Grace’s Thoughts

I already knew that this movie wouldn’t be overly enjoyable to me when it was first announced because there’s is no way you can do a journey that was in total 20 years long justice within the time of a feature film. I also completely understand that as a 20y female history student I’m most likely not the target audience for this film (even though I should be but that’s beside the point)

My biggest fear with this movie is that it’s going to become another film that manosphere men can watch and then go ‘oh bro I’m so Odysseus’ because with what I’ve seen from the trailer and casting choices it really does seem like it’s going that way.

For anyone who thinks that this film might be interesting I urge you to read the actual myth. The Odyssey is one of the most popular myths to come out of Ancient Greece and there a million ways to read it. Because no you cannot relate to Odysseus because this is a man that pretended to be insane to try and escape conscription but stopped when they risked his son’s life. He’s a man who doesn’t his entire time at sea thinking about returning to his wife and son. He’s a man that no matter how many women tried to sleep with him, he made sure that they knew that felt nothing for them compared to how he felt for his wife.

This movie will effectively make a poetic myth about longing, a justified return home, fighting inner battles with your own morality and humanity, and protecting those you love above everything else, about men in Ancient Greece fighting monsters and making it all angsty.

And it really saddens me that the best representation of a Greek myth is hades town because we should have more things showing the beauty in the myths that Ancient Greece saw instead of making them gruesome war/action movies that are meant to make men hard.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I CANT WAIT! I need this full season NOW!

My vtm group is gonna be sooooo annoyed at me

Holy shit did we get lore fed again!

But also once again COMFREY WHAT THE FUCK?! Like we got so much information!

The picture with Ludmila cut out has me interested, especially since they all aren’t sure why she’s cut out if that makes sense? The only thing I can think of is family relations or a possibility of Ludmila being a spy?

And then with Van’s arm, but more importantly Comfrey almost apologising in that letter saying that she didn’t know what would come of it?

Also Comfrey insulting Monty?! Does this mean that Comfrey didn’t originally want Monty on the crew?

We also got so much cult activity!!!! I love that Van’s curse/blessing is coming to be apart of a bigger plan and is slowly intertwining with Marya’s story!!! I can’t wait to see how we go deeper into the cult of the eyeless hand and this ritual between Zood and Zern!

Mordecestershire being apart of the eyeless hand makes so much sense, like even in his design he doesn’t look all too human if that makes sense. I can’t wait to see the queen of Zern as a villain, this whole cult plot has me really excited for coming episodes!

Also I had a quick theory… I know Torse said that Gath is real but what if Gath is apart of Zern and that’s why People like Mordecestershire and Confrey are able to go back and forth? My reasoning is because of how the queen is talked about in Zern and it just reminded me of the whole queens smog disscussion way back in episode 2

I know she has something to do with straka, I just have a feeling especially after seeing some of her possible inventions having similar energy patterns!

Finding out a bit more about fehujar was really interesting and honestly I think they’re just a bunch of greedy corporate bankers at this point due to the outfits and the fact that it is a bank

This was really good combat and as always the Roman Empire must fall. Other than that my lore baron didn’t find much else seeing as majority of it was fighting. But the cliffhanger between Van and Marya was so shocking!

The legio Rex basically being the Roman Empire is my favourite thing as an archaeologist, and the way the act and show how zood can change a people is amazing.

Van story penalty is interesting because I feel it’s gonna be looked at more in the next episode and I’ve seen a lot of people say that either she is a human and kraken hybrid or that her curse is to die at sea. The whole theory is by @jellythegelatinoussword and you should go read it because it’s amazing!

The eyeless hand has also piqued my interest since this episode, is Mordecestershire apart of the eyeless hand? And even so how did he get to Zood?