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You know what, fine. If no one else will say it then I will.
The dog puppet looked dumb as shit.
All the other puppets were brilliant. The Cyclops was amazing. The pig scene was horrifying.
And then it cuts to Argos and the dog jerkily wriggling around like that dog from Dog and Duck.
You know it's bad when Epic the Musical is a more accurate telling of the Odyssey than Nolans film.
And to be clear, Epic is *not* an accurate retelling! But at least it gets the fucking vibes right???
"Remember Them" is a waaay better example of honouring the dead. Polites' hairband is so much more powerful and meaningful than that dumb ring he gives Eurolychus.
"Monster" and "Would you fall in love with me again" are so powerful in showing his guilt and desperation to return home. What he would and wouldn't do. There's fucking none of that here.
All the women are so much better. Each of their songs show them as powerful and clever and tricksy and strong. Not the simpering bullshit Nolan does.
"Odysseus" for the death of the suitors. My god that was leagues above this absolute bullshit car crash of an ending.
Nolan ruined my boy Antinious. He's a sleazy bastard and Nolan has him whining and needy and hiding behind a fucking pillar for the fight?? Where's "Hold him Down" and "Little Wolf"!?
THE ESCAPE FROM CIRCES ISLAND! "Dangerous" and "600 Strike" show his desperation to get home, his ruthlessness. Meanwhile Nolan has him lie on a raft and wait for death.
Fucking pathetic.
Nolan’s Odyssey:
Cut 2 of the most famous adventures for 6 minutes of fleeing the giants
Cut the Nobody scene entirely
De-hottied Circe and made her overly-emotional and reactive and falsely accuse the men of being rape threats. No nymphs or magic besides the soup.
Had the Trojan horse portrayed as a war crime so bad it ended society and was deeeefinitely the worst and most dishonorable thing done in the Trojan war (cut the rapes from the sacking of Troy while still trying to make it a symbol of lost society so they just stab a lot of women and wax esoteric??)
Slander Menelaus and Helen. :’-] he did not drag her back as his slave queen they’re literally one of like 2 endgame-still-ok Greek couples. (Speaking of weird changes in the family, they keep Agamemnon killing his daughter, but totally leave out what he did to Cassandra)
Odysseus actively doesn’t want to get home to Penelope and Telemachus
Mentor is just some guy 100% of the time instead of usually Athena.
Odysseus is neither a wife guy nor sufferer of hubris (that is not my beautiful king that is not my beautiful general)
The gods just aren’t there. They de-god Calypso and also sort of do the lotus eaters as just her (but not. It’s bad). Hermes? Gone. Poseidon? Poseidon who. Zeus? Helios? Nah. Athena? You think so but no, that’s just Odysseus and his PTSD talking to himself.
The gods aren’t there but one of the messages is to give yourself up to God’s control and to let go of trying to carve your own path? Which Odysseus does??? Confusing and off target. 0s across the board.
They cut all the humor. No naked Odysseus. Not a laugh was had.
Odysseus won’t let Telemachus help him fight the suitors bc ‘you’d be exiled’ and then runs away with Penelope at the end instead of the remotely normal ending to the book. Why? I don’t know
I can’t tell you what it’s about bc even though it was 3 hours every scene felt like the sparks notes version, but my best guess is ‘it’s ok if society collapses bc it will rise again’???
Shot like someone who didn’t go to film school made it. Scene 1 Nolan was cutting to people every time they spoke I was dying. No audio off-camera so cringe. Also insane camera movements like did we need a push in for the 0.5 second cut to a servant listening in? Was that 0.5 seconds not gripping enough? Really??? Dude what are you doing
Why was Tiresias moving like a worm in the sand
The hunting dog got more screen time and character arc than Calypso
Every woman was handled badly. Every single one. Actually Clytemnestra was fine she was there for like 15 seconds but they were ok. Otherwise though just badly handled every single time and in gods’s bizarrest ways (what if Telemachus and Penelope fought over which one of them was good for the throne. What if Calypso wasn’t holding Odysseus hostage or sacrificing her eternal happiness by letting him go. What if Circe was a crazy emotional middle aged woman who sees all men as rapists and turns them into pigs for no reason but she’s neurotic)
seriously it’s so weird to get back to Ithica without seeing Hermes, Athena, or Poseidon once — but they’re not plot relevant, right?
Odysseus is personally responsible for the fall of Greek civilization bc of the Trojan horse trick. He basically nuked civilization. (Yes all of it bc that’s the only civilization at this time. What do you mean no it’s not that’s crazy I mean I’m p sure it’s just Greece)
Cut the whole ‘only my husband would know that’ thing with Penelope and the wedding bed
Stole the exact amount of one of Jorge’s songs you legally can
Didn’t let Odysseus go full feral in the finale
Not a Greek in sight in the main cast. Just lots of Americans and other Europeans. Really bad costume design too. And set design.
Literally start ‘the Odyssey’ with Odysseus home in Ithaca already. 98% is a flashback. First version of the Odyssey ever both thematically and literally not about going home
Anyway it was dogshit don’t go see it
He doesn't even kill all the suitors. He's really shit at fighting. He just sorta flails about with some axes like that dwarf in a barrel in The Hobbit. He kills like 6 of them? Then lies on the floor at just gets railed on by some lads!??
Antinious hides behind a pillar???? And Ody doesn't shoot him with an arrow, he stabs him!!?? Last!??!??
Meanwhile Telemachus is just standing there watching.
And then the suitors just sorta give up and stop??? And start smacking their swords on the floor and Ody let's them live???? And all the servants???
And then Ody waddles up to Penelope and FUCKING DIES!!?????
And it cuts to Sad Penelope and Telemachus walking to a boat and it's "Surprise I'm Not Dead!" Ody waiting. And they sail off into the sunset?
A DEATH FAKE OUT SCENE. In the fucking Odyssey!??? That's what we get instead of the fun mass murder and clever 'move my bed' talk. It's pathetic, I'm so fucking angry.
i thought the “this is the face that launched a thousand ships, although now it would maybe be five-hundred.” line was just an internet joke but apparently that's a line Menelaus actually says in Nolan's Odyssey??
Not only that the language itself sounds straight out of a marvel forcibly funny haha moment, but Menelaus? The Menelaus who all thoughout human history, from Homer, to Sappho, to Euripides, to Virgil, to Shakespeare, to Brooke, to Barth; from Classical vases to Medieval poetry to Reinessance art, has been known as the man whose sword fell from his hands at the sight of his wife after 10 years apart?
"What joy for me to hold my wife" Menelaus?
"He flung the sword away, and kissed her feet" Menelaus?
"I believe all. I understand nothing. I love you" Menelaus?
"I have no fault to find; my wife, he daughter of Zeus and Leda, is mine again, she whom her brothers on their snow-white steeds, whilst torches blazed, made my happy bride, but gods removed her from my home." Menelaus?
The Menelaus who was picked out of the suitors by Helen herself? The Menelaus who couldn't kill a begging Trojan so his brother had to do it for him? The Menelaus who rescued Odysseus and got out Patroclus' body? The Menelaus who volounteered to fight Paris one on one so everybody could go home? Who kept expressing his guilt about himself being the cause of war through every assembly he spoke at in the Iliad? Who after 10 years away at Troy, took his wife through a 7-year long journey at sea back home, where he reinstated her as the queen of Sparta? Who wept like a child in front of Telemachus recalling the war and his brother and all the friends he lost and the only consolation being his wife' gentle hand on his?
You want me to believe that man scarred Helen's face and called her only worth half the ships because of it?
I'm actually physically sick just thinking about it.
I hate literally everything about this fucking film.
Things I love about The Odyssey that I do not think are going to be included in Nolans Odyssey
1) every single person gossiping about how Agamemnon got killed by his wife. Its like the first thing everyone mentions when a guest arrives.
2) Agamemnon showing up twice (?) to also bitch about his wife killing him. Like...dude you killed your daughter, let it go.
3) Polyphemus cooing over his famous ram and asking if it's ok because he's walking a bit slower that morning 😭 (I feel like Sheep Detectives has broken me a bit here)
4) Ody inventing 4(?) very intricate, completely different and random lies about where he's from. They're so unnecessarily detailed every time it's so funny.
5) Menelaus dressing up as a dead, disgustingly smelly seal and wrestling Proteus to find out gossip.
6) Helen drugging everyone because she's annoyed about them constantly crying. Also all the men just sobbing throughout the entire book
7) Ody seeing his depressed dad and thinking "Should I tell him I'm home? Nah, I'm going to "lie and taunt him" first!?. And then panicking when his dad bursts into tears and is like "Fuck no, it's me sorry!!!"
8) the Phoecians Sports Day.
9) Odys 4 page rant about how he ''could" beat everyone at sports day and how dare they challenge him, he could take on everyone at any sport, except maybe running because he's been on a boat and skipped a few leg days but ANYTHING ELSE!!
10) Calypso's rant that it's unfair that Male gods can have any woman they want but as soon as a female god tries it's all "ooh no, gotta go be punished! "Also Calypso trying to convince Ody to stay by insisting "Well I'm taller than Penelope!!!!"
KJ Charles has breathtaking range. And it's all so organically diverse and vivid and are masterclasses in dialogue and pacing.
Edit: This post has been edited to add her newer works that have come out in the last two years since its original posting.
Charm of Magpies -- Shanghai traders and Chinese immigrant communities of London in the late 1800s.
(This is her very first series and many people love it because Lord Crane is the first and best of KJC's icy blond Magnificent Bastards, having the kind of presence and magnetism that belongs to a tv breakout character with his own AO3 tag. But he's proof of her potential that was only realized in later works IMO. His lover Stephen is kind of a weak link for me. Jackdaw is a spinoff book that has far more complexity.)
Doomsday books -- Smugglers of Romney Marsh in 1810–20s in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars.
(This might be my personal favourite but most other people seem ambivalent about them. Fools, I say!)
Society of Gentlemen -- Clash between the royalist establishment and radical republicans in the last years of Regency.
(I've read the climatic showdown 184893 times like a dog polishing off a plate. David Cyprian the man you are!)
Sins of the Cities -- Small businesses and trade of the Industrial Revolution in London's immigrant quarter, taxidermy, Victorian spiritualists, and musical hall artists in the 1870s.
(Charles's infantilization of the autistic Indian guy is the only sour note I've experienced in her work. But the romance between the non-binary acrobat and disabled gumshoe is superb.)
Lillywhite Boys -- London criminal underworld, bluestocking feminists, private detectives, colonial gem trade, the rise of industrialists in the 1890s. (Sukey deserves her own TV show.)
England World -- Two country house parties that deal with nascent British intelligence agencies and spy technology in the shadow of the Boer War in the 1890s + classism, racism, xenophobia, and antisemitism.
Will Darling Adventures -- The reverberating social, political and economic changes from the aftermath of WWI and further development of intelligence organisations during the 1920s.
(This series seems to be everyone's favourite. Justifiable. It has Phoebe in it.)
Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune -- Regency era cardsharps, conmen and thieves among the haut ton. This might be KJC's most light-hearted series, sweetly funny hijinks with loveable characters and no real bad guys (other than Marianne's horrible fiancé and the Hartleburys' horrible mother).
Green Men -- Sherlock Holmes but make it curses. The atmospheric spookiness of grimy London fog and ever-present spectre of penury and class predation dogging middle class professionals in the Late Victorian era. (The novella Revenant is a crossover with Jordan L. Hawk's Whybourne & Griffin.)
Standalones:
Band Sinister -- Adventure-seeking Gothic novelist breaks her leg and lands in the house party of a notorious Hellfire Club. She and her diagnosably anxious brother are exposed to the emergence of new medicine, atheism, natural science challenging Creationism, and Black British artists before abolition.
Unfit to Print -- London's underground pornography trade with character focus on the shared plight of Black and Indian immigrants from the colonies and their mixed race offspring.
Henchmen of Zenda -- Queer mercenaries playing triple agents to bring down both factions while having horny sex, and boss bitch women working together to take back control from abusive, egomaniacal misogynists, in this satirical retelling of Prisoner of Zenda.
The Price of Meat -- An older work. Sweeney Todd in mental asylums, but doesn't pass the ACAB check.
Wanted, An Author -- emancipated former slave turned prosperous tradesman and a ne'er-do-well penny printer in early Regency chase after the slave-owner's daughter to Gretna Green.
(Black and PoC readers have said that they find this novella racially micro-aggressive, but I respect any white writer willing to tackle colonial crimes head-on. Especially since this was one of her early works.)
Death in the Spires -- The Edwardian ruling class tries to embrace DEI as Oxford University finally throws its gates open to women, Black men, disabled scholarship boys, and melodramatic gays with style. Murder ensues.
(What do you MEAN St. Andrews isn't a real college??? Also, KJC told everyone this is a whodunit and not a romance because she's a liar.)
Copper Script -- 1920s ACAB novella about police corruption, class predation and entrapment of queers via public indecency laws. (Disgraceful because it's only 200 pages long.)
All of Us Murderers -- At the turn of the 20th century, an ADHD ray of sunshine finds himself trapped with his former lover in his family's Gothic ancestral mansion turned murder maze, grappling with the blood-soaked legacy of enslavement and class exploitation that built the houses of the British upper class.
I think my favourite standalones are All Of Us Murderers and Death in the Spires. The disability rep was so good it nearly made me cry. But truly, I want 75 more books of each of her series and also her grocery list and stray bits of scribble in her waste basket.
Charles's body of work really brings home that the real and authentic history of Britain had people of every race, religion, colour, disability, neurodiversity, gender and sexuality who have been deliberately erased by the same power structures that kept them disenfranchised and ghettoed back then. Best of all, you can read them when you only have two functioning braincells and can't stand encountering any emotions you don't like. 😂
I've binged through 11 of her books this month and every single one slapped. And I keep meaning to go read something else but God damn, bitch can write!
I was recently asked to repost some old fanart I did of KJ Charles’s characters from some of my favourite books.
Here is a somewhat saucy picture of Daniel da Silva and Curtis from “Think of England” and Will and Kim from “The Will Darling Adventures”
Some truly excellent historical romance books for fans of well written romance (with a body count…) and happy endings 😆
I absolutely recommend all KJ Charles books!
HE HAD NO FLOCK AND HE WAS RESCUED FROM A CARNIVAL WHERE HE HAD TO FIGHT DOGS AND THEN HE FOUGHT OFF THE DOGS TO PROTECT HIS FLOCK AND IM THROWING UP ABOUT IT
The next chapter of The Subtle Art of Sinking Ships will be posted later today!
After that, there's only one more left... I can't thank you all enough for your kind words and patience, I couldn't have finished this story without you <33
guys idk if anyone on here is talking about this but LOOK
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i wasn't involved in this as i don't drive but it just goes to show you people have the power to bring cities to a grinding halt
This is still happening 5 days later. Whole country is gridlocked. Every town, every motorway blocked by protests.
Fuel is €2.20 per litre.
That's $9.78 per gallon. Or £1.98 per litre.
People can't afford to commute (which most of the country does because transport is garbage outside Dublin). Can't afford to heat houses. Fuel tractors for farming, lorries, busses, taxis.
We're already in a cost of living crisis. A housing crisis. People can't afford to live.
Ireland didn't start this fucking war yet we're paying for it??
@elodieunderglass - This made me think of you.
Thank you so much for this
so hot you're hurting my feelings
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Genuinely hillarious!
fall in love again and again...
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That was delicious. I genuinely don't think I've seen anyone line up those scene parallels so well before. This was a perfect snapshot of every branch, rock, and mattress they hit on their way down
My god the cuts and parallels.
I have a whole PowerPoint on why cuttlefish are my favourite animal and when my students are annoying me, I force them to listen to me.
WHY IS THIS SO GOOD?!
To Jacob Tierney,
Two things I'm not willing to compromise on in The Long Game is the Trophy Room and Rhiannas 'Diamonds'.
I don't care what we gotta pay and who we gotta bribe, but I need to see that in season 2/3 please. Thanking you kindly.
had a hard time making this one on account of all the stupid butterflies in my tummy
