I'd put up with some grimdark gory torture-murder-fucky elements in it because of the source material, but because it's just about everywhere already, I won't see it as an actually interesting feature.
If I were doing it, I would limit that to flashbacks and intentionally juxtapose Past Kratos' extreme violence against Dad Kratos' more restrained approach to problems. Make the whole point be that he's kinda realized that his Spartan upbringing fucked him up emotionally and that he's trying not to pass that on to his kid.
That'd certainly be better than a P R E S T I G E approach, especially an Alex Kurtzman one where, I dunno, Boy is tortured and murdered in a gory way in a cheap one-off gimmick and there's a confusing and contradictory moralistic lesson after nine more episodes.
Seriously I think it could have potential
I'd put up with some grimdark gory torture-murder-fucky elements in it because of the source material, but because it's just about everywhere already, I won't see it as an actually interesting feature.
If I were doing it, I would limit that to flashbacks and intentionally juxtapose Past Kratos' extreme violence against Dad Kratos' more restrained approach to problems. Make the whole point be that he's kinda realized that his Spartan upbringing fucked him up emotionally and that he's trying not to pass that on to his kid.
That'd certainly be better than a P R E S T I G E approach, especially an Alex Kurtzman one where, I dunno, Boy is tortured and murdered in a gory way in a cheap one-off gimmick and there's a confusing and contradictory moralistic lesson after nine more episodes.