#im so glad he got treated well by Spiderverse

[ryanthel0ser]

ASTV SPOILERS

The way Donald Glover was what inspired the creation of Miles Morales and was one of the first people to voice Miles Morales and then he has a short stare down with him in ASTV I'm actually going to cry

[antiloreolympus]

9 Anti LO Asks

1. LO Apollo being a villain/Antagonist could be interesting if he wasn't so irredeemable and irritating. I mean, think about it. Apollo hates Persephone (for whatever reason. Maybe cause she's friends with Eros and Apollo and Eros have an ongoing rivalry), and maybe Persephone even hates him back (say because he's stuck up). But they're both friends with Hermes and Artemis. Now we've got a hilarious, slightly tense, "glare at each other across the couch" situation where Apollo and Persephone have to pretend not to hate each other for the sake of their friends.

Artemis is all like "I'm so glad my two favorite people are getting along!" and then it cuts to Persephone sharpening a knife while Apollo grips a pen so hard it snaps. And they're both like "Yeah. We love each other soooooo much...."

Bonus points if Hermes knows they hate each other, but just kinda wants to see how far they'll take it!

Anyways, all I'm saying is that I like the idea of an antagonistic Apollo. It could've been good! She could have used Persephone and Apollo's shared relationships to her advantage for comedic affect! Plus we could've had a whole arc about them learning to be like each other and thus strengthening Persephone's relationships outside of Hades. But RS is too incompetent to write anything good adjacent.  

2. This was like, ages ago but I cannot get over the fact that RS named random characters stuff like “Brenda” “Jill” and “Hank” like? Hello?? She could very easily just search “Greek names” (even “Ancient Greek names” if she wanted) and pick stuff she liked from there, and if she still wanted to keep the more “Americanized” names she could do names like Sophia, Helen, Nicholas, or even Jimmy (which is just an Americanized Dimitri, if I remember correctly?). Like,,, it’s so easy to use google instead of calling a Greek nymph “”Brenda”” 😐

Note: I am not a native Greek but I do have the classic “Greek-name-opoulos” surname so while I definitely do not have as much say as native Greeks I at least know a *little* bit about Greek names and the way RS names minor non-God characters is.... interesting.

3. Why is Hades’ face shaded like that? Is he about to get fetishized for being gay or smth?

4. Regarding the Americanisation of LO’s Greece: It would be one thing if the Greek pantheon in LO were the only pantheon in their universe. That way, RS could write off the Americanised lifestyle and names in LO as some weird shoehorning of diversity (the Hades games creators did a much better job by making the gods different races and justifying it by saying the gods may be Greek gods but they rule over all of humanity and therefore should be treated as representative of human diversity).

However, RS has established very early on that there are multiple pantheons in the universe of LO (remember how Perse at one point contemplated running away to join the Norse pantheon?) thus making it Impossible for her to justify the Greek gods being so Anglicised since they only rule over Greece in LO…

5. What I don't get it anti-nymph racism (and yes it's racism, Rachel said they're a different race) is so heavy and common place in the series that it's like ... what about Amphitrite? She's a nymph! Is the deal with her that she's well bred/one of the good ones" because if so 🤢🤮

6. Getting caught up on LO and Pfft Polymnia everything shes saying is supposed to be "character assassination" and slander / defamation of character of Persephone according to the title and yet....

Everything shes saying is true... Also "the accused hid like a coward" cuts to Persephone looking comfy just hanging out in Hades arms in ya know, the King of the Underworlds house??! After commiting a second murder / mutilation?

7. Rachel you coward give women big noses too

8. im sorry, i don care how much you might love lo, but yall cannot look me in the eye and tell me hades being wider than spiderverse kingpin is somehow a good look. how does he even walk without falling over.

9. I hate how the plot steam rolled over so much of their actually interesting plots. Hera just got reunited with Hephaestus, let’s see that relationship fester after she just started having nightmares. Artemis and Apollo were looking for each other because she almost put two and two together. Who texted echo to say “hey your roommate is a tree now”. Do any of the gods know Daphne is missing OR Minthe? Do gods actually care when something happens to a non god? (Probs not Hera turned someone into a goat) Eros and psyche??? What’s happening? Idc about the trial plot since persphone isn’t going to get punished