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Spoiler Alert: Olympus Metaphors explained-ish


My husband and I just spent Saturday watching the whole thing. I read some of the comments here and nobody seems to be commenting on the point of the show. Old Gods forced out for lack of cooperative synergy. Monotheism ushered in with biblical imagery especially at the end where among other things the oracle gets a quick divine name change of Eve.

The whole thing was entertaining considering we were in desperate need of a binge watch.

The CGI was pretty sad. Just think of it as watching puppet theater. The green screen shadow continuity person wasn't very consistent in the placement of where the sun was coming from.

The ushering out of the Greek Gods seems a little premature considering the Romans had the same pantheon (with different names, except for Apollo for some reason) after the Greeks stepped back from all the inventing stuff they had been doing.

Olympus as a show has to be watched to the end to be understood.

Do not think about what you know about Greek Gods, it will frustrate you. Try not to take it too seriously.

It becomes it's own mythology of the passing of the torch, so to speak.

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