This review contains mild spoilers.
Another great episode in a great season. Recent seasons had paled somewhat in comparison to the better written and much darker 'Xena: Warrior Princess', but this season is a real turnaround, offering up some of the best episodes in the show's run.
This is the first time we have seen Caesar in the series, and he is very well written, as strong as any of his 'Xena' appearances.
Through all of this, Hercules is helping Morrigan though her withdrawal of the blood of Kernunnos (drug parallels anyone). Tamara Gorski and Kevin Sorbo have a good on-screen chemistry, and make for some good scenes.
The scene where Morrigan attempts to betray Hercules by visiting Caesar and telling him of Herc's plans, is also really good, and filled with innuendo.
Hercules does a Xena on Morrigan and slowly turns her from an evil demigod, into a more human and even tempered person; and Herc finds out exactly when the hold is that Kernunnos has over her, which I won't give away here.
I'm not sure about Hercules' new-found powers, of being able to move at super-fast speed. I think it will work if they just limit it to the Eire episodes.
I love Caesar's last scene when, defeated, his boats are pulling out of Eire, and he throws the scribe's records of the failed invasion overboard. The scribe, for daring to question him, is thrown overboard too!
All-in-all, another excellent episode. I am really enjoying this season.moreless
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On the island of Eire, Hercules organized the feuding Celtic tribes to fight Caesar's approaching army. He also helped the half-god/half-human Morrigan find the good within herself. She was the former servant of the cruel Celtic god Cernunnos, and she couldn't break away from him easily because he held their daughter, Brigid, hostage. Hercules agreed to help Morrigan get her child back, and together they defeated Cernunnos in battle. When Morrigan stopped Hercules from killing Cernunnos in cold blood, she realized she had finally embraced her new role as the Druid guardian of justice.moreless
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Karl UrbanCaius Julius Caesar
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Morrigan: The leader you're looking for is Hercules. (seeing he recognizes the name) You know him! Caesar: Only by name. His legend extends almost as far as my own.
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Caesar: (looking Morrigan up and down) I sincerely hope that we never come to blows, unless, of course, they're below the belt. Morrigan: (Dismissively) I'll leave you with your thoughts now. I'm sure you could use the time alone.
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Morrigan: Don't make the mistake of thinking there's good in everybody, Hercules. If anything, the opposite's true. Even the best man has a touch of evil in him, and it's just waiting for the right time to show itself.
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Morrigan: I don't remember inviting you to my island. Caesar: (flirtaciously) Well, you must forgive my rude intrusion, but if I'd waited for an invitation I wouldn't have the pleasure of your fine company. I'm Caesar, Julius Caesar. Morrigan: And I'm not impressed. Caesar: You will be. You haven't seen all of my assets.
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This episode is also known as '(Sur)Render to Caesar'.
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This marks the second and final appearance of Karl Urban on Hercules, who also played Cupid in "The Green-Eyed Monster". It is the only appearance of Caesar on Hercules, though the character appeared frequently on Xena.
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Disclaimer: No scribes intent on writing the truth and nothing but the truth were harmed during the production of this motion picture.
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S.P.Q.R. S.P.Q.R. are Latin abreviations of "Senatus Populusque Romanus", which translates as "The Senate and the People of Rome". It was used on coins, inscriptions, documents, and on the insignia of the Roman Legions.
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Caesar, while conquering Gaul (France, among other modern countries), outlawed the Druids as being fomentors of rebellion. Usually Romans were tolerant of their subjects religious beliefs, but when the priests meddled in politics, as with the Druids of the Celtic lands or the Rabbis of Judea, they ruthlessly supressed them.
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Caesar's Commentaries, the record of his conquests in Gaul, can still be read. He writes of his two invasions of the island of Britannia and the tribute he wrested from a few eastern chieftains, but Caesar never went farther west than the area around London.
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