#also have disney villains deck but idk where it is right now

[lunar-ocean-nymph]

Also I'll use each of the other decks through the week of the poll to show them all a bit.

[firebird963]

Stuff I’d Change about Class of the Titans pt 1/?

Introduction:

So it’s 5am, I can’t sleep, I’m 4 episodes deep in this show thanks to a mix of a Greek Mythology phase I’m going through and nostalgia. The show is, rough, and yet there is obvious good here that’s keeping me around.

I think a lot like Chaotic, another early 2000s show that lives in my head rent free, a reboot wouldn’t be the worse thing in the world.

So here are just a handful of ideas of changes I’d make if I were to reboot the show.

Think of this as more of a thought exercise, I’d love to hear y’alls thoughts on these changes, if you have any ideas of your own.

Now without further adieu,

Art Style

The art style is... Fine... It works, it’s just, something about it feels almost painfully generic, it’s not very memorable and I feel that some stylization would do the show some good.

That said I have seen worse in a show and still enjoyed it, transformers Beast Wars is an excellent example of this. So at this point I’d say just, I wouldn’t be mad if they went a new artistic direction in a reboot.

Character Design

Throw the whole thing out! I’m serious just start from scratch, some of these designs range from, bad, to painfully generic, not helped by the for mentioned art style.

We live in a world where Percy Jackson and Hades 2018 exist and have really cool and interesting interpretations of the Greek myths. I’d also recommend the book Gods Behaving Badly if you can get a hold of it, it’s definitely for adults and has some rather graphic (sexual) moments but it is a fun comedy.

Hell even Disney’s Hercules did some really cool things with the Gods designs, it’s so easy with that movie to tell who is who from just a glance.

The only characters I find acceptable are the seven children, even then they’d need updating. I’ll go into more detail about them later on.

Plot Stuff

Ya, the first three episodes are paced like a humming bird on meth, not gonna lie.

There are some really good ideas for character growth and it’s all just, fucking wasted almost as soon as it’s introduced. I’ll go into more detail on the character pages.

So what to do about it? For starters slow, the fuck, down.

The show also seems confused about its identity, it wants to be a monster of the week type show while also being about a cool secret high school of Greek myth stuff.

The stakes are also, ironically, way too high. It’s hard to be worried about any of the children's safety since we know if any one of them is taken out the world is doomed. So I find myself not concerned whenever there is an encounter. I do appreciate how willing they are to run away from conflicts though.

A lot of these problems have really simple solutions.

For one, their secret school, Olympus High, make is an actual secret school. Place it on the outskirts of a city rather then slab dab in the middle or even in the middle of the woods or something.

Then have this school just filled with demigods and other various monster children. Have other would be hero’s training with and around our main seven protagonists. You could have a lot of more personal rivalrys/antagonists, along with friends outside the main group that can provide other prospectives on problems.

They already live on campus on the show so it’s not that much of a stretch plus you could do something more akin to My Hero Achedemia where the characters are introduced to elements of Greek Mythology and their own abilities over time.

You can even still do a monster of the week style thing with having part of their training take place off school grounds and go on monster hunts like in the show.

What matters most is things slow down and the characters are aloud to just, breath, and exist in their world rather then be carried by the momentum of the plot.

Villains

Kronos is actually a really good idea for a main antagonist. I can appreciate they didn’t just go with, idk, Ares (who actually isn’t that popular on Olympus), Hades or Thanatos (who frankly gets more then enough shit while just trying to do his job, love you boo).

However, having Kronos show up right away like that is just, no, he’s not some mustache twirling schemer, if he somehow got out it would be all hands on deck. Every God, every hero, everyone who knew what was going on would be stopping at nothing to get him back. And he would know this.

So he has to be more, final boss, what the show is building up to. Rather then just, around, causing problems. But it’s cool. I’m not mad (she said, mad)

Here are some ideas for villains I have off the top of my head:

1. Some outside religious group, Christian cults are a thing, especially in the USA. Have them be systematically hunting down demigods/bloodlines/monster children

2. Agamemnon, if you’ve read/know the plot of the Iliad you know what this bastard did. Child murdering fuck

3. Follow up for 2 but have a bunch of classic Greek villains and other historical baddies escape from Tartarus and need to be rounded up again

4. Don’t have a villain, just do a monster of the week style show with the character drama be the driving force. Greek mythology is filled with stories about shit just happening and hero’s having to deal with it.

To quote Lindsey Ellis, Odysseus didn’t go Odyssying for the greater good (he wanted to go home.)

Tune in Next time when I rant about the children and how much I love them and am frustrated by them!

[lunar-ocean-nymph]

The results are in! I will be doing different decks every other day, though my Dark Crystal deck is still my main. Starting next week, here's the new Daily Decks list:

Mon- The Dark Crystal

Tues- Supernatural

Wed- The Dark Crystal

Thurs- Skyrim

Fri- The Dark Crystal

Sat- Labyrinth

Sun- Greek Mythos

Once i get another deck or two (first new purchase will be a greek mythology deck followed by the nightmare before christmas) i'll add more variety. Once i have at least 7 decks I'll do a different deck each day.

UPDATE: Greek Mythos deck aquired and list updated.

Also I'll use each of the other decks through the week of the poll to show them all a bit.