Don't Believe the Hype

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Those ancient stories have survived over 2000 years. Why do US show runners and producers feel the need to change them? I'm not talking about slight changes, but changing a story that makes perfect sense into a mishmash of stereotypes and anachronisms, resulting in only making the story look weak.Amazing there isn't a Rome-like show about mythic Greece... That's what we need, not this watered-down, incoherent and boring story.Also, the horrid CGI combined with the cheap artificial lighting ruins any semblance of art direction.

Inacceptable, undigested, and demeaning for the ancient Greek civilization. One more lame show about Ancient Greece, once more a rape of our proud Greek mythology and history. I stopped watching after the third episode, and I am sad to see this continuing disgusting exploit of ancient Greek topic. Bad acting, awful effects, and the characters seem to be so stupid like the writers of this series. I just keep wondering how the Americans would feel if we Greeks made a show about their history, which is far more little than ours. I would not recommend this show even if you are bored to death. Seriously, it's an immense waste of time.

When I recommend my son give this a watch (but not the grand kids), he quipped as it was Canadian was everyone polite. Hardly, there is enough treachery, violence, and sex—not graphic but clearly sex going on—that it could pass for a poor man's Game of Thrones. Hero (Tom York) seems to do everyone including his step-mom. Hello Oedipus. The production values and special effects are good and I suspect this isn't an inexpensive series to produce. The writing plays fast and loose with Greek Mythology and the writers seem at times a little careless within their own creation. The story revolves around three main characters and their quest to unravel an enigma. The three protagonists are Hero—I don't name them—,the Oracle of Gaia, and Daedalus. Daedalus is played by a favorite of mine, Matt Frewer (Max Headroom forever) and he is the only actor I recognize. The antagonists are Medea (Sonita Henry), Lylos (Wayne Burns), and Ariadne (Sophia Lauchlin Hirt) and are all quite good if totally unknown to me. I have to admit the last six episodes get a tad existential. And the final episode is more than a nod toward Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. I like what I have seen this season and hope it gets picked up for a second especially as the last episode is a cliff-hanger, literally. When I mentioned the writing is careless I was referencing an incident concerning a plot contrivance called the ring of the magi. Although no one really knows what its power is, Daedalus says the guardians of the ring (the Magi) want it to destroy the gods because they represent the one true god. However, when one of the guardians shows up trying to find out where Hero went after finding the ring; she is quite content to slice through the throat of an old lady who was a tad slow in answering her question and whispering into the dead ear that she (the old lady) will rest with the gods. Now I thought the guardians were trying to replaces the gods (Greek pantheon) with god (their singleton), so the plural reference threw me.

Watching the pilot and the subsequent two episodes, I had my doubts. The CGI, particularly the background 'sets' of gigantic statues were preposterous... yet, I had an inkling and a hope.So, I waited.I have just finished watching episode 12 with one to go, and it would appear that my suspicions were correct.This is not the Greek mythology we all know. This is a SyFy, or SciFi, production. Those of you who have read Dan Simmons' "Olympos" know what I'm talking about - those who don't, read a synopsis of that book.Since the silly, semi-comedy pilot, the characters have grown and the acting has become more polished. I now find myself disliking 'Hero' - not because of his acting, but because of the character development. He's now an anti-hero, in my eyes.Give it a shot. Yes, it might get canceled, but it's looking like the ending will be fairly epic and won't be too much of a cliffhanger.