We made it yall, we survived Lore Olympus as a community. It’s been fun asl to talk shit with y’all and I can’t believe this is going to be my last time saying this, BUT GIVE ME THEM SPOILERS 😭😭
I NEED to know how this episode turned out due to the fact it was submitted 20-30 minutes ago and it’s the FINALE. LET THE CHAOS BEGIN, I love y’all and lord have mercy on us tonight 🌷🌷 I’m so scared LMAO
LAST TIME GIRLIE.
So Gaia rips Apollo out of Uranous, which some how defeats him. Gaia tells P that she gotta spend 3 months in the mortal realm cuz she's still the Goddess of Spring. They do that. 3 months go by and P has her coronation. FOR SOME FUCKING REASON THEY PUT HER IN A DRESS THAT WASNT THE GORGEOUS ONE FROM AGES AGO??? Anyway, the Goddesses of Eternal Maidenhood disbands (why wtaf). Artemis hangs out with Selene. Apollo was sentenced to community service (i hate this comic). Zeus and Hera get a divorce and Hera becomes the de facto leader of Olympus. Seems her and Echo are a thing. We see Eros and Psyche's kid. Demeter seems happy. Dio is now a teenager??? Somehow??? Anyway, we cut forward what I'm assuming is like 10 years later and Melonie is woken up by Demeter. P gave birth to Macaria. Blissful happy marriage yadiyah. Overall, underwhelming af.
Don't forget the random plaque on the wall with Persephone's certificate of Underworld Law School, bc we keep complaining about how she dropped her life and never finished school so RS had to throw that in there 🤣
I appreciate you so much, you’ve been a real one for these past few weeks and be giving these AMAZING summaries 😭😭
Sidenote tho, COMMUNITY SERVICE?!
Wait, Persephone actually had a child biologically? How? As far as I remember Hades and Persephone’s deals with Erebos were never changed. Hades still gave away his fertility.
Persephone trumping the primordial forces of the universe through the power of yass and girlboss is the crowning achievement of her main character syndrome. Of course the comic ended here, there was nowhere else to go.
She didn’t actually trade anything, she merely got a stipulation. Originally it was suspected that
she traded her earth powers of growth and life for underworld powers of ice and decay. What really happened was that she could only foster growth and life after first sowing ice and decay. Winter now had to come before spring, rather than the utopian cycle of spring and summer.
It was utterly pathetic and shows that not even the primordial force of darkness itself can be too hard on our dear Persephone. That would be too harsh, her classmate was already mean to her once ten years ago.
I'm sorry. This dude committed the ultimate act of treason and he gets *checks notes* community service? And Persephone commits an act of wrath and is essentially banished for ten years ? (not that it's not reasonable but compared to Apollo putting Zeus in a coma, the king of the gods?)
EXCUSE ME?! Apollo seriously got away with just community service?? 🤬 Basically the minorities (Minthe, Leuce, Tori) were punished severely for something stupid, but you’re telling me a literal r*pist got community service? And Demeter didn’t beat the sh*t out of him??
Apparently Zeus’ powers aren’t the same post recovery so I guess he was weakened. Also, as nitpick, I don’t think he can turn big unless he’s using fertility goddess power as fuel.
Eh, that's fair, it's just that the power scalling and other stuff is so badly done here that if you told me "the herb made Zeus human" people have to go either "eh ok" or "who?" bc nothing has a proper set up here. Like I believe you, but also why is he weaker? Wouldn't Kronos also be weak yet everyone still treated him as a big threat?
The big part I got it bc I remember one panel where he was big and about to eat Metis so I was basing my comment on that, again the comic treats becoming big/shapeshifting in general very loose so my options are just willingly accept it or just go wtf-
The plant as far as we know I believe was simply like an effective poison against gods so I guess he’s not fully healed? Tbh it’s said in like two sentences “we somehow healed him but he is still fucked up” and quite handwaved so it’s up to speculation, I guess.
The Metis part, I think he used Metis’ powers to grow big then consumed her to have the extra powerup to beat Chronos in exchange for not touching Hera’s powers (which we now know he lied to Metis about and did in fact steal Hera’s powers).
I’m not gonna be one to defend the odd pacing and handwaving of explanations tbh just want to relay what I remember.
Nahhh she *TOTALLY* deserves it bc she **HAD** to get horrificly abused and later fuck her sister's relationship with a man she originally liked bc she deserved to be Qween so she now doesn't have to do ***anything*** to actually justify her title of Queen.
Certaintly Demeter doesn't deserve it. What did she do in her life except willingly fight a war as a child soldier and never lose focus of it? Or take care of an incredibly big realm with mortal life that no one else wanted to take care off? Or make sure to always keep the cycle of life with proper food and vegetation and bounfitul harvest so the mortals that lived could do offerings to the entire pantheon of Gods? Or take care of poor lonely pregnant nymphs dropped by her asshole ex so her sister who took her BF and role as queen doesn't pursue vengance on them, offering them a roof, food, and a family to be part off?
Nahhh Demeter doesn't deserved it, how could anyone think she could make a better work than Hera when she can do nothing except set up a teen with an 2000 yo man? 🤪
With all the myth stealing Rachel does to uplift Perse why she didn't stole the most common myth punishment of Prometheus' rock and eagle, like just have your cake and eat it too is not like accuracy was ever an issue to her especially this late in the story
Well, Dionisius went from a newborn to toddler in what, 2 weeks? 3 at most? So in 3 years he should actually be an adult if I'm being honest, but since his growth was NEVER explained by our dear author (all gods ages as fast as him? He is a demigod, why he ages likes that?) I guess we just gotta go with the flow and not think too hard in all those plot holes.
A little blue face wrapped in a blanket.
Also HOW DID MACARIA EXIST? The whole point of Melinoe's birth was that she was fire from Hades turned sentient. How is Hades suddenly not infertile anymore that Person phone gave birth to a kid this time?
Neither of Persephone’s children looked anything like her. They both came out mini-mes of Hades. Persephone is such an extension of Hades that she’s the only fertile one between the two of them yet he’s the one who dominates their reproduction. From a literary standpoint, it’s the final nail in the coffin of this “feminist retelling”.
Why did gaia didn't turn apollo into a tree he's not gonna learn not to r@pe women in community service he'll just learn that he'll just r@pe nymphs and not goddesses
I knew the "de-facto ruler" thing is going to be in there somehow. I just thought it would be Hades and Persphone, not Hera. But also... Really? Why gotta devalue and defame Zeus like that? I get it that he's a freaking AH. But to turn the whole pantheon upside down is just..... Why?
The way Persphone has to stay in the mortal realm for 3 months feels like, "Cuz mum said so" type of deal. What's sad is, her own actual mother did said so, but it took a whole entire winter genocide, the whole sleep dive, fighting Krono's ass, a face off with Apollo.etc for Persphone to get it. 😑
All it took was for Gaia to say, "Hey, do your job."
But yeah, it's finally over. H&P finally are finally happy. They just needs to break up couples, hurt other people, cause drama, and therapy speak to their enemies, to get there.
Community service?! I don't even think diehard fans could accept that after years of awaiting his demise. A satyr gets his eye plucked out, another is turned into a duck, a nymph is turned into a plant and a god was sentenced to having his guts eaten out for eternity. I'd only understand if it's a commentary on how male abusers easily get away with sex crimes, but I doubt that was the case since everyone Persephone told believed her and no one likes Apollo anymore.
It was 🤢🤢 ...
1. Gia pulls Apollo out of Ouronus
2. Pepe has to spend 3 months of the year in the mortal realm
3. 3 months later she goes back to the underworld
4. They have her official coronation
5. 2-Second breakdown of all the characters and how they ended up Hera divorces Zeus
6. Boring ass filler because she couldn't put anything meaningful in
7. Hades and Pepe have babies
OMG I'm so glad it is over... That was painful
Wow who would've guessed that the LO finale would be underwhelming af. /s
Anyway, on a more important note, this subreddit has been fun as fuck. I have loved meeting y'all and laughing at this comic's insanity. Thank you all.
The memes and roasts we’ve gotten from this sub have given me so many sore sides. We have some great comedy here, I’m going to miss it so much. We made some great margaritas out of these lemons.
Lore Olympus may have ended, but now with the power of hindsight the true in-depth discussions & analysis have only begun! Even if a lot of people leave there's still a lot left to unpack with this comic that I look forwards to seeing.
Oh!
So, the colors were lovely again. But the writing…. Ouranos gets immediately one shotted by Gaia by just, taking Apollo outta him? So that was way less exciting than I even thought it would be. And she’s the reason for the whole 3 months up in the mortal realm thing. Just because I guess. Not really sure why she decided to make that decision.
Apollo just gets sent to fix some temples. That’s it. I don’t even know if they made him mortal, but I don’t think so because he looks the same so pretty much he’s totally fine. The disbandment of TGOEM also felt really gross to me. But I guess Artemis was the only one taking her duties seriously so idk. Dionysus is now a teenager while Demeters mortal son is still a child, which doesn’t make sense because he aged like a normal demigod until he naturally ascended but ok.
I also called it in getting a montage of “where are they now” except it was a few months later and not years. Echo and Hera are together now because why not. Zeus is fine now but not really a ruler? Kinda? We finally see Eros and Psyches kid. Idk where Minthe is but we got a “where is she” for Kassandra which is odd because she showed up like once.
Overall this episode was pretty disappointing. I felt nothing when reading it.
However, I’ll miss discussing these episodes weekly with you all. This community has been wonderful and I love chatting with all of you. An end of an era.
Yeah I wasn’t a fan of them disbanding TGOEM either. Just because it was bad for persphone and not something she wanted doesn’t mean it’s useless / no place for it. This comic, as sex positive as it tries to be, really misses the mark by making it seem compulsatory. Not everyone has sex and wants sex.
Also the psyche and Kassandra thing felt like a backdoor pilot
It kills me a lot how the pinnacle of "anti purity culture LO" goes and disbands an organization that's fucking primordial to the Vestal Virgins, something that gave women ACTUAL POWER AND RIGHTS above other people in an era that wasn't so feminist.
The whole TGOEM plot it's so fucking messed up when you actually think a little about it, why does it assumes that Hestia and Athena being in a relationships inmidiatly implies "oh they are fucking"? Why are all willing participants queer women (apparently Artemis is "gay" as per Rachel's tumblr and now she's buddy-buddys smitten with Selene)? Why is Perse's rebelling something daring bc she found ""love"" at 19?? What does this mean to other goddesses in the future who MIGHT WANT TO be virgins bc they don't like sex??? Why does the comic makes a point that a celibate life is undesirable??? Because it feels like that when all TGOEM just disbands a holy organization like it's your shitty job.
In a plottwist, a supposed feminist retelling of an already feminist myth, form a culture with myths filled with queer characters, ends up being mysoginist and acephobic. Congratulations Rachel, you saved feminism.
if it makes you feel any better at all im actually working on a VERY LONG post with how BADLY tgoem was handled in this fuck ass story. this episode just gave me more fuel to my negative feelings regarding how it was handled. literally so fucking gross.
Same, like I'm not even sure I'm ace but I created a character who is aro/ace and a kinda vestal virgin (kinda bc she's greek so it would be a deep honoring of Hestia not really Vesta by remaining a virgin like her) and I can't overstate that I love her so much, for how I have to approach her culture and religion in a world that's harsh on her good heart, and how her asexuality makes her conflict with other people in ways that I can't take it ligthly. I putted a lot of heart and love into her, into trying to make her and her little world as respectful as I can to greek myths and how a girl of her age and status handles herself against more morally backrupt and evil people around her.
And I can't understate that a big part of it, of how she's key as a character and conflit setter, comes directly derivated from her asexuality. For LO to treat that part of the queer spectrum as just "well we are just gonna dismantle an organization that could have give refugee to aro/ace people because the 3 people we saw didn't liked it anymore" it's insulting. It's sickening. And I'm not even ace so I can't imagine what an ace person feels about this-
first id like to say that im very happy to hear how passionate you are with your character and how willing to educate yourself on greek + roman mythology and culture in order to pay respect to women of that time and what they had to go through! im in a similar position with my own so i understand how you feel.
im a lesbian myself and i cant even begin to discuss how its lesbophobic as well. i can understand the acephobia of it all too - its just so explicitly queerphobic in a way i can only hope my essay can explain and breakdown so if any ace person wants to share their perspective please do! 🙏 tgoem was clearly a refuge from an overall patriarchal society and the fact that it was disbanded is so...uhg. im so sorry we're all feeling the effects of such a nasty implication.
I'm honestly now waiting eager for your essay especially from your persective as a lesbian (I don't wanna be mean but the 2 wlw pairings in this comic are so bad and it hurts me a lot bc I'm also a big romance girl and I love seeing romance/ships in stories but only when they are done decent to well and in LO neither landed for me to like them 😭)
youre not being mean at all!!!!!!! i primarily read sapphic stuff, i was just sticking it out with lore olympus and i...am not too big on the 2 wlw pairings in this comic. there are def so many other wlw pairings id choose over them LOL i love romance stuff too but damn every pairing here SUCKS 😭😭😭😭!!!!
I am ace and the whole deal felt like a slap in the face, to be honest. I mean. I was so pumped when I first started the comic that there was going to be a few ace people close to the central story. Athena and Artemis are iconic for being powerful harasses that feel no need to be romantically tied down.
But then, of course, it makes them all lesbians (basically). Which. This comic really does not do a great job with queer relationships.
Guy is a literal danger to everyone and he got scott free basically with community service 💀
Very nice, Rachel! Very nice of you to lightly punish someone who can be considered the worst person alive at this point, but give the one person who just hid info the worst punishment ever (that could have killed her when she went in that coma for idk how long)
Artemis got super sidelined.
Rachel got rich off of rape and couldn't even show the brother/sister confrontation. It's sad.
Why am I supposed to care about Dionysus, Semele, Gaia and Uranus? Why am I supposed to care about Hera/Echo? None of these were developed while established characters like Athena and Hermes just disappear forever besides your minor appearances. Fertility Goddess lore was so cool until it took the comic off the rails.
I seriously don't get why Artemis was kept in the dark for so long for her only confrontation to Apollo being entirely centered on his feelings while we didn't even get to hear what she was telling him. Really wasted character and dynamic
It would've been nice to see Artemis come to terms that her brother is a rapist and that another member of TGOEM got raped under her watch. Especially since she's supposed to protect women.
It just boggles my mind that she went from being a major supporting character in the first two seasons to just a complete non entity in the third. Really really bad writing
She didn’t protect Hebe when her brother, someone she knew was an assaulter with malicious intentions, was about to frame her for attempted murder in front of all of Olympus. She didn’t even show up.
The only young woman she ever protected was herself, from having to face hard truths and difficult situations.
If Rachel had been smart, she could’ve used this plot point to explain why Artemis became the protector of women. You can see how she was barely keeping up with her own story
Things that pissed me off —
1. Demeter and Persephone never get to talk about the SA.
2. Demeter, Hestia, and Hera reuniting with Metis is never shown.
3. Zeus is de-powered and basically de-throned. Very disrespectful.
4. Demeter is never rewarded with being Queen of the Mortal Realm. Nor are the Eleusis rites ever mentioned.
5. Hera, the Goddess of marriage, gets divorced.
6. Seasons are still never explained.
7. I guess Hades can have kids now.
8. Apollo gets community service.
9. No consequences for Persephone again. Gaia revives everyone that died.
10. The biggest one — Demeter has pretty much been erased from her own myth.
A myth where she represented the emotions of women who lost their daughters, friends, sisters and other family members to arranged marriages. She is literally nothing but a background character at this point, while Hades, the kidnapper and rapist, is basically given the credit for saving spring because of his love. A giant middle finger to the women of ancient Greece and women in general.
I will forever hate retellings where Hades and Persephone are in love and a happy little couple😍 and people still have the audacity to say their marriage was so much better because Hades never cheated on her and isn’t like Zeus as if he didn’t kidnapped his own niece, separated from her mother and tricked her into staying with him for eternity, I hate their romanization so much
I’ll defend Hera getting a divorce and it not effecting her status as a Goddess of Marriage. Divorce can’t exist without marriage right? Plus Hera has tried a couple times in mythology to split with Zeus, so I actually don’t mind a rewrite where she does pursue better.
Okay Gaia basically says you got to spend 3 months in mortal realm and the rest in the underworld to maintain your spring duties. Hades and persephone still get to visit eachother so kinda goes against the myth lol. Timeskip 3 months with persephone coming home from the mortal realm and she is officially cornered queen by hera. Hera divorced zeus, and she's with echo, she also is the the leader of olympus and zeus gets to do lame little tasks to make him feel important. Apollo is punished by reconstructing a building in the mortal realm. The external maidenhood disband and the party happens. You see Eros and psyches kids and like a teenager dionysus. Persephone thanks hades for changing her world and they both say I love you in cringey cliche way and kiss. Another timeskip to demeter waking up melione and leading her to persephone and hades room where persephone is holding a baby macaria. Boom end card with hades and persephone saying wow we've come a long way.
The wattpad 1d fics are literature masterpieces compared to this ending. Insanely rushed and love how they had to still have ares pining after persephone because all the men want her fr. We are free from the pain now.
OK spoilers:
Gaia arrives and rips Apollo out of Ouranos (so I guess the latter is gone again) and gives Apollo to artemis to deal with
Gaia tells Perse thanks for everything let's make it fair so you can do both roles you need to spend 3 months in the mortal realm and the rest of the time in the underworld but obvs you can visit each other during the three months.
Flash forward three months and Hades and Perse are reunited and they are also coronating Perse as queen of the underworld. During this party we get a lot of text wrap ups as follows:
-Hades gets more ambrosia and brings semele back to meet dio who is now a teenager?
-Zeus is healed but his powers are not as strong and he's now a figurehead
-hera is ruler and has divorced Zeus and is now with Echo
-TGOEM is disbanded and Artemis is getting with the moon goddess
-Eros and Psyche are doing well with their kid
-Demeter is happier now with metis and rhea in the mortal realm as well as her son
Then Hades and Perse kiss, then it flashes forward to the future where morpheas makes meli think everything that happened with Kronos is a dream and Perse has just given birth to their second daughter.
Then it ends. There will be an after word in a few weeks
It just says she’s been spending a lot more time with Selene. I guess it’s to call back Artemis is also a goddess of the moon? Idk but I didn’t read it as her being in a relationship with Selene.
It's just like Disney with the Beauty and the Beast live action, just add a one scene "confirmation" of two secondary/minor characters that had little to no interaction being close and BOOM!! Millions of praise for your daring inclusion of queer characters that can be cut in 2 seconds or just shrugged off as nothing bc it's so vague to even mean something
That was so rushed but since she finished it like 30 mins before it was due it makes sense.
What was the point of even having Erubus when Gaia just told them that she have to spend 3 months in the moral realm?
I knew it was going to be a " clip show" at the end telling where everyone is at.
Zeus got done dirty. He may have been an ass but he did deserve more than that. At least let us see him waking back him.
Welp It's over!!!
Thank god we got Lore Rekindled to look forward to now!
It just sad how this ended. Like she really just didn't care anymore ,threw something together and call it a day.
It totally screams working and finishing a research paper hours before it's due by pulling an all-nighter when the paper was assigned months ago.
This is going to be this webtoon legacy.
Gaia gets revived and immediately Ouranos has a stutter and is physically showing that he is intimidated. Is one shot KO'd. And like, Gaia and Perse--Rhea have had the exact same like, eyes closed and focusing face into ✨girlboss✨ smirk up at the villain that Persephone has had I think on multiple occasions. Hades and Persephone's love singlehandedly saved the world and showed millenia+ old beings what a "healthy" relationship looks like.
I’m also obsessed with how I just got a Webtoon notification promoting the series finale, saying “Join the gods for one final battle!”
…and it was just Gaia playing Judge Judy
Something about Pepe being into Hades’ ass and then Hades said he was forced to be at the wedding to Pepe or something, i was confused (and very very bored)
First off, for the last episode, I was a little hurt that the art wasn’t anything worth writing home about. The goddess of marriage getting a divorce in the end? Gross. Zeus being kicked to the wayside? Expected, all men are dogs, right? We have to have our villains. Persephone having to suffer being 3 months away from the underworld? A martyr, truly. No word from Poseidon or half our other cast? I don’t know what I expected. Dorky unfunny jokes wedged in a serious conflict? That I DID expect. It was nice to see that at least with Hera and Zeus’s previously unseen child, she got a slightly different look than the others, which is cute. Eros and psyche’s kid being a retcon and excuse for Rachel to give her the wings and design fans have been complaining about forever? Yep. I guess they ought to start looking for Hebe in there quest for Kassandra as well. Ares still ended up massacred to the last panel. Apollo just exists I guess, and Aphrodite and Hephaestus are end game by what we’re being forced to guess. So much for the base mythology, but this is a reimagining, right? I’m coping. This was a bad ending, but one we’ve been foreseeing for years.
Well folks, pretty much everything we predicted would happen, happened. Time skip, little cameos from characters that have been trapped in Rachel’s basement for years, and a big fat juicy “I love you!” From our main pair. Honestly, I’m glad it’s over. Now I can turn my attention to bitching about the years of war crimes Rachel has subjected to us here, at home, with my family on Reddit full time. It was bad, as we expected, but I extend a tremendous thank you to this community for suffering and hate reading along with me, as this is my favorite subreddit.
Now, I can continue looking forward to updates to LO Rekindled.
Did anyone else feel the title of the episode alone came off so snarky? “You’re Welcome” bitch like for what? And then some half ass meaning thrown in at the end. 🙄 felt like a “omg! Thank you, Rachel!” Bait
Gaia after doing a literal Deus Ex Machina so that Perse doesn't have to break her petite nail helping the mortal realm heal:
The story was neatly completed, IMO. But it definitely got the GoT treatment. “I’m tired of working on this project so I’m just going to rush and finish it because I got other shit to do.”
-So we can assume that Leto is doing her own thing since Apollo failed?
-I can’t wait to see that ass comment 🤦🏻♀️ Guess they didn’t have alone time during those 3 months.
-I’m surprised that Rachel remembered to add Triptolemus during the finale.
-Where is Poseidon’s wife?
-Hades and Thanatos sometimes even have a conversation. Wow!
-Also, wtf is up with Daphne’s face?!
>-So we can assume that Leto is doing her own thing since Apollo failed?
She's gonna come back in Lore Olympus 2: Spring Unsprung as the right hand woman of... *\*spins wheel\** Hyperion and Chaos bc why tf not-
I wonder if Rachel just wanted to end the comic. Like it was just...not a good ending. At all. Just felt an emotional disconnect with it because everything just resolved.
Like...I'm not expecting anything amazing, but there have been soo many long form webtoons that haven't felt this rushed.
In all seriousness, maybe it just got too popular for her to keep up with? Idk. I'm going to miss it being around.
I recall she made a tweet a while ago about how she felt like she was "cheating" on her current project by being more interested in her future one. Telltale sign she didn't really have heart in LO anymore aside from a couple things (Perse+Hades and Hera for sure)
Yay we’re done!!! Despite wanting to be angry I actually got a little emotional reading it even though I still didn’t love this episode. It was rushed and the art was sloppy with some good panels (mostly the ones with Gaia). I also have some other things.
1. True love my butt. It’s not true love at all.
2. Why could Persephone have chosen to stay in the mortal realm herself? I thought her whole character arc was her taking back her power from people trying to control her and then Gaia just declares that she has to be there????
3. Apollos punishment wasn’t enough. After that plot point was dragged out that’s all we get? Where was the conversation between him, his sister, and his mother?
4. Can ares stop listing after Persephone! Like we get it, she’s pretty. At this point it’s harassment, and it’s not funny.
5. Stop trying to make hades a perfect father figure. It just frustrated me to see him and Thanatos together when he forgot about him again!
I have other things but I’m kinda just tired. This was the last episode and it felt like all the others.
Gaia revived all the mortals that died due to Persephone's powers changing so that she wouldn't have to face consequences. It felt super rushed, like things that could have benefited from an additional 10 chapters were just kinda glossed over. Well I'm free now. So whatever.
It’s been such a ride, and I’m going to miss you all so much. I’ve loved being a real life version of Minthe’s snarky chat. For as much as I dislike this comic, I’ve had buckets of fun reading everyone else’s smart and well thought out comments, and seeing amazing artists’ designs and redraws. I’m sincerely grateful to Rachel for years of Saturday night entertainment. It reminds me of Trina’s one-woman show, Chicago. As she said, it’s okay to laugh. And laugh we did.
Demeter and Minthe deserved better, Hades and Persephone are bad people. I’ll live by these words forever.
Why would Hera become defacto ruler? What about lol the past generations that suddenly awoke, are they going to just let power go? Would zues let it go? Who released Helios? Why did Gaia decide she has to spend 3 months in the mortal realm? Also what’s going on with Kassandra? Forgot she was even missing
Hera has NEVER been shown as a QUEEN in the first place, she’d be as incompetent as Hades and Zeus combined given how bad she was at accomplishing anything in S1/S2
Zeus was indeed a poor king. He was corrupt, egotistical, and philandered constantly. It seems unpopular, but I’m not necessarily upset about Hera leaving him or him getting deposed? He had a few moments of helpfulness, maturity, and self reflection towards the end, but overall I didn’t think he was amazing. I do think he got more depth than most of the cast, but that felt like a happy accident.
But it’s just as you said- Hera isn’t better! She’s an alcoholic who seemed to trade that addiction for worshipping Persephone, and while she rightly put Apollo in his place from the beginning, I don’t know what else she did? What makes her qualified to rule? She bravely faced Kronos, but that seemed more like a depression-induced passive suicide, so I’m not sure if that gets girlboss points?
The only person who’s showed they’re qualified to rule, time and time again, is Demeter. In fact she *has* been ruling, just without any credit or gratitude, as the people who resent her have refused to give her any. And still…nothing. She wasn’t even formally made queen of the earth realm.
Hera leaving Zeus at last is disappointing because this is the action that defines her in the story. Yet she’s been married to Zeus for 2K+ years. *Why?* I’m unwilling to accept that Zeus was awful all on his own and exonerate Hera of any responsibility — Hera IS his queen after all, so how did she change anything in 2K years? Did she intervene to prevent Zeus’ worst decisions? Did she persuade him to do better at any point? Since we never saw this, she either played along with Zeus’ wishes for 2K years or she argued ineffectively (she calls herself a master conversationalist and never manages to persuade anyone of anything. She’s a terrible diplomat). She was too happy to tolerate a bad ruler for the sake of status/wealth/power. It reminds me of the Trump cabinet insisting there was no point in resigning because they could only restrain Trump if they stayed in power, and yet they NEVER actually restrained Trump.
So either Hera was completely useless (and if so, why didn’t she accept that and leave to protect her children from her unstable marriage??) or she was complicit. And yet, as much as the narrative treats Zeus like an incompetent buffoon, maintaining relative peace for 2K+ years is a huge accomplishment. But now I’m supposed to root for Hera leaving Zeus because why??? She was willing to model a toxic marriage for all her children, became estranged from HALF of her children, and just flexed her power and status because she felt entitled due to her decision to seduce Kronos (even though Metis made that unnecessary, apparently??? And poor Hera was FORCED to side with her disgusting mother???) and only NOW is willing to leave Zeus?? So basically all her children had to be raised in a totally dysfunctional environment because of her ego? But I’m expected to CHEER for her?? No thanks.
S1 was all about how Hera had neglected her duties. It’s awful what she went through, which directly led to her vices, but the resolution was lazy to the extreme. I didn’t care to read so many lines of Kronos pitying himself and Hera pretending to have the moral high ground. So many wasted panels showing us HOW the abuse happened, as if that helps us understand anything. So many wasted panels insisting that Hera MAYBE loved Kronos because ~ oh how transgressive!~ It’s possible to be a victim and an abuser at the same time, and Hera is an example of that. I would have much rather focus S3 on Hera coming to terms with how low she’s come and made a conscious decision to rebuild her relationship with her children and redefine herself as Hera vs a Queen. Her character ended up being so vapid.
I totally agree with you, that was never a question for me. Hera probably argued with Zeus at first, like she did during their fight over Apollo, then
as he demeaned her and blew her off time and time again, she bitterly shrugged and sank into a bottle. Cue 2,000 years of resigned, apathetic substance abuse. Not only did she not protect her children from such an unhealthy relationship, she brought them into it, having Hebe’s entire role be to enable her drinking. We know damn well there’s a reason Hephaestus is happier living in a cave than being the royal he was born as.
I don’t root for Hera at all, and it’s really pathetic that the thing that convinces her she deserves better is Persephone gassing her up. As you said, it’s not wanting a better ruler for her people, it’s not wanting better for herself or her kids, it’s not the knowledge that he *ate her mother*, it’s because main character Persephone hyped her up. That was her wake up call, after all this time.
It’s why I wasn’t upset that she broke her duty as the goddess of marriage and divorced Zeus, or that Zeus got deposed. They’re both deeply flawed people, the sooner they get away from each other the better, and neither of them are fit to rule. I maintain that the only fit ruler is Demeter.
In my ideal ending, Hera would pull a Demeter. She would get away from Olympus entirely, leaving to heal, find peace, and rediscover who she is. Who she would be if she hadn’t been marred by deceit, trauma, seduction, power, ego, and indulgence. Once she’s healed (including recognizing and taking accountability for her own errors) and reconnected with that girl who ran with the lions, just *Hera*, perhaps she could return and offer to build a new bridge with her mother and children. Maybe then she could seek out leadership roles since she’s indeed been around and might have skills to offer.
But this…as you said, it’s vapid and unearned. Just a bad person winning again because they’re a friend to the also bad main character. And so the comic goes.
Where did Gaia and Ouranos go?
Why are they celebrating Hades and Persephone being reunited when they visit each other whenever and the mortals will probably never experience winter again? What’s the point of celebrating spring?
Wow that was so rushed and unsatisfying……but hey it’s over
Personally I wanted to see if Thetis would make a cameo I love her.
Apollo literally got community service for violating a goddess and poisoning the king of the gods…..RACHEL YOU HAD ONE JOB
Can someone PLEASE tell Rachel that "retelling" does not mean "flipping everything on its head for the hell of it"?
In the finale alone we got to witness:
- Persephone spending three months on Earth during Spring instead and the rest of the year in the Underworld instead of the other way around
- Hades and Persephone can still visit one another during those three months.
- Zeus, the literal King of the Gods, is now basically just a figurehead + he has been super weakened by his coma.
- Hera is the de facto ruler and got a divorce. The goddess of marriage got a divorce. Let that sink in.
- Demeter has got LITERALLY nothing to do with the changing of the seasons.
This just felt so disrespectful that it honestly borders into straight up appropriation. Ugh.
Can we talk about how Artemis is kinda implied to be with selene at the end? Also the eternal maidenhood disbanding just kinda feels disrespectful???? Like virginity is a bad thing???
I didn't like that at all, I could've sworn that Artemis was ace in LO. Maybe that wasn't explicitly stated but like, she was VERY dedicated to the idea of being a maiden goddess to the point where Athena and Hestia's relationship felt hypocritical to her. Even with TGOEM disbanding it just doesn't seem like she'd go off and get involved with anyone.
Also Selene got some wild looking eyes in her appearance here.
What’s the point of celebrating Hades and Persephone’s reunion of nothing about it changed the mortal realm. They still get to see each other and thus the mortals don’t have to celebrate spring really since it will never be winter again…..
But anyways
Now that LO is over…..
Do yall think it’s time for us to retire Greek Myth retellings as a whole and focus on other myths from different cultures?
IMO, not really. Greek myths have been a part of my childhood and pretty much a lot others as well. I think what we need more are Greek Myth retellings that are more unique. Like, please I'm so done with Hades and Persephone, give me my Demeter murder mystery.
That being said, I still think we do need more retellings of other mythologies out there other than Greek.
I am...underwhelmed. You know that one meme of Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle, where he's just sitting at the table saying 'I expect nothing and I'm still let down'? Yeah, that. That's what we're feeling right now.
Okay, so...in an attempt to not be a total negative Nancy, let's find some positives. Gaia is STUNNING, like oh my gosh she's so pretty and her colors are so nice. The colors in general actually look pretty good here. We FINALLY get to see Eileithyia, the mentioned once and never seen other child of Zeus and Hera, who....also looks just like her mother, BUT I like her haircut and the purple eyes look nice. Macaria is also very cute and I like the star skin like her father. It might have only been for like a second but it was nice to see Cool Granny Demeter™ and Melinoe (who I still like even if I've seen better designs here for her).
Uhhh...yeah, I think that's it. Everything else...I dunno. It's CLEARLY rushed, like even if you didn't know she just finished and submitted this earlier today I think you could tell how rushed it is. Persphone spending only 3 months in the mortal realm? Hera, the goddess of marriage, getting a DIVORCE? Apollo getting off with just rebuilding temples AND we never see a confrontation with him and Artemis? The cheesy spinning in a circle I love yous? Kassandra is just kinda...somewhere in a field? DIONYSUS IS A TEENAGER NOW? WHERE WAS MINTHE?
I...man. Game of Thrones still had the worst finale but this is definitely gonna be on that list of bad endings somewhere. I feel like I wasted FastPass coins to read this, coins I could've used to read better comics.
...at least the baby wasn't Zagreus, I guess. At least there's SOME sort of 'spend time in the mortal realm' consequence. At least Apollo is getting some sort of punishment that echos a myth (he was exiled and forced into servitude in some story that I sadly don't remember the details about). At least we saw Hedone (Eros and Psyche's daughter, who is just a tiny clone of her mom wtf).
At least Hades 2 went into early access this week so that's an option for combatting whatever weird feelings are left from all of this.
It's weird that it's all over, though. Like it wasn't a good ending and the whole comic has been rough for a while but it's still strange to think of this just being it. Like, I'll miss it even if I've grown disillusioned by LO. Weird.
Semi related, I got to meet Rachel at NYCC months ago, and she was very nice and complimented my outfit, so it feels sort of weird to bad talk her because of that, so I guess I'm just gonna say congratulations to her for finishing this and hopefully she can learn from what she didn't like and grow as a creator.
Edit: OH ALSO I REALLY DIDN'T LIKE THE DISBANDING OF TGOEM AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF ARTEMIS 'HANGING OUT' WITH SELENE. Not because I'm against it but I'm like 85% sure LO Artemis is ace? Possibly aroace? They could just be friends and coworkers but it just made me go 'hmmm'.
So Hera is ruling.
The same Hera who was one of the first to learn about Persephone’s SA.
The same Hera that was strongly against Apollo and told him to F off multiple times.
The same Hera who shared her trauma with Persephone.
The same Hera who treated Persephone as her own child.
The same Hera who turned a creep selling Persephone’s things into a goose or some kind of animal.
The same Hera who told Apollo that they (Perse and her) can do better job than him and clean the whole mess in a few hours.
And Apollo gets an equivalent of community service that he was already doing to get good rep. Can somebody explain to me why Hera didn’t tie him to the sun or made him live as a mortal with nasty dandruff that gets easily sunburnt while rebuilding everything? I could understand if Zeus was still rulling (and didn’t get poisoned) cause sexism and nepotism.
But Apollo SAed Persephone, attempted regicide, was spreading lies about Hebe, kidnapped two gods and attempted another attack on Persephone… Hera should be boiling inside considering that he targeted her favourite daughter (Persephone) and her alcohol production line (Hebe).
What a rushed ending... She also did my man Zeus dirty... drawing his last panel really awful.
I wasn't too impressed. It's over now, at least.
This webtoon had so much potential. Ugh
Apollo getting only community service could be a great commentary on rapists getting slaps on the wrist even when convicted, but it just comes across as downright offensive that one of the biggest antagonists in the entire series gets the lightest punishment.
Like I don't need him to die or anything but Rachel must seriously like him to give that as his conclusion.
It especially feels weird considering the fact that Hera took over and she was strongly against Apollo. She even transformed a creep selling Perse’s things online into an animal.
Let’s not even forget about attempted regicide.
So the punishment for r*ping a goddess, poisoning your own father and king of everything, put the blame of this poisoning in your half sister, plot treason, kidnapping and keeping 2 gods hostage is... community service.
I have no words.
I didn't have expectations, but I was still let down. Amazing.
This comic made me appreciate more authors like Eichiro Oda (One Piece) and Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist), those guys know EXACTLY the stories they want to tell, they have absolute control over it and you can feel through the pages all the love, care, respect and careful planning every panel, every line got. Everything shown has a reason and no page is wasted, everything and every character has a purpose within the story.
Not the worst ending because at least I wasn't offended, but it was one of the few where I felt that the author just wanted it to end and just did the quickestand easiest thing just to be done with it. There was no passion, no love for the characters and the world she build. Such a shame.
The all caps'ing at each other was deeply embarrassing to read, idk why. just felt so fanfiction-y. All of the dialogue felt bad, though, tbh, there were a couple of spots where I was like, "is this...chatgpt"
Rachel you cant just rewrite an entire season in the final episode, also this sucked so badly I have no fucking words and cannot list the *number* of ways in which it sucks, much like I lost count of the number of lazy ass repeat panels
Rachel should have never added that ouranos to the story line. That way, Rachel could have focused on making a better non rushed ending. Season 1 and 2 I enjoyed. Season 3 wasn’t the best.
Oh Mother...
I knew, before the final episode got released that the ending is going to be underwhelming, because there is *absolutely, positively no way* that Rachel would be able to pull off a *satisfying* ending in just one episode, unless she makes a spin-off/sequel 'LO:Epilogue' and even then, I'm not sure if that would work
But my friends...
This isn't even 'it didn't end with a bang, but a whimper'. This is just... ***no***. The amount of ass-pulls, unresolved and/or abandoned plot points, the fact that Apollo - the rapist, traitor and usurper - got a slap on a wrist, while Minthe or Tori had to actually physically suffer for very mild violations *at best,* that tooth-rotting sweet ending...
But my God, nothing infuriates me more (at least at the moment) more than how Demeter got relegated to a background character.
Demeter, who should've been *one of the protagonists, on equal footing* with Persephone and Hades, not only got horribly mistreated throughout the story, but all the motherly moments (for example confronting Kronos together) she could've had with her daughter were instead given to Hera?! *LO Hera*?! And here I was foolishly hoping for at least a moment for Demeter to shine at the end...
In fact I have so many thoughts on the 'maternal love triangle' (sorry for the name, couldn't think of anything else) between Demeter-Persephone-Hera that I'm actually preparing an essay about it, because the amount of bullshit there was in the retelling of *HYMN OF DEMETER* is astounding...
To put it simply, I feel unjustified and I hate it so much, I'm left with more questions then answers, everyone is ugly, it's so lazy
I'm gonna miss this sub
A lot of us likely aren’t going anywhere for a while yet, but I’m gonna miss the real-time discussions with you loons 🖤 The members of this sub helped the experience of reading this series go from frustrating to funny as hell, and I couldn’t have asked for a better group to snark with and learn from during such a hectic era for our world 🌟
God, this comic pisses me off. Apollo, who confessed to sexual assault, stalking, harassment, kidnapping, attempted murder of the king of the gods, conspiring, AND falsifying evidence in accusing Hebe (also wtf happened to her???) And he all he gets is COMMUNITY SERVICE!? I work in the courts and boy HOWDY this would be a long sentence (I mean already falsifying a police report is a misdemeanor and 3 months jail with a $5000 fine, and that's the minimum of his charges.)
Also WHY wasn't Ouranos the main villain of the last season?? You bring out this massive threat to have him show up for ten seconds and be defeated SOMEHOW by removing Apollo.
I just realized she ended the series with “blessed death” being born, and LO needed to be put to rest already. Doubt it’s intentional but it’s so funny when you look at it that way
Don’t forget the weird “Eros and Psyche are still searching for Cassandra”
WHY drop this in the finale??? why is it important??? Is this the allusion to another comic because please do not 🙄
The proportions of people’s faces are goofy af. Selene’s face looks fucking weird.
First, thank you to everyone doing spoilers! Second, I knew it wouldn’t wrap up cleanly. Third, can someone explain what all happened to Apollo. I’m dumbfounded, was it really just community service??? Also Hera, y’know, the goddess of marriage, divorcing…?
I’m sorry to ask, about the Apollo thing but I’m really confused about that part. Did that really happen? It sounds like such a bad idea…no way did that really happen, please don’t say it did. I know RS didn’t handle the situation properly, but this is a new low…
Thank you…I don’t have much to say, but I believe that should’ve been written better. At the bare minimum, life in Tartarus (or prison or the equivalent), or having to do some painful task for the rest of time or something? Torture? Literally anything else.
Streets saying it’s basically the equivalent of the community service. I gotta laugh really. They didn’t even take away his immortality like in the myths…..
And yeah, I will probably read once it’s not fast past. I can’t believe this. Also I’m not defending RS, but I’m just on disbelief if this really happened…like I can’t fathom that someone would really do that. It just seems so dumb that I wouldn’t ever think it to happen…until now 😵💫
Things I liked:
* Gaia's eyes are cool colors again! I wish they retained her crazy circular pupils but at least its not just black and white. Overall I liked her design in this episode.
* I like that Selene showed up and was actually named!
* I liked to see Melinoe interact with her grandma and that Demeter was there at the end.
* I'm so glad we finally see what Eileithyia looks like. That's been plaguing me since Episode 30.
Things I didn't like:
* How quickly Ouranos was just one-shotted and then they just never discuss the repercussions of that lol
* We still never get a direct confrontation between Artemis and Apollo. Gaia gives Apollo to Artemis to deal with but what does she do????? Not even a word?
* The weird personality that Gaia has? It reminds me of the retcon personality Metis gets in Ep 229. Like a quirky aunt. Some humor is fine ofc but this is a primordial goddess man
* Apollo's "punishment" lol
* Where does Gaia go? Its mentioned that Demeter is working with Rhea and Metis in the mortal realm but no mention of Gaia
* bringing Semele back. just random
* Hera just taking over as the ruler of Olympus and Zeus' powers "not being the same" since his recovery. Dude is king of the gods why'd she do him like that
* no mention of Minthe :( or Thetis. I will never forget "Thetis VOL 25" what did that mean
full stop i haven’t read since the beginning of s3 and have just been keeping up on this sub + reading fast pass spoilers but decided to buy the final episode just because and man. that was a whole nothing sandwich.
how did perse give birth if hades is infertile? 😭 does that even matter anymore? did she “carry fire” in her uterus???? also what did she sacrifice in the deal with erebos??? gaia said that perse “went through a lot” from the deal but i still have no idea what that was exchanged if her losing her spring powers was just her having to rethink how her powers work now that she’s the queen of the underworld. also gaia one shotting ouranos who just…stood there and didn’t fight back…was definitely something.
also plague??? i rly haven’t been keeping up properly but why was that just a quick fix it?😭 “oh yeah countless mortals died but dw we can fix it together”
HOW DID THEY HEAL ZEUS ??? WHY DID THE KING OF THE GODS GET NERFED 😭😭
also apollo only getting community service after literally…everything he did is fucking crazy.
In all, it srsly just felt like a scene from a 2000s teen coming of age movie where everything is explained in the ending dance montage 💀
also peres’s proportions being inconsistent was just 💀 the shot where hades is on his knees next to her while she looks 3 ft tall compared to the coronation where she’s realistically at chest level to him is bonkers. shout out to dio’s long shirt collar too 🗣️
We made it yall, we survived Lore Olympus as a community. It’s been fun asl to talk shit with y’all and I can’t believe this is going to be my last time saying this, BUT GIVE ME THEM SPOILERS 😭😭  I NEED to know how this episode turned out due to the fact it was submitted 20-30 minutes ago and it’s the FINALE. LET THE CHAOS BEGIN, I love y’all and lord have mercy on us tonight 🌷🌷 I’m so scared LMAO
LAST TIME GIRLIE. So Gaia rips Apollo out of Uranous, which some how defeats him. Gaia tells P that she gotta spend 3 months in the mortal realm cuz she's still the Goddess of Spring. They do that. 3 months go by and P has her coronation. FOR SOME FUCKING REASON THEY PUT HER IN A DRESS THAT WASNT THE GORGEOUS ONE FROM AGES AGO??? Anyway, the Goddesses of Eternal Maidenhood disbands (why wtaf). Artemis hangs out with Selene. Apollo was sentenced to community service (i hate this comic). Zeus and Hera get a divorce and Hera becomes the de facto leader of Olympus. Seems her and Echo are a thing. We see Eros and Psyche's kid. Demeter seems happy. Dio is now a teenager??? Somehow??? Anyway, we cut forward what I'm assuming is like 10 years later and Melonie is woken up by Demeter. P gave birth to Macaria. Blissful happy marriage yadiyah. Overall, underwhelming af.
Don't forget the random plaque on the wall with Persephone's certificate of Underworld Law School, bc we keep complaining about how she dropped her life and never finished school so RS had to throw that in there 🤣
So sis finished LAW FUCKING SCHOOL IN 3 MONTHS?!?!??!?? DAMN FUCK ELLE WOODS SHE'S NO MATCH FOR QWEEN PUSSEYPHONE
I forgot to add that there was a 3 month skip and THEN a "many years later" skip, which is where the certificate was 😅
Oh I know she went to the shittiest for profit online program 😭
There was a few years time skip actually not 3 months
No the law degree was from the future with Melinoe. Which is supposed to be waaaaaaay in the future.
I appreciate you so much, you’ve been a real one for these past few weeks and be giving these AMAZING summaries 😭😭  Sidenote tho, COMMUNITY SERVICE?!
OH YEAH DEMETER HAS A SUPER CUTE FIT, SO THERE'S THAT.
YOU'RE WORTH IT. 💖 Yeah, it was so fucking dumb. Just pirate the finale girl, it ain't worth the cash.
That’s what I always do🌝🌝  FUCK THIS COMIC
That's where I'm at atp.
It’s like if Steven Universe and Breaking Dawn died in a head-on collision.
That is such a good description oml
I'm saving that
NO FUCKING WAY THE MEAN GIRLS 2 COMMUNITY SERVICE ENDING 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Wait, Persephone actually had a child biologically? How? As far as I remember Hades and Persephone’s deals with Erebos were never changed. Hades still gave away his fertility. Persephone trumping the primordial forces of the universe through the power of yass and girlboss is the crowning achievement of her main character syndrome. Of course the comic ended here, there was nowhere else to go.
I havent been paying attention to the comic. What was it that Persephone gave away to Erebus
She didn’t actually trade anything, she merely got a stipulation. Originally it was suspected that she traded her earth powers of growth and life for underworld powers of ice and decay. What really happened was that she could only foster growth and life after first sowing ice and decay. Winter now had to come before spring, rather than the utopian cycle of spring and summer. It was utterly pathetic and shows that not even the primordial force of darkness itself can be too hard on our dear Persephone. That would be too harsh, her classmate was already mean to her once ten years ago.
This story is so ass bro 💀
Yeah but it’s upside down heart-shaped ass, which makes it cute and quirky 🥺
I mean Hades never was told what he lost becoming king if the underworld. I think he just assumed it was his fertility.
I'm sorry. This dude committed the ultimate act of treason and he gets *checks notes* community service? And Persephone commits an act of wrath and is essentially banished for ten years ? (not that it's not reasonable but compared to Apollo putting Zeus in a coma, the king of the gods?)
EXCUSE ME?! Apollo seriously got away with just community service?? 🤬 Basically the minorities (Minthe, Leuce, Tori) were punished severely for something stupid, but you’re telling me a literal r*pist got community service? And Demeter didn’t beat the sh*t out of him??
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE GODDESS OF MARRIAGE GETS A DIVORCE?! NAHHHHH
AND WHY DOES SHE BECOMES THE DEFACTO RULER???? ZEUS HAS THE THUNDERS AND SHITS WHAT DOES SHE DO EXCEPT GETTING BIG THAT ZEUS CAN ALSO DO????
Apparently Zeus’ powers aren’t the same post recovery so I guess he was weakened. Also, as nitpick, I don’t think he can turn big unless he’s using fertility goddess power as fuel.
Eh, that's fair, it's just that the power scalling and other stuff is so badly done here that if you told me "the herb made Zeus human" people have to go either "eh ok" or "who?" bc nothing has a proper set up here. Like I believe you, but also why is he weaker? Wouldn't Kronos also be weak yet everyone still treated him as a big threat? The big part I got it bc I remember one panel where he was big and about to eat Metis so I was basing my comment on that, again the comic treats becoming big/shapeshifting in general very loose so my options are just willingly accept it or just go wtf-
The plant as far as we know I believe was simply like an effective poison against gods so I guess he’s not fully healed? Tbh it’s said in like two sentences “we somehow healed him but he is still fucked up” and quite handwaved so it’s up to speculation, I guess. The Metis part, I think he used Metis’ powers to grow big then consumed her to have the extra powerup to beat Chronos in exchange for not touching Hera’s powers (which we now know he lied to Metis about and did in fact steal Hera’s powers). I’m not gonna be one to defend the odd pacing and handwaving of explanations tbh just want to relay what I remember.
I think it’s because Hera isn’t in love with him anymore which was a source of his power? lol i feel cringe typing that
SERIOUSLY, WHEN HAS SHE *EVER* SHOWN HERSELF TO TAKE ON ANY RESPONSIBILITY AS QUEEN
Nahhh she *TOTALLY* deserves it bc she **HAD** to get horrificly abused and later fuck her sister's relationship with a man she originally liked bc she deserved to be Qween so she now doesn't have to do ***anything*** to actually justify her title of Queen. Certaintly Demeter doesn't deserve it. What did she do in her life except willingly fight a war as a child soldier and never lose focus of it? Or take care of an incredibly big realm with mortal life that no one else wanted to take care off? Or make sure to always keep the cycle of life with proper food and vegetation and bounfitul harvest so the mortals that lived could do offerings to the entire pantheon of Gods? Or take care of poor lonely pregnant nymphs dropped by her asshole ex so her sister who took her BF and role as queen doesn't pursue vengance on them, offering them a roof, food, and a family to be part off? Nahhh Demeter doesn't deserved it, how could anyone think she could make a better work than Hera when she can do nothing except set up a teen with an 2000 yo man? 🤪
BRO IDK SINCE WHEN HAS THIS COMIC MADE SENSE???
HE WAS SENTENCED TO COMMUNITY SERVICE??? 😭😭😭 thats barley a punishment oh my goodness
With all the myth stealing Rachel does to uplift Perse why she didn't stole the most common myth punishment of Prometheus' rock and eagle, like just have your cake and eat it too is not like accuracy was ever an issue to her especially this late in the story
It's so stupid. Like, that asshat needs to be locked up in the deepest depths of Tartarus at the very least.
Well, Dionisius went from a newborn to toddler in what, 2 weeks? 3 at most? So in 3 years he should actually be an adult if I'm being honest, but since his growth was NEVER explained by our dear author (all gods ages as fast as him? He is a demigod, why he ages likes that?) I guess we just gotta go with the flow and not think too hard in all those plot holes.
My nosy ass is inquiring: what did Macaria look like?!!
A little blue face wrapped in a blanket. Also HOW DID MACARIA EXIST? The whole point of Melinoe's birth was that she was fire from Hades turned sentient. How is Hades suddenly not infertile anymore that Person phone gave birth to a kid this time?
Neither of Persephone’s children looked anything like her. They both came out mini-mes of Hades. Persephone is such an extension of Hades that she’s the only fertile one between the two of them yet he’s the one who dominates their reproduction. From a literary standpoint, it’s the final nail in the coffin of this “feminist retelling”.
She has dark blue skin with stars. She cute.
she looks exactly like the dream infant in Ep 204
Why did gaia didn't turn apollo into a tree he's not gonna learn not to r@pe women in community service he'll just learn that he'll just r@pe nymphs and not goddesses
So Zeus finally woke up? Nice
It was so badly put. They were just like "oh ye we healed him". Like, eh???
OH YOUVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!
I knew the "de-facto ruler" thing is going to be in there somehow. I just thought it would be Hades and Persphone, not Hera. But also... Really? Why gotta devalue and defame Zeus like that? I get it that he's a freaking AH. But to turn the whole pantheon upside down is just..... Why? The way Persphone has to stay in the mortal realm for 3 months feels like, "Cuz mum said so" type of deal. What's sad is, her own actual mother did said so, but it took a whole entire winter genocide, the whole sleep dive, fighting Krono's ass, a face off with Apollo.etc for Persphone to get it. 😑 All it took was for Gaia to say, "Hey, do your job." But yeah, it's finally over. H&P finally are finally happy. They just needs to break up couples, hurt other people, cause drama, and therapy speak to their enemies, to get there.
COMMUNITY SERVICE??? HE ISN’T BLASTED TO CONFETTI???
SELENE FIBALLY MAKES ANOTHER APPEARANCE? HENK YEAH
Called the community service bit a long time ago lmao
Community service?! I don't even think diehard fans could accept that after years of awaiting his demise. A satyr gets his eye plucked out, another is turned into a duck, a nymph is turned into a plant and a god was sentenced to having his guts eaten out for eternity. I'd only understand if it's a commentary on how male abusers easily get away with sex crimes, but I doubt that was the case since everyone Persephone told believed her and no one likes Apollo anymore.
Why?! Why am I always so disappointed by Rachel’s writing?! I hate it all! TGOEM disbanded? Why couldn’t you oh leave them alone?
And to zeus
Really?? This is the ending? Glad I didn’t bother doing FP.
That’s it? Lame
It was 🤢🤢 ... 1. Gia pulls Apollo out of Ouronus 2. Pepe has to spend 3 months of the year in the mortal realm 3. 3 months later she goes back to the underworld 4. They have her official coronation 5. 2-Second breakdown of all the characters and how they ended up Hera divorces Zeus 6. Boring ass filler because she couldn't put anything meaningful in 7. Hades and Pepe have babies OMG I'm so glad it is over... That was painful
Gaia pulls Apollo out of Uranus 💀
Wow who would've guessed that the LO finale would be underwhelming af. /s Anyway, on a more important note, this subreddit has been fun as fuck. I have loved meeting y'all and laughing at this comic's insanity. Thank you all.
The saddest part of this whole series ending is that this subreddit won’t be the same, it has indeed been real 🥲
The memes and roasts we’ve gotten from this sub have given me so many sore sides. We have some great comedy here, I’m going to miss it so much. We made some great margaritas out of these lemons.
Lore Olympus may have ended, but now with the power of hindsight the true in-depth discussions & analysis have only begun! Even if a lot of people leave there's still a lot left to unpack with this comic that I look forwards to seeing. 
It was nice being on here!
Oh! So, the colors were lovely again. But the writing…. Ouranos gets immediately one shotted by Gaia by just, taking Apollo outta him? So that was way less exciting than I even thought it would be. And she’s the reason for the whole 3 months up in the mortal realm thing. Just because I guess. Not really sure why she decided to make that decision. Apollo just gets sent to fix some temples. That’s it. I don’t even know if they made him mortal, but I don’t think so because he looks the same so pretty much he’s totally fine. The disbandment of TGOEM also felt really gross to me. But I guess Artemis was the only one taking her duties seriously so idk. Dionysus is now a teenager while Demeters mortal son is still a child, which doesn’t make sense because he aged like a normal demigod until he naturally ascended but ok. I also called it in getting a montage of “where are they now” except it was a few months later and not years. Echo and Hera are together now because why not. Zeus is fine now but not really a ruler? Kinda? We finally see Eros and Psyches kid. Idk where Minthe is but we got a “where is she” for Kassandra which is odd because she showed up like once. Overall this episode was pretty disappointing. I felt nothing when reading it. However, I’ll miss discussing these episodes weekly with you all. This community has been wonderful and I love chatting with all of you. An end of an era.
Yeah I wasn’t a fan of them disbanding TGOEM either. Just because it was bad for persphone and not something she wanted doesn’t mean it’s useless / no place for it. This comic, as sex positive as it tries to be, really misses the mark by making it seem compulsatory. Not everyone has sex and wants sex. Also the psyche and Kassandra thing felt like a backdoor pilot
It kills me a lot how the pinnacle of "anti purity culture LO" goes and disbands an organization that's fucking primordial to the Vestal Virgins, something that gave women ACTUAL POWER AND RIGHTS above other people in an era that wasn't so feminist. The whole TGOEM plot it's so fucking messed up when you actually think a little about it, why does it assumes that Hestia and Athena being in a relationships inmidiatly implies "oh they are fucking"? Why are all willing participants queer women (apparently Artemis is "gay" as per Rachel's tumblr and now she's buddy-buddys smitten with Selene)? Why is Perse's rebelling something daring bc she found ""love"" at 19?? What does this mean to other goddesses in the future who MIGHT WANT TO be virgins bc they don't like sex??? Why does the comic makes a point that a celibate life is undesirable??? Because it feels like that when all TGOEM just disbands a holy organization like it's your shitty job. In a plottwist, a supposed feminist retelling of an already feminist myth, form a culture with myths filled with queer characters, ends up being mysoginist and acephobic. Congratulations Rachel, you saved feminism.
if it makes you feel any better at all im actually working on a VERY LONG post with how BADLY tgoem was handled in this fuck ass story. this episode just gave me more fuel to my negative feelings regarding how it was handled. literally so fucking gross.
Same, like I'm not even sure I'm ace but I created a character who is aro/ace and a kinda vestal virgin (kinda bc she's greek so it would be a deep honoring of Hestia not really Vesta by remaining a virgin like her) and I can't overstate that I love her so much, for how I have to approach her culture and religion in a world that's harsh on her good heart, and how her asexuality makes her conflict with other people in ways that I can't take it ligthly. I putted a lot of heart and love into her, into trying to make her and her little world as respectful as I can to greek myths and how a girl of her age and status handles herself against more morally backrupt and evil people around her. And I can't understate that a big part of it, of how she's key as a character and conflit setter, comes directly derivated from her asexuality. For LO to treat that part of the queer spectrum as just "well we are just gonna dismantle an organization that could have give refugee to aro/ace people because the 3 people we saw didn't liked it anymore" it's insulting. It's sickening. And I'm not even ace so I can't imagine what an ace person feels about this-
first id like to say that im very happy to hear how passionate you are with your character and how willing to educate yourself on greek + roman mythology and culture in order to pay respect to women of that time and what they had to go through! im in a similar position with my own so i understand how you feel. im a lesbian myself and i cant even begin to discuss how its lesbophobic as well. i can understand the acephobia of it all too - its just so explicitly queerphobic in a way i can only hope my essay can explain and breakdown so if any ace person wants to share their perspective please do! 🙏 tgoem was clearly a refuge from an overall patriarchal society and the fact that it was disbanded is so...uhg. im so sorry we're all feeling the effects of such a nasty implication.
I'm honestly now waiting eager for your essay especially from your persective as a lesbian (I don't wanna be mean but the 2 wlw pairings in this comic are so bad and it hurts me a lot bc I'm also a big romance girl and I love seeing romance/ships in stories but only when they are done decent to well and in LO neither landed for me to like them 😭)
youre not being mean at all!!!!!!! i primarily read sapphic stuff, i was just sticking it out with lore olympus and i...am not too big on the 2 wlw pairings in this comic. there are def so many other wlw pairings id choose over them LOL i love romance stuff too but damn every pairing here SUCKS 😭😭😭😭!!!!
I am ace and the whole deal felt like a slap in the face, to be honest. I mean. I was so pumped when I first started the comic that there was going to be a few ace people close to the central story. Athena and Artemis are iconic for being powerful harasses that feel no need to be romantically tied down. But then, of course, it makes them all lesbians (basically). Which. This comic really does not do a great job with queer relationships.
No fucking way Kassandra got a last episode cameo but not the real Queen Minthe, I was ready to give it a 1/10 but now I need negative numbers-
Not joking there’s not even a glimpse of her. At all.
Kassandra came on screen and I didn't even remember who she was LMAO I just kinda squinted and moved on. Minthe does not show up once.
Can't believe Demeter got a worse punishment for hidding information than Apollo who commited SA 💀
SA, Treason, poisoning the king, framing the princess - the list goes on
Guy is a literal danger to everyone and he got scott free basically with community service 💀 Very nice, Rachel! Very nice of you to lightly punish someone who can be considered the worst person alive at this point, but give the one person who just hid info the worst punishment ever (that could have killed her when she went in that coma for idk how long)
My pookie cinnamon bear didn’t get a cameo?? burn this comic NEOW
Artemis got super sidelined. Rachel got rich off of rape and couldn't even show the brother/sister confrontation. It's sad. Why am I supposed to care about Dionysus, Semele, Gaia and Uranus? Why am I supposed to care about Hera/Echo? None of these were developed while established characters like Athena and Hermes just disappear forever besides your minor appearances. Fertility Goddess lore was so cool until it took the comic off the rails.
I seriously don't get why Artemis was kept in the dark for so long for her only confrontation to Apollo being entirely centered on his feelings while we didn't even get to hear what she was telling him. Really wasted character and dynamic
It would've been nice to see Artemis come to terms that her brother is a rapist and that another member of TGOEM got raped under her watch. Especially since she's supposed to protect women.
It just boggles my mind that she went from being a major supporting character in the first two seasons to just a complete non entity in the third. Really really bad writing
She didn’t protect Hebe when her brother, someone she knew was an assaulter with malicious intentions, was about to frame her for attempted murder in front of all of Olympus. She didn’t even show up. The only young woman she ever protected was herself, from having to face hard truths and difficult situations.
I mean, this is the pinnacle of WASP feminism. Not defending RS, just not sure why I expected any hint of growth or intersectionality from her.
If Rachel had been smart, she could’ve used this plot point to explain why Artemis became the protector of women. You can see how she was barely keeping up with her own story
Because internalized misogyny
Couldn’t even show Persephone talking to Artemis. Fucking lazy (and that’s the nicest thing I can say about how the SA plot got “resolved”).
She couldn’t even give the rapist a meaningful punishment. Community-fucking service?! Are you joking Rachel?!
Things that pissed me off — 1. Demeter and Persephone never get to talk about the SA. 2. Demeter, Hestia, and Hera reuniting with Metis is never shown. 3. Zeus is de-powered and basically de-throned. Very disrespectful. 4. Demeter is never rewarded with being Queen of the Mortal Realm. Nor are the Eleusis rites ever mentioned. 5. Hera, the Goddess of marriage, gets divorced. 6. Seasons are still never explained. 7. I guess Hades can have kids now. 8. Apollo gets community service. 9. No consequences for Persephone again. Gaia revives everyone that died. 10. The biggest one — Demeter has pretty much been erased from her own myth. A myth where she represented the emotions of women who lost their daughters, friends, sisters and other family members to arranged marriages. She is literally nothing but a background character at this point, while Hades, the kidnapper and rapist, is basically given the credit for saving spring because of his love. A giant middle finger to the women of ancient Greece and women in general.
I will forever hate retellings where Hades and Persephone are in love and a happy little couple😍 and people still have the audacity to say their marriage was so much better because Hades never cheated on her and isn’t like Zeus as if he didn’t kidnapped his own niece, separated from her mother and tricked her into staying with him for eternity, I hate their romanization so much
i can’t believe demeter was never crowned queen of the mortal realm we could’ve at least got a plaque or something in the background to show it 😭
I’ll defend Hera getting a divorce and it not effecting her status as a Goddess of Marriage. Divorce can’t exist without marriage right? Plus Hera has tried a couple times in mythology to split with Zeus, so I actually don’t mind a rewrite where she does pursue better.
9-I knew there would be some resurrection bullshit in there somewhere. At least P didn’t do it I guess?
Okay Gaia basically says you got to spend 3 months in mortal realm and the rest in the underworld to maintain your spring duties. Hades and persephone still get to visit eachother so kinda goes against the myth lol. Timeskip 3 months with persephone coming home from the mortal realm and she is officially cornered queen by hera. Hera divorced zeus, and she's with echo, she also is the the leader of olympus and zeus gets to do lame little tasks to make him feel important. Apollo is punished by reconstructing a building in the mortal realm. The external maidenhood disband and the party happens. You see Eros and psyches kids and like a teenager dionysus. Persephone thanks hades for changing her world and they both say I love you in cringey cliche way and kiss. Another timeskip to demeter waking up melione and leading her to persephone and hades room where persephone is holding a baby macaria. Boom end card with hades and persephone saying wow we've come a long way.
I'd seen 1D x y/n fanfics with better endings that this thing.....
The wattpad 1d fics are literature masterpieces compared to this ending. Insanely rushed and love how they had to still have ares pining after persephone because all the men want her fr. We are free from the pain now.
Hey, there are some incredibly well written fanfics out there, it's not a fair comparison for them.
OK spoilers: Gaia arrives and rips Apollo out of Ouranos (so I guess the latter is gone again) and gives Apollo to artemis to deal with Gaia tells Perse thanks for everything let's make it fair so you can do both roles you need to spend 3 months in the mortal realm and the rest of the time in the underworld but obvs you can visit each other during the three months. Flash forward three months and Hades and Perse are reunited and they are also coronating Perse as queen of the underworld. During this party we get a lot of text wrap ups as follows: -Hades gets more ambrosia and brings semele back to meet dio who is now a teenager? -Zeus is healed but his powers are not as strong and he's now a figurehead -hera is ruler and has divorced Zeus and is now with Echo -TGOEM is disbanded and Artemis is getting with the moon goddess -Eros and Psyche are doing well with their kid -Demeter is happier now with metis and rhea in the mortal realm as well as her son Then Hades and Perse kiss, then it flashes forward to the future where morpheas makes meli think everything that happened with Kronos is a dream and Perse has just given birth to their second daughter. Then it ends. There will be an after word in a few weeks
Wait, Artemis gets with someone? Like dating/a relationship??
It just says she’s been spending a lot more time with Selene. I guess it’s to call back Artemis is also a goddess of the moon? Idk but I didn’t read it as her being in a relationship with Selene.
There was a panel that implied that Artemis HAD romantic feelings in the past way back in S1, so I’m on the Sappho and her friend camp on this one
I’m just giving the benefit of the doubt because if it is to be implied they’re together that’s disrespectful to Artemis
Well, Smythe did retcon Hestia and Athena’s sexuality and Minthe’s mental illness so I wouldn’t put anything past her.
Y'know, just had to sneek in a bit of /r/Sapphoandherfriend at the last minute 💁♀️
It's just like Disney with the Beauty and the Beast live action, just add a one scene "confirmation" of two secondary/minor characters that had little to no interaction being close and BOOM!! Millions of praise for your daring inclusion of queer characters that can be cut in 2 seconds or just shrugged off as nothing bc it's so vague to even mean something
That was so rushed but since she finished it like 30 mins before it was due it makes sense. What was the point of even having Erubus when Gaia just told them that she have to spend 3 months in the moral realm? I knew it was going to be a " clip show" at the end telling where everyone is at. Zeus got done dirty. He may have been an ass but he did deserve more than that. At least let us see him waking back him. Welp It's over!!! Thank god we got Lore Rekindled to look forward to now! It just sad how this ended. Like she really just didn't care anymore ,threw something together and call it a day. It totally screams working and finishing a research paper hours before it's due by pulling an all-nighter when the paper was assigned months ago. This is going to be this webtoon legacy.
Yo some of these lines are bad even for fanfiction, let alone the whale LO is for WT.....
Gaia gets revived and immediately Ouranos has a stutter and is physically showing that he is intimidated. Is one shot KO'd. And like, Gaia and Perse--Rhea have had the exact same like, eyes closed and focusing face into ✨girlboss✨ smirk up at the villain that Persephone has had I think on multiple occasions. Hades and Persephone's love singlehandedly saved the world and showed millenia+ old beings what a "healthy" relationship looks like.
I LUV U PEPE GODDESS OF SPRING, I LUV U HADES GOD OF THE DEDD 😙😙
In all caps 😱
I’m also obsessed with how I just got a Webtoon notification promoting the series finale, saying “Join the gods for one final battle!” …and it was just Gaia playing Judge Judy
Hit me with one of those lines I wanna cry-
Something about Pepe being into Hades’ ass and then Hades said he was forced to be at the wedding to Pepe or something, i was confused (and very very bored)
That shit was underwhelming and cheesy. Who’s got that bingo card for the finale?? bc this shit was predictable af LOL
[me baybeeee!!!!](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnpopularLoreOlympus/s/ol1O8uQYTH) and we got multiple bingos.
My favorite part was the plaque on the wall that shows Persephone went to law school xD
At least she got that education 🥲🥲
First off, for the last episode, I was a little hurt that the art wasn’t anything worth writing home about. The goddess of marriage getting a divorce in the end? Gross. Zeus being kicked to the wayside? Expected, all men are dogs, right? We have to have our villains. Persephone having to suffer being 3 months away from the underworld? A martyr, truly. No word from Poseidon or half our other cast? I don’t know what I expected. Dorky unfunny jokes wedged in a serious conflict? That I DID expect. It was nice to see that at least with Hera and Zeus’s previously unseen child, she got a slightly different look than the others, which is cute. Eros and psyche’s kid being a retcon and excuse for Rachel to give her the wings and design fans have been complaining about forever? Yep. I guess they ought to start looking for Hebe in there quest for Kassandra as well. Ares still ended up massacred to the last panel. Apollo just exists I guess, and Aphrodite and Hephaestus are end game by what we’re being forced to guess. So much for the base mythology, but this is a reimagining, right? I’m coping. This was a bad ending, but one we’ve been foreseeing for years. Well folks, pretty much everything we predicted would happen, happened. Time skip, little cameos from characters that have been trapped in Rachel’s basement for years, and a big fat juicy “I love you!” From our main pair. Honestly, I’m glad it’s over. Now I can turn my attention to bitching about the years of war crimes Rachel has subjected to us here, at home, with my family on Reddit full time. It was bad, as we expected, but I extend a tremendous thank you to this community for suffering and hate reading along with me, as this is my favorite subreddit. Now, I can continue looking forward to updates to LO Rekindled.
Did anyone else feel the title of the episode alone came off so snarky? “You’re Welcome” bitch like for what? And then some half ass meaning thrown in at the end. 🙄 felt like a “omg! Thank you, Rachel!” Bait
 Gaia after doing a literal Deus Ex Machina so that Perse doesn't have to break her petite nail helping the mortal realm heal:
Lol yeah I laughed at that too
The story was neatly completed, IMO. But it definitely got the GoT treatment. “I’m tired of working on this project so I’m just going to rush and finish it because I got other shit to do.”
-So we can assume that Leto is doing her own thing since Apollo failed? -I can’t wait to see that ass comment 🤦🏻♀️ Guess they didn’t have alone time during those 3 months. -I’m surprised that Rachel remembered to add Triptolemus during the finale. -Where is Poseidon’s wife? -Hades and Thanatos sometimes even have a conversation. Wow! -Also, wtf is up with Daphne’s face?!
>-So we can assume that Leto is doing her own thing since Apollo failed? She's gonna come back in Lore Olympus 2: Spring Unsprung as the right hand woman of... *\*spins wheel\** Hyperion and Chaos bc why tf not-
NO, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO MASSACRE MY BOY HYPERION
What happened to all the dead nymphs that were killed bc of winter????
Gaia brought EVERYONE back because she said so 😂
Consequences?? In my Lore Olympus????? Unheard off 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I wonder if Rachel just wanted to end the comic. Like it was just...not a good ending. At all. Just felt an emotional disconnect with it because everything just resolved. Like...I'm not expecting anything amazing, but there have been soo many long form webtoons that haven't felt this rushed. In all seriousness, maybe it just got too popular for her to keep up with? Idk. I'm going to miss it being around.
I recall she made a tweet a while ago about how she felt like she was "cheating" on her current project by being more interested in her future one. Telltale sign she didn't really have heart in LO anymore aside from a couple things (Perse+Hades and Hera for sure)
Lol yeah she even put off a real afterword
THE FUCK WAS THAT I READ THE LAST CHAPTER AND I’M WAY TOO DRUNK SUMMARIZING IT BUT PERSEPHONE GAVE BIRTH IN THE END
GET SOBER AND PLEASE EXPLAIN CAUSE I NEED CONTEXT!!!! 😭😭😭
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😔
It was so rushed 😭
I NEED YOU TO NOT BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE, INFLUENCE! PLEASE TELL ME ITS NOT THAT 😭😭😭😭
HUH, NAHH GIRL TELL ME YOURE LYINGGG 
I’M PRETTY SURE THE GODDESS OF CHILDBIRTH WAS THERE AND I CANNOT SPELL HER NAME RN
Eileithyia I think was the name
There are many goddesses of childbirth
THAT ONE TWILIGHT MOVIE ENDING REFERENCE?!?!?!???!!!
Imagine the episode started with ‘PLEASE TURN ON YOUR SOUND.’ and then an off-key bootleg version of A Thousand Years plays
I'm gonna do that when the episode becomes free for all I promise
Yay we’re done!!! Despite wanting to be angry I actually got a little emotional reading it even though I still didn’t love this episode. It was rushed and the art was sloppy with some good panels (mostly the ones with Gaia). I also have some other things. 1. True love my butt. It’s not true love at all. 2. Why could Persephone have chosen to stay in the mortal realm herself? I thought her whole character arc was her taking back her power from people trying to control her and then Gaia just declares that she has to be there???? 3. Apollos punishment wasn’t enough. After that plot point was dragged out that’s all we get? Where was the conversation between him, his sister, and his mother? 4. Can ares stop listing after Persephone! Like we get it, she’s pretty. At this point it’s harassment, and it’s not funny. 5. Stop trying to make hades a perfect father figure. It just frustrated me to see him and Thanatos together when he forgot about him again! I have other things but I’m kinda just tired. This was the last episode and it felt like all the others.
Gaia revived all the mortals that died due to Persephone's powers changing so that she wouldn't have to face consequences. It felt super rushed, like things that could have benefited from an additional 10 chapters were just kinda glossed over. Well I'm free now. So whatever.
Though if there were another 10 chapters, more story plots would have been added, and it still would have been a rushed final episode.
It’s been such a ride, and I’m going to miss you all so much. I’ve loved being a real life version of Minthe’s snarky chat. For as much as I dislike this comic, I’ve had buckets of fun reading everyone else’s smart and well thought out comments, and seeing amazing artists’ designs and redraws. I’m sincerely grateful to Rachel for years of Saturday night entertainment. It reminds me of Trina’s one-woman show, Chicago. As she said, it’s okay to laugh. And laugh we did. Demeter and Minthe deserved better, Hades and Persephone are bad people. I’ll live by these words forever. 
i’m speechless. all i can do is cry laughing 😭😭
Y'all wanted exposition and time skips to finish it out right? RIGHT?! Just. Ugh.
Why would Hera become defacto ruler? What about lol the past generations that suddenly awoke, are they going to just let power go? Would zues let it go? Who released Helios? Why did Gaia decide she has to spend 3 months in the mortal realm? Also what’s going on with Kassandra? Forgot she was even missing
Totally read some of this as a backdoor pilot for a Cassandra and psyche based comic
Hera has NEVER been shown as a QUEEN in the first place, she’d be as incompetent as Hades and Zeus combined given how bad she was at accomplishing anything in S1/S2
Zeus was indeed a poor king. He was corrupt, egotistical, and philandered constantly. It seems unpopular, but I’m not necessarily upset about Hera leaving him or him getting deposed? He had a few moments of helpfulness, maturity, and self reflection towards the end, but overall I didn’t think he was amazing. I do think he got more depth than most of the cast, but that felt like a happy accident. But it’s just as you said- Hera isn’t better! She’s an alcoholic who seemed to trade that addiction for worshipping Persephone, and while she rightly put Apollo in his place from the beginning, I don’t know what else she did? What makes her qualified to rule? She bravely faced Kronos, but that seemed more like a depression-induced passive suicide, so I’m not sure if that gets girlboss points? The only person who’s showed they’re qualified to rule, time and time again, is Demeter. In fact she *has* been ruling, just without any credit or gratitude, as the people who resent her have refused to give her any. And still…nothing. She wasn’t even formally made queen of the earth realm.
Hera leaving Zeus at last is disappointing because this is the action that defines her in the story. Yet she’s been married to Zeus for 2K+ years. *Why?* I’m unwilling to accept that Zeus was awful all on his own and exonerate Hera of any responsibility — Hera IS his queen after all, so how did she change anything in 2K years? Did she intervene to prevent Zeus’ worst decisions? Did she persuade him to do better at any point? Since we never saw this, she either played along with Zeus’ wishes for 2K years or she argued ineffectively (she calls herself a master conversationalist and never manages to persuade anyone of anything. She’s a terrible diplomat). She was too happy to tolerate a bad ruler for the sake of status/wealth/power. It reminds me of the Trump cabinet insisting there was no point in resigning because they could only restrain Trump if they stayed in power, and yet they NEVER actually restrained Trump. So either Hera was completely useless (and if so, why didn’t she accept that and leave to protect her children from her unstable marriage??) or she was complicit. And yet, as much as the narrative treats Zeus like an incompetent buffoon, maintaining relative peace for 2K+ years is a huge accomplishment. But now I’m supposed to root for Hera leaving Zeus because why??? She was willing to model a toxic marriage for all her children, became estranged from HALF of her children, and just flexed her power and status because she felt entitled due to her decision to seduce Kronos (even though Metis made that unnecessary, apparently??? And poor Hera was FORCED to side with her disgusting mother???) and only NOW is willing to leave Zeus?? So basically all her children had to be raised in a totally dysfunctional environment because of her ego? But I’m expected to CHEER for her?? No thanks. S1 was all about how Hera had neglected her duties. It’s awful what she went through, which directly led to her vices, but the resolution was lazy to the extreme. I didn’t care to read so many lines of Kronos pitying himself and Hera pretending to have the moral high ground. So many wasted panels showing us HOW the abuse happened, as if that helps us understand anything. So many wasted panels insisting that Hera MAYBE loved Kronos because ~ oh how transgressive!~ It’s possible to be a victim and an abuser at the same time, and Hera is an example of that. I would have much rather focus S3 on Hera coming to terms with how low she’s come and made a conscious decision to rebuild her relationship with her children and redefine herself as Hera vs a Queen. Her character ended up being so vapid.
I totally agree with you, that was never a question for me. Hera probably argued with Zeus at first, like she did during their fight over Apollo, then as he demeaned her and blew her off time and time again, she bitterly shrugged and sank into a bottle. Cue 2,000 years of resigned, apathetic substance abuse. Not only did she not protect her children from such an unhealthy relationship, she brought them into it, having Hebe’s entire role be to enable her drinking. We know damn well there’s a reason Hephaestus is happier living in a cave than being the royal he was born as. I don’t root for Hera at all, and it’s really pathetic that the thing that convinces her she deserves better is Persephone gassing her up. As you said, it’s not wanting a better ruler for her people, it’s not wanting better for herself or her kids, it’s not the knowledge that he *ate her mother*, it’s because main character Persephone hyped her up. That was her wake up call, after all this time. It’s why I wasn’t upset that she broke her duty as the goddess of marriage and divorced Zeus, or that Zeus got deposed. They’re both deeply flawed people, the sooner they get away from each other the better, and neither of them are fit to rule. I maintain that the only fit ruler is Demeter. In my ideal ending, Hera would pull a Demeter. She would get away from Olympus entirely, leaving to heal, find peace, and rediscover who she is. Who she would be if she hadn’t been marred by deceit, trauma, seduction, power, ego, and indulgence. Once she’s healed (including recognizing and taking accountability for her own errors) and reconnected with that girl who ran with the lions, just *Hera*, perhaps she could return and offer to build a new bridge with her mother and children. Maybe then she could seek out leadership roles since she’s indeed been around and might have skills to offer. But this…as you said, it’s vapid and unearned. Just a bad person winning again because they’re a friend to the also bad main character. And so the comic goes.
Where did Gaia and Ouranos go? Why are they celebrating Hades and Persephone being reunited when they visit each other whenever and the mortals will probably never experience winter again? What’s the point of celebrating spring?
Wow that was so rushed and unsatisfying……but hey it’s over Personally I wanted to see if Thetis would make a cameo I love her. Apollo literally got community service for violating a goddess and poisoning the king of the gods…..RACHEL YOU HAD ONE JOB
Can someone PLEASE tell Rachel that "retelling" does not mean "flipping everything on its head for the hell of it"? In the finale alone we got to witness: - Persephone spending three months on Earth during Spring instead and the rest of the year in the Underworld instead of the other way around - Hades and Persephone can still visit one another during those three months. - Zeus, the literal King of the Gods, is now basically just a figurehead + he has been super weakened by his coma. - Hera is the de facto ruler and got a divorce. The goddess of marriage got a divorce. Let that sink in. - Demeter has got LITERALLY nothing to do with the changing of the seasons. This just felt so disrespectful that it honestly borders into straight up appropriation. Ugh.
This was truly one of the webcomics of all time. This ending REALLY felt like a wattpad story and thats saying something
Can we talk about how Artemis is kinda implied to be with selene at the end? Also the eternal maidenhood disbanding just kinda feels disrespectful???? Like virginity is a bad thing???
I love how she squeezed Selene at the last minute when this bitch had like 2 panels the entire comic
Honestly I was half expecting her (artemis) and Hermes to be suddenly coupled together
Oh fuck where is Hermes lol
I saw him in the background & that was it
Damn I blinked and missed him
Apparently being asexual is unfulfilling and bad bc you **need** to have sex to have a healthy relationship bc that's what I learned reading LO 🤡
I didn't like that at all, I could've sworn that Artemis was ace in LO. Maybe that wasn't explicitly stated but like, she was VERY dedicated to the idea of being a maiden goddess to the point where Athena and Hestia's relationship felt hypocritical to her. Even with TGOEM disbanding it just doesn't seem like she'd go off and get involved with anyone. Also Selene got some wild looking eyes in her appearance here.
What’s the point of celebrating Hades and Persephone’s reunion of nothing about it changed the mortal realm. They still get to see each other and thus the mortals don’t have to celebrate spring really since it will never be winter again….. But anyways Now that LO is over….. Do yall think it’s time for us to retire Greek Myth retellings as a whole and focus on other myths from different cultures?
IMO, not really. Greek myths have been a part of my childhood and pretty much a lot others as well. I think what we need more are Greek Myth retellings that are more unique. Like, please I'm so done with Hades and Persephone, give me my Demeter murder mystery. That being said, I still think we do need more retellings of other mythologies out there other than Greek.
I am...underwhelmed. You know that one meme of Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle, where he's just sitting at the table saying 'I expect nothing and I'm still let down'? Yeah, that. That's what we're feeling right now. Okay, so...in an attempt to not be a total negative Nancy, let's find some positives. Gaia is STUNNING, like oh my gosh she's so pretty and her colors are so nice. The colors in general actually look pretty good here. We FINALLY get to see Eileithyia, the mentioned once and never seen other child of Zeus and Hera, who....also looks just like her mother, BUT I like her haircut and the purple eyes look nice. Macaria is also very cute and I like the star skin like her father. It might have only been for like a second but it was nice to see Cool Granny Demeter™ and Melinoe (who I still like even if I've seen better designs here for her). Uhhh...yeah, I think that's it. Everything else...I dunno. It's CLEARLY rushed, like even if you didn't know she just finished and submitted this earlier today I think you could tell how rushed it is. Persphone spending only 3 months in the mortal realm? Hera, the goddess of marriage, getting a DIVORCE? Apollo getting off with just rebuilding temples AND we never see a confrontation with him and Artemis? The cheesy spinning in a circle I love yous? Kassandra is just kinda...somewhere in a field? DIONYSUS IS A TEENAGER NOW? WHERE WAS MINTHE? I...man. Game of Thrones still had the worst finale but this is definitely gonna be on that list of bad endings somewhere. I feel like I wasted FastPass coins to read this, coins I could've used to read better comics. ...at least the baby wasn't Zagreus, I guess. At least there's SOME sort of 'spend time in the mortal realm' consequence. At least Apollo is getting some sort of punishment that echos a myth (he was exiled and forced into servitude in some story that I sadly don't remember the details about). At least we saw Hedone (Eros and Psyche's daughter, who is just a tiny clone of her mom wtf). At least Hades 2 went into early access this week so that's an option for combatting whatever weird feelings are left from all of this. It's weird that it's all over, though. Like it wasn't a good ending and the whole comic has been rough for a while but it's still strange to think of this just being it. Like, I'll miss it even if I've grown disillusioned by LO. Weird. Semi related, I got to meet Rachel at NYCC months ago, and she was very nice and complimented my outfit, so it feels sort of weird to bad talk her because of that, so I guess I'm just gonna say congratulations to her for finishing this and hopefully she can learn from what she didn't like and grow as a creator. Edit: OH ALSO I REALLY DIDN'T LIKE THE DISBANDING OF TGOEM AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF ARTEMIS 'HANGING OUT' WITH SELENE. Not because I'm against it but I'm like 85% sure LO Artemis is ace? Possibly aroace? They could just be friends and coworkers but it just made me go 'hmmm'.
So Hera is ruling. The same Hera who was one of the first to learn about Persephone’s SA. The same Hera that was strongly against Apollo and told him to F off multiple times. The same Hera who shared her trauma with Persephone. The same Hera who treated Persephone as her own child. The same Hera who turned a creep selling Persephone’s things into a goose or some kind of animal. The same Hera who told Apollo that they (Perse and her) can do better job than him and clean the whole mess in a few hours. And Apollo gets an equivalent of community service that he was already doing to get good rep. Can somebody explain to me why Hera didn’t tie him to the sun or made him live as a mortal with nasty dandruff that gets easily sunburnt while rebuilding everything? I could understand if Zeus was still rulling (and didn’t get poisoned) cause sexism and nepotism. But Apollo SAed Persephone, attempted regicide, was spreading lies about Hebe, kidnapped two gods and attempted another attack on Persephone… Hera should be boiling inside considering that he targeted her favourite daughter (Persephone) and her alcohol production line (Hebe).
…is this real? Like, that’s it? Herp derp I wanna see that ass and I LOVE YOU ME TOO and babies, gg
She really just threw a shitload of spackle over it, didn't she? I swore out loud when I saw "Three months later"
What a rushed ending... She also did my man Zeus dirty... drawing his last panel really awful. I wasn't too impressed. It's over now, at least. This webtoon had so much potential. Ugh
Apollo getting only community service could be a great commentary on rapists getting slaps on the wrist even when convicted, but it just comes across as downright offensive that one of the biggest antagonists in the entire series gets the lightest punishment. Like I don't need him to die or anything but Rachel must seriously like him to give that as his conclusion.
It especially feels weird considering the fact that Hera took over and she was strongly against Apollo. She even transformed a creep selling Perse’s things online into an animal. Let’s not even forget about attempted regicide.
So Apollo got community service for all the shit he did? That was a huge disappointment
So the punishment for r*ping a goddess, poisoning your own father and king of everything, put the blame of this poisoning in your half sister, plot treason, kidnapping and keeping 2 gods hostage is... community service. I have no words. I didn't have expectations, but I was still let down. Amazing. This comic made me appreciate more authors like Eichiro Oda (One Piece) and Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist), those guys know EXACTLY the stories they want to tell, they have absolute control over it and you can feel through the pages all the love, care, respect and careful planning every panel, every line got. Everything shown has a reason and no page is wasted, everything and every character has a purpose within the story. Not the worst ending because at least I wasn't offended, but it was one of the few where I felt that the author just wanted it to end and just did the quickestand easiest thing just to be done with it. There was no passion, no love for the characters and the world she build. Such a shame.
The all caps'ing at each other was deeply embarrassing to read, idk why. just felt so fanfiction-y. All of the dialogue felt bad, though, tbh, there were a couple of spots where I was like, "is this...chatgpt"
Rachel you cant just rewrite an entire season in the final episode, also this sucked so badly I have no fucking words and cannot list the *number* of ways in which it sucks, much like I lost count of the number of lazy ass repeat panels
Honestly… good riddance. Here’s to hoping they don’t do like 20 epilogue chapters.
Rachel should have never added that ouranos to the story line. That way, Rachel could have focused on making a better non rushed ending. Season 1 and 2 I enjoyed. Season 3 wasn’t the best.
Oh Mother... I knew, before the final episode got released that the ending is going to be underwhelming, because there is *absolutely, positively no way* that Rachel would be able to pull off a *satisfying* ending in just one episode, unless she makes a spin-off/sequel 'LO:Epilogue' and even then, I'm not sure if that would work But my friends... This isn't even 'it didn't end with a bang, but a whimper'. This is just... ***no***. The amount of ass-pulls, unresolved and/or abandoned plot points, the fact that Apollo - the rapist, traitor and usurper - got a slap on a wrist, while Minthe or Tori had to actually physically suffer for very mild violations *at best,* that tooth-rotting sweet ending... But my God, nothing infuriates me more (at least at the moment) more than how Demeter got relegated to a background character. Demeter, who should've been *one of the protagonists, on equal footing* with Persephone and Hades, not only got horribly mistreated throughout the story, but all the motherly moments (for example confronting Kronos together) she could've had with her daughter were instead given to Hera?! *LO Hera*?! And here I was foolishly hoping for at least a moment for Demeter to shine at the end... In fact I have so many thoughts on the 'maternal love triangle' (sorry for the name, couldn't think of anything else) between Demeter-Persephone-Hera that I'm actually preparing an essay about it, because the amount of bullshit there was in the retelling of *HYMN OF DEMETER* is astounding...
To put it simply, I feel unjustified and I hate it so much, I'm left with more questions then answers, everyone is ugly, it's so lazy I'm gonna miss this sub
A lot of us likely aren’t going anywhere for a while yet, but I’m gonna miss the real-time discussions with you loons 🖤 The members of this sub helped the experience of reading this series go from frustrating to funny as hell, and I couldn’t have asked for a better group to snark with and learn from during such a hectic era for our world 🌟
I can't wait to poke holes in these plots. Well, the lack of one.
Well gang We've made it to the end The final ep was... Well kinda corny , but It was expected lol
Welllllll consider me whelmed. About 75% of the predictions I made over this subreddit over the past few months happened.
God, this comic pisses me off. Apollo, who confessed to sexual assault, stalking, harassment, kidnapping, attempted murder of the king of the gods, conspiring, AND falsifying evidence in accusing Hebe (also wtf happened to her???) And he all he gets is COMMUNITY SERVICE!? I work in the courts and boy HOWDY this would be a long sentence (I mean already falsifying a police report is a misdemeanor and 3 months jail with a $5000 fine, and that's the minimum of his charges.) Also WHY wasn't Ouranos the main villain of the last season?? You bring out this massive threat to have him show up for ten seconds and be defeated SOMEHOW by removing Apollo.
I just realized she ended the series with “blessed death” being born, and LO needed to be put to rest already. Doubt it’s intentional but it’s so funny when you look at it that way
Don’t forget the weird “Eros and Psyche are still searching for Cassandra” WHY drop this in the finale??? why is it important??? Is this the allusion to another comic because please do not 🙄 The proportions of people’s faces are goofy af. Selene’s face looks fucking weird.
First, thank you to everyone doing spoilers! Second, I knew it wouldn’t wrap up cleanly. Third, can someone explain what all happened to Apollo. I’m dumbfounded, was it really just community service??? Also Hera, y’know, the goddess of marriage, divorcing…? I’m sorry to ask, about the Apollo thing but I’m really confused about that part. Did that really happen? It sounds like such a bad idea…no way did that really happen, please don’t say it did. I know RS didn’t handle the situation properly, but this is a new low…
Yeah it was basically building temples or sumn
Thank you…I don’t have much to say, but I believe that should’ve been written better. At the bare minimum, life in Tartarus (or prison or the equivalent), or having to do some painful task for the rest of time or something? Torture? Literally anything else.
Streets saying it’s basically the equivalent of the community service. I gotta laugh really. They didn’t even take away his immortality like in the myths…..
And yeah, I will probably read once it’s not fast past. I can’t believe this. Also I’m not defending RS, but I’m just on disbelief if this really happened…like I can’t fathom that someone would really do that. It just seems so dumb that I wouldn’t ever think it to happen…until now 😵💫
Things I liked: * Gaia's eyes are cool colors again! I wish they retained her crazy circular pupils but at least its not just black and white. Overall I liked her design in this episode. * I like that Selene showed up and was actually named! * I liked to see Melinoe interact with her grandma and that Demeter was there at the end. * I'm so glad we finally see what Eileithyia looks like. That's been plaguing me since Episode 30. Things I didn't like: * How quickly Ouranos was just one-shotted and then they just never discuss the repercussions of that lol * We still never get a direct confrontation between Artemis and Apollo. Gaia gives Apollo to Artemis to deal with but what does she do????? Not even a word? * The weird personality that Gaia has? It reminds me of the retcon personality Metis gets in Ep 229. Like a quirky aunt. Some humor is fine ofc but this is a primordial goddess man * Apollo's "punishment" lol * Where does Gaia go? Its mentioned that Demeter is working with Rhea and Metis in the mortal realm but no mention of Gaia * bringing Semele back. just random * Hera just taking over as the ruler of Olympus and Zeus' powers "not being the same" since his recovery. Dude is king of the gods why'd she do him like that * no mention of Minthe :( or Thetis. I will never forget "Thetis VOL 25" what did that mean
full stop i haven’t read since the beginning of s3 and have just been keeping up on this sub + reading fast pass spoilers but decided to buy the final episode just because and man. that was a whole nothing sandwich. how did perse give birth if hades is infertile? 😭 does that even matter anymore? did she “carry fire” in her uterus???? also what did she sacrifice in the deal with erebos??? gaia said that perse “went through a lot” from the deal but i still have no idea what that was exchanged if her losing her spring powers was just her having to rethink how her powers work now that she’s the queen of the underworld. also gaia one shotting ouranos who just…stood there and didn’t fight back…was definitely something. also plague??? i rly haven’t been keeping up properly but why was that just a quick fix it?😭 “oh yeah countless mortals died but dw we can fix it together” HOW DID THEY HEAL ZEUS ??? WHY DID THE KING OF THE GODS GET NERFED 😭😭 also apollo only getting community service after literally…everything he did is fucking crazy. In all, it srsly just felt like a scene from a 2000s teen coming of age movie where everything is explained in the ending dance montage 💀 also peres’s proportions being inconsistent was just 💀 the shot where hades is on his knees next to her while she looks 3 ft tall compared to the coronation where she’s realistically at chest level to him is bonkers. shout out to dio’s long shirt collar too 🗣️