From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V10 #66 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Wednesday, September 25 2013 Volume 10 : Number 066 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Atlantis -- "less than heroic Hercules" [KLOSSNER9@aol] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 20:34:56 -0400 (EDT) From: KLOSSNER9@aol.com Subject: [chakram-refugees] Atlantis -- "less than heroic Hercules" TV Guide, 9/30, has a note on the BBC-America series Atlantis, coming in Nov. --- BBC America's Supernatural Saturdays lineup get a splashy new series, set in the iconic lost city. "We're all obsessed with Greek legends," explains creator Johnny Capps. "We thought it was such a great backdrop." Blending elements of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Percy Jackson novels and high-school lit class, the family-friendly Atlantis tells the story of young Jason (Jack Donnelly), a troubled outsider who washes up on the shores of an "amazing fantasy world where all the Greek myths and legends live," says exec producer Howard Overman. Before you can say "There's no place like home," Jason soon realizes why he feels so comfortable in Atlantis. Says Overman, "All the pieces start to come together"-- as does a ragtag band of pals for the new kid in town, including a math nerd named Pythagoras (Robert Emms) and a less than heroic Hercules (Mark Addy). "We meet our characters before they become the mythic," says Capps. "Over the first season, Jason gradually learns what his destiny is." /// This doesn't sound to me remotely worthy of Xena and Hercules. Mark Addy, who plays the unheroic Hercules, is a fat-faced, almost-50 actor. Boeotian ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V10 #66 **************************************