I find this series to be thoroughly enjoyable. It is well built, from the mystery in the beginning, to the quickly but solidly put together relationship of the threesome of Jason, Pythagoras and Hercules. They incorporate just the right amount of humor too.
The reviewers and commentators who dislike the show for lack of "correctness" in the telling of the Greek mythology stories, I believe, are missing the point. It stirs up enough interest in those names and incidents to, perhaps, encourage those who are not familiar to look up a few of the classical myth books. Or, those like me, to refresh my memory with parts of the old tales themselves.
||Besides which, technically speaking, there is scholarly opinion arguing that the accepted author of the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey', Homer, was not an historical person. That there were many stories combined into a canonical text by several people. This is called "the Homeric question". It is still debated. Not to mention that there are more than one version of many of the stories and "history" of the various Greek gods origins.||
So, no one must delve into the original texts to find this TV show has an intriguing setting, along with a basic adventure/(light)action element. The stories are not meant to be heavy, correct and ancient. It reminds me of one of our shows here in the U.S., called "Once Upon A Time". They take any and all fairy-tale versions: Original form, Disney, Author-specific (i.e.,Peter Pan). They use them, transform them, turn them inside out, add onto, create new back stories, etc.
Atlantis is doing the same thing with the ancient Greek stories. They add excitement, humor, thwarted relationships, mended relationships, mystery (i.e., The Oracle) and more. Sometimes Jason is super strong and super quick, sometimes he is beaten with no extra help. You just never know. A viewer has to take it for what it is. It is fun. It is sad. They find solutions. Or they do not. It keeps many of us coming back to watch the next week. Each episode can be enjoyed as it's own story. Yet, there are threads woven throughout that lead us to expect further developments in later shows.
Do we want Jason to be beautiful? Yes. Do we find it curious and amusing that Hercules is an "ordinary man" and not a body-builder? Sure, why not. Pythagorus loves triangles, but they give him the human interest of a flawed past with his family. Good. They add to; take away from; create anew; give to it a modern speech and a modern twist. . . In other words, they have created their own world for us to watch and follow.
I really like it!!!
The reviewers and commentators who dislike the show for lack of "correctness" in the telling of the Greek mythology stories, I believe, are missing the point. It stirs up enough interest in those names and incidents to, perhaps, encourage those who are not familiar to look up a few of the classical myth books. Or, those like me, to refresh my memory with parts of the old tales themselves.
||Besides which, technically speaking, there is scholarly opinion arguing that the accepted author of the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey', Homer, was not an historical person. That there were many stories combined into a canonical text by several people. This is called "the Homeric question". It is still debated. Not to mention that there are more than one version of many of the stories and "history" of the various Greek gods origins.||
So, no one must delve into the original texts to find this TV show has an intriguing setting, along with a basic adventure/(light)action element. The stories are not meant to be heavy, correct and ancient. It reminds me of one of our shows here in the U.S., called "Once Upon A Time". They take any and all fairy-tale versions: Original form, Disney, Author-specific (i.e.,Peter Pan). They use them, transform them, turn them inside out, add onto, create new back stories, etc.
Atlantis is doing the same thing with the ancient Greek stories. They add excitement, humor, thwarted relationships, mended relationships, mystery (i.e., The Oracle) and more. Sometimes Jason is super strong and super quick, sometimes he is beaten with no extra help. You just never know. A viewer has to take it for what it is. It is fun. It is sad. They find solutions. Or they do not. It keeps many of us coming back to watch the next week. Each episode can be enjoyed as it's own story. Yet, there are threads woven throughout that lead us to expect further developments in later shows.
Do we want Jason to be beautiful? Yes. Do we find it curious and amusing that Hercules is an "ordinary man" and not a body-builder? Sure, why not. Pythagorus loves triangles, but they give him the human interest of a flawed past with his family. Good. They add to; take away from; create anew; give to it a modern speech and a modern twist. . . In other words, they have created their own world for us to watch and follow.
I really like it!!!