I like Greek mythology too. I also detest when Hollywood makes a movie and completely screws the pooch on mythological facts.
Case in point: Clash of the Titans. Perseus was supposed to wind up with Andromeda. The Hollywood idiots ended the movie with Perseus and Io walking off hand in hand together. Io was Perseus’s grandmother. Eeeeewwww!!!!
As for SciFi. There isn’t any anymore.
Wrestling as a major attraction on the SciFi channel doesn’t cut it. And neither does horror. Vampires and werewolves are not SciFi.
And Athena had a robot owl.
I agree but I have come to the point where I don’t even have any expectation of getting the story right in a movie.
I used to like Smallville before it got unwatchable. Someone among the writers must have had a basic understanding of Greek Mythology because they have lex and Lionel Luther regularly quoting it as well as Greek and Roman history. They always manage to get it partially wrong. You would think they would just get a book, say Edith Hamilton or Bullfinch and look it up before they write.
Same with the Bible. They have Lex telling the tale of King David then Lex tells him about David sending his best friend to die in battle so he can have bathsheba.
Well first of all Uriah was not even an acquaintance of King David but he was an honorable man. Then Clark Kent says “they never tell you about that do they.
Well they in fact do tell you about that and what King David suffers for the infidelity and the terrible results of his own children fighting each other and David and Bathsheba’s baby dying for David’d sin.
Totally different than what they say.