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the reviews for hercules (1983) are impeccable

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Mooch, mooch.

Eating dinner before we get started tonight (weirdly early, but lunch didn't happen enough) to see if that improves my experience since I won't be distracted by food prep.

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Is there any mythology/religion whose origin doesn't start in darkness?

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Oh wow, it's like they raided a santa clause shop for those wigs.

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We aren't even going to get the background about Zeus being a dirty old man and cheating on Hera to father Hercules?!?!

I guess "making a man out of light" is uh, poetic license to the origins of Perseus? Which isn't even the right hero. And ok, I'll try to take off my "I was a giant mythology nerd in middle school" hat now.

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Is that supposed to be a sword next to the crown on the ground? It looks like a churro with a cross guard.

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The audio is "divine son" and the captions is "protege" and I really want to know how that happened.

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Athena wearing a fancy white dress is bugging me way more than it should. One of her aspects is a warrior goddess!

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His muscles are freaking me out.

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Are those "pew pew" noises from his punches?

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Uh, Daedalus isn't a god? Why are you calling on him? His story ends pretty poorly...

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Deadalus is a woman? I have no problem with gender bending, obvs, but what she she wearing?!?!

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The other guys only get one sword and Hercules gets two? And no one has a shield, yet they are using single hand weapons?

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Oh that's gross, why do his pecs move on their own?!

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Cassiopeia? Wrong hero alert again. That's another Perseus reference, and she sure isn't a love interest there.

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"It's a shame no one can see you"

That veil is incredibly sheer and we can see her whole face.

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Did they really just take a bunch of Greek mythology names and throw them in a bag and grab them randomly like scrabble tiles or when you play charades? Because that's the vibe I'm getting here.

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wait—that’s maybe that Maybelline?