grandparents of henry are snow and charming, and paternally its the Dark One/Beast/Crocodile/etc and a woman who ran off with a pirate’ Just a fun bunch

As someone who watched the entire series (I have been through so much) some of you cannot possibly comprehend how funny this season is for me. Times were simpler then.

Ok you don’t understand how funny young Rumplestiltskin’s voice is to me as a Scottish person. Because when me and my dad watched that episode when I was a teenager we couldn’t stop laughing bc the Scottish accent he was putting on was from the opposite side of Scotland that Robert Carlisle is from. The voice was very silly but it was also just THE WRONG SCOTTISH ACCENT 😭😭😭

"REGINA, you are TRULY *your own worst enemy* " Oh, you have no idea... 🤭

The sheer audacity that Peter Pan took exactly 3 monk levels just so that he can show off with Deflect Missile

Neil should be the fun uncle (Co-parent) he realizes he only ever loves Emma but in a trauma bonded QPR way, never unpacks his feelings towards hook but is still his best buddy

"Aurora has two hands!" Aurora has two hands! Also, obligatory love for the pirate outfit. 🏴‍☠💚

33:07 - "Sometimes I wonder why this show shows me anyone other than Regina." Honestly that's my review of the whole show.

Nothing has made me laugh harder than "I'm always saying the real problem with OuaT is that there's not enough storylines all happening at once." Truer words.

Tinkerbell may not be from Succession, but she is, i think more importantly, the Christmas Princess herself

I remember finding this series with the scene of Henry in this season screaming something like "MOM! AND MY OTHER MOM!" I was so confused on how Snow's daughter fell in love with the Evil Queen to have a kid with her, jokes on me I guess

May I just say, I think you make a fantastic kindergarten teacher. Your energy and the fun way you describe things.

My two top Things I Am Baffled By about this season: 1) BLACKBEARD??? I know he gets a brief reference in the book Peter Pan, but...they know Blackbeard isn't a fairy tale character right? Did they forget he was a real guy that actually existed in real life?? 2) I'm so disappointed they introduced a plot point as high-concept and weird as "there is a secretive organization trying to destroy magic" and then they were like "actually that's too cool for our show, it's just Peter Pan doing a prank"

THANK YOU FOR YOUR NEAL CASSIDY TED TALK bc the fact that they just unceremoniously killed him off and threw him away pisses me off so bad. Not just because his character had so much potential, but it also just seems like bad story writing?? Like, this story only takes place bc Rumple wanted to find his son. Regina was a pawn in Rumple’s plan to find his son. If Bae had never disappeared, then Rumple wouldn’t have cared how mad Regina was, there never would’ve been a curse. The ONLY REASON that there was a curse and Emma was the savior was so Rumple could find his son. Then Rumple finds him, they go on some adventures, Rumple KILLS HIMSELF to save his son… and then what, the writers decide Neal served his purpose and they just??? Throw him away?? So we can get Rumple back and give Emma and Hook the spotlight?? Neal’s character deserved so much better!!

i’m gonna be honest i have generally gotten tired of the “listing events that happen in media for hours” video format but 1. this is very well done in general and 2. It feels like that format was made, specifically, for Once Upon a Time

HOLY SHIT CONGRATS ON FULL TIME KINDERGARTEN!!!

Audible gut wrenching GASP as I got this notification, I have been eagerly awaiting you

I feel as though Charming recognizing Snow White as a bug does confirm in canon that he would still love her if she was a worm. As annoying as they are, good for them

The fans never forgot Felix and his tragic unrequited love. His interactions with Pan were absolutely an awakening for some people I know.

The fandom went absolutely WILD for Robbie Kay back then 😂

I've only just started this video but "lace up those shoelaces that you got from the president" did severe psychic damage to me lmfao

Henry having a comically large number of parents is genuinely my favorite bit in this show. Like you seen tropes where characters just collect children to parent but never the other way around and god bless OUAT for that!

5:10 you - and i mean this in the best possible way - phrase your life updates like fanfic writers in their notes. “so sorry this took forever to film, i got MARRIED” and “i somehow tripped into teaching kindergarteners,, ANYWAYS” it’s iconic 10/10 (edit) it’s taking me a while to get the time to watch this entire video but 2:06:14 BOILING WATER???? ARE YOU OKAY???

Not ashamed to admit that I always work out to the first two of these just starting them over whenever I finish. So I’m very excited that season three is out

"More outsiders in our beloved Maine" is the most rural Mainer thing I have heard all day. Source: From Central Maine, this is exactly what my rural family memebers think of people who are from outside the state.

"Cursona" - chef's kiss

The reason everyone has one child is nobody can stay together long enough in this universe to have a second kid

"You probably also dont remember who half these people are" the half I don't remember is the second/third names of every character on that board 🤣

I will never understand, how after the whole Leopold thing with Cora, later when Cora sets up baby snow to meet Regina and make Regina the new queen… SHE marries leopold, so like how does leopold not recognize Cora when her daughter is marrying him????

I love it whenever a OUAT character gets to ham it up as a villain, *especially* when their usually a good guy. You just know everyone is watching Rumple and Regina's actors eating the scenary and going, "Man I sure would love a bite."

I think we DESPERATELY need more subplots in this show that are just “the Charmings being annoyed that Henry likes getting parented by Hook so they crash a car trying to teach him to drive”. Like that’s Soooo cute give me more of THAT

you explaining every single detail about hook and neal's relationship made me wanna sob omfg that brought back so many memories and feelings my 11yo self felt. you've awoken a hyperfixation that's been sleeping for 9 years and it's about to become my whole personality once again

See, I get the "why introduce yourself as a liar" point, but I feel like Peter Pan is just kinda like that? Even in the original book, or the plays, or the Disney animated film to some extent, one of his main characteristics is that he's mischievous and a bit of a trickster.

Emma totally pulls the "I'm the main character. You don't exist without me!" card by jumping off the ship. Because the only people who would care about her, enough to put aside bad feelings and stop fighting, would be her parents. Everyone else is there for their own selfish reasons. Gotta love main character plot devices.

Robbie Kay is such a fucking great actor, Ive never hated anyone as much as Pan. Even Jack Gleeson wasnt as hateable

its actually INSANE that we never see Mulan again... it bothers me to this DAY

i cant leave this video without prematurely airing my grievances about all the other fairytale characters in this having their own cool unique looks and then the frozen characters showing up in children's halloween costumes. WHY would they do that to us. catastrophic.

Neil's, like, some kind of fridge-nuke, which is to say he's fridged but it goes off like a nuke. He's just enough of a character that we mourn his lose as much as anyone, but he only exists to give LITERALLY EVERYONE man-pain(gender inclusive). Man-pain being the sort that provokes revenge and bad interpersonal decisions, as opposed to victorian widow pain which provokes despair and self-destruction. I can't believe Neil ends up the Uncle Ben of OUAT; literally everyone else dies and shakes it off like a migraine, but Neil bless him stays dead.

this was perfect timing because i was having a big sad over not knowing how to write a plot and this has reminded me that you can just make shit up and keep making shit up for infinity. thank you!

all four elements hearts, brains, courage and baby

I’m so glad you addressed not only Hook and Neal’s underrated relationship but also how much of a disservice it was to take Neal out of the show! I watched this while it aired and was in the fandom and when I tell you I LOVED Neal the MOST out of ALL these characters, I’m not even kidding!! He was such a good man! He just wanted to be a good father to his son, to make it up to Emma in some way (he definitely wanted to get back together with her but he was always respectful that she may not want the same and just wanted her to be happy no matter what), and to repair his relationship with his father which has caused him SO much grief and trust issues. He lived a whole life on his own when I imagine it would have been hard for him, he fell in love and wanted to spend the rest of his life with Emma but got strong armed into letting her save the world, and is genuinely a really kind person and this is how the writers repay him?? Just let him be Henry’s father PLEASE! Literally your rant about what they could have done with Neal instead of killing him off has gone through my head on an endless loop since that man died on screen in the year of our Lord 2014. Also, Neal could have been so helpful for Rumple actually having a redemption arc with lasting impact. Like, can you imagine a timeline where Neal’s dislike of magic becomes a sticking point in their relationship? He just gets sick of his dad being addicted to this primordial evil magic and says, once again, “hey, please stop, this is really hurting our relationship.” Maybe Hook has a talk with him and helps him sort out his feelings about it, which would also allow so much development between Hook and Rumple, thus better explaining why they relax around each other. Can’t really go hating each other when the grown son you have shared custody of loves you both!!! Take THAT! Plus it would open up so many doors for co-parenting hijinks between the Regina-Emma-Neal triangle 😭 Anyway, all that to say I’m definitely going to revisit my favorite OUAT Neal-centric fanfics after this

I also love that this season is the first use of "actually someone figured out the plot beforehand but used a forgetting potion"

1:47:00 BLUE IS SUCH A HEARTLESS FAIRY. Actual villain of the series.

I KID YOU NOT. This was not suggested to me. I thought to myself “we really need that season 3 review” so I searched and here it is. My comfort video for the next week lol

The fit? Stellar. The show? Insane. Hotel? Trivago. Edit: Finished the video at last, and my main takeaway from it is that Haley’s love language is crushing hearts. Honestly, kind of iconic.

That "If Neil was kept around" story that you told would make for, like, an amazing fanfic or something that I would read the absolute shit out of!!

If any of you are wondering where you recognise Zelina from her actress was in The Devil Wears Prada. She was the one holding the belts and saying theyre so different which kicked off the cerulean monologue and she's the florals for spring girl

I could watch the show myself, but then I don't get your fun commentary and the joy of seeing that cat intent on making it as hard as possible for you to hold them

I think the reason Pan let Neal leave Neverland is because he knew he would be Henry’s father. Coz Felix has a drawing of Henry when Neal was still a kid so Pan could probably see the future and knew it was the way to become immortal

The time travel bit was SO written with Emma & Neal in mind and shifted to Hook bc he was too handsome you cannot convince me otherwise

It’s honestly so cute how much your cat blatantly loves you

Whipjack - "tearing into the absolute madness of season 3 with passion and pizzazz" Cat dangling from Whipjacks arm - "Purr" Me - "awww kitty"

"These people are awful, I'm obsessed with them" really just sums up this whole show for me

CAN I JUST SAY Emma: Paladin Snow: Ranger Charming: Fighter Regina: Wizard Gold: Warlock (hexblade) Hook: Rouge Neil: also rouge Ruby: Bloodhunter Belle: Artificer Robin: Ranger Zelena: Sorcerer Henry: Bard Thank you for your time

Greg and Tamara overstayed their welcome all together, but the nerve of killing them off in the FIRST EPISODE OF THE NEW SEASON. Insane, I'ld be throwing hands right and left

Have I seen OUAT multiple times? Yes. Did I watch all of the last two OUAT videos? Also yes. Did i get excited to watch another 4 hours of someone else talking about OUAT? Yes, yes I did.

In Neal is alive timeline, I would love an episode where Neal is super excited for the Super Bowl and bonds with Henry over football while Hook is just S T R U G G L I N G to eat buffalo wings with one hand the whole episode. And the B plot is Gold hiding that he has an illegal gambling ring over the game gathering bets from everyone and hiding it from Belle but then Belle finds it and her issue with it isn’t the illegal underground gambling it’s that the payout ratios aren’t set up fairly.

No, you guys don't understand how insane tumblr girls went for the "evil guy wearing green" because of this show

Right now I'm remembering 14 year old me's completely unhinged obsession with this version of Peter Pan when 3A was airing. That magical man child with the eyebrows had a hold on me like no other. I read every fanfic. I watched every fan edit. I liked every tumblr post. Genuinely concerning but absolutely no regrets

I find it funny that towards the beginning Haley tried to figure out who to replace with tinkerbell, and didn't choose Astrid... The character who was in 1 episode in Season 1, lol

i love that the title works for both emma and rumple

Honestly, hearing you describe the taunting Peter Pan does on Gold is so jaring when you realize that's his dad. Imagine your dad calls you a little unloved orphan who got abandonned by his own father. like dude he's so evil that's amazing Also, that Neil storyline? canon to me now.

12:38 Regina giving Biance del Rio "Let me ask you a very fair question, what do you do successfully? Quickly."

this series has made me, someone who has never watched a single episode of once upon a time, care greatly about once upon a time. i'm genuinely debating watching all of it but also i wanna find out what happens in this format first bc it's so entertaining lmao

Neal 'personified abandonment issues' Cassidy had me dying

ok but this season was so epic. peter pan being a villain?? first captain swan kiss??? intro to zelena? yes please 🙌 🙌

Imagine finding your child's teacher on youtube talking about ouat

These videos make me realize I watched way less of this show then I thought I did I tapped out like halfway through season 2 😂

i still haven't recovered from the queerbait-y clownery that was aurora and mulan... they really were my introduction to my favorite trope, beautiful princess and lesbian with a sword

2:52:43 I can almost visualize an episode after Robin and Regina get together, Robin begins realizing how fatherly Hook and Neil are to Henry, and starts trying to randomly insert himself for Regina and act more father-y-and Henry’s very “it’s okay I have like 47 parents, we don’t have to rush this” lmfao

“I played Pixie Hollow-” subscribed

+50 pts for "cursona" but we may want to re-think the phrase "disrespecting his body in the woods."

i see the foreshadowing you're doing to all the extra siblings that will be showing up later lol

neil seeing emma and trees in the crystal ball and being like no thats definetly not maine...the pine tree state...no shes definetly in neverland!

Neal as the weird uncle is my dream. And Henry having just So many parents? Love it.

LITERALLY this morning I was thinking "man, can't wait for Once Upon a Time season 3. Wonder when that'll come out?" Ask and you shall receive, I guess.

17:19 This is literally my favorite Mister Gold moment of all time

i agree with your concept for how neil’s story should have gone. they needed you in the writers room

To be totally fair about the group not trusting Hook on Neverland, he kinda does have a habit of betraying them to the bad guys. I mean the guy literally tricked them like a few hours ago, it’s not a huge stretch that he’d be trying to take them to Pan or something I love the guy and he’s very sexy when he’s been beaten up but you can see why the Charmings would be suspicious of him