hercules the legendary journeys episodes prodeus

#Hercules the legendary journeys episodes prodeus series#
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Adaptational Wimp: Proteus is easily given away by his reflection, a weakness he never had in the myths (which would have been quite a pickle considering that Proteus is a sea god).And far from being unloved, he had numerous romantic partners across the Mediterranean, along with several offspring (two of which ended up getting killed in battle by Hercules himself, incidentally). In the original myths and artworks inspired by them, Proteus tended to look like a fairly ordinary old man - hence his title 'The Old Man Of The Sea' - and any odd features he possessed were usually limited to a piscine lower half. Adaptational Ugliness: In the episode 'Protean Challenge,' Proteus is portrayed as hideously disfigured, to the point that his shapeshifting powers are used to hide his deformities and find love.

#Hercules the legendary journeys episodes prodeus series#

In the series he's a giant that looks like a normal man (played by actor Glenn Shadix), is quite friendly especially with children, and his children with Echidna only turned evil because Echidna was distraught over Typhon's absence, which happened only because Hera had trapped him for a century. He's also quite evil, as he and Echidna deliberately send monsters out to trouble humans.

Typhon, as depicted in the myth, is a horrifying monster with either a serpentine body of multiple tails, or a body of tentacles, likely a set of wings and a horrible face (either demonic or skull-like), or sometimes as a multi-headed dragon of immense size.

He's actually kind of cute, as Aphrodite attests.

Adaptational Attractiveness: Hephaestus is supposed to be quite disfigured, but when he appears he just has some burn scars on the side of his face which don't detract much from his attractiveness.

Indeed, his only real trouble in life was the fact that heroes would routinely track him down and wrestle him into submission in order to force him into revealing the future for them. In the original myths, not only did Proteus look fairly normal, but never needed to use his shapeshifting powers to pose as anyone, for had no interest in interacting with anyone except on the few occasions when he ended up fathering children.

Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Proteus is depicted as being deformed and ostracized from birth - to the point that everyone on Olympus would mock him for his appearance when he was a child, including Hercules - and is so unloved that he resorts to shapeshifting into people in order to interact with society.

Accidental Misnaming: A Running Gag in 'War Bride' is Princess Melissa constantly getting Iolaus' name wrong and calling him 'Iolfus.' She gets it right in the end, though Hercules can't resist a little fun with it himself.

Incidentally, although the series ended two years before Xena: Warrior Princess, Kevin Sorbo's final appearance as Hercules was on the spinoff's 'God Fearing Child.' As an interesting note, the writing duo Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci got their start on this show, and have continued to complete a nerd trifecta of scripting movies for Mission: Impossible, Transformers, and Star Trek (2009). Speaking of Evil Dead, Bruce Campbell directed a few episodes (Including the series finale), and played Autolycus. It was executive produced by Sam Raimi of Evil Dead fame, who would later go on to direct the Spider-Man Trilogy movies. It was also one of the first television series to make extensive use of CG creatures.

It was delightfully tongue-in-cheek (including a hearty serving of Anachronism Stew and lots of awful Puns) and impressively epic in its scope, using a lot of Wire Fu action sequences. It put a new spin on Greek Mythology, deliberately avoiding the white togas normally associated with this time period.

#Hercules the legendary journeys episodes prodeus tv#

The show began life as a series of TV movies as a part of Universal's syndicated Action Pack which proved successful enough to go on to a series (which had a good deal of cosmetic and thematic differences, the events of the movies were not referred to in the show proper), and being filmed in New Zealand gave it an unprecedented level of Scenery Porn that other shows couldn't manage. It also spawned another spinoff, Young Hercules, starring a young Ryan Gosling, which didn't fare quite as well. Hercules was closely tied to its spinoff Xena: Warrior Princess, which soon overshadowed it in popularity. It never took itself too seriously, it started out cheesy and got campier and campier as it went on, but it retained a good sense of humor throughout its run (and it had a kickass theme song).

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys followed the life of the legendary hero played by Kevin Sorbo throughout ancient Greece as he fought tyrants, monsters, and the machinations of the Olympian gods with the help of his trusty sidekick Iolaus. But wherever there was evil, whenever an innocent would suffer, there would be Hercules!'