Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
With Hades and the Underworld in the picture, it was only a matter of time before we got to Hercules. The character who went from zero to hero popped into "Labor of Love" both in the past and present. By no means do I want a Hercules theme to take over Once Upon a Time, but his and Megara's stories were introduced and wrapped up in the blink of an eye. They had an effect upon the Storybrookers -- especially when it came to Mary Margaret -- but it felt like a waste of a character of Hercules' caliber.
Before I dive into Hercules and his past with Snow, I want to briefly discuss Meg. She was barely in the episode and not even named until close to the end. So many questions were left unanswered about her. Why was she in hell? Why was she in prison in hell? And why the hell was her unfinished business being saved by Hercules? It seems particularly crappy to be stuck in the Underworld because someone failed at rescuing you and you're part of his unfinished business. That's unfair. I don't know if any of these questions are particularly relevant to the overarching plot of saving Hook but thinking about them was enough to take me out of the episode.
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With Hades and the Underworld in the picture, it was only a matter of time before we got to Hercules. The character who went from zero to hero popped into "Labor of Love" both in the past and present. By no means do I want a Hercules theme to take over Once Upon a Time, but his and Megara's stories were introduced and wrapped up in the blink of an eye. They had an effect upon the Storybrookers -- especially when it came to Mary Margaret -- but it felt like a waste of a character of Hercules' caliber.
Before I dive into Hercules and his past with Snow, I want to briefly discuss Meg. She was barely in the episode and not even named until close to the end. So many questions were left unanswered about her. Why was she in hell? Why was she in prison in hell? And why the hell was her unfinished business being saved by Hercules? It seems particularly crappy to be stuck in the Underworld because someone failed at rescuing you and you're part of his unfinished business. That's unfair. I don't know if any of these questions are particularly relevant to the overarching plot of saving Hook but thinking about them was enough to take me out of the episode.
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