{"id":510966,"date":"2026-03-03T05:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510966\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T05:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:43:10","slug":"god-of-war-creator-says-tv-first-look-is-so-dumb-and-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510966\/","title":{"rendered":"‘God of War’ Creator Says TV First Look Is ‘So Dumb’ and ‘Terrible’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDavid Jaffe, the creator of the \u201cGod of War<\/a>\u201d video games, took to his YouTube channel<\/a> on Saturday to slam the first look image from Amazon Prime<\/a>\u2018s upcoming \u201cGod of War\u201d TV show. He said the frame, which features franchise hero Kratos in the woods with his son, was \u201cso bad in so many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m sure everybody\u2019s trying real hard, [but] it\u2019s so dumb,\u201d Jaffe said. \u201cBut let\u2019s be incredibly clear, okay? Two things can be true. This can be a terrible image, and it is. It\u2019s so bad in so many ways, which we\u2019ll talk about in a moment. And Ron Moore is awesome, who is the showrunner\u2026 This guy is a juggernaut of a talented fellow. I have absolutely no doubt it is going to be a good show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJaffe added that he doesn\u2019t mind that star Ryan Hurst isn\u2019t a dead ringer for Kratos, but instead takes issue with his expression and pose in what he described as a \u201cdumb fucking image.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cKratos in this pose with this expression, not the guy\u2019s face, but this expression, he just looks stupid,\u201d Jaffe explained. \u201cIf you\u2019re going to reveal, to most people, a brand new character that you hope is going to carry your series, for the first time, and they\u2019ve never really seen this before, and this is the way you introduce them?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued, \u201cMaybe that\u2019s conscious. Maybe they\u2019re like, \u2018Well, what we really want to focus on is the father-son story. And if we focus on him being like, Spartan rage, and all that, maybe people are like, \u201cI don\u2019t want to watch that show.\u201d\u2019 Ok maybe. But then, at that point, could you find a picture that doesn\u2019t look like he\u2019s shitting in the woods? Cause that\u2019s what the picture looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAmazon Prime unveiled the first look photo<\/a> on Feb. 27. Along with Hurst as Kratos and Callum Vinson as his son, other cast members include Max Parker as Heimdall, \u00d3lafur Darri \u00d3lafsson as Thor, Mandy Patinkin as Odin, Alastair Duncan as Mimir, Danny Woodburn and Jeff Gulka as brothers Brok and Sindri and Ed Skrein as Baldur.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch Jaffe\u2019s entire reaction below. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Jaffe, the creator of the \u201cGod of War\u201d video games, took to his YouTube channel on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18048,49,48,75,107394],"class_list":["post-510966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amazon-prime","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-god-of-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}