EARLY ACCESS: We're Not In Storybrooke Anymore (Once Upon a Time In Wonderland Recap)
🕑 Added 2024-05-25 00:05:00 +0000 UTCSHE'S DONE!!!! I hope you enjoy this recap and review of a 13 episode television show that absolutely dominated my life for over a month. I love it, it makes me so mad, it has driven me crazy, I worry that trying to do the onceuponatime season 4 video after getting so invested in Will Scarlet might actually end me.
I'm so desperate to be able to talk about this show with anyone, please tell me if it drives you just as crazy.
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Colton Spahr
I'm so late to this party, but this video is actually what got me to join your patreon. Today is the fifth time I have watched it, and it absolutely fascinates me every single time.
Jordy_La_Forge
was just gonna comment this lol
Lawson
When I was younger I used to have a reoccurring dream (nightmare?) of the Cheshire Cat’s disembodied eyes and mouth staring into my bedroom window, sometimes dripping blood, and the depiction in this show doesn’t exactly help. However, it is so fucking funny to me that he is voiced by Keith David in this.
Beardic Knowledge
I hope that none of these videos get below 2 hours. If you made them longer you wouldnt have to edit them down so much! Lov what you do!
Gabby Cassidy
I'm so glad I'm not crazy
Haley Whipjack
WAIT NO HE TOTALLY DID. HANG ON
spicymushrooms
the change into the mourning jacket out of respect really did it for me, i was already bewitched by mad hatter haley but the level of how anastasia-pilled you were really added to my enjoyment of this video
Gabby Cassidy
Ok, did Snow White's dad in season 1 not wish for the Genie's freedom like immediately??? So they just retconned that rule?? 10/10 video, my brain just keeps screaming this
Haley Whipjack
ahhhhh can't wait to see you there!!
Haley Whipjack
i dont know what they put in there but it broke me a little
akodorokku
I watched this show as it aired. I was too deep into OUAT for the first four seasons, and then took a HARD out when season 4 ended. Then I got sucked into Agents of SHIELD. Which... lord, basically the same show but comic books? If you've watched them both, you get it. Anyway can't wait to see you at GenCon!
Julianna Backer
This is my favorite Once Upon a Time recap so far just for how incredibly feral you were about this show. Loved it.
Agumame
Victorian England is its own separate realm? No. No OUAT I refuse. Go home OUAT youre drunk!
Chase English
Whoopi Goldberg rabbit and her rabbit kids took me out so bad
Taylor Burke
I described her to my friend as "if Regina Mills and Quinn Fabray had a baby sister that they would ditch all the time." She delights me. I would die for her.
Emma Thomas
I was truly so obsessed with this show for like a year when I was 14 and like all good shows I found clips of it on YouTube while watching something else. Side note: I fully thought the actor playing Cyrus was middle Eastern but like, Yikes.
Emma Stuart
Teenage me was deeply obsessed with Will and Anastasia. I absolutely agree that they are the best part of this show! I actually forgot that Anastasia got killed, and I think I blocked it out because I was so devastated by it. Also, the Lizard episode is permanently ingrained in my brain because it was so horrific to me when I first watched it.
Haley Whipjack
no like he's a terrible man and i didn't say it enough but also. "that's just a large chair"??? "i should have held you down longer"???? kinda hits.
ashraven
You gotta admit: it is new levels of OUAT bad parent to look at the kid you tried to kill and say your only regret was it didn’t stick. Nobody could hate like this man and it almost makes me respect him
nonexistant_mountains_theory
it's so excellent, all the characters have silly little outfits and accents and the cgi and everything is so goofy and im genuinely pretty convinced that no one has seen this show but me lol
Haley Whipjack
.....oh no
Haley Whipjack
we will never know!!!! we will never know which victorian england they were all from!!! there's just two options for some reason!!!
Haley Whipjack
i have not! i'll have to look into it, it sounds delightful
Blue Ellsworth
Also Hermes trying to get the pointer is my favorite thing
Blue Ellsworth
The way you describe Will really explains Bishop Batters-Westberry and why he's the way he is (which is also why I'm obsessed with him)
Fish
i can't believe you predicted victorian england being its own dimension back in season 3 like is that were the darlings are from?? or are they from regular earth victorian england?? this is the most deranged world building iv ever heard i cant stop thinking about entire dimention that is just just vistorian england WHAT DO YOU MEAN
nonexistant_mountains_theory
haley whipjack have you watched the magical legend of the leprechauns bc it is a very silly very wonderland-y kids series that i thought was a feverdream from my childhood but it is not and it also featured whoopi goldburg which is silly
TheAceApples
"It's kind of devastating... *how* hot Jafar is" legittttt when OUAT In Wonderland was being advertised I was gonna watched it anyway but ALSO I was super excited because I *adored* Naveen Andrews (I knew him as Sayid from "Lost" whom I was *in love* with lmao) and wanted to see him as an evil wizard primary character. So glad my teenaged good taste is being validated in this way lol. (I was *also* very obsessed with Anastasia too, and was *sooooo* excited when Will popped up in OUAT proper.)
ali xx
i did watched this whole show and i didn't remembered a single thing of this plot!! thank you haley for filling this black hole in my mind ps.: is jafar gale?!
julie stahnke
as someone who watched season 4 of OUAT but stopped watching OUATIW halfway through... i am wracking my brain trying to figure out how the fuck they get this ending to fit with season 4. sooooo that'll be interesting to hear you explain at some point also always fun to hear you try to pronounce my last name, knowing it even stumps a lot of my fellow danish people XD great video!
Haley Whipjack
he did objectively get turbo-groomed
Haley Whipjack
YES thank you so much, I am so devastated that we don't get her in the main show. I want to see her interact with Regina and I want it NOW
Haley Whipjack
i am holding kipperlilly in my hands i am so obsessed with her
Haley Whipjack
it just has to be after season 4. it doesn't make any sense otherwise.
Haley Whipjack
oh see this is what i get for not knowing my beowulf, i probably should have figured he was from something else
Haley Whipjack
LITERALLY imagine wanting your dad to love you so badly that you accidentally engineer a situation in which he gets paternal over someone else entirely
Stephi Anne-with-an-E
SPOILERS Oh man, first time around the bit about "this mysterious old man is very affectionate and concerned about Cyrus, he sort of adopts Cyrus" just sounded like a relatively mundane explanation of their relationship, but in hindsight, OOF that must have made Jafar SO MAD.
Caroline Oden
I never watched this season I just remember commercial and I’m so excited!!
Henri
the aladdin thing was weird enough but nothing could have prepared me for finding out they put grendel from beowulf in the alice and wonderland season.
Kazran
Ah yes another video I will force all my friends and loved ones to watch so they understand the madness!
Taylor Burke
It’s so validating to see that I’m not the only one as deeply not normal about Anastasia as I am.
Chloe McNamara-Bates
This video was soooo good. I have always liked this show and this was such a fun way to relive it. Thanks Haley!
Spapples
god damn it you sold this so well I almost want to watch it, I would also pick anastasia as best girl who did nothing wrong
Joshua Caliendo
title works well and i loved the wife of the white rabbit
Scoobert Doobert
I'm rewatching the entire series alongside these recaps, & Wonderland is such a fun palate-cleanser. Kinda sad that we don't see (this version of) Anastasia again. My headcanon for Will is that Wonderland takes place after Season 4. Have the writers explicitly said otherwise? Yes. But what do they know? You're so right about the ending. They even set up Will's empty apartment in Storybrooke! Also why does Grendel eat people if he's just a dude who was disfigured by the Red Queen? Was he a cannibal pre-disfigurement? Bit odd.
jentlesana
as someone who has not seen the show I am looking forward to this
The Sheriff
okay i’m gonna start this tomorrow while im at work but i need to know, what was your vibe in the end of Fantasy High Junior Year/Rat Grinder deaths?
chronic_escapee
I am a simple woman: I see Haley drops a new Once video, I listen. Also: your ending for these characters is once again, much better than the stuff this show can come up with
Haley Whipjack
he just sort of climbs all over and sometimes needs to get bowled somewhere else
Joshua Caliendo
just what i needed for my late night cleaning spree
Chris
We love the tossing of the cat like a well used pillow
HeliotropeFox
I love that someone else is as obsessed with this fairy tale soap opera as i am! I'm so excited to watch this one!
Haley Whipjack
i think this fact also makes neal's entire story even weirder actually, somehow.
cami
i can NOT believe that victorian england is its own dimension. like i genuinely cant move past it. i feel insane edited to add that i just got to "our boy got like.. turbo groomed!" and i might as well've had the wind knocked out of me
FoolerywithNorrie
I feel like I hallucinated this, I'm so excited to actually learn what the plot of this show I watched when I was 11 was!
Alanna Breton
I'm about to I have such a good night, let's GOOOOO (Alt title suggestion, a riff on "Down the rabbit hole"?)
annnnnnnna
I think the title works!
Haley Whipjack
ALSO what do we think about the title, I wanted the snappy first bit to be directly related to familiar onceuponatime concepts but that is entirely a wizard of oz reference, not wonderland, and I don't know if that's too weird
Taylor Burke
I need you to know my coworker just watched me look at my phone, see the notification email pop up, and yell "LET'S GO FAM" at said phone. So yes I'm excited to watch.