One Thing I Find A Little Frustrating Is How Many Modern Greek Mythology Stories Focus On The Giants,

One thing I find a little frustrating is how many modern greek mythology stories focus on the Giants, or Titans, or maybe Typhon or someone else coming back and opposing the gods again. They both shouldn't pose a real threat for Olympus, and there isn't really precedent in the mythology for such threats coming back.

Greek mythology is about a cycle of succession - Ouranos gains control of the heavens, his son Kronos succeeds him, and his son Zeus succeeds him. Kronos fails to prevent Zeus and his siblings from overthrowing him, while Zeus succeeds in defeating potential successors (the Giants and Typhon), preventing them from being born (sons of Metis and Thetis), or just generally by having his sons support his reign rather than attempt to overthrow him (Apollo, Ares, etc.)

The monsters are also just going to be much less threatening a second time - the Titans were defeated when there were way fewer gods and the Titans ruled the heavens, seas, and other domains, Typhon was almost victorious until Athena was born, etc.

If you want a Greek mythology story to have an overarching threat to the gods, there are much more interesting, threatening, and mythologically reasonable options - maybe the gods are taking sides Trojan war style, maybe one of Zeus's sons is leads a bunch of Zeus's kids against him, or maybe Metis finally has that prophesied kid.

Skybreakers are the funniest Radiant Order because they have actual procedures and continuity and they know what Ideals they’re going to say more than ten seconds before they say them while everyone else is just randomly discovering what they can do as it happens like “Huh, I can recover from Shardblade injuries”  “I hung out with Kaladin a lot and now I’m glowing”  “My friend can turn into a fork I guess”

Questioner: Hollywood comes to you, says, alright, we've got whatever budget you need, we give you full creative control.

Brandon Sanderson: Woah. Ooh. Oooh. Ooh, you're speaking my language.

Questioner: One thing, it has to be a musical. *all laugh* What do you pick?

Brandon Sanderson: I go get the director of RRR, and I say, alright, you made a musical awesome action movie, show me how to do it. India's really good at that. So, so we do something like that.

Questioner: Which book, or anything, would you...?

Brandon Sanderson: I mean, it feels like you could do any of them. Like, how much of the singing done by the singers counts as musical, right?

But the truth is, Stormlight can't be a traditional film. It's got to be a long-form, right? So, we're down to a few options if we want to do an actual, in theaters, traditional theatrical release. That would depend, right?

Are we making television show or not? If we're making, like, a premium cable sort of thing, then we can go Stormlight. If we're not, then we basically got to go with Mistborn.

Mistborn is the thing that can be contained in a two to two-and-a-half hour film... Warbreaker: The Musical though, huh? Yeah, mhm.

Whoever pulls this sword from the stone shall become the true king of France… for all of 15 minutes until they guillotine you for being a king and stealing their sword

national elections so fucked someone's out to become king of the franks

This is the problem with you fuckers

Slow train journeys in rural England sure are an experience. You're going ten miles and it takes a day and a half because it stops at every lamp-post and the announcement says "The next station stop is Ferretley" or something and you think "I didn't know that was a place" and you get there and it isn't