One PMSing Titan

I need to stop OOCing but this IS related to titans…

Get assignment in Latin class.

Read Ovid’s Ars Amatoria Poem 2.1

Poem starts talking about mythology.

-Achilles, Hector…cool, the Trojan war. Awesome.

-Earth getting revenge (okay so we have the gigantomachy here…awesome as well)

-Hundred handed creatures are mentioned (OH MY GOD MY HOMEWORK TALKS ABOUT THE TITANTOMACHY *has a minor freak out*)

It’s that brilliant moment when your professor starts talking about how the heroes of Ancient Greece might be based off of real people from the Bronze Age (looking at the evidence of pot sherds with writing on them dedicated to a hero at a burial so on so forth) and then at the mention of gods and centaurs and other magical creatures, you sit there in the middle of class and think, very loudly, to yourself DI IMMORTALES TITANS WERE REAL GUYS. 

Then realize that, as an aspiring archaeologist THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU SHOULD BE THINKING. 

Then proceed to doodle greek mythology (with some rather interesting and modern looking demi gods there too) in your note book, planning your ultimate excavation where you, of course, find some big ass scythe and conclude that YES INDEED SCYTHES WERE USED AS WEAPONS AND BE VERY HAPPY ABOUT THIS FACT OF BADASSERY.

This has been an OOC post and I don’t know why I don’t use my personal for THESE INFERNAL THINGS.

Whoops.

Oh woah.

New followers.

Well, useless mortals, what in the name of Tartarus do you want?

(I should probably upload something useful to this blog and pretend that my Greek and Latin classes are not stopping me blogging about Greek mythology…oh the irony.)

“I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. “You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.”

-The Battle of the Labyrinth

livingondaydreams:

thethreefates:

Don’t get me wrong, I love the movie just as much as the next person…….I own it, for crying out loud! But, speaking as a book fan, I have a lot to complain about:

1. Annabeth.
         Alexandra Daddario was about 25 when playing that role, way too old for her character. Plus, Annabeth was not blond and did not have grey eyes in this movie. Where the heck was her Yankees baseball cap? And why wasn’t she calling Percy ‘Seaweed Brain’?
2. What is up with the big arch in front of Camp Half-Blood? 
         I just don’t get it. They made this giant, obvious arch and to me it’s like they are saying “Hey everyone, here we are!” And where the heck was Thalia’s tree?  I am kind of pissed about that. 
3. What in the world was going on with those cabins? 
         There was no privacy with the movie “cabins.” They were just logs and sheets! And why didn’t they make the cabins different for each god or goddess? They all looked the same with nothing at all special about them.
4. Where was Mr. D? 
         I know this is a small thing, but I personally thought that Mr. D was a funny character and I was excited to see him in the movie…but no. He wasn’t there.
5. The big house.
         Well…where was it? I definitely didn’t see a sky-blue, three-story farmhouse, did you?
6. The whole freakin quest.
         In the movie they didn’t want to get the lightning bolt; they were just going to save Percy’s mom. How in the name of Zeus did that work out? Where was the oracle in all of this? I bet if they had included Mr. D he would have caught them before they left. Oh, and what was up with that map from Luke? This made no sense to me while watching this movie. 
7. The pearls.
         Those were supposed to be from Poseidon. I mean really, they made them Persophone’s pearls that she hides for her ‘visitors’? I find that slightly inappropriate. And why was one pearl in freakin Nashville? What in Hades was that. 
8. Where did the original quest stops go? 
        So yeah, the group did go to Auntie M’s and the lotus hotel, but where was the St. Louis Arch, Ares at the diner in Denver, water land, DOA Recording Studios, Cerberus, Tartarus, the fight on the beach?… I wanted to see those scenes and I was so mad that I didn’t get to.
9. Hades.
        Can anyone explain to me why he looked like McJagger? I still don’t understand. And why did he appear at camp in the bonfire? What was up with that? And why did he keep Percy’s mom in a…I don’t even know what it was. Was it a candle holder? A basket? A combination of the two? 
10. The Underworld
        I don’t even know what the heck Chris Columbus was thinking when making this movie. “How about we make the Underworld look like the inside of a volcano! With trash floating around and people screaming and thousands of people burning to death!” I get the whole torture stuff (I mean it’s the Underworld), but where were the Fields of Asphodel? …Elysium?…the Isle of the Blessed? THE FREAKING RIVER STYX?!? But no, my high hopes for the Underworld were dashed, and the film made it look ridiculous. 
11. Persephone
        She looked like a total skank! And when she hit on Grover, it went from slutty to flat-out disturbing. And that outfit she had on was so weird. It was like a black goth leotard with a wedding dress train on the back. I don’t know why in the world they put her in that outfit…isn’t she the goddess of springtime and flowers? Wouldn’t a goddess of springtime and flowers wear something, I don’t know, more colorful and elegant?? Also, she wasn’t even suppose to be there. She was supplies to be up with her mother cuz it was summer.
12. Them NOT TAKING Grover.
       So, Percy and Annabeth just leave Grover in the Underworld with creepy Persephone and go to Olympus. Why? Why would they do that? And Percy’s mother is about as helpful in this scene as Bella Swan. Granted, she knew how to get into Olympus, but I am pretty sure that street-savvy Grover could have done the same thing…cuz he’s awesome. Ms. Jackson isn’t a demigod, she can’t defend Percy, and she can’t even enter Olympus— so why in the world wouldn’t they take someone at least remotely useful?! It just blows my mind.
13. Grover being the Third wheel
…
…why? In the book they are supposed to be in 6th grade. Don’t girls still have cooties in 6th grade?  Yes, Percy did say she was pretty, but in this book they are just starting to be friends. Romance arrives in later books when they are older. Grover is supposed to be Percy’s best friend and in the book he and Grover have best friend talks. In the movie, they don’t have any such conversations…it’s just Percy and Annabeth being awkward around each other and Grover is stuck third-wheeling it. 
14. The flying shoes.
          I am glad the movie included the flying shoes, but why wasn’t the story behind them included? You know; how they were a seemingly harmless gift from the “friend” Luke, but they were really a way to drag Percy and the bolt to Tartarus. I think that would have made a great scene in the movie! But no. Instead, the shoes are used in the Parthenon in Nashville to get the second pearl. The film didn’t even use the word ‘Maya’ to kick-start the shoes. And Percy didn’t give them to Grover like he was supposed to. And then the shoes are used during the big fight scene with Luke, which I will discuss later.
15. Capture the Flag
         Where was Clarisse? She was not given her shining moment of beating up Percy in the woods, or even mentioned in the movie. Capture the Flag in the movie was nothing more than awkward tension between Percy and Annabeth as she kicks his butt. And wasn’t Percy supposed to be on the same team as Luke and Annabeth? This and the fact that Luke was supposed to get the flag bother me quite a lot.
16. The Field trip to the Metropolitan Museum 
        This scene really didn’t bother me as much as some of the others did. But some small details did upset me a bit. Such as; where was Ms. Dodds’ leather jacket? I wanted to see this because I found the idea of an old lady in a biker jacket amusing.  Where was the bully, Nancy? Maybe she was the short haired asian girl. Or maybe she was that random blond girl, but no one knows because the movie cut her out. She was supposed to be the reason why Percy got in trouble. Wasn’t Percy supposed to slice Ms. Dodds with the pen-sword? In the book, Mr. Brunner tosses Percy the sword and he turns his math teacher into monster dust. But in the movie, Mr. Brunner just threatens to tear her to pieces, and then the Fury crashes through the window and flies away. Finally, why was Percy listening to music instead of listening to Mr. Brunner? In the book, Percy was interested in what Mr. B had to say, but in the movie it seemed like he couldn’t care less.
17. The Law Zeus Made.
      Okay, I know I have bashed a lot of the movie by now, but this whole law thing was just plain stupid. In the book, the Big Three made a pact not to have any more kids with mortals- a pact that both Zeus and Poseidon broke. That’s why Percy was so dangerous and why he was the only kid in the Poseidon cabin. But the movie says that Percy was angry at his dad for leaving them and asks him why. Poseidon defends himself by saying that he was neglecting his duties on Olympus and “becoming mortal”… supposedly, this is why Zeus made a law that no god or goddess can visit their demigod kids. I really don’t think that an hour with your kid would turn you into a mortal or distract you from your godly duties.
18. The Fight with Luke.
      This fight scene is one of my least favorite parts of the movie. It was not necessary to the plot! Luke just appears out of nowhere, takes the bolt from Percy, and flies away. Percy then puts on the flying shoes (which, according to the book, he’s not supposed to have) and flies after him. Isn’t Percy supposed to AVOID Zeus’ domain for fear the god will strike Percy out of the sky? And the whole time they are flying Luke is using the master bolt to shoot lightning at Percy. I was under the impression that the master bolt was like an atomic bomb…why is it being shot willy-nilly across the skyline of New York? I really have no good explanation for this.

I hope that you have enjoyed this commentary on the movie version of The Lightning Thief. Please reblog or shoot me a question if you have a comment or concern regarding anything I have stated here. :)

19. Kronos.

Oh, never mind that this series is playing off of the Titantomachy and is supposed to be the demi gods and the gods teaming up together to fight the titans, WE DON’T NEED THEM IN THE FILM WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

((OOC- Yes, while everyone else was complaining about all the inaccuracies of the film I walked out with a sad face saying Y U NO TITANS :( That being said I still re-watch this film religiously…>.>))

Krios is another one of the elder titans and like Hyperion, also represented a cardinal direction (namely, South).

The idea is that Krios was associated with the constellation of Ares (which is probably why in the Percy Jackson books he has the ram horns thing going on), he is also seen as the titan of the constellations themselves though where this specific information comes from is obscure.

The idea is that all of Krios’ children were associated with stars or were constellations themselves so this may be where the titan of constellations thing came from.

It’s an interesting one because some people also associate animistic features with Krios because of the association to Ares (think Egyptian gods with animal heads and human bodies). This, however, is outside of the jurisdiction of the Theogony so I cannot really comment on it.

I freakin’ love Hyperion.

So Hyperion is the titan of light and primordial sun diety. Later on actually, Hyperion was a name given to Apollo which is just, you know, not okay.

Hyperion was part of Kronos’ and Gaia’s plan to get rid of Ouranos and the story goes that each of Kronos’ brothers held Ouranos down while Kronos castrated him.

Lovely stuff.

Because of this, the four titans ended up being associated with the north, east, west and south.

Obviously Hyperion is the east being the titan related to light and the sun.

Obviously, Hyperion did participate in the war against the gods because he was thrown into Tartarus but…aside from that we do not know much.