http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2007/12/greek-gods-come-to-television.html A modern Pagan perspective Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2007/12/greek-gods-come-to-television.html#comment-1491 Shiva Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:33:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2007/12/greek-gods-come-to-television.html#comment-1491 Been there, done that.Check out:And DOWNSIZING OF THE GODS (a sardonic comedy that's incrediblytopical at the moment but alas, far too cerebral for nearly allaudiences and every festival that we submitted to except for two, onewhich subsequently went defunct before the film screened):http://www.downsizingfilm.com/orhttp://www.downsizingofthegods.com/Watchable online:http://www.undergroundfilm.com/films/detail.tcl?wid=1033096 Been there, done that.Check out:And DOWNSIZING OF THE GODS (a sardonic comedy that’s incrediblytopical at the moment but alas, far too cerebral for nearly allaudiences and every festival that we submitted to except for two, onewhich subsequently went defunct before the film screened):http://www.downsizingfilm.com/orhttp://www.downsizingofthegods.com/Watchable online:http://www.undergroundfilm.com/films/detail.tcl?wid=1033096

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2007/12/greek-gods-come-to-television.html#comment-1490 Cameron Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:05:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2007/12/greek-gods-come-to-television.html#comment-1490 Your description of the characters leaves me wondering how this show can be a success. It sounds rediculous. Your description of the characters leaves me wondering how this show can be a success. It sounds rediculous.

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2007/12/greek-gods-come-to-television.html#comment-1489 Erik Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:53:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2007/12/greek-gods-come-to-television.html#comment-1489 Heck, Thorne Smith did this 75 years ago in <a HREF="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0375753060" rel="nofollow">The Night Life of the Gods</a> - and gloriously funny it is, too. Heck, Thorne Smith did this 75 years ago in The Night Life of the Gods – and gloriously funny it is, too.

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2007/12/greek-gods-come-to-television.html#comment-1488 Brock Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:40:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2007/12/greek-gods-come-to-television.html#comment-1488 This isn't the first time someone has used this particular theme. Tanya Huff's novel <i>Summon the Keeper</i> has an episode where the heroine (who is running a Toronto B&B with a portal to Hell in the basement, a haunted elevator, and a comatose demigoddess in one of the bedrooms,) is asked if she can accommodate "five retired Olympians.) Who turn out to be Zeus, Hera, Ares, Aphrodite, and Hermes, who is driving the minivan they arrive in.The Huff book wasn't a bad light read. Perhaps this won't be either. This isn’t the first time someone has used this particular theme. Tanya Huff’s novel Summon the Keeper has an episode where the heroine (who is running a Toronto B&B with a portal to Hell in the basement, a haunted elevator, and a comatose demigoddess in one of the bedrooms,) is asked if she can accommodate “five retired Olympians.) Who turn out to be Zeus, Hera, Ares, Aphrodite, and Hermes, who is driving the minivan they arrive in.The Huff book wasn’t a bad light read. Perhaps this won’t be either.

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