Greek Mythology Geekery

[dreiser]

When I was little I was obsessed with Greek mythology. I loveeeeed it. Read The Illiad and The Odyssey a bunch of times in my 9-14 year old age bracket. It was my favoritest thing. That being said...



The kick ass remake of Clash of the Titans. Liam Neeson! "Release the cracken!" OMG.

Percy Jackson & The Olympians which is something I would have read a million times as a kid and totally adored. I'm seriously contemplating buying and reading all these books as my affinity/sad love for Greek mythology is still strong.

Or Spartacus Blood & Sand on Starz which has my baby dyke crush Lucy Lawless starring in it and has a lot of lesbian hotness happening despite it being a show focused on gladiators rebelling.

Comments

[madame-diggory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just stumbled upon the Titan's remark trailor last week and I'm psyched to see it.

Though it'll be hard to match the awesomeness that is Harry Hamlin in a tunic or a young Maggie Smith (I swear the woman has looked 60 since forever) but the trailor seems promising, so I guess I'll go see it. I was also a big Greek Mythology geek myself.

[tempest819.livejournal.com]

Ohhh me too! I am a big mythology geek, all the way back to the days when collecting scratch and sniff stickers in a sticker book was my favorite past time. I think mythology fueled my love of comics that i got into later in life. I always thought of comics as America's mythology.

Anywho, I'm definitely feelin the new Clash of the Titans movie. Hopefully it lives up to the trailer, although nothing could replace Harry Hamlin and the wondefully terrible claymation of the original. ;-)

I hear Spartacus blows like Old Faithfull-too much slow-mo fight sequences and green screen and that the plot was lacking. I haven't seen it yet and will probably tune in when it comes on to see for myself.

As for Percy...I'm torn. All the ingredients are there for me to be all 'woo and hoo', but, I'm just not there yet.