#OUaTrevisit: S5:E11/12

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If there’s one God you don’t want to get steamed up
It’s Hades, ’cause he had an evil plan
He ran the Underworld
But thought the dead were dull and uncouth
— The Gospel Truth II, Disney’s Hercules, 1997

Welcome to the Underworld, foolish mortals! It’s the last Wednesday of 2022 and we’re closing out year two of #OUaTrevisit with our first trip downstairs and a meeting with the man himself.

No, not that Hades.

S5:E11 Swan Song

“The Dark Ones prepare to obliterate light magic.”
Airdate: December 6, 2015

• Just gonna stop making the Light Magic joke at this point, okay?
• Young Killian!
• Isn’t Rumple all good and stuff now though?
• “There’s more than one Dark One!!” — Leroy/Grumpy

• I’m altering the bargain, pray I don’t alter it any further.
• There was a deal on Dark One cloaks at Costco.
• “The Mark of Karen” gives the holder unlimited power to speak to the manager.
• Cheery speech from Rumple.
• Previously, when Regina still had AMAZING outfits…
• “What’s in the carriage?” “Pain.”

• Dinner at Granny’s, obviously.
• “Nothing’s wrong,” Rumple lied, again.
• Great plan, Emma, except for the part where it kills you.
• Queen Regina just swanning into the pub.
• Save the clock tower!

• So long, Zelena. For now.
• Dad Jones looks familiar. Played by Adam Croasdell.
• Convenient TLK is convenient I guess.
• Since when do people need Letters of Transit to leave the Enchanted Forest? Is this Casablanca?

• Ooh, Killian has a half-brother. That’s not going to feel good.
• Ugh, Emma was so easily suckered.
• The S.S. Purgatory sounds like a ship from Lower Decks.
• “I know what I have to do but I don’t know if I have the strength to do it”
• Hey, Killian finally found a backbone. But who will be the sacrifice?
• No more Dark Swan, but also no more Hook.
• Apparently, there’s a Storybrooke ambulance service, which also implies a Storybrooke coroner’s office. I wonder if Tink works there and knows Dr. Whale?

• Uh oh, dark whispers.
• How could he have the dagger? Wasn’t it part of Excalibur?
• “A small vial of magic” is just $8.99 at Walgreens.
• Rumple/Gold fully returning to form. Not sorry, honestly.
• She has to pay the toll. And not look back on her way out.
• Observe the duck in the Evil Pond just trying to get out of the way of the Evil Canoe. (42:07)

Can’t take screen captures of Disney+ 🤦‍♂️

• Wait, we’re all going? I thought it was just Emma.
• “I will always find you.” She said it!
• This was the mid-season break. We resumed three months later.

S5:E12 Souls of the Departed

“The heroes follow Hook to the underworld.”
Airdate: March 6, 2016

• Are we perhaps talking about the same Underworld from “Hercules”?
  (Is the OUaT Synergy Machine cranking overtime, Bob?)
• The Underworld is a spooky closed theme park. Huh.

• Neal!
• The coaster is named “Revelation” (not “Revolution”).
• Gold went too??
• Is there, like, an Underworld reception desk, or a welcoming committee?
• Oh yeah, Emma threw Cruella off a cliff.

• Regina just sticks her finger in the pie.
• Blacktooth? Who the heck is Blacktooth? Oh never mind.
• Oh hey, Dad, nice to see you.
• Cora!!
• Everything here is the dark and spooky version.
• It’s the witch from Hansel and Gretel! Played by Emma Caulfield.

• That’s not David, it’s James. Right?
• “What if he had no unfinished business?” Are we talking about the same Killian Jones?
• I love Evil Regina plucking the flower.
• Sidney! We’re getting all the old favorites.

• Oops, Henry left the door open.
• Convenient that everyone has their magic down here.
• Aww, Blacktooth gets it again.
• The spinning wheel in Underworld Gold’s shop is extra creepy.
• Pan, of course. Hi Dad!
• Are Cora and Pan, parents of conflicted characters manifested, actually there? Or an illusion?
• The DunBroch whiskey. That’s good stuff.
• “There’s a boat that’s leaving soon.” Is the ferry on a timetable? Are there tickets? Do they have an app?
• Oh no! Cora has Snow’s heart. Now what?
• (Obviously, somehow this never happened or it’s reversed and Snow has no memory of it)
• Killian Jones has a very dramatic headstone as is appropriate.
• Why is there a steam pipe in the middle of the graveyard?
• That was the best camera angle and the best cake and the best look on Regina. Did she just off the jester for “not being funny”?

• Okay, Jiminy, not cool.
• Aww, poor rando guard.
• Regina’s necklace looks like a chain of jeweled spiders.
• Dad-Henry is subtitled as “Valet”.
• Redeemed Regina. That’s all.
• Uh oh, Cora, are you standing in front of a mirror? Again?
• Cora grabbed Dad-Henry on the way back to Neverland. But obviously, he comes back later.
• Aww, Dad gets to cross over. 😇
• Henry/Henry meeting: perfect.
• Thus begins what I recall as an interminable series of episodes in The Underworld.
• “Operation Firebird”
• We’re on an express elevator to Hell!

• Ah, Hades, here we go.