What makes it different from others?

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

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.

I was looking forward to this show because I enjoy shows based on Greek mythology ,although some of them are not even close to history but THIS? This show is by far the worst!! I was expecting much more from a channel like SyFy in production mostly! The acting is so horrible and the locations so far from ideal! I am surprised this production got 7/10!!! I give it a 2 /10 and believe me for being nice! I tried to watch but got so confused with the story and also quite mad because of the amateur people who were involved in this project!It is so sad really...In every show we love a characther or maybe more but here you hate them all!!!! It was one of the WORST fantasy shows I have ever seen and when I say the worst I meant it! I would not recommend it,it is a waist of time!!!!!

Just watched ALL 13 episodes not just the first few. Although this starts off slow like most new shows it soon becomes an incredibly interesting, exciting and unexpected story. The actors are well cast, the dialogue is dramatic when it needs to be and lighthearted at other times. The story itself has many interesting plot twists and the show is certainly more than it first seems. It is well worth watching the whole season before passing judgement as it is truly a unique show. The whole season comes to a conclusion (although it could continue into a second season) so it can be watched as a complete story as it stands. If only more shows were like this TV would be better off for it.

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.