Hercules

The children's cartoon Hercules is the most pathetic representation of mythology I've ever seen in my entire life. Seriously.

I understand that it was for children, and children don't care if it's accurate or not, but still!!!

While some of their situations were nothing but fact, some of it was twisted beyond recognition.

For example, The Fates were completely fact. They really were old hags who shared an eye and spun the thread of life and cut it when you died and bla bla bla. However, Pegasus had nothing to do with Hercules. Hera wasn't his mother, and Hades didn't have anything against him. For that matter, Hades wasn't evil. That was Ares, god of War and Violence. Also, the Hydra wasn't crushed under a landslide, he had all his heads cut off and the wounds burned shut. Hercules didn't have any training from a goat-man named Phil, and Hercules didn't marry a woman named Meg. Actually, his wife's name was Deianeira. When he finally died, he was made a god, he didn't refuse his godhood because of the love of his life. Not only that, but he was kind of a jerk in the 'real' myth. (Real myth? What an oxymoron. heeheehee, I love oxymorons.)

GAH!! There's definately more, but I have work to do, so I'm going to wrap it up...

That movie just kept getting worse and worse and worse. When I thought it couldn't get any cheesier, it did. The songs were aweful, the plot was cliche, and they kept just throwing a bunch of different myths together, just because they thought it worked.

grrrrrr....

From Your Irritated Fellow Blogger,
Brii333