stratofangr-70478
Iliad is an epic poem which it tells about the 10 year war between Achaeans (one of the four major ancient Greek tribes) and Troyans.It is full of battles between two big armies (55.000 Achaeans and 40.000 Trojans) but in the series it seems like two schools are in an argue.
You feel like that the two armies has maximum 200 soldiers with no big battles. Apart from that there are many serious mistakes from the original poem.1) Iphegenia never sacrificed. The last moment goddess Artemis replaced her with a deer and took her as her priestess.
2) Achilleas fought hard to take Patroclus dead body. No one gave it to him.
3) Helen never betrayed the Trojans with the Trojan Horse
4) Ajax is descibed as "is described as of great stature, colossal frame and strongest of all the Achaeans" and not this short guy in the show
5) The tunnel that they were making in one week is between 2 cities with 500km distance
artmadalena
I just couldn't believe what I was watching in Netflix. This series is so wrong, so outrageously disrespectful to Homer's immortal Illiad that I had to write this review. The directors-writers-producers-whatever and whoever they were (-like a gang-) seem to have deliberately chosen to disfigure the masterpiece - perhaps the highest work of literature ever created. A cultural murder was, apparently, perpetrated in this "Troy-The Fall of a City". Just about every actor is miscast, starting with Paris/Alexander himself who does not look any bit "in love " with Helen at all! As he prepares to go back to Troy I got a feeling that Helen hid herself in that coffin out of boredom, not really for love - neither she, nor he seems to have been taken by the turmoil of an intense passion. Paris is such a modern boy ! Does he like soccer? Videogames? And Helen, though quite pretty, could not possibly be "...the most beautiful woman of the world" promised by Aphrodite. Ah!... Aphrodite promised. But didn't deliver... A certain discomfort invades the viewer from the start as he is confronted with so much bad acting, bad casting, bad timing in the events. Sorry to say that - but it MUST be said - Achilles SHOULD be someone hairy and blond - like a lion, as Homer explicitly wrote in his story. Achilles was "golden" like a lion! Nestor, an important character in the Illiad looks just like a street dweller that I see everyday somewhere in Rio de Janeiro where I live. Why this ? BBC managed to offend Homer, the Greeks, and all of humanity who read this immortal tale of war and love. AS some reviewers already noted, this awful TV series made the movie "Troy" (which contains many mistakes) with Brad Pitt, Eric Bana and lovely Diane Kruger shine like a jewel forever!!!!
darkhelmet16
Show was pretty good, I'm a fan of the Brad Pitt movie which is not without its flaws much like this. You people who write these reviews though, god you're losers. Go outside, talk to people, get out of your own twisted little minds where you think your opinions are valid and worth a damn
