Blood of Zeus
Nov. 1st, 2020 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kutsuwamushiI ... uh ...
If you haven't watched this, I highly recommend it. Not because it's good, but because it's hilarious. I especially recommend watching it while live chatting with a friend who shares a love for terrible but bonkers TV.
The tone of the entire series, episode to episode, scene to scene, is non-stop DRUMS! CHOIR! PRIMAL SCREAM!
I watched it expecting something like Castlevania because it's done by the same animation studio, but it has absolutely no subtlety or self-restraint. Castlevania could be entertainingly extra too, but it also had things like characterization and storytelling. They both have a penchant for "edginess" but Castlevania's edgy moments are more earned.
I think it could have been an actual good show if it was longer. There was simply no time at all to make us care about the characters and their conflicts. As it was, it was just crammed full of:
(a) exposition
(b) more exposition
(c) seriously is the exposition over
(d) tragic backstories (told though more exposition)
(e) the female gaze
(f) tropes turned up to 11
I think I had two favorite moments, both involving Seraphim.
The first is the episode where Hera "reveals" Seraphim's true parentage to him. This is done in the most obvious way, by Hera narrating the story of his birth to him over flashback scenes. Only... she keeps going... and going... until she's narrated the entire story of his life up until that point, including things he definitely remembers. This takes up almost the entire episode.
The second is the final scene of the final episode. I literally laughed out loud at Seraphim's primal scream. It was both the most predictable and the most extra way the writers could have ended it.
I actually hope there will be fanfiction for this series. The thing is, we know almost nothing about most of the characters. We see very, very little of their lives and their relationships outside of the (very compressed) events in the series. There's a lot of room for for fun.
P.S. Hermes looks like a penis.
If you haven't watched this, I highly recommend it. Not because it's good, but because it's hilarious. I especially recommend watching it while live chatting with a friend who shares a love for terrible but bonkers TV.
The tone of the entire series, episode to episode, scene to scene, is non-stop DRUMS! CHOIR! PRIMAL SCREAM!
I watched it expecting something like Castlevania because it's done by the same animation studio, but it has absolutely no subtlety or self-restraint. Castlevania could be entertainingly extra too, but it also had things like characterization and storytelling. They both have a penchant for "edginess" but Castlevania's edgy moments are more earned.
I think it could have been an actual good show if it was longer. There was simply no time at all to make us care about the characters and their conflicts. As it was, it was just crammed full of:
(a) exposition
(b) more exposition
(c) seriously is the exposition over
(d) tragic backstories (told though more exposition)
(e) the female gaze
(f) tropes turned up to 11
I think I had two favorite moments, both involving Seraphim.
The first is the episode where Hera "reveals" Seraphim's true parentage to him. This is done in the most obvious way, by Hera narrating the story of his birth to him over flashback scenes. Only... she keeps going... and going... until she's narrated the entire story of his life up until that point, including things he definitely remembers. This takes up almost the entire episode.
The second is the final scene of the final episode. I literally laughed out loud at Seraphim's primal scream. It was both the most predictable and the most extra way the writers could have ended it.
I actually hope there will be fanfiction for this series. The thing is, we know almost nothing about most of the characters. We see very, very little of their lives and their relationships outside of the (very compressed) events in the series. There's a lot of room for for fun.
P.S. Hermes looks like a penis.
