{"id":418,"date":"2023-06-27T05:37:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T05:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2023-06-27T05:37:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T05:37:34","slug":"not-greek-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/27\/not-greek-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Greek To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trachis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"355\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trachis.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trachis.jpg 355w, https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Trachis-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A Greek Theatre in The Play\u2019s the Thing<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Writing according to canon for a show like Xena is a toughie, because it seems so chaotic. I\u2019ve spent a lot of time compiling what I think makes up the show\u2019s aesthetic canon, based on my watching the show, reading interviews, and researching the source materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fair amount is guesswork on my part, but it was important to me that I have a grasp of things that couldn\u2019t be figured out just from observing the show. Why did they repeat certain types of motifs throughout the series?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why did they avoid using quite obvious stories from Classical Greek lit that would seem to fit the show like a glove? Such as the Trojan War? The depiction of Troy in #Xena &amp; Herc are very non-intuitive, &amp; seem totally unrelated. Why does the show look the way it does?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s no Greek architecture, for example. Every other kind, but instead of Greece, they depict a kind of gothic realm. Some say it\u2019s a cost-cutting measure, but that doesn\u2019t make sense. Greek buildings are highly modular. You can save a lot of money reusing those columns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ridley Scott did, in Gladiator, when he created the sets for the imperial palace &amp; the Roman Senate with just a few pillars &amp; curtains, moved around. In fact, RenPic did save a lot of money, by shooting a lot of scenes in forests &amp; parks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But they seem to have spent a lot of time creating an alternate Greece. So it was definitely an aesthetic choice to build things in such a distinctive &amp; unique way. Others say they just didn\u2019t know any better, but clearly, they did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RenPic went on to make Spartacus, full of period detail. As I present this project, I\u2019ll explain why I made the choices I did, based on what I believe to be the aesthetic logic of the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing according to canon for a show like Xena is a toughie, because it seems so chaotic. I\u2019ve spent a lot of time compiling what I think makes up the show\u2019s aesthetic canon, based on my watching the show, reading interviews, and researching the source materials. A fair amount is guesswork on my part, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-xena"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}