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HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS
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GUEST STARS, CAST & CREDITS
PROMO TRANSCRIPTION
TV GUIDE PROMO
AIRING AND RATING INFORMATION
SUMMARY
SYNOPSIS
COMMENTARY
TALES OF THE HERCAVERSE
DISCLAIMER
WHOOSH! ARTICLES
LINKS
CAST
Donogh Rees (Frigga)
Denise Snoad (Hilda)
Yvonne Lawley (Norn)
Wade Jackson (Eric)
Emily Hartley-Skudder (Little Girl)
Thomas McIver (Recovered Warrior)
Ann Baxter (Old Woman)
Nadim Ledogoroy (Blacksmith)
Stephen Papps (The Darkness)
Jonathan Meirhead (Little Boy)
CREDITS
Edited by David Blewitt
Written by Gerry Conway
Directed by Michael Hurst
PROMO TRANSCRIPTION
IN A RACE AGAINST THE END OF TIME--
(Interior of a burning building.)
Thor: Get them out of here!
(Hercules and Thor hold up a fallen beam.)
HERCULES' ONLY ALLY--
(Hercules and Thor shove each other.)
(Thor swings his warhammer at Hercules' head.)
IS HIS GREATEST ENEMY.
Thor: I'll kill you when this is done!
(Hercules breaks a falling stalactite with his arm.)
AN ALL NEW HERCULES!
ON AN ALL NEW HERCULES--
WHILE THE SON OF ZEUS BATTLES THOR--
(Thor swings his warhammer at Hercules' head.)
A FATAL PROPHECY IS FULFILLED.
Frigga: What have we done?
THE VIKINGS CALL IT RAGNAROK--
WE CALL IT ARMAGEDDON.
(Loki attacks Hercules.)
NOW, IN A RACE AGAINST THE END OF TIME--
(Interior of a burning building.)
Thor: Get them out of here!
(Hercules and Thor lift a fallen beam.)
HERCULES' ONLY ALLY--
(Hercules and Thor shove each other.)
IS HIS GREATEST ENEMY.
Thor: I'll kill you when this is done!
(Hercules breaks a falling stalactite with his arm.)
AN ALL NEW HERCULES!
TV GUIDE PROMO
Conclusion. The three tragedies of Norse prophecy have occurred, and Ragnarok, "the end of all things," is a certainty. "We cannot defeat the ice," intones Odin.
Hercules and the Norse god Thor work together to prevent the end of all things.
AIRING AND RATING INFORMATION
1st RELEASE: 11-09-98
An AA average of 4.2
Competition from Syndicated Action Dramas:
(1) X-FILES 12th with 5.7
(2) XENA 13th with 4.9
(3) STAR TREK DS9 17th with 4.5
(4) ER 19th with 4.3
(5) HERCULES 20th with 4.2Summary by Bluesong
Hercules continues talking to Odin, and learns that the third part of the prophecy involves darkness. Hercules frees Thor from his exile-in-chains, per the request of the wife of Odin. Loki creates a mask and tricks Odin into wearing it; it blinds the old god (this is the darkness). Loki blows on a horn and all of Asguard ices over. He burns down the Viking hall where all the people are. Thor sends Hercules to Asguard to see about Odin while he goes to save all the people. Loki kills Thor with the poison dart. Hercules finds Odin and wife barely alive; he leaves them and goes back to help Thor. Odin and wife die. Hercules learns that the Norn book of fate only records the past and the present, and that Loki painted the pages with the "future" on them. Hercules fights Loki and wins. He repaints the page where Balder died, and he is back at the scene where he killed Balder. This time he doesn't kill Balder, and everyone lives happily ever after.
SYNOPSIS:
Synopsis by Liz Sheppard
This commentary is by --.
TALES OF THE HERCAVERSE
01-07-99a. The following is an excerpt from a transcript of the Hollywood Spotlight (RealHollywood) chat on 12/09/98 with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci:
Geminia asks "We've noticed some take offs of popular movies and now in 'Rainbow Bridge' Loki says 'I hate it when a plan falls apart'...take off on A-team?"
Alex/Bob says "A: Cool name. B: No, I don't think it was .. but good catch. That was written by one of our new writers who's fantastic so maybe we can get him on the net and he'll answer that question. Maybe he had that in mind when he wrote that episode?"
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WHOOSH! ARTICLES:
The following WHOOSH! articles discuss this episode:
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LINKS:
Norse Mythology
Explanation of several Norse gods
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