So don't come here talking 'bout equality or whatnot

I watched Clash of the Titans and it was pretty good, except that there was a couple who sat in the corner and did awkwardness-producing-amongst-the-people-who-can-hear activities in the dark. But what really bugged me during the movie was not public sexual intercourse, but how the movie (and Greek mythology) let inequality slide for the sake of a happy ending.

Sure, we want Perseus and Io to be happy (By the way, why the heck are they a couple in the movie? Perseus is a decendant of Io, fools!), but what about Hades? What about Medusa? Ok, Medusa is snakey and Hades looks like a pedophile constantly drowned in black smoke. But there is no justice in what the movie writers and Greek myth has done to both of them.

Hades was tricked by Zeus, his brother into being god of the underworld. And we all know that the underworld is an icky place. If you were sent there to live on people's fear and hate, you would want to cause a revolution and learn make your own frikkin' Kraken, and Cerberus and other awful things. But is there justice in how he ends up like? Nada. He ends up being portrayed by movie-makers like this:

What they did to Medusa was also awful. There she was just being pretty and according to the movie at least, got raped by Poseidon (Which is wrong of course. Ovid says she laid with Poseidon willingly). Now if Athena were so full of wisdom, why would she punish Medusa into being a gorgon forever!? I'd be disgusted if someone had sex in MY temple, but why do all the human girls in mythology have to be punished because they turned the gods on? Nobody punished Poseidon. And if being given snakes for hair and a serpent body wasn't enough, Perseus had to behead Medusa. Argos was saved and everybody is happy, but is that enough to forgive all the awful things that were done to those who ended up ugly, dead or stuck in the underworld?

Medusa by Bocklin

In a different note, look! I got three A Series of Unfortunate Events books, for the price of one!! :D I have become a discount ho now that I'm paying for my books. :I

うれしい！