{"id":406,"date":"2023-06-25T07:05:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T07:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2023-06-25T07:06:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T07:06:27","slug":"salmoneus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/25\/salmoneus\/","title":{"rendered":"Salmoneus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Sal_Aut_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"359\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Sal_Aut_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Sal_Aut_1.jpg 359w, https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Sal_Aut_1-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Salmoneus &amp; Autolycus<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is Salmoneus\u2019s last scene on Hercules the Legendary Journeys: \u201c Genies &amp; Grecians &amp; Geeks, Oh My!\u201d ( Note the Wizard of Oz reference!). Sal was peddling art to a sultan. He wears a beret, now that he\u2019s in the art world. He get strapped by a genie in a magic lamp with\u00a0Autolycus the thief. Sal makes a wish that harkens back to one of his earlier eps, when he goes into the self-actualization business, in The Outcast (co-starring Lucy Lawless). There, he just wants to be \u201cthe best Sal I can be\u201d, &amp; make money hand over fist helping people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Here, he wishes for self-improvement, which conjures up 3 versions of himself. In the final scene, he &amp; Autolycus manage to escape, &amp; as they leave, Sal says to. Autolycus: \u201cThis could be the start of a beautiful friendship!\u201d They each consider the implications of that,\u00a0grimace, then slip away in opposite directions. This aired Oct 1998, &amp; the final Herc ep ever aired a year later. During that time, it was joked on the show that Sal was arrested for tax fraud, &amp; that gave me the idea of having Sal return as the object of Livia\u2019s contempt, 21 years later. Sal\u2019s final quote is a quote from \u201c Casablanca\u201d, so it\u2019s fitting that he\u2019s exiled to Cyprus, which on Hercules, is a stand in for both Paris (given the Aphrodite connection &amp; the use of similar letters), &amp; the West African city of Casablanca.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It appeared on only one ep, \u201cWe\u2019ll Always Have Cyprus,\u201d (another Casablanca&nbsp; homage!) in which the city looks very much like a Moroccan milieu. To me, it\u2019s a nice closure for the character.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my alt history of this show, Sal\u2019s next appearance is over a year after his last one, the first of a trilogy where he reconnects with a character he previously met, &amp; later becomes his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next week, I\u2019ll discuss how I view canon on #Xena &amp; #HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Salmoneus\u2019s last scene on Hercules the Legendary Journeys: \u201c Genies &amp; Grecians &amp; Geeks, Oh My!\u201d ( Note the Wizard of Oz reference!). Sal was peddling art to a sultan. He wears a beret, now that he\u2019s in the art world. He get strapped by a genie in a magic lamp with\u00a0Autolycus the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-xena"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}