#honestly what drives me fucking bonkers is that i actually like zeus lmao
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everyone has already pointed this out and much more intelligently but the whole plot of lore olympus really comes down to rachel telling the audience whom to hate without putting any work into proving why
like we are no strangers to character assassination demeter legion has been going thru it since day one, but rachel is so staggeringly bad at writing genuine villains that she has to pull random ass acts of evil out of nowhere to justify her pinning certain characters as bad guys. and it’s proof of her writing by the seat of her pants yeah, but when in doubt she just throws characters under the bus so long as it props persephone and hades up
the narrative NEVER shows us zeus or demeter doing evil things, but they’ve run afoul of the main couple, so we are told they are villains. zeus has proven he’s a bad husband, sure, but not a bad king - but rachel needs to escape the corner she had written herself into, so suddenly zeus is a wife abusing monster on par with kronos. arguably the only genuine villain we see do something 1000% wrong is apollo, and rachel still can’t decide if he’s some brilliant mastermind or some idiot being played. in fact, the narrative is kinder to apollo than it is to zeus or kronos, and that’s saying something
like yeah it’s lazy writing to have zeus be the Bad Guy when we have fucking kronos and also apparently ouranos but honesty it just feels so disrespectful. rachel simply cannot figure out how to write a bad guy so she just keeps throwing random characters in the woodchipper and hopes it buys her a week. it’s such a waste of potential, such a demonstration of her failings as a writer, and a total disregard and lack of knowledge of the myths she claims to be basing this on
#anti lo#anti lore olympus#good luck reading this im rambling#honestly what drives me fucking bonkers is that i actually like zeus lmao#genuinely he’s more interesting than the main couple and rachel was so! close! to a breakthru!!!#like she HAD the PIECES#but she thinks mental trauma isn’t real so zeus is Bad Guy#like every character in this comic is arguably selfish beyond belief but at least zeus actively demonstrates#that he loves his family (which is a HELL of a lot more than hades can claim lmao)#i have more thoughts but good luck making them decipherable me#anyways lore rekindled zeus save us lore rekindled zeus
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