In this ep we finally get Jason's (Jack Donnelly) promise to Circe (Lucy Cohu) catching up with him as sees a dead Hercules (Mark Addy) in his dream and has to kill Pasiphae (Sarah Parish) as he promised in order to save Hercules and Pythagoras (Robert Emms) from dying. He reminds the others and they devise a plan to sneak into the palace, which Hercules manages to orchestrate with a little tipple or two of wine with the help of the wine merchant. As they are smuggled into the palace in wine barrels, thought the one with Hercules was recognizable since it had lots of room for him to hide in, but not so as he gets stuck. Shouldn't Jason and Pythagoras have helped him out instead of watching the barrel roll.
Before reaching the palace of course Pythagoras finds a way of knocking out the guards, with the use of seaweed which releases a substance capable of rendering the inhaler unconscious, but the right amount or it may not work or the person may die. Hercules choosing Pythagoras to test it out on, well who better, ha.
Lots of laughs in this episode to counteract from the serious nature of murder even if it is of the evil queen. That's right whenever royalty is involved the written or unwritten rule is that there must always be an evil queen in the mix. Pasiphae, or Pacify as I call her, though it really isn't in her nature, ha) continues to poison Minos (Alexander Siddig) as he is now on his last legs and still no one notices, shouldn't he have a royal physician at his side. No, let's just have him take another sip! She tells Heptarian (Oliver Walker) how Ariadne (Aiysha Hart) will become ruler and since he was not able to gain her hand in marriage, she must find a way to neutralize her. Heptarian offers to take care if her, but he wouldn't be able to handle that if he couldn't get her to marry him.
Jason and the others reach the palace and eventually Hercules lowers, or rather drops Jason onto the correct floor. As he stands over her with sword in hand, he's unable to kill her. Anyway question I want to ask is why Circe could not kill her own sister and she had magic too. Easy solution would have been to get Medusa to turn her into stone! No one thought of that! Problem solved, but then they'd have no plots for season 2! Ha. SO he stands over her and can't do the dreaded deed cos he's not really a cold blooded killer. Pasiphae wakens to find an intruder and screams.
Jason is wounded by an arrow as he escapes and ends up, as we all guessed, in Ariadne's room. She's happy to receive him and shelter him as she helps bandage his wound. Which was just another shameless moment for him to remove his shirt for the countless time. Ariadne says she would kill her but wouldn't be able to and if she was in their place Pasiphae would not spare a thought about having them killed. Jason shares her bed, but not in that way! Aridane was up all night counting the hairs on his chest, ha. She lets him leave by a secret doorway known only to a chosen few and particularly the royal family.
Alas Ariadne doesn't have her head screwed on straight cos she didn't think of getting rid of the evidence, Jason's bloody rags! No, 'I'll let the maid take care of those' and then she trusts that maid/servant! She's really naive and hopeless too. I have to say Ariadne comes across as rather wooden and boring! Hercules could have got a new table out of her, ha! Oh Hercules and Pythagoras made their getaway through the rubbish chute when the alarm was sounded, with Hercules landing on Pythagoras. As well as Pythagoras being the one who was given the task of taking care of the bigger and taller guard.
Jason arrives and tells them he couldn't do it and Hercules it reminded it's his fault they're in that position to begin with. Ep 1.6 The Song of the Sirens when Hercules wanted to win Medusa's heart and turned to Circe for help. Jason renders them unconscious with the seaweed chloroform, or chlorophyll (ha, bad joke) and leaves to confront Circe. She is expecting him, well looked that way and tells him he is truly blessed by the gods. He fights her and she becomes three but doesn't notice the reflection she casts in the water. Thus he stabs her and ends it all. It was easy killing her but not so Pasiphae, was it cos she was scarred? She throws a few bags onto the ground which are buried before she dies and they think it's all over. But out pop some skeletons in a homage to the movie Jason and the Argonauts (1963) as they fight the bones. Only to find the bones get back together and fight again.
Ariadne's servant betrays her to Pasiphae and she is arrested for treason, tried before Poseidon's court which has Pasiphae presiding over it. She admits she helped the 'nameless' assassin and would do so again. Thus being sentenced to death. Reminding me of Gwen in Merlin all over again. Only she had more oomph when she was pleading against Uther for her life. Jason returns home with food and wine and Hercules's pies to be given the news. SO last ep will be about rescuing Ariadne. Think it could be much better spent with a different plotline! Ha.
Blooper where Ariadne sits with Minos and holds his hand, she puts his arm by his side but in the next shot with Pasiphae she puts his arm over his chest and his right arm is already there. When Ariadne leaves and Minos wakes, his right arm is by his side again.
Well Jason and Ariadne steal a kiss and he tells her this is the best night he's spent with her, (yawn.) Suppose one saving grace for many would have been Hercules's latrine jokes interspersed throughout, when he said Jason "should have got her on the latrine." It's easier to kill someone on the loo!
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