#ari kaos

[kitttttchaos]

High key scared for another season of Kaos bc if Ari and Dionysus don’t get a cute slowburn and Orpheus doesn’t find a muse who needs his suffocating love I will actually cry

[one-in-a-million-fishsticks]

The Netflix show Kaos just rewired my brain chemistry.

First of all, fuck Zeus. That fucker killed a kitten, a baby, and who-the-fuck-knows who else. I will never forgive him.

Secondly, Dionysus as an immature fratboy is everything that I never knew I needed.

Hera is awful and deserves every bit of shit that Zeus gives her, but we already knew that.

Persephone was ✨ SLAYING ✨ from start to finish, her and Hades have my whole heart.

Prometheus genuinely had me snorting here and there, I loved him.

Fuck all the way off, Poseidon.

The fact that the entire rest of the pantheon fails to appear at all purely because they make a hobby out of avoiding Zeus at any cost might be the funniest fucking thing ever to come out of an interpretation of Greek mythology.

Riddy (Eurydice) and Orpheus are both such great characters, alone and as a complicated relationship thing. They're super well rounded and developed, both mean well, but they're so humanly written. They don't know what to do with each other, neither wants to hurt the other, but their decisions are flawed and their love has turned into such a messy situationship. It's beautiful when they finally communicate and accept the circumstances for what they are.

A healthy breakup, in my Greek mythology media?

It's more likely than you think!

Canaeus, my beloved.

Cassandra, my scruffier beloved!!!! 🤩

Ari, you own my heart now.

All such well written characters, now where's my Season 2 announcement?

[bisexualchrissycunningham]

I need yearning club kid Dionysus to meet Ari and feel all the things he hasn't felt before

[suzieloveships]

Y'all better go and watch Kaos on Netflix because I need season 2! I need to see Dionysus and Ari meeting! I need to see Riddy and Caneus reunion! I need to see Zeus's downfall

[kaos-incarnate]

I’ve noticed that there seems to be an unfortunately small amount of people talking about my badass queen Ariadne. Please tell me I’m not the only one who cannot wait to see her tell Poseidon to go fuck himself every time he tries to tell her how to run Krete

FUCK THE GODS!

✨except of course for her godly boytoy Dionysus✨

[roachalk]

I have so many thoughts about Hera's characterisation in KAOS, and at first I was really icked out and disappointed by it but now I'm seeing the brilliance of it.

Dumping some first unstructured thoughts here because I really have A LOT but not enough time to get it all down now.

SPOILERS FOR KAOS BELOW

First off, Hera is the goddess of marriage, women, family and protection of women in childbirth. First episode we are confronted with an unhappy marriage: Riddy and Orpheus. She is his muse, he loves her but doesn't truly know her - it's not a union of mutual love anymore. People fall out of love all the time, and marriage isn't always meant to last. Riddy's mother abandoned her at a young age to serve Hera as a tacita, and her tongue was cut out (in an abstract way this can be seen as NOT protecting women even though it is not in childbirth but it is after childbirth and was also witnessed by Riddy as a child).

Riddy's story in the first episode undermines everything Hera stands for, AND her prophecy is the same as Zeus' (!!!).

ALSO in her marriage to Orpheus she is his muse, she is commodified to bolster his career (not dissing Orpheus here, he's a good guy but he has a job and he is using her as inspiration despite her expressing her discomfort, he really really loves her but the more I think on it he loves her as a muse and doesn't see her soul).

To pivot back to Hera's characterisation: she is not the goddess of love, but marriage and family, which speak of COMMITMENT. Specifically of commitment to the societal structures that preserve ORDER. Zeus is losing it and is now a threat to that order. Why would she have an affair with Poseidon? He has a cooler head and his devotion to her allows her to leverage him as an ally in her purpose to preserve the current order: the reign of the gods above humans.

"You're the king, but I am the queen."

"Power is delegation."

Then there is the royal family: Ari's commitment to her family never breaks, but in contrast to Hera's commitment founded on order and preservation, it is a commitment founded on LOVE (this also helps explain Dionysus' attraction to her because he loves love). She loves her father Minos until she learns of what he did to Glaucus, and why did he do it? To serve the gods, aligned to Hera's purpose and interests. Ari's actions (killing Minos) are guided by love which then amends her lifelong emotional estrangement and hostile relationship with her mother Pas, who immediately recognises the validity of Ari's killing of Minos. To them both, in this scene the value and sanctity of family is not in its function as a unit providing order and structure to the hierarchies of society, but as a place of love. Granted Pas wasn't a loving mother to Ari, but (not excusing her just analysing) she was never over her grief and blamed Ari, irrationally blamed her for the death of Glaucus and for anyone familiar with Jungian archetypes and shadows, what is the inverse of love and forgiveness? Hate and resentment. Pas as a flawed human never did the psychological/internal/soul work she should have done to be a good mother for Ari, but Ari's perseverance and actions in alignment to her own values based on truth and love not only helped her own progression in her journey toward her prophecy but also helped Pas' own healing toward love and forgiveness (this is making me so emotional rn omfg).

And Caeneus, who for 10 years in the Underworld waited to see his mum come through to confront her about his murder. Their family is also based on love, but divine destiny ruptured it. Then at the very end it his love for her despite his long struggle trying to understand her betrayal, his obsession with obtaining closure from her, in the Nothing his love is so great he unlocked a power not even Hades could do - bringing a soul back.

I feel this show was very intentional in its warping of Hera's characterisation because it is a commentary on what she stands for in society today. Marriage and family in capitalism are tools for the preservation of power, the protection of private property, to maintain the social order necessary for capitalism to continue. Do I think the show was trying to go for an anti-capitalist critique? No, at least not overtly or consciously, but so far in my reflections I see that is what is happening and as a commie that makes me a big fan.

[not-mary-sue]

Reblog if you figured out how Minos prophecy was going to play out before the characters did.

[hellgram]

when kaos hits with the celestis divinitus insania vero

[avelera]

Goddammit, Kaos on Netflix actually WAS really good and now I’m even more mad about the cancellation

[bogslob]

Hey guys please can we hype up kaos

Im gonna be needing a season 2

Its basically a modern day greek mythology story, its very fun and i cant believe tumblr hasn’t jumped on it

If you liked percy jackson i would highly recommend

[kitttttchaos]

Reasons Why I Understand Why KAOS Was Cancelled

Okay, time to get controversial. I hope you’re in the mood to read a lot. Obv I enjoyed watching the show, but it’s our duty to consume media critically, so here are some thoughts on maybe why it didn’t do as well as it could’ve. As always, totally open to hear anyone else’s opinions on this, these are just my thoughts and I would love to discuss. It’s also been a minute since I watched the show, so I might be a little off.

1. Imo Riddy is kind of unlikeable. This could just be me, but she felt like a stereotypical indie protagonist, and we don’t really get to know much about her other than the fact that she’s unhappy in her relationship. Why doesn’t she like being called Eurydice? What is it about Orpheus’s fame that makes her so uncomfortable? Her reluctance to leave Orpheus is less about protecting his feelings and more about not knowing who she is if she isn’t “his muse”. That’s good internal conflict, but it feels like a reach for material. Why does she feel like she’s so tied to him? Why did she marry him in the first place? If I knew this about her, I think I’d be able to understand her more, but as she stands, I don’t know anything about her inner self other than her relationship with her mother and with Orpheus. So, sadly, in Riddy’s efforts to not be defined by her husband, she still is. Which, outwardly, makes for an understandably moody but uncomfortably boring protagonist.

2. Orpheus gets more attention than the writers want you to think he deserves. Because Riddy is somewhat underdeveloped, Orpheus is more of a stand in for the audience than she is. He’s the unaware Everyman thrust into an insane turn of events (example, the scene in the car with Dionysus), and you root for him. This is great for entertainment, but it really doesn’t support the themes. Riddy is really unhappy in her marriage to Orpheus, but we’re only ever SHOWN why about two times (the scene where he says he can’t love her quietly, and when he takes her coin). The rest of the time, Riddy just tells us, but because we barely know anything about Riddy, it’s difficult to believe her. Especially when every scene with Orpheus is either him in a vulnerable situation, showing important and relatable parts of his character, or him singing the most fire song to ever grace diagetic screen. I like Orpheus, but he’s not the protagonist, and his relationship with Riddy feels like the writers just said “it’s a feminist retelling” and thought they could leave it at that. They spent so much time trying to make Orpheus morally grey that they forgot to make Riddy morally anything.

3. The mythic representation is mid. I don’t really know what Kaos is meant to be, and I’m okay to believe that it’s meant to be a flick and not a word for word retelling of Greek mythology, but since I haven’t heard anyone come out and say that, I have to point out that the show is poorly researched. It’s very clearly not autumn or winter in the show, so why is Persephone in the underworld? That’s such an easy fix. Greece is still beautiful in autumn. They could just change the time period. Why is Hera completely unfaithful, when she’s the goddess of marriage? I saw some good takes about this, and granted there are things about Hera’s representation that I like, but this just isn’t it. She wouldn’t be an object of worship if she couldn’t even hold up the most important thing she represents. Also, Orpheus’s journey to the underworld was so disappointing as a Hadestown fan. It genuinely seemed so easy for him to get there. Yes, there were several challenges along the way, but most of them didn’t have me on the edge of my seat. And I know Charon letting him go was part of the show, but it felt so lackluster. ALSO the underworld river thing was infuriating. I was wracking my brain trying to figure out why normal human beings were getting reincarnated. In the myths, most people wind up waiting in the Fields of Asphodel (which barely exist in the show) forever. And I get that this plot line was part of the show, but it was still annoying. I think KAOS does a great job of reinventing the myths, but if you want something that does this and still makes sense, watch Hadestown or read Percy Jackson.

4. There was so. Much. Freaking. Sex. Okay, this is mostly personal, since I’m really not a fan of graphic depictions of sex in television, but I understand that it’s sometimes necessary. That being said, there are plenty of shows where it fits into the plotline, and in my opinion this is not one of them. Granted, the scenes that feature Dionysus are important for his character development because we’re supposed to understand that, even though he’s the god of partying, he’s really not fulfilled by that kind of life. However, I think the sex scenes are misplaced everywhere else. We’re shown one between Nax and Theseus because we’re supposed to see how in love they are, but they’re in one episode and they die right after. They seem in love already, and obviously it’s horrible to see them unjustly hung. But was the sec necessary?? Poseidon and Hera’s scenes—literally WHY are they a couple? I know gods are weird, and this goes back to my earlier thing about Hera, but I saw a great take that said Poseidon and Hera could unite over their hatred for Zeus without being “in love”. This is also a really regressive depiction of “love”, imo, because they only connect over sex and not liking Zeus. Like, please. And Prometheus and Charon is the most out of nowhere combination, but it’s also just not very meaningful, because we know nothing about Charon and not much about Prometheus. I think this is also a regressive depiction of sex, because if it’s everywhere all the time, why does it matter? Again, most of this is personal, but I don’t think the sex scenes deepened the characters much at all the way they do in other shows, so why are they included in this one?

5. The plot is not well-written. Crucial pieces of information are revealed at the very end of the show. The reason why Charon lets Orpheus into the underworld is because SURPRISE, Prometheus told him to, and I bet you never thought Prometheus would’ve been in love with Charon. Well, he was. Why? Because we said so. Right now. And SURPRISE Zeus used to be human. How could Zeus have been human?? If he’s been drinking souls to stay a god since he was a human, then that means the frame has existed since he was a human, and presumably Hades was also human, so how could he have created the frame? As a matter of fact, how could the Underworld exist if Hades used to be human? How does Zeus’s relationship with his father Kronos make ANY sense if he was human? His father is a Titan, the son of the Earth and the Sky. Prometheus is the Titan that created humans, so, by show logic, Prometheus should be Zeus’s father. I could let this go if it was explicitly stated, but the show really seems to play you for a fool with this plot twist. Granted, the plot twist with Ari and Gloucus was brilliant, so I’ll give them that.

Anyway, these are just my opinions, and I really don’t hate this show. I think it did a lot of things very well. This is just a few things I think it could’ve cleaned up. Thanks for sticking around to read the whole thing <3

[zorawitch]

dont love the minotaur DESIGN in kaos but by god do i love the minotaur themes. thats a boy. thats a boy who nobody figured out how to love properly.

[wheneverfeasible]

Y’all I’m watching Kaos on Netflix and I’m on Episode 3 and 37:28 minutes in and a lot of you are going to like this part for a reason I don’t.

Also I’m surprised I haven’t seen anything about this show on my feed yet. Like…Billie Piper as Cassandra? Jeff Goldblum as Zeus? David Thewlis as Hades? The massive queer representation?

Like c’mon people. I need someone to yell about this show with.

[ifuckedzeus]

David LaChapelle x Kaos

[thosesillylittlegayghosts]

Okay I know we probably won’t cause it’s Netflix but I need a season two of Kaos like yesterday

[kaos-incarnate]