Post by Chev on Jan 25, 2017 19:18:54 GMT -6
Where is it? Where is that line that separates a religion from its pop culture counterpart? Like how angels and the devil (and Metatron) are portrayed in Supernatural, the gods in the Heroes of Olympus series and also in... the Magnus Chase? series?
I know in the latter half of the thought that the author has essentially rubbed mud on the religion and doesn't believe how such a thing could be, but it's also the first, or only, interaction with those gods that some people get.
For example, I'd been reading PJO/HoO since it came out (with some stretches in between where I don't have access to a library to continue), and it was my first interaction with the Hellenic pantheon. Afterward, during the Roman arc, I found that there are individuals that still honor the Hellenic pantheon and others that are still coming into it. My views on the pantheon are obviously skewed and as such my interest in various gods/figures are skewed toward the books' representation.
If your view of the figure in question is so skewed by PC, does it make a PC relationship or does it go more toward it's 'origin source'?
In all honesty, I'm asking because of the portrayal of Hestia by the author. It's hard for me to see Hestia as much other than how she was portrayed in the books, though I know she's not just that, that there's more to her.
I guess another way to phrase the question would be, is it wrong to view a deity in their PC-portrayed form? Provided, of course, that they actually take from the source material and don't fuck up, similar to how Disney portrayed Zeus and Hades, if one wanted to phrase it as such.
I know in the latter half of the thought that the author has essentially rubbed mud on the religion and doesn't believe how such a thing could be, but it's also the first, or only, interaction with those gods that some people get.
For example, I'd been reading PJO/HoO since it came out (with some stretches in between where I don't have access to a library to continue), and it was my first interaction with the Hellenic pantheon. Afterward, during the Roman arc, I found that there are individuals that still honor the Hellenic pantheon and others that are still coming into it. My views on the pantheon are obviously skewed and as such my interest in various gods/figures are skewed toward the books' representation.
If your view of the figure in question is so skewed by PC, does it make a PC relationship or does it go more toward it's 'origin source'?
In all honesty, I'm asking because of the portrayal of Hestia by the author. It's hard for me to see Hestia as much other than how she was portrayed in the books, though I know she's not just that, that there's more to her.
I guess another way to phrase the question would be, is it wrong to view a deity in their PC-portrayed form? Provided, of course, that they actually take from the source material and don't fuck up, similar to how Disney portrayed Zeus and Hades, if one wanted to phrase it as such.
) that it's so easy to separate the two.
