Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35304678-20180415140951/@comment-25512094-20180424051539

Klimenreal wrote: Yeah, I would like to see Hod and Baldr. This is could be a nice scene. I mean, Hod tecnically killed his own brother Baldr because of Loki's manipulations, right? If I remember correctly.

''And almost every god in the series incredibly flat and Rick seemed more focused on them all being DELIGHTFULLY QUIRKY! rather than a balance like the Greeks''

There are many times I didn't like the portray of Greek Gods. I didn't like Hera, Aphrodite and Demeter's portay for example. Hera was portrayed as, sorry, straight-up b****. Every demigod in the pjo universe seems to hate her, even If she tries to help them. (her technics can be questionable.) All gods and goddesses are mostly complex. And Hera is one of the complex goddesses in the mythology. Hera's actions are not completely justified, but also she isn't completely wrong. And, Riordan's way of portray her like that...well, I didn't like it much.

Aphrodite is portrayed as completely shallow, vain and selfish. Isn't love needs to be complex and deep? But, when we look at Aphrodite's myths...well, she isn't so much far from being shallow and vain, I guess.

But, you gotta admit, Demeter's portray was ridiculous. She is like a comic relief. But she needs to be portray as powerful being rather than giving speeches about eating cereals.

There are other gods and goddesses that I didn't like their portrays, but I get your point about Norse Gods, I guess.

I do agree that, Rick has some rather...interesting choices for portrayals amongst the Greeks and some are butchered like you mentioned for Demeter, Hera, and Aphrodite such as Ares who while always boorish was actually quite protective of the Amazons since they were his kids and even killed his own first cousin (Such an act leading to a trial, due to said cousin being Poseidon’s son.), due to the fact that said cousin was going to rape his daughter.

Compared to Ares in PJO who literally lacks anything redeemable, because he abused Clarisse and bullies his Demigod children to the point where one may ask what is good about him, while it takes his other half Mars to show him in a decent light of any sort.

As for Aphrodite, it’s a shame because she very much could be as scary as Hera (Psyche and Cupid, anyone?) but it doesn’t get mentioned in-universe or used to show that while her domains aren’t “active” as Artemis and Athena, she’s still someone who deserves respect or else because we’ve seen what happened with Psyche.

My point with the Norse Gods was that they were total jokes, it’s like taking the aforementioned Demeter in PJO and multiplying it several times to the point where you ask if they were meant to be intimidating or even interesting in the slightest.