Turns out the entire Dark One curse started because a guy fell in love with a woman holding a magic cup he told her not to drink from. Sound familiar? Once Upon a Time really said "let's do the forbidden fruit thing again, but Arthurian."
In this episode of Storybrooke Circus, we break down Merlin and Nimue's 1,000-years-ago origin story, the exact moment she becomes the very first Dark One, and how none of it stopped Emma from needing to summon a literal warlord out of her own subconscious to finish the job. Meanwhile, back in Camelot's present, Merlin's team races to reunite the dagger with Excalibur before Emma loses herself completely.
It's an episode about how every "I'm doing this to protect people" origin story eventually curdles into the exact villain it was trying to prevent — and why nobody in this universe ever learns that lesson the first time.
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