Disney did it first. Probably their loudest bastardization of source material from back in the day. Because of course what the myths and legends of Ancient Greece, the forefathers of all civilization, truly needed was fat black women and gospel singing.
I don't mind the original because it's so obviously bastardized that it's arguably stylization, not subversion. In the real mythology, satyrs don't have thick Brooklyn accents, Hades doesn't have two funny demon sidekicks, and Pegasus doesn't act like a dog. This much is obvious even to children.
The problem is when they try to get sneaky with it. Make things as accurate as possible, but then inject some current year into it to get people wondering if maybe ancient Greece really was 40% Bantu.
Disney did it first. Probably their loudest bastardization of source material from back in the day. Because of course what the myths and legends of Ancient Greece, the forefathers of all civilization, truly needed was fat black women and gospel singing.
I don't mind the original because it's so obviously bastardized that it's arguably stylization, not subversion. In the real mythology, satyrs don't have thick Brooklyn accents, Hades doesn't have two funny demon sidekicks, and Pegasus doesn't act like a dog. This much is obvious even to children.
The problem is when they try to get sneaky with it. Make things as accurate as possible, but then inject some current year into it to get people wondering if maybe ancient Greece really was 40% Bantu.