Status Updates From A Beautiful Evil

“Kept hope safe like a stolen flame. Let it warm us through the darkness.” (Page, 426).What a powerful ending championing the worth of hope, love and courage.Pandora and Matheos both willing to sacrifice themselves for the other, and Matheos being stabbed was a great source of tension.I adored Pandora imbuing the jar with her hope and then shattering time.I am choosing to believe in hope that our lovers are safe.

I truly would have never guessed. Pandora’s box has been added to the equation. I am excited to see where this goes as Pandora acknowledges that she will not be able to avoid opening the box forever. However, I have a suspicion that this tool made by Zeus to ensure the destruction of humankind, will be put to a much different use. What that use is, I can’t yet see. Intriguing.

Oh, Athena, I was rooting for you, we were all rooting for you.Her acting like she cared for Pandora when her real goal was to get Prometheus’s prophecy is heartbreaking, but understandable.She has to put aside compassion in order to set up the circumstances that lead to Zeus’s dethronement.The idea that Pandora was made through Métis’s thought and thus is the child prophesied to overthrow Zeus is fascinating.

Matheos really embodying the meme “talk disrespectful about my wife and I will kill you” to Prometheus. Pandora and Matheos are terrible at pretending to hate each other, the Olympians must be dumb or blind to not see the sexual tension in the room. Prometheus gives me trolley problem vibes in letting whole generations of humans die in the hope of Zeus’s downfall. Well time to face the music up on Olympus.

THEY FINALLY KISSED. Only to then immediately decide that they have to pretend to hate each other so the gods won’t punish both of them, I see no way of this going wrong. Meanwhile, Athena continues to be the best of the gods by warning Pandora as well as formulating a plan for Pandora to question Prometheus. I loved Matheos helping Pandora while she panicked and I am fascinated by the humans reaction to Pandora.