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Opinion on athena punishing Medusa?
foolishly.PF, There was also Arachne. M sister was misogyny, probably because of the problems of mother’s absence? No, they say her mother was adequate, then it’s all the influence of Zeus. and damn it, if Athena had let her emotions run wild in time, such hysterical antics would not have happened. Although, if Medusa had been born that way, I would have taken her in as a soldier if she wanted to
My dream (non-Greek) casting would have to be Matthias Schoenaerts as Ares and Charlize Theron as Aphrodite Areia (or hell I’ll take Athena). On the condition that they have to interact multiple times and be in the same film.
So I Finished “This Immortal Heart”… Now because it’s usually a debatable feature in any retelling, the first thing I’ll say is that if you’re a BIG (and I mean obsessively so) Greek Mythology nerd who is extremely strict on differing interpretations of characters, then this may not be the book for you. Aphrodite obviously gets the majority of attention and in this story she is very soft and sweet, just bordering the line of being too much so (though never crossing it). Her character is in love with love and only wants to match people with their perfect someone and cares for all the mortals greatly. If you know of the stories of her in mythology, then this is definitely a much more goodie version of her. Zeus is somewhat a one-note asshole. It’s not completely wrong but also not complete accurate either. He’s clearly the tyrannical leader in this story and doesn’t really have anything else to him. Hephaestus is also pretty simplistic in the sense that he’s the soft nice guy everyone looks down on but is still so kind to everyone despite that. It’s not over the top or too terribly written or anything, but I feel that if you’re very into these characters for the complex depth, this book doesn’t really do either of them justice. Otherwise I think everyone else is handled quite well. The story is from Aphrodite’s point of view but the author still manages to nicely show a deeper layer to other Gods like Hera and Artemis in subtle ways that I really appreciate! There are very small scenes that blend with the rest of the story that had me quite giddy because those are two of my personal favourite Gods (along with Ares) and I really liked the way they were written in this. Even Poseidon, who is clearly another asshole villain, has some nice emotional layers towards the end that shine through just right. With that long ramble out of the way, I just wanted to share that I thought it was SO damn good! I genuinely enjoyed it so much, I could barely put it down towards the last few chapters! I would definitely recommend it for anyone who loves Aphrodite and Ares as they’re easily the best part of the story (which is good since the story is literally all about them). I can’t say it was completely perfect, but only in the sense that even I prefer some tiny features in the mythologies that this story changed up a bit. I won’t say what, cause spoilers, but they really are tiny features, things I think “I prefer the other version” before shrugging it off and going back to enjoying this story for what it is. I feel like Ares was brilliantly written as well. Where the writing for Zeus might not go into the complexity of his character, it dazzles with how it does for Ares. Same with the romance between Aphrodite and Ares. I normally hate hetero-couples-drama and maybe it’s my softness for Aphrodite and Ares as a couple but I genuinely enjoyed their drama. It was soft and sweet, heart-breaking and painful but also hopeful and inspiring, everything you want from a romance story. Without going into any spoilers, I really loved some of the tales this book touched on. When I recognised two names in particular, I had a little fangirl moment of “wait, she’s doing that story?!” and I really couldn’t put it down after that. I’ve read some of Jennette Saint’s other stories and I always tended to have the same critic of them - that I liked them well enough but the endings always felt like they dragged on for too long. I am happy to say I didn’t have that problem here, which makes it easy for me to say this is by far my favourite of her books!
The legend of the Seeker season 1 finale is a delicious time-travelling episode that creates the exact plotline I always hoped would happen to Xena and Ares. In it, the two main characters get separated by the staggering rift of 58 years (Think X & G). The man ends up in a fucked up future (this would be Gabby), while the woman stays in the present and in the end contributes to the fucked up future when she gets kidnapped by the main villain (For our purposes, this is Ares). He’s obsessed with her and wants her to be his queen and help him rule the world he has conquered. She tells him to his face that she would rather die than help him (sounds familiar?). Yet she changes her mind after she figures out that her lover has not, in fact, been blasted out of existence, but that he’s in the future. Suspecting that she might not live long enough to meet him again and help him reset the timeline if she stays in prison, she agrees to join forces with the villain. Not only that, she lets herself get pregnant by him because she knows that her lover will eventually need someone with her powers to help him, and the only way to ensure that someone survives long enough is to make the villain love them even more than he’s obsessed with her. Her plan works relatively well until her child grows up a bit and proves himself to be chronically evil and insane. She attempts to kill him, but at that point, he’s too powerful even for her to handle. (She has been stripped of most of her powers over the years) This child then ends up killing both of his parents, but of course, at the end of the day, his mother’s lover still finds a way to use him and reset the timeline. What I wouldn’t give for Ares to do this to Xena, honestly. I just want to see what their fucked up demigod child would look like.
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