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We finally met Hercules and Meg from myth (or…Disney). What did you think of them and their story?
Hercules was a okay…Meg was…words I cannot say on the forums. To put it plainly, had Megara from the Hercules Movie been real, she would have rolled over in her grave at what was done to her. As for their story, it was brief, but I’ll settle for it.
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I liked Hercules somewhat I guess. But Megara was a huge snore for me. She was nothing like her character from the Disney film. She was just a generic damsel in distress. they could have given her just ONE snarky line for Zeus’s sake -___-
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Not to mention Herc first meets Meg as she is escaping from Cerberus which indicated she was either in or try to enter the Underworld, what is her unfinished business, are we meant to believe that all she needed was to meet and thank the guy who tried to save her, there is clearly something missing here.
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I didn’t mind Hercules, but I totally reject this version of Meg. It’s sadly ironic how this show, which originally sold itself as being about strong women, actually reduced a capable, modern, sassy Disney princess to a damsel in distress (something the character in the animated version of Hercules totally rejected).
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I didn’t mind Hercules, but I totally reject this version of Meg. It’s sadly ironic how this show, which originally sold itself as being about strong women, actually reduced a capable, modern, sassy Disney princess to a damsel in distress (something the character in the animated version of Hercules totally rejected).
If this was all a plot by Hades to plant an agent in Olympus, that’d be a good story on its own, but it wouldn’t fit within OUAT. Hmm, maybe that’s really Cora and not Meg.
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If this was all a plot by Hades to plant an agent in Olympus, that’d be a good story on its own,
this please!!!! I mean c’mon guys! MEG FAINTED AND HERCULES CAUGHT HER -___- Are the writers serious? She is literally the opposite of who she was in the comics. Her hiding something has to be the only explanation.
We aren’t even sure she’s dead. We never saw her die. She led the beast to Hercules and it killed him. And then she shows up randomly in Hades special prison. And now she gets to live in the home of the gods? Why? It doesn’t add up. Something is up guys. I place all the cookies in the oven on it.
Something just isn’t right -_-
"I could have the giant duck as my steed!" --Daniel Radcliffe
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As much as many of us criticize when OUAT sticks too closely to the Disney versions, this is a case where they would have been better off doing so.
I know nothing about Megara-of-myth, and the vast majority of the audience is probably the same, while being very familiar with the Disney version. So yeah, in this case, they should have stuck with the Disney version instead, which would avoided this utter disappointment everyone has with the character.
Because I knew nothing about her mythological origin, I looked her up…
Megara is always portrayed in the myths as the guiltless innocent who, with her children, suffers a meaningless and brutal death.
Well, that fits with how the show portrayed her.
Later portrayals of her, such as the animated Disney film Hercules (1997), depict her as a con artist who is redeemed from her difficult past through her relationship with the hero. No ancient depictions of Megara present her in this light at all. Her role in the 2014 film Hercules, while not exact, is much closer to her traditional portrayal.
http://www.ancient.eu/Megara_%28Wife_of_Hercules%29/
Hercules was mostly fine–and I love the sight gag of him carrying two huge anchors around in present day. But a lot of this episode feels like 402 in which we had Anna meet Charming and she’s the one who taught Charming how to fight and how to be a hero. It wasn’t a super idea back then and it’s not one now. I have an issue with a character never before alluded to popping out of thin air to teach our heroes how to be heroes. It’s lazy and it makes the guest character look like a plot device themselves. While the message that being a hero (and future queen) is about making hard choices even when you’re scared it definitely applicable, it’s a lesson Snow learned when she was far younger, with her mother Eva and that impending death. And that lesson learned at that time was far more weighty and meaty and meaningful. Little Snow saying that the crown was “heavier than it looks” told me all I need to know about Snow as a young princess–she would struggle because it’s not an easy task, but she’d come through because she knows how to be compassionate but make hard choices. I didn’t need some hunky boy to pluck her from a hole in the ground and explain heroism to her.
And Meg. Wow. Yeah, not good. Not good at all.
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