Hercules

From: Nalo Hopkinson (bl213@FREENET.TORONTO.ON.CA)
Date: Wed Jul 30 1997 - 15:28:46 PDT


My problem with the series Hercules is that the original was a hard
drinking alcoholic, given to rapine and binges of violence while drunk,
followed up by periods of extreme remorse. A complex character to make a
hero, at the very least. The sanitized modern day version bugs my ass.

-nalo

"You'll say reality is under no obligation to be interesting. To which
I'd reply that reality may disregard the obligation but that we may not."
                                                -Jorge Luis Borges



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