{"id":11232,"date":"2016-03-14T23:08:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T03:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=11232"},"modified":"2016-03-14T23:08:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T03:08:53","slug":"review-once-upon-a-time-s5e13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/03\/14\/review-once-upon-a-time-s5e13\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: ‘Once Upon a Time’ S5 E13"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As is to be expected after a super awesome mid season premiere, this week\u2019s episode of Once Upon a Time<\/em> was a bit of a let down. I mean, let\u2019s be real, it was still a really fun episode, but anything in comparison to last week\u2019s non-stop excitement was going to pale in comparison.<\/p>\n

This week my main issue was how the writers of Once Upon a Time<\/em> handled the Hercules story line. As someone who knows every single lyric to I Won\u2019t Say I\u2019m In Love<\/em>, I was expecting so much more out of Hercules\u2019 and Meg\u2019s eventual introduction. And while Hercules had a really cool connection with Snow White, his present day story was a little more on the meh side.<\/p>\n

First of all, can we talk about what a missed opportunity it was for them to not even have a FEW bars of I Can Go the Distance<\/em>? I mean, come on, throw me a bone here. Hercules<\/em> has some of the best music of any Disney movie, and it was a downright shame that they didn\u2019t include any of it. Even if they hadn\u2019t had the licensing to be able to use a song, a sneaky little allusion to a lyric would have been fine.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the fact that Meg had absolutely no backstory whatsoever, except that Hercules allegedly got her killed. I kept waiting for her to reveal that she was actually working with Hades, and had been posing as his prisoner, as is her role in the movie. But I guess I\u2019ll let that slide, since I\u2019ve always liked how Once Upon a Time<\/em> makes their characters\u2019 backstories their own.<\/p>\n

Instead, the bigger issue I had with Meg was that the entire time she needed someone to save her. I recall a certain line from the movie where she outright explains that she\u2019s no damsel in distress. But what\u2019s the first thing that the writers do with her? Put her in distress. Sure, she helped with the half-assed takedown of Cerberus, which we\u2019ll get back to in a minute, but Megara is one of the most badass Disney females; they should\u2019ve done more with her. I\u2019m disappointed in what the writers of Once Upon a Time<\/em> turned her in to.<\/p>\n

We can only hope that this wasn\u2019t the last we\u2019ve seen Hercules and Meg. I\u2019ve never seen Once Upon a Time<\/em> introduce such interesting characters just to throw them away like that. Hell, even Merida, the most boring Disney princess, got six episodes.<\/p>\n

The only good thing that the writers of Once Upon a Time<\/em> did with present day Hercules was when they stuck to Greek mythology and acknowledged his relationship to Hades. Hopefully now that Hercules is a god he\u2019ll come back to save the Storybrook gang and take on his uncle with a newly badass Meg in tow.<\/p>\n

Thankfully Hercules, unlike Meg, wasn\u2019t relegated to a mere five minutes of airtime. He lucked out due to his previous involvement (wink, wink) with Snow White, which upgraded him to flashback status. Not only does it turn out that Hercules was Snow\u2019s first kiss \u2013 yet another kiss she failed to mention to David \u2013 but it also turns out that Hercules was the catalyst for Snow\u2019s transformation into a bow and arrow wielding badass.<\/p>\n

And it seems that he popped back into her life at just the right time. After being the group\u2019s mother and voice of reason for such a long time, Mary Margaret has kind of become the Debbie Downer of the group. But thanks to Hercules\u2019 and Regina\u2019s reminder it seems that we\u2019ve seen the last of Mary Margaret\u2019s boring speeches, and will finally get cool, Enchanted Forrest Snow White back in the real world.<\/p>\n

Of course there were a couple other things besides Meg that had me disappointed this episode. For one, how easily Cerberus went down. He might as well have been called Fluffy, because yet again he was taken down by a gang of teenagers (plus Mary Margaret). And secondly, there wasn\u2019t even a mention to where Rumple\u2019s gone off to, which makes me a. nervous, and b. disappointed that we didn\u2019t get to see a Rumple-Hades face off. Or even better, a bromance.<\/p>\n

Maybe next week. This week Hades was a tad too busy torturing Hook by forcing him to choose which three of his friends will have to stay in the Underworld in exchange for all the souls they\u2019d freed. I\u2019m casting my votes for Robin (why is it that all Once Upon a Time<\/em> archers eventually become bores), Rumple (I\u2019m over his whole I\u2019m evil, no I\u2019m not, jk yes I am act), and Cruella (after she bullies Henry into writing her back to life it should count, right?)<\/p>\n

Knowing Hook, though, he\u2019ll try and be the good guy and save Emma and her loved ones by just writing his own name three times. Ugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As is to be expected after a super awesome mid season premiere, this week\u2019s episode of Once Upon a Time was a bit of a let down. I mean, let\u2019s be real, it was still a really fun episode, but anything in comparison to last week\u2019s non-stop excitement was going to pale in comparison. This<\/p>\n

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