This episode was INCREDIBLE! | First time watching Once Upon a Time REACTION 2x14 'MANHATTAN'

[@jlerrickson]

I adore this episode. It definitely ranks in the top 10 episodes of the show for me.

[@denanebergall5514]

Welcome to Henry's screwed-up family tree! It only gets weirder from here! lol

[@Picking.a.name.is.hard1]

Milah cracks me tf up, like "how DARE you not die in the ogre war!!?!?!" What is this, Sparta? 😂

[@voronstark]

Waaaaaaait! I just realised, that the Seer tells Rumple that his actions will leave Bae fatherless, she doesn't actually say he will die. So she predicts Rumple trying to prevent his own "demise" & then leaving Bae fatherless (by becoming the coward turned Dark One) anyway! I guess, I sort of missed it upon watching the first 2-3 times - it's so coool 😱

[@MadelineWrites]

Neal was one of my favourite parts of the show. Loved his dynamic with everyone.

[@soixsantes]

me too i loved neal, and is than you have loved his relationship with Emma ?

[@MadelineWrites]

@@soixsantes yes I loved their chemistry. Neal was sadly underused :(

[@soixsantes]

@@MadelineWrites so if you are interested, I have an alternative version for swanfire at episode 2x06

[@soixsantes]

@@MadelineWrites Then here is all as Emma had said to Henry in the episode 1x09, neal was a young firefighter and emma a young waitress in a restaurant and bar and neal frequented regularly the restaurant, and more later he asked her to go out with him and she has agreed and they went to an amusement park or Neal Tells him about his childhood (like to 3x22) And in a gaming stand, neal wins a dream catcher and emma wins a key ring, And later they make a weekend in a motel and neal offers holiday to emma. (Or she chose Tallahassee) and 1 week later, Neal finds out that Emma is wanted for stealing of watches in the city of Phoenix and advises him to go to the police and she agrees to go to the police for love of neal and he decides of retrieve the watches . and a month later (While than Emma is in prison) Neal recovers the watches And meet August And he speaks to him of emma and Neal Decides to go see the chief of fireman And to tell emma that he died saving a family from a fire,And decides to give a letter of love for emma to auguste And give her if she discovers the truth about magic or if the curse is broken,And when emma leaves of prison she goes to see the chief of fire and suspects that neal is always alive.

[@soixsantes]

@@MadelineWrites you have loved my story ?

[@soniachristine9450]

i have been waiting for this moment for waaaay too long!!! i can't believe it finally arrived

[@penguinabroad]

I love that fight between Emma and Neil when she first sees him. I don't know why but it has always been one of my favorite scenes

[@soixsantes]

true, Emma was crazy of anger thinking she had been manipulated by Neal.

[@SweetSlytherinGirl-Jennifer]

Like David said, Thanksgiving would suck for that family!! I've seen videos of people trying to do family trees for this show. It gets even more screwed!!

[@Eowyn187]

23:18 Told ya this was about to step up big time. This is the onset of a fascinating storyline. One of my personal two favorites in the show. Yes. Wonderfully tense.

[@theadamabrams]

Definitely one of the best twists in the show. (You've already seen _that_ S3 twist, which is often considered the very best one, but fortunately there are plenty of good twists still remaining for you.) 1:30 The casting in general is superb in this show. Part of me still thinks that Bailee Madison (young Snow) might actually be twelve-year-old Ginnifer Goodwin plucked out of her timeline and brought to the 2010s.

[@weisserdrachey]

Which twist has he seen?

[@theadamabrams]

@@weisserdrachey Several, at this point. He just posted 4x18 to Patreon (which has another really surprising reveal), but I was referring to Rumple's father's backstory in season 3.

[@weisserdrachey]

@@theadamabrams oh okay thanks, I thought he was spoiled

[@patrickmcguire7896]

Yeah the family tree in this show is beyond complected, especially in the latter seasons

[@Julia-qv5ls]

1 of my 3 favorite episodes of the entire series. The Pilot was #1.

[@MysticManifestor3]

This is one of my favorite episodes of the entire series! Love your reactions!

[@heidimarcum5984]

Next... Rumple and Baelfire are finally reunited, which means there are more big revelations to come. And what a reunion! I can also understand Neal's anger towards his father too. Rumple promised his son he would never abandon him, and yet when his own fear of becoming powerless once again overpowered him, he abandoned him after all. And then... One of the first things Gold tells to Neal after being reunited with him again, is that together they can have power and that he can erase Neal's bad memories by turning Neal back into the same fourteen boy he was before he abandoned his son. Once again, Gold shows that he still doesn't understand why his son wanted to get away from magic and his lust for power that Neal knows his father loves more than even him. I can't blame Neal for refusing to want to be a part of his life. Gold has not learned his lesson, and therefore he hasn't changed. Not in the ways Neal needs him to change. Magic is still just a crutch for him. Also... I really, really love the backstory with Rumple before he was the Dark One, and the Seer. And this is actually my favorite storyline throughout this episode. I think the Seer is a brilliant character and very eerie, especially with her eerie voice and her eyes being within the palms of her hands. I love her character very much! And I love how her first big prophecy... That Rumple's actions on the battlefield would leave his son fatherless, comes to pass because he attempted to save himself from being killed in battle when he cowardly injures himself to the point of becoming the cripple we see him as without his magic, then becomes branded as a coward. Causing Milah to eventually leave him, and him to abandon his son once she comes to meet Killian Jones (Hook), upon Rumple's fear of becoming powerless once again after he had become the Dark One. Wonderful! And then... Years later, after Rumple becomes the Dark One, he finds the Seer again and as Rumple kills her in order to steal her Seer powers so that he could gain her abilities to see into the future, the path of Rumple finding Regina to cast his curse that would eventually lead him to finding Henry, therefore Emma, and finally Neal too... It's all set in motion, including the final revelation being that Henry would one day be Rumplestiltskin's undoing. After which Rumple proclaims that he will kill this boy to save himself. Will Rumple really go so far as to kill his own grandson? Oh... And I also really love the brief scenes between Emma and Mary Margaret, then Mary Margaret with David too. Yes... What a complicated family tree they have, but really cool, nonetheless. What a Thanksgiving dinner they would have! :) And lastly... Hook is betrayed by Cora once again, after he deciphers the map that will lead to his dagger for them. Cora's a real witch who deserves to die. She makes me so mad! I don't like her as this half of the season's major villainess. And foolishly, Regina is still caught up in her mother's web, which I also really don't like either. Don't get me wrong... Lana Parrilla's (Regina) acting is absolutely phenomenal, even now that she is reverting back into the Evil Queen... A character I absolutely love. And while I dislike Cora's character overall... Barbara Hershey plays Cora brilliantly too. I really enjoy these scenes between Hook, Regina, and Cora too. Of course, Hook isn't finished yet. And is he ever that much more angry, and determined to get his revenge. Overall... This episode isn't one of my favorites from this season, but it is really, really good. And it certainly does have some fabulous twists! I am so happy to have gotten another great reaction for Once Upon a Time from you, Travis. I can't wait for your reaction for the next episodes to come!! So, until next time, my friend... Thank you, Travis! Sincerely, Heidi

[@PurpleCinnamon-Land-Of-Misfits]

Man I feel like I'm watching this for the first time again I Love It❕❗

[@nataschasummers]

❤ another fab reaction from our fav!

[@heidimarcum5984]

Manhattan- If I've told you once, I've told you twice... Once Upon a Time's twists are absolutely phenomenal! And there are so many you just don't see coming! I really, really love this episode a lot, because there are so many big reveals and it leaves you sitting down, staring at the screen with your mouth wide open, wondering... What on earth just happened? This episode isn't quite one of my favorites this season, but it's so, so close to being a favorite. I really do love it! It's really good. If I liked Neal just a little bit more than I do, then it would absolutely be one of my favorite episodes, if just for the twists and turns revealed to us alone. But because I have never been too big a fan of Neal as an overall character, I can't quite see this episode to be among all my favorites simply because Neal is such a big character throughout this episode. Also... I really wish other commenters would stop trying to discourage those who react to this episode of Once Upon a Time, from feeling a certain way about an upcoming event, or warn you not to feel so excited about something to come. Believe me, I have read so many other comments where the commenters try to hint at what's to come and that the reactors shouldn't like something in the future. For me personally... While the reveal of what's inside the box August shows to Neal within the brief flashback between them may be over-dramatized in the eyes of some fans of this show, I still really love it. It makes sense to me why August would reveal he knows the truth to Neal that he knows he's really Baelfire. Ugh... Please feel free to feel any way you wish to feel about an episode, and get excited for the big revelations, or let down by them when they come, if you truly feel this way. Don't let us try to influence you to feel the way we feel. Now... As I've mentioned, I'm not a really a fan of Neal's character since his introduction in the sixth episode... Tallahassee, for a few reasons. Some being more biased than others, and for reasons yet to be revealed. I didn't like him at all in Tallahassee, because I just didn't like his character. Especially for how he hurt Emma, in spite of August's role in Neal abandoning her. I can't say too much more because doing so would be spoilery. However, with this being said... I really do love how Neal turns out to be not only Henry's father like we knew about from Tallahassee, but also Gold's son as well. And I really do like him and his actor... Michael Raymond-James, in this episode, probably more so than I do in any other episode. I should have realized he would be Gold's son right away upon seeing that Mr. Gold brings Emma and Henry to New York City to find his son, as we knew from this season's premiere episode... Broken, that Neal also lives there, and is the only character we somewhat knew about outside of Storybrooke in which the big shock factor would make sense. Another heck of a coincidence... or not. :) I still just didn't see this reveal coming, which is really smart. Like I said above... I love the flashback to Tallahassee, when it's finally revealed what August shows Neal inside his box tied to the back of his bike. It's clear Neal knew about magic when August reveals what's inside the box, but that still could have meant Neal could have been anyone from the Enchanted Forest. So, this reveal that August knew that Neal is Gold's son, Baelfire, for me wasn't so obvious, and I really love it! And I really love the simplicity of the way August proves to Neal that he needed to hear him out... with merely a single line typed from his typewriter on a single piece of paper... "I know you're Baelfire." It's really brilliant! Because who in the real world could have possibly known who Neal really was given his age since he and Rumple are now both over two hundred years old, other than someone from the Enchanted Forest. It's been said that Rumple has been the Dark One for hundreds of years, so Neal is definitely older than he appears to be. :) However, speaking of coincidences... I really like Neal's explanation to Emma about them, and fate, and how they both wonder if Emma meeting and falling in love with Neal those twelve years ago is somehow fate that wanted to see them together, in order to set in motion Emma becoming the Savior and her and Henry becoming the tools Gold would use to help him find his son after so many years. I really love their talk. I also completely understand Emma's anger towards Neal, as well as her fear for wanting Henry to know the truth about Neal too. It's wrong for sure that she would lie to Henry about his father, but it's understandable because of what Neal had done to her when he let her take the fall for the theft of the watches, putting her in prison, and forcing her to give birth to Henry while in prison. It's so sad. And I certainly do not blame her in the slightest, especially upon learning more about her own past and why she is so guarded and distrusting.

[@raeforbes]

15:26 was the best reaction😂 literally everybody’s face

[@soixsantes]

and besides, rumple had everything understood when Henry had arrived

[@jff2366]

It. Gets. Better 😊

[@nicanproud]

Needed thisssssss. I love this episode lol

[@naomisaraiva3559]

i caaaaaaaaaaan't wait for season 3 to come!!!! 3, 4 and 5 are my fav ones... gotta love to see u reaction to em!!!! btw i'm a fan from Brazil I love ur videos please continue to do what u do, it's really good

[@TravisViews]

Thank you :)

[@Devandanerd]

Was waiting on your reaction to who Henry's dad is. Now I can't wait to see your reaction when you find out about her best friend and one of her foster moms

[@phoebe3575]

just about everyone in this show is related somehow, either biologically, through marriage, or adoption😭

[@frankkorzeniewski300]

most. amazing. episode. ever.

[@destynigomez6072]

Ahhhhhh yesss I was sooo ready for this episode ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@leslienoel6909]

I've been waiting for you to get to this episode!! My favorites are when the make new family connections.

[@lisastahlman1596]

Ugh! Neal is so awful. It’s always about him. If he’d known Emma was from the Enchanted Forest he would never have gone near her, yet he claims he sent her to jail to protect her and get her home. He knows she’s with his father who is dangerous, but he won’t go near him or help Emma. He finds out he and Emma had a son and it’s all about his feelings, not the fact that Emma had to have him in jail and the fact that she couldn’t find him to tell him because he was a coward. It’s all about him and never about anyone else.

[@morgans3936]

this was definitely a top tier episode. so much drama!

[@Eowyn187]

Yeah I can't look at that character either!! That's exactly the type thing that gives me nightmares. Uh uh.

[@benl8908]

If you think this is the best episode of the show so far you've seen nothing yet. The biggest plot review is not even season 2. There will be an episode 10 times bigger than what you just saw you'll be so complicated and confusing that you would need the smartest person in the world to understand it. It only gets more complicated than that from here on out. You're in for a ride.

[@benl8908]

Yeah this was a good episode and yes he does stick around for at least a little while not for the rest of the show though. If you thought rumpelstiltskin's family was complicated just wait until you hear about Cora and Regina's family in the next episode. Have you ever thought of Snow White's parents being evil. There's another family secret reveal rumple's son being Henry's father is only one thing but you'll be excited for the Regina and Cora reveal family tree next episode that is just as good as the one he just watched and it's going to get messy on core and Regina side of the family just as much as it was on rumple side.