Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28655620-20161117184919/@comment-28655620-20170805184656

Gilgameshkun wrote: It could be that I was brought up with an exposure to the arts, education and literature, but even as a teenager (when The Next Mutation aired) I knew what the Venus de Milo was. And Venus/Aphrodite has strong traditional female sexual connotations. "Venereal". "Aphrodisiac". It would be like naming a male character "Bacchus" or "Eros" and then objectifying him as fanservice. The reference is too blatant, so he'd be a joke&mdash;difficult to take seriously, let alone dignifyingly. Okay, you may have known that but they probably didn't back then. The 90's was a place where things were taking out of context and literal. So you couldn't expect them to be perfect back then, nobody was. So nothing was really taken seriously back then.