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To be fair; in the movie, Hercules never implied that that was the first time he met Hades and Herc was only shown to be lonely until he learned the truth and went to find Phil
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Hades was in the show and fully aware of Hercules' existence, as was Hercules of Hades, where in the movie, they never met until Herc was an adult, and Hades had to introduce himself.
Herc having friends is not a contradiction, because he was only friendless before finding out he was the son of Zeus, thus going to train with Phil, which is when the series takes place.
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Lethe River Water and its memory erasing properties was a plot device in several episodes, including the one with a teenage Meg. I just figured there was another big accident with it off-screen that lead to Hades forgetting about Herc in the film.
edited 21st Apr '15 2:23:42 PM by FigmentJedi
Why aren't you laughing?
What Eagal said, yeah. Hades isn't supposed to know Hercules is alive. Also, while the movie doesn't outright say Hercules has never met Hades, the fact that Hades needs to introduce himself when they meet does indicate that they've never met face to face until that point.
Somewhat less blatantly, in the movie Hercules's trip to Thebes after he finishes his training is supposedly his first time doing heroics, or getting to prove himself at all. In the series, however, he's been all over Greece, fought monsters almost every week and should already have plenty of experience at that point. The movie Thebeans ask Hercules if he's ever saved cities or faced calamities, to which he answers no — but by TV series logic, yes, he has.
Also, less blatantly, in the movie Hades has a long-term plan to take over Olympus that involves waiting for the stars to align so he can free the Titans, and is implied to have spent the years trying to gather followers for the eventual attack. In the series, however, he's more of a "plan of the week" kind of guy who just tries a gazillion different plans and keeps coming up with new ones.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the series was originally intended to take place in the Time Skip during "From Zero to Hero" rather than during Herc's training. That would have justified stuff like Hercules regularly fighting monsters, and Hades already being aware of him. The series was probably hastily retooled to allow it to take place in a high school setting.
It's probably a wink to the ever changing nature of the myths themselves, which often were wildly contradictory with each other. After all, all these stories are, in the end, narrations from the Muses, so we could chalk the inconsistencies to their being Unreliable Narrators who prefer embelishing over faithfulness to 'truth'.
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Or knowing them, whatever makes a good story. They're the goddesses of the arts after all.
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Yeah, Meg episode is called "Hercules and the Aetolian Amphora". It's sort of a Film Noir pastiche.
I once read somewhere that there were some continuity inconsistencies between the Disney's Hercules movie and its subsequent TV series. While I can tell that there's some truth in that statement, I'd like to know exactly what those inconsistencies were. Hence this thread
Before this goes any further though, I beg you all, don't try to use a quick answer in an attempt to end this conversation altogether. It would be a futile gesture anyway, because, until this thread gets closed, I will continue to keep this conversation going, regardless of those who would try to end it with a weak "point out the obvious" statement.