Talk:Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

Heracles vs Hercules
Hercules is the ROMAN name for the son of Jupiter (Roman name for Zeus) and Alcmena. In Greek he was Heracles son of Zeus and Alcmene. The links should go to Heracles but be the name Hercules should show. It actually should be clarified in the first paragraph, but I'd be afraid to further confuse. KellyAna (talk) 18:18, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Xenaverse
Given that Xena's TV show was a spinoff to the Hercules shows, shouldn't related pages be under a Hercverse group? Metalb (talk) 17:09, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Should individual episodes have their own articles?
Shoudl individual episodes have their own articles? Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 12:45, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

View from User:Thumperward (Chris Cunningham)
At present, 29 of the 111 episodes of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys have their own episode articles. These articles follow a standard format. An example is As Darkness Falls:


 * A short introduction
 * A plot summary
 * A comment on continuity and guest appearances
 * An external link to the TV.com episode synopsis

So far as I can see, none of these episodes (not even the pilot) feature any secondary sources as references at all. Inbound links are also extremely minimal: the pages are linked only from the main list of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys episodes page, the infoboxes of the next and previous episodes, and from the biographies of the guest actors.

As these articles consist wholly of personal extrapolation of plot material, and are otherwise wholly accounted for in the main list article, I propose that they all be deleted. This RfC was suggested as a better way of judging consensus than a mass AfD.

Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 12:43, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Turn all into redirects to List of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys episodes, or even just delete those not linked from elsewhere in the project other than that list itself. Unless significant secondary sources are found for a given episode, this is just plot fluff. It's rare that specific episodes warrant their own articles for ANY series. See NOT. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:19, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - I have to strongly disagree. I think the individual episode articles should be kept. Citing the episode itself in the references should be sufficient as a reference source. Many novel wiki articles run into similar problems regarding referencing since there isn't a lot of alternative references available other than the book itself. This doesn't stop articles from being written on such novels and for good reason too. There is plenty of information that can be written about such novels that would otherwise be excluded from the encyclopedia if we only just had say a list of novels written by a given author. As well there is a lot that can be written about each episode of a television show.


 * I should also point out one other thing. An article for deletion page shouldn't be occurring here! There is already a procedure for bundling articles for deletion requests explained here--->Articles for deletion. Thumperward should start one there following that procedure and copy the comments Hammersoft and I have already made there. The discussion can then continue there. Chhe (talk) 18:51, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but believing that a primary source is plenty enough to sustain an article completely ignores No original research, "If no reliable third-party sources can be found on an article topic, Wikipedia should not have an article about it." Also, using other articles that lack third party sources as proof this should exist is a WP:OTHERSTUFF argument, and doesn't carry water. There is almost nothing that can be written about a television episode within an encyclopedia if there are no secondary or tertiary sources to support it. THis isn't the Hercules Wikia. --Hammersoft (talk) 13:17, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

I really think thats ridiculous. However, I just found this source and Hercules, The Legendary Journeys: The Official Companion by Robert Weisbrot and I thought I should show it to you two. P.S. are you going to start a real AfD or what?

Help with the **style** of this show please ?
This show along with a variety of spinoffs and non-related but similar shows adopted a particular style of writing/acting that I am trying just now starting to trace. The style can best be described as "period theme scripts with strongly anachronistic (modern) language". Examples include everything in the "Hercverse", almost anything with Bruce Campbell, and more recently the movie A Knight's Tale. As I said, I am just now starting to look at this phenomenon but I am sure I could find many other examples in the past 25 years or so.

Can anyone point me towards any information on this subject? When did it start (earliest examples) ? Is there a name for this genre/style? etc ... Thank you. 66.97.213.202 (talk) 07:53, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

when did it air and on what network
International history but when did it primer and in which nation. US? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.14.90.68 (talk) 03:36, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

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