Caesula10

I think the biggest let down of my childhood was the fact that for whatever reason I whole-heartedly believed Sandra Oh was Meredith Grey and she was the main character, and when I discovered that was not the case I was very disappointed.

Ok, why do we always characterize Demeter as dramatic? It's so dumb. In the original myth, Hades stole Persephone and in some versions of the myth she was a young girl. Hades kidnapped and most likely raped her young daughter. She had every reason to be as distraught as she was. She has every reason to mourn each year when Persephone must go back to the underworld. But we picture her as an over dramatic, over bearing mother instead of a mother who did everything to save her child. I know I might get hate for this, but I think that we romanticize Greek myths too much...we recreate them (which is fine as long as we don't lose the point) and we erase why they were needed in the first place...we make them into modern day love stories or hollow shells of their former selves where the author uses them as a marketing tool instead of a culture. Greek myths were meant to show deep cruelty within human nature. The Gods are supposed to show the worst parts of humanity. When we romanticize certain characters, we are romanticizing the worst parts of human nature.

This has probably been said before, but as I watch the series I'll say it again: Luke was impossibly alluring. I am a little older than Luke was in the first book. If one of my friends or hell someone I just went to uni with came up to me, poured his heart out to me, validated my own feelings, and then told me there was a way to change it, I'd join him immediately. When you add in the complexities of those feelings of being used, unsatisfied with your own fate, and the continual burden of being abandoned by a parent, it doesn't even seem like a choice any longer. I'm not saying Luke was right, but when I was a kid reading the series I couldn't understand why anyone would join him, but as an adult facing these feelings, I completely understand why so many joined him and I probably would too. Even knowing the outcome, I'd probably still join.