I admire their ability to get paid for this dreck!
Here is yet another fine example of how one can sleep through one's classes and still become a screenwriter for the Sci-Fi Channel.
Odysseus went a lot of places — but not to the Underworld.
Orpheus went to the Underworld — to get Persephone, his wife and a mortal woman, not Penelope, who was Mrs. Odysseus and another mortal woman. (Notice: everybody is mortal, and no one has mystical powers.) Oh, well; at least he's going after his own wife.
And the rest of it is just as inaccurate as any other Hollywood take on any other well-known story.
Question for the Sci-Fi Channel:
How did you rope Arnold Vosloo into this horrible undead thing? Blackmail?
My favorite bad example has always been the story meeting:
Do we have the kangaroos attack before or after General Grant saves Marie Antoinette and Helen of Troy from Genghis Khan?
All I can say to the writer(s), director(s) and producer(s) of those "SyFy Channel [VERY] Original Movies" is:
I admire your ability to get paid for this ... stuff.
And for moving the Cyclops from Greece to Rome.
And for making the Minotaur all bull instead of the head of a bull on a man's body.
And for giving us the whitest Aztecs ever seen worshiping a Quetzalcoatl that looked like a man in a rubber lizard-with-wings suit instead of a feathered serpent.
BTW-1: Aztecs wearing flip-flops?
BTW-2: NOBODY able to pronounce "Quetzalcoatl"?
BTW-3: Are you sure it was Pizarro who conquered the Aztecs, not Cortéz?
BTW-4: A "key" that looks like a Mayan calendar?
Does anybody at SyFy Channel really wonder why they're hemorrhaging viewers? share