'Once Upon a Time' Season 2 Episode 2 'We Are Both' Preview: Hook and Lancelot

Reason #1 I had a feeling season 2's premiere, "Broken," would be a slam dunk: I knew that this episode would introduce a Once-ified Mulan, and Mulan, as we all know, is the best. Reason #2: The advanced screener of the episode I watched began with this message: "As always, we kindly ask that you not reveal major plot points to your readers [before the premiere airs], and please do not reveal the ending of the episode or Regina will find you and curse you." Yes, OUAT is back in a big way. The stakes are higher, the special effects are more special, The producers of Once Upon a Time really have no problem breaking all the rules anymore, huh? After a game changing season finale, which I thought was one of the best ones on TV last year, the creators wasted no time in not only explaining how the show will work, but completely upending what we thought about what the show could be about. In Fairytale Land, we thought we were getting flashbacks during the entire episode of how to kill a Wraith, as we assumed Sleeping Beauty and Mulan would do after it killed Prince Phillip. But it was hard to shake the feeling—hey, why haven’t we seen Mulan in Storybrooke yet? After a brutally long summer, we finally got to see the Charming family reunite on Once Upon a Time - and it definitely wasn't what we were expecting. Emma (Jennifer Morrison) was filled with conflicting emotions about being given up by her parents Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming (Josh Dallas) - but that was cut short as the townspeople gathered to kill Regina (Lana Parrilla) and Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle) unleashed a soul-sucking Wraith to take her down.