I was searching Netflix for something to watch and I found this.

I saw commercials for it and it seemed interesting, but I didn't know what channel it appeared on, so I wasn't in it at first. Then my mom told me about it, even though I already knew about it, and I got more interested in it. I finally watched the first 7 episodes on ABC.com (before it required you to enter some crap about your TV network in order to watch it) and I was HOOKED!

My parents had it on and called me over saying "you like villains, I think you'll like her" *pointing at Regina* I stayed for like 5 minutes but since they called me when I was in the middle of something I just walked away. And then I was at my grandma's house and it just so happened to be on TV, the episode was The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. And they were having this marathon thing. I had nothing better to do so I watched it. And I immediately developed a thing for Regina.
And here we are.

Also since I started watching with no context I didn't get why we went from fairy tales to real world stuff. And so my grandma explained it. But since I was half paying attention when she said "that person is the evil queen" (mayor Gina was on screen when she said it) and I looked up to see Mary Margret. And I was so confused because 'that lady looks nothing like the Queen'. And I went the whole episode thinking that Mary was Evil Queen Gina's real-world counter part.

@KataraLover, did it hurt when you were cooked? :3

Robert Carlyle fan and so I checked out the show. From episode one I was hooked, but fell out of love with the show around season 3B and just recently caught up on the show because a friend told me I'd like season 5.

I watched a little bit of the pilot when it aired, but that alone didn't make me want to continue. A couple years later I was browsing Netflix and saw it and thought it looked familiar.

@zanhar1 I meant hooked lol.

Saw this video first: link]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoUWXk_Yj­cU[­/ur­l][­/ur­l]

Then I kept seeing characters from the show show up in crossover/multicharacter videos on Youtube that I was watching-- namely Regina, Snow and Rumplestiltskin. Now, the plotline was already interesting to me, but once I learned they had created a Rumpelstiltskin and that he was a significant character I knew I had to watch it. ;)

When I started watching it on Netflix though the first episode wasn't that compelling to me, tbh. I stopped watching halfway through the second episode and didn't pick it back up again for about half a year. I decided to try out the show again and this time I made it to the Rumple/Regina dungeon scene and from that point on I was hooked. :)

One day I was scrolling through different shows on hulu, and I found OUAT. I started watching it and immediately loved it.

We were discussing about it in class... OUAT was then in S3 i think.

I kept seeing gifsets from it on Tumblr, and it looked interesting.

I found it while on YouTube about 2 years ago. It was a video about Hook and Pan XP.

I discovered clips on YouTube, the first one I remember was the moment when Rumple and Belle were Reunited in the Pawn shop in 1X22 "Land Without Magic"

I was already thinking that I might like it, from vague/overarching references I'd heard about the plot and also knowing that some Fanpop members, YouTube vidders and fanfiction authors who liked other fandoms of mine liked it. Then I read a fanfiction which was basically writing another fandom's couple as season 1 Snowing, and I decided to give the series a go. Random, I know.