The eagles are coming!

He basically made Oppenheimer again lol

Take a shot every time someone says "people from the sea" or "sea people." Your liver will give out during the first half of the movie. At one point, Penelope says it like five times in a single conversation

Nolan basically says that the sea people were the refugees/returning armies of Troy, who plundered the lands because they broke xenia by deceiving the Trojans with the horse and thus are no longer bound to any moral laws. This creates the Bronze Age collapse

During the scene with the Laestrygonians, you see ash constantly falling, which I think is also a reference to volcanic eruptions also being a contributing factor to the Bronze Age collapse

The Trojan war was Agamemnon wanting to control trade in the area, and Helen's kidnapping was an excuse to destroy Troy to do that.

It's never confirmed that Helen was kidnapped or went willingly. We we see that she was disfigured by Menelaus, and he mocks the "face that launched a thousand ships" line. Helen apologizes to Telemachus for the "things that were done in [her] name"

One day, Nolan will figure out how to write women who do things other than just state exposition at the camera.

You see Clytemnestra kill Agamemnon, and she doesn't use an axe :(

None of the Trojans are given names, and Cassandra is missing from Agamemnon's death. Thought it was a little strange, they just kind of ignore that Troy had royalty and stuff. Probably to drive home how war makes you dehumanize others, but they could have, like, mentioned Paris or Priam or someone.

Orestes is mentioned! Menelaus tells Telemachus that he killed Clytemnestra, Telemachus goes "He killed his own mother?!" and Menelaus is like yeah, lol.

Odysseus in the movie is pretty much nothing like Odysseus in the poems. The only thing they have in common is he goes on an Odyssey.

Odysseus breaks through the walls of Troy, and then spends the whole fall of Troy looking sad and traumatized because people are dying.

You never see any Olympians. Zendaya plays Athena, but then it's revealed that she was a Trojan woman who Odysseus saw killed in the temple of Athena in Troy as it was destroyed, and her appearances are a manifestation of his guilt and PTSD that he associates with Athena

Circe and Calypso do have magic powers, though.

Polyphemus is mute the entire time. We don't get the "nobody" scene. Odysseus assumes that he's just a brutish monster, pokes out his eye after he eats some of Odysseus' crew. Polyphemus starts talking to himself in a corner, and Odysseus' men say he said the name "Poseidon," which they take to mean that he is the son of Poseidon who has cursed them.

Odysseus doesn't do the "pretend to be mad to get out of the war" thing. He just tells Penelope that he has to go, and is like "If I don't go then Agamemnon will kill our son :("

Odysseus the least complicated man in the story. It's all very straightforward. He doesn't do any real trickery other than the Trojan horse (which he immediately regrets) and disguise himself when he gets to Ithaca

Nolan does that thing where the gods COULD be real, or it could be coincidental natural disasters. But, like, there is magic and monsters.

Odysseus pets Argus (I like this change) and there's only one maid who gets killed, and she's shown as actively helping the suitors to try and assassinate Telemachus. I liked this change as well.

The movie ends with Odysseus allowing Telemachus to become king of Ithaca, and him sailing west with Penelope, because he promised the shades in Hades that he would travel there to honor the men who died and could not receive proper burials

He talks about how their civilization will collapse, and that all that will remain are songs

I don't know if this is on purpose, but it kind of implies that Odysseus is gonna function as Aeneas? It is a bit of a stretch, but west is Italy, and he talks about a new civilization rising. I think this is very funny if on purpose, given how the ancient Romans felt about Odysseus lmao

Nolan does not deserve such good actors.

The symmetry of this turn in the air!

Yellow Warblers (Setophaga petechia) are small, agile birds known for their stunning ‘circle flight’ during nest-building.

I got the idea from cowcatchers old locomotives used to have.

Anyways, yesterday I uploaded the model to Thingiverse, and just hours after uploading it, the Community Relationship Manager of the whole website left a comment suggesting I enter the model into a competition that's currently being held on the site.

So I did... and now it's in third place not even a day later. First place is $500, but the competition still has a month to go.

Then the Community Manager contacted me again, telling me they want to feature my model in an upcoming design promotion.

Just, what is happening? I mostly made this thing for myself in, like, an hour, and now it's suddenly super popular? This is all a little bit overwhelming 😵‍💫

Other models I worked on for weeks didn't get nearly as popular. I swear, it's impossible to predict what people will like.

Anyways, if you want to print the wheel guards yourself, you can get the model here or here.

I also made a quiet version you can stick furniture felt pads on.

He answers: I believe that whoever created the concept of soulmates should be taken into the town square and beaten to death. Or you should tell me who they are so I can send them a check for a couple of hundred thousand dollars, because they have done more to facilitate the demise of happy marriages than I could ever aspire to doing.

The concept of a soulmate to me is absolutely bizarre. To suggest that out of eight billion other people in the world, that there's just this one person, and they happen by the way to live within like the same town as you, where they went to the same university as you - what were the odds of that? And that's the only person you could ever have a happy, fulfilling relationship with. That's insane, folks. It's insane. And by the way, it's toxic. Because here's the thing: when you get married, society essentially tells you, this person, they're supposed to be your best friend, best lover, best roommate, best travel companion, best co-parent - that's a hell of a resume, guy. Like, it'd be shocking to find someone who fits all three of those things.

So what happens when you have this concept of a soulmate? And my partner, you know, they're the best co-parent, they're the best roommate, the best travel companion, but you know, they're not the best lover I ever had. Well, they mustn't be your soulmate then. That means that there's somebody out there in the eight billion people, that they would be the perfect one. And that's what the horizon that just forever recedes and keeps people constantly craving the next thing that might check all of the boxes. It's dangerous.

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

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