Season 5 Episode 13 Labor of Love Review

Enchanted Forest: Hercules teaches Teenage Snow White how to stand up to bandits attacking the villages

Underbrooke: The group has to defeat Cerberus and they ask Hercules to help, Henry runs into Cruella when searching the Mayor's office.


Enchanted Forest:

The flashback starts with townsfolk telling Regina that there are bandits attacking the town. Regina says that Snow will help them. Snow doesn't know what to do and runs off.

Snow falls into a hole and is pulled up bu Hercules. Hercules tells Snow that he'll teach her how to fight off the bandits. Hercules tells her about his labors he has to complete before he is able to join his father on Olympus

She goes off to face the bandits and ffails. Later, Hercules tells Snow that you have to fail to succed. She goes to face the banndits and wins. Snow and Hercules kiss and Hercules goes to face Cerberus, his last labor.

When facing Cerberus, Hercules rubs into a scared girl.

Underbrooke:

The episode starts with Hook waking up in a unbarred prison. He helps a scared girl escape the prison who is woried abou the beast that guards the prison. Hook tells her to go find Emma and tell her to find him. while he holds of the beast.

Mary Margaret and David are looking through the graveyard and come across Hercules' gravestone.
She realises that they can get him to help.

Emma, Hook, Regina, Robin and Henry are searching the woods for Hook. Regina tells Robin to go to the Mayor's office to look for maps of the town and says to bring Henry with him since he knows the office.

Once Robin and Henry leave, They run into the girl Hook freed from the dungeon and hear the roar of the beast. Emma uses her magic to poof them to her parent's apartment.

Once there, they realize that the Underworld apartment is waiting for her parent's to die so they can move in.

Meanwhile, at the mayor's office, Robin seees that there's a protection spell over the door but notices there's a vent behind the couch. Henry says he should go through because someone needs to stand guard and he's the only one that knows his mother's office. Henry goes through and is greeted by Cruella.

Back in the apartment, the girl explains how horrifying the beast that guards the dungeon she was in is. Mary Margaret recognizes the description and knows who they can find to help. They go to thw diner and ask the Blind Witch if she knows where Hercules is. She says he works at the docks.

At the docks, Mary Mararet reunites with Hercules and asks him to help them defeat Cerberus. Reina, Emma, Mary Margaret, and Hercules goes to the mines. Hercules goes ahead of them to fight Cerberus. When he hears Cerberus roar, he gets scared and runs back to the others. They hear a whistle and Hades appears to tell them that Hercules died to Cerberus in the Enchanted Forest.

Later back in the apartment, Regina talks to Mary Margaret about how she made her her friend. Regina says they need Snow White not Mary Margaret.

Back at the mayor's office, Cruella tells Henry she wants to go back to the real world. Henry says no she's already dead and no one can change that. Cruella says that the Author can and knows Henry is the Author now. He says he destroyed the quill. She says that the quill is a living being and when he broke it, he sent it to the Underworld and says she wants him to help her find it. She says that if she comes back to the real world, Emma wouldn't have murdered her.

Later, Henry lies to Robin about not finding anything.

Mary Margaret is at the docks again and convinces Hercules to try to beat Cerberus since they are going to be working together.  Meanwhile in the apartment, Cerberus tracks them down there. They run out and the girl is behind the fallen clock tower. Mary Margaret, Hercules, and the girl run into the library and face and defeat Cerberus all together. The girl reveals herself to be Meg.

At the diner, Herc and Meg talk and Mary Margaret says she wants to be Snow White again. Hercules and Meg move on to Olympus.

In Heades lair, Hades tells Hook that from now on everytime one of his friends helps someone move in one, one of them will have to stay, and Hook gets to decide who

Favorite Moments From Starring Characters:

Snow: (Young Snow in Flashback) Liked hher relationship with Hercules
            (Underbrooke) When she wanted to be Snow again

Emma: Her reaction to seeing the hook

Regina: Her scene with Snow and moment with Robin

David: His scene with Snow at the beginning

Belle: (Wasn't in Episode)

Hook: The end scene with Hades

Henry: His scenes with Cruella and Robin

Zelena: (Wasn't in Episode)

Robin: His moment with Regina and his scenes with Henry

Mr. Gold: (Wasn't in Episode)

Final Thoughts:

I enjoyed this episode. I liked how they connected Hercules to the story. I've seen a lot of complaints about how Meg was portrayed and how Herc and Meg should have stayed longer. But I'm glad they were only one episode characters, because they're able to focus on the core characters more. Like everyone else, I'm impressed with how well Bailee Madison plays the young Snow White.

I'm glad they decided to bring the Author plot for Henry, though it is a little weird that a pen is alive and has unfinshed business, since it's been a little while since he's had his own side plot from everyone else. This episode gets a 9/10 for Henry and Cruella & Snow and Hercules. The one point of was I do agree that they should of wrote Meg differently.

Schedule I'll try to keep for this week:

April 5th: 5x14 Devils Due Review

April 6th: 5x15 The Brothers Jones Review

April 7th: 5x16 Our Decay Revie

April 8th: 5x17 Press Release, Sneak Peeks, and Promo Pictures Discussion