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I'm about to say something controversial. I watched Nolan's Odyssey today and overall enjoyed it. Details under the readmore

Stuff they changed that annoyed me:

- Odysseus doesn't feign madness, instead honorably follows Melenaus because he fears Agamemnon's reaction if he doesn't

- Odysseus is more honorable than he is smart, what's that stupid fucking Thing with warning the prey. Idiot (I know it ties into the overall characterization and final message, but ugh. This is ODYSSEUS)

- Doesn't even eat any of the Cyclops' sheep, the Cyclop just starts eating people willy nilly. Okay then. Kinda following that:

- His men dying is truly more whims of the immortals instead of Odysseus' decisions. Sigh.

-Sinon's change of narrative is kind of ambivalent, at least it's interesting I guess, but again. It's Sinon!

- Melantho being Like That... is not innovative at all and very much follows the misogyny of the original. Found it tiring and boring.

Stuff I liked:

- Penelope... of course they went with that casting. And I think that's fully correct, don't know what people's deal is.

- The colors are actually fine? Have you been to the Mediterranean? It looks like that when you walk around there.

- Being inside the horse felt more believable than it ever did in any book version I ever read

- The opening of the gates was also pretty realistic. It's a stealth AND speed mission and it's a close call. It has to be.

- Agamemnon being so fucking unlikeable. They put him into historical and political context pretty well. This is HIS war and he was willing to sacrifice all these people including his daughter.

- Zendaya as Athena/ Cassandra. I mean... it's Zendaya. But I really liked this version, because it focuses on her canonical horror of what she has unleashed upon Troy.

- I liked that it assumed you are here because you like the Myths and know something about it. Little references everywhere, doesn't bother immediately explaining everything

- Callipso as an ambivalent yet sympathetic character, but also the horror of her. She decides what's good for you and you WILL like it.

- Speaking of horror: Great body horror with Circe. That transformation is PAINFUL. Same with the the depiction of Hades

- How the men stop listening to Odysseus and start following Eurylochos

- Tom Holland in that wonderful outfit. The one when he does paperwork at night. That's the guy the internet fell in love with, very Umbrella reminiscent

- Pretty great depiction of the classic kind of PTSD as it was first constructed by western psychiatry. The wounds you afflict yourself with by being a war criminal

- And finally: Taking responsibility even for stuff you're not actually responsible for is a kind of hubris. Important message to myself and many people I know, actually.

- Bonus: This movie ISN'T grimdark! I know we all harp on Nolan for making everything grimdark, but this movie really isn't. They really said "most wars are crimes so terrible that we lose our own humanity when we engage in them. However, we can reforge that. We can decide to not engage again."

loftilypsychicscheme

Behind the scenes of the Cyclops sequence in ‘THE ODYSSEY’. A 60-foot puppet was used on set in Nestor’s Cave, known as the birthplace of Zeus.

orangepeelshortbreadcookies

Having Helen and Clytemnestra be identical twins is genius because how poetic and fitting is it that Agamemnon, who used Helen as an excuse to start The Trojan War, who instigated the deaths of thousands and sacrificed his own daughter for his ambitions, only to fall by someone who bears the same face of the woman he politicized?

galacticsabc

Go! Rocky, Go!

walmartnoodle

Wdym you hate Stratt? Without her you don’t get a story

its-too-many-fandoms

Omg I love this piece. Grace the hanging man, content with his life but cannot avoid the changes coming; the ship his noose, the rope that binds him to his fate; the blood red stars beside him, Olesya and Yáo the angels haunting him in the background. Eva Stratt, the one who holds it all on her back, the world is literally on her shoulders, the Petrova line on her neck. She will not falter, cannot afford to move, and yet still she glares at us. Eva challenges us, daring us to ask if we could do better, if we could hold her burden for even a fraction of the time.

Eve, the mother of sin, who held the world in her hands and was cursed for not knowing.

Eva, director of the task force, who now holds the world, and still must curse man to save it.

In the end, it always falls on a woman. I could never hate you Eva Stratt

monkeyislandtwo

fonts will be named shit like viscera antique, 16 bit dreams, doctor's orders, bingo condensed, googly, wish you were here

equos-bipes

for your consideration

one-time-i-dreamt

WHAT

ririazul

myleftpinkytoe

Oh, i remember this! No truck fucking, but also hard to explain...?

Basically, a lot of truckers feel VERY attached to their trucks, to the point where it's common for truckers to refer to them as their "first baby".

So, knowing this, this trucker's wife organised a photoshoot where her husband's "first baby" got to meet his "second baby". Kind of like those pregnancy photoshoots with dogs?

He thought it was great, and they shared it on social media trucker groups. In a turn i would not expect, a lot of other truckers got really emotional about it. Like, grown men cooing over a stranger's pregnancy photoshoot, going to their wives and asking if they can do something similar 🥺🥺🥺. All in all, strangely wholesome???

fruitcakebro

Ohhhh, the truck is the big brother :)

teaboot

Like showing your baby bump to the family pet 🥺

gabyluvsxena

i cannot tell you how happy i am to finallly have this answer

lizard-brainer

tumblr keeps killing the quality and adding a weird green line. but fuck

we will not give you a choice :)

using @justcakethanks template and ocs!

SEQUEL WOAH!!!! (link)

chernozemm

Love the soft, curious moments of them sharing about their own cultures, biology, etc. I do think Rocky would have a field day when Grace explains skin as a very sensitive and permeable organ with lots of stuff packed tight on the surface. Since goosebumps are very tactile, I thought Rocky would enjoy hearing those.

Also, bonus.

Because it is endlessly entertaining to me to consider how deep in the trenches Rocky is.

bowowark

“character who gained weight to show how they are healthy now” trope my beloved

demonadelem

n-adi-ra

Here's some straight malarky for you guys

puncertainty

a leap of faith !

uninterestedemby

They make me physically ill

taumoebros

to not relive the past —

bonus:

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sandmandaddy69

sahonithereadwolf

I want to see the vampire who lives in this. I bet his name is Chad or Hunter.

marlynnofmany

And he's ready to crack open a boy with the cold ones.

the-quasar-hero

I could NOT be in feudal Japan. Here are some reasons why

I wasn’t born then.

dreamyslothbunny

WRONG! Time travel beam

the-quasar-hero

updatebug

Can you even imagine being the poor alien sod responsible for auditing an earthling spaceship’s spending allowance? Like:

“I see, and why do you require many tubes of white plant flavoured paste?”

“Oh well, if we don’t rub that on our teeth twice daily the bacteria living in my mouth will begin to devour me teeth.”

“…Noted.”

“I have also noticed several large shipments of specific medications, and a variety of individually packaged absorbent material - however injury records do not show sufficient numbers to justify these recurrent deliveries.”

“Ah, yeah, it’s not really an injury per say. As part of our natural reproductive cycle approximately half the population will shed the lining of one of their internal organs and expel it.”

“…that is the most horrifying thing that I have ever heard.”

“Yeah.”

“Does such a process not hurt?”

“That’l be what the medication’s for. Pain killers for the cramps, birth control to stop the process.”

“…and your reasoning behind the fully functional, high-tech entertainment system?”

“Okay, that we could probably do without. But in our defence that was actually insisted on as a standard feature of all fleet-ships expected to encounter Terrans. Admiral Plo’Kaght insisted on it. Something about bored humans and a an illegal betting ring featuring a cleaning robot with a knife strapped to it going up against a human with a mop?”

“…I believe I should speak with my superiors.”