Medea finally remembers she’s a witch of some power – and
calls to Circe which is naughty bad wrong (judging by the fiery special effects
which are still awfully cheap). After much dramatic speeches she offers
everything in the service of Circe’s “deliverance” in exchange for being shown
the door to Olympus – even if it kills her. She is willing to die so others may
live – Circe reminds him that she can’t bring back the dead but Medea is
confident Hero will do the rest and willingly gives up her life and soul.
And lo, the last character I cared about may die. The
only character
But she lives with Circe inside her – though that gives
them a time limit to act before Circe fully takes over. Daedalus disapproves of
not using science since then Medea has sacrificed herself but his science led
them to Pandora’s tomb so he shouldn’t throw stones. Circe drops in with a
terrible croaky throat to say how useless and silly they all are and totally
doomed to fail.
Hero tries to convince Oracle he’s not completely evil.
He’s not convincing and Oracle is monumentally pissed and decides she wants to
know Hero’s real name so calls on Gaia’s woo-woo. He warns her about the whole
turning to stone thing but she wants to see the proof of this. She then decides
to hit him in the head with a rock
I approve. Daedalus does not and his intervention ends up with Hero pinning Oracle and calling him totally her friend and ally and how his killing people is just a “mistake”. Oracle is not buying it and would love to just try and kill Hero to make it go away, but hero doesn’t think the Lexicon will disappear so easily and he pokes holes in her whole theory of benevolent gods giving the Lexicon generously while also cursing them with it – because it makes no sense.
Daedalus and Hero both think Zeus needs them to solve the
Lexicon as it’s the only explanation for why it exists (albeit not why Tempus
guards it)
In the end the choice is join them willingly or Hero will
just drag Oracle behind him. The move on into a wooden hut that Circe/Medea has
warded because the Fates are now pissed at them for reasons. Which comes from
fates snipping their threads, sirens singing and Hero being molested by roots.
Lots of screaming until Circe pulls out more woo-woo and they end up in a
completely white place (easiest possibly CGI!) with a flickering Hermes making
a random guest appearance to say that Oracle knows nothing and no-one cares
about her sacrifice or service.
He’s also clear that, yes, before Hero dies he will take
the Lexicon and pass it on to someone else. But Daedalus steps in for god
mocking and showing off the ring of the magi. Hermes scarpers. The god killing
ring makes them afraid (in case we didn’t guess) and Daedalus again claims the
gods are now whizzing around and can’t hear people because they move so fast
based on who-knows.
Oracle tries to justify his revelations, deciding Gaia is
wonderful and it is only Hermes. Hero actually has the audacity to claim he is
backing strangers over people who she loves – yes he’s invoking love with the
Oracle. Really. Yes they are now kindred spirits (who threaten to drag each other
with a rope). She slaps him for trying to kiss him; she is not even slightly
impressed.
Another theological debate – gods want them all alive and
how the gods do contend against each other. Oracle finds a vast degree of
certainty in deciding not to question anything so Medea puts on her best
manipulator hat to get her on side, casting this all as the will of Zeus
When they walk off Hero tries to apologise to Oracle for another argument. He decides it’s all Oracles fault for revealing who his father was and telling him to go to Athens – so then everything he does now becomes her fault. Oh gods this show just gets worse. Of course Oracle doesn’t even blame Hero – she blames Medea. She’s going along anyway
Daedalus recounts his theories – the gods are invisible
and hiding because they’re super fast and that they’re, maybe, hiding from
enemies from other worlds – ALIENS.
They find a desert and Medea collapses from lack of water
(after a day) and Oracle decides to find water by invoking Hermes despite Hermes
just trying to kill them earlier because she decides Hermes is a cunning trickster
pretending to be harming them while also really trying to help them. Which, of
course, makes all of his cryptics statements even more cryptic and yet more
pointless.
After all that they end up in the Temple of Gaia – the doors
to Olympus. Hero tries to threaten Circe to make her stay longer which is
laughably pointless. Instead Oracle claims Medea will beat Circe – which seems to
work – with Oracle and Medea’s trickery together they manage to push Circe
back.
Flummoxed over what to do next they turn to the Oracle
again (she is at the Temple after all), next step is to kiss the living mouth
of Gaia. Which, of course, means The Oracle. And it has to be meaningful. He
nags her and guilts her until she submits. They kiss and the bad CGI strikes
again – and time seems to freeze.
They have passed the doors of Olympus – reached their
speed in time. Chronos appears, looking awful.
This show is terrible. So utterly terrible. The entire
first half of the season – Minos, Aegeus, all the politics is just all
pointless now. None of it was relevant. It’s all been replaced by a quest – and
it’s a bullshit quest as well. It involves nothing more than travel and pausing
now and again to poke the Oracle for the next clue. There are children’s games
that are more advanced.
And then we have random gods popping in so Daedalus can
sneer his theories about the gods not being magical (Gaia is the size of a
mountain, Circe is living flame and Hermes stutters back and forth, but no
magic, honest) but the gods themselves don’t do anything except say something
vague and cryptic. Then the Oracle repeats something cryptic. Then they all
argue over the cryptic. Then Daedalus
presents a theory he just pulled out his arse because it’s based on nothing
Stamping all over this pointless awfulness we have the
Hero and the Oracle with him alternating between insulting, abusing and
threatening her and then deciding he loves her, cares for her etc. The only
good thing is her continued resistance – but we know that won’t last. It’s one
of the most toxic depictions of romance I’ve ever seen.
Throw in terrible acting and awful CGI and I will be
gleeful when this show ends
