[cyberxarchives]

agamemnon in the odyssey ... talk about aura ✨

[cinematicexcursions]

sorry what did you say? I was too busy thinking about that shot of Agamemnon once the gates opened in the Odessey

[bvckbiter]

the pjo saga increasingly blaming the failings of olympus/the gods on zeus alone (especially in toa) is such a disservice to the original story. in pjato and some of hoo, all the gods get to be messy and petty as fuck at some point and generally not-good parents. maybe zeus as the king has additional culpability as the one who upholds and embodies the system, but the rest of them aren't fucking saints. even the minor gods in pjato are not entirely sympathetic; nemesis essentially dismembers ethan, and the titan army is pretty much just minor gods sending their kids to war for their personal glory. that's what makes the tension of calypso's question of "do you side with them because they are good, or because they are your family?" so haunting.

this over-focus on zeus as the root of the bad stuff inside olympus is honestly also the reason why apollo's entire thing about redemption in toa always fell flat to me. everytime apollo has to be "redeemed" about something, it's always either one of these two: 1) something that happened so fucking long ago to characters we never or barely get to know, usually because they're from the myths (ie daphne, hyacinthus, trophonious) instead of apollo having done wrong and make amends towards a character we actually care about; or 2) can be boiled down to his line in tower of nero about how zeus rules olympus with a tyrant's fist. either way, the complexity is contrived, and the emotional catharsis feels unearned. apollo needs to be redeemed because the story says so, then he's redeemed because the story once again says so.

if rick had wanted to write a story about apollo really righting his wrongs, what about halcyon green, who's one of the cornerstones for luke's eyes being opened to the gods' cruelty? what about actually having some members of cabin 7 carry uncertainty or resentment towards him, about the fact that it took their siblings thanklessly dying in a war for more of them to be claimed and brought to camp? or even voice out awkwardness over how living with their half-siblings just regularly reminds them of how their mortal parents aren't special to apollo? what about camp jupiter being on edge around him, considering that apollo had a major hand in driving octavian mad, and octavian was a prominent ruling figure whose actions had consequences on legionnaires? how about apollo harboring guilt over how things turned out with the oracle of delphi, how maria di angelo and may castellan were caught in the crossfire? instead, one of the few times apollo actually references recent events/conflicts in the pjoverse, it's to mention luke's name in a joke about how apollo was the one to actually win the titan war.

circling back to the first point: fingerpointing zeus as The Olympus Bad Guy is a symptom of how flat pjo's narrative now is. it seems to be joining this recent-ish trend of media blorbo-fying the gods (like epic the musical) and, in general, prioritizing likeability and palatability in a character's supposed "redemption" rather than true tension. it's not even like apollo did anything concrete about zeus by the end of tower of nero so what was the fucking point!

[greekmythstan]

Epic was playing in my head the whole time while I watched the odyssey

[greekmythstan]

If the odyssey movie brings back an appreciation for the classics and I get called basic for liking something trendy, I am going to have a fit

You may have started liking it due to this movie. I have been here in this appreciation for over 10 years

[totallynotashieldagent]

chat I'm just finding out that there's no lotus eaters ?? There's no "my name is nobody"?? There's only one Cyclops?? There's no Poseidon??

[jeyneofpoole]

ALSO ODYSSEUS LITERALLY JUST GOES TO TROY HE JUST GOESSSSSSSS they don’t even TRY to put baby telemachus in the paper shredder he just dips without a fuss. they change odysseus hanging the maids to penelope kicking melantho out for girlboss reasons and they TOOK AWAY MY BAG OF WIND #mybagofwind they also took away the dipshit that falls off of circe’s roof and dies. deeply shallow meaningless movie.

[whimsicalfairytales]

The “nobody” scene in the odyssey is absolutely not just a clever pun—it’s a character defining moment for Odysseus because he refuses to be nobody. He devised an incredible plan that worked and he could have saved his men and returned home much sooner but he just had to yell to the cyclops that he isn’t nobody—he’s Odysseus, king of Ithaca so now Poseidon knows who to curse which severely fucks up the rest of the journey.

The “nobody” scene highlights both Odysseus’s cleverness but also his arrogance and those two traits define Odysseus throughout the entire story. It’s a foundational aspect of Odysseus’s character and cutting the scene displays a shocking level of ignorance and disregard for the themes in the source material.

[greekmythstan]

percy jackson.

[kaitcreates]

[greekmythstan]

I kinda wish the odyssey movie was a musical with the epic songs

[greekmythstan]

Obsessed with the idea of Durendal appearing in the twp

[medusaspeach]

the littlest brother

[darcycarstairs]

mortmain focusing on london makes sense he’s just a man, but belial is a prince of hell expand your ambition bro

[winesharksea]

kit in tda: i'm evil i'm bad to the bone i was raised a liar and a thief and I'll die that way, i'm fundamentally incapable of doing right, something is broken inside me 😞😞😞

kit in twp, hanging out with the "let's just kill people and shatter the laws of nature" squad: OH MY GOD CAN ONE OF YALL ACT RIGHT PLEASE WTF, I CANNOT BE THE VOICE OF REASON HERE

[shadowhunter9210]

IF DIVYA AND DIEGO DON’T GET TOGETHER IN TWP I WILL COMMIT SEVERAL CRIMES

[vyky]

Rick Riordan is looking me right in the eye telling me Annabeth "Hubris" Chase is choosing to go to NRU, in a city she doesn't really like, surrounded by people she doesn't really care about. instead of some top notch ivy league architectural college. he's dead wrong.