• kindenough@kbin.earth
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    6 hours ago

    Ah well, Disney also skipped over the whole incest part, Zeus and Hera…

    Hera didn’t like Zeus sleeping around at all, certainly not having a child (Hercules) with Alcmene. So she drove Hercules into madness and Heracles killed his wife and children.

    Great Disney material.

  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    To be fair, despite its horrendous inaccuracies, Hercules was a GREAT movie. That gospel soundtrack? Danny DeVito? James Woods? My god, Meg… I still blame her for my weakness for sarcastic women.

    That one gets a pass.

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      8 hours ago

      I don’t think this post is a dig against the movie as a piece of entertainment, just as a source for ancient mythology.

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        7 hours ago

        But at the end of the day, be it a 2D animated Disney movie or the mythical canon of ancient Greece, it’s all just stuff from a long time ago, right? Who’s to say which of them actually came first? It’s all he said / she said / Homer said at this point. I guess we just have to come to terms with the fact that we’ll never really know.

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    7 hours ago

    Plus everyone knows Hercules is a demigod because he drank some magic humanitication juice as a baby but didn’t drink the last drop, since both of his blood parents were definitely fully fledged gods. Not for any other, non-Disney-approved reason, no siree.

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    7 hours ago

    I mean it’s a kids movie. If they were going to be realistic, we would spend the full runtime of Disney’s Hercules just counting how many fuck buddies bro had.

    It was RIDICULOUS what kind of booty this chiseled Greek god was getting. Dude come get the abacus check this out.

    Yeah, it’s uncountable.