Ignoring the fuck out of Typhon (a Greco-Roman figure) for a moment ...
Why the fuck does Ursula look friendly? And neither of them look old enough to be the parent of a 17 year old/some old evil matron.
At least Walt knew how to convey evil through character design.
It's bad enough that it's a Deal with the Devil story with an out at the end, but then, most stories of that type end with the dealmaker weaseling out of his end of the bargain; older tales were meant to be cautionary, you deal with the devil, you pay the price. Grimmification - the Brothers Grimm were the cultural revisionists of THEIR time (for instance, the Red Riding Hood never had a huntsman to save her from the "wolf", because "wolf" originally referred to bandits and murderers etc who hid in the woods away from getting lynched by the townsfolk they preyed upon. The story makes a lot more sense once you tell it the ORIGINAL way. RR just gets murdered and eaten by a cannibal she made the mistake of talking to in the woods (and there were a lot of them in medieval times) ... after being warned not to speak to anyone she meets on a forest path ... The Merry Men are some kind of leftist invention, or so I've come to suspect.)
Anyway, yeah, bleah. I can see them going the "Ursula was misunderstood" route. Bleah.
Ignoring the fuck out of Typhon (a Greco-Roman figure) for a moment ...
Why the fuck does Ursula look friendly? And neither of them look old enough to be the parent of a 17 year old/some old evil matron.
At least Walt knew how to convey evil through character design.
It's bad enough that it's a Deal with the Devil story with an out at the end, but then, most stories of that type end with the dealmaker weaseling out of his end of the bargain; older tales were meant to be cautionary, you deal with the devil, you pay the price. Grimmification - the Brothers Grimm were the cultural revisionists of THEIR time (for instance, the Red Riding Hood never had a huntsman to save her from the "wolf", because "wolf" originally referred to bandits and murderers etc who hid in the woods away from getting lynched by the townsfolk they preyed upon. The story makes a lot more sense once you tell it the ORIGINAL way. RR just gets murdered and eaten by a cannibal she made the mistake of talking to in the woods (and there were a lot of them in medieval times) ... after being warned not to speak to anyone she meets on a forest path ... The Merry Men are some kind of leftist invention, or so I've come to suspect.)
Anyway, yeah, bleah. I can see them going the "Ursula was misunderstood" route. Bleah.
Ursala is trans, so they gotta make her non threatening.