Jonathan Lane

Let the games begin! (Once the downloads have finished)

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

As my carefully-configured Coffee Table of the Ersatz Classicist will attest, I am fully qualified to launch flaming urns of cultural opprobrium as I see fit. I shall don proudly the Bronze Panoply of the Warrior of Culture! #Odyssey #greece 🔥🔥🔥🔥🏺

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

@artwithinpod If that is the case, then I gladly disavow the 'official policy', if such a thing even exists. It's quite a broad church, in reality, much like the left.
I appreciate that you don't agree with the opposition's politics; but, please, at least credit us with some intelligence.

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

@pensandpoison The only reasonable solution now is for everyone to take their turn at interpreting the previous person's version of the Odyssey, with a reset to the original text provided by a classical scholar every dozen or so iterations.

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

@KnowledgeArchiv @kentbanishearl Homer's actual original text read 'Ludos terminum, hombre! Ludos terminum!'

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

@J0hnADouglas I had this idea a while back for a dystopian / post apocalyptic version of Birmingham in which (for as yet undecided Contrived Plot Reason) canal barges and waterways have become the main mode of transport in Britain. Sort of Brass Birmingham meets Mad Max. 😄

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

@pastarchive 'You like it, Wilhelm? My other is a flamberge!'

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

@Joshua_kwan @Gingerblast All the projectile weapons in that combat were imbued with knockback and stagger. The scene where Odysseus dropped in on Hephaestus and maxxed out his wargear was cut from the final edit. 😄🏹

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

@fandompulse It's obligatory for an academic in this position to take exception to at least a few aspects of the production. If this garners Oscars, I'd like to see her invited up to the podium to deliver a speech. 😄

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

@westwindcomics It needs to scale down. If you're making a story supposedly grounded in 'authenticity', then throwing millions of dollars, big names and overwhelming, saturation-level CGI is not the way to do it. Some stories probably just need to stay animated.

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

@RonFilipkowski Apart from the entire nation of Egypt, which banned the film on the grounds that she was Jewish; as well as countless historians and non-historians taking odds with the casting ever since. Also, Cleopatra wasn't married to Richard Burton!

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

@DieinPlace Fins can only get better! 🚀🚀🚀

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

@TheMekon_Venus Nothing provides a more perfect metaphor for the vast waste of time, money, resources and artistic talent this company and genre represents than the image of Patrick Stewart being engulfed by a supernova.

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

Septimius Severus. A diverse Roman Emperor (one of several). He even has a name recognisable by oblique inclusion in popular culture. Now go on, and make a movie about him.

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

'This age... is the Middle Age! We live in the Middle Ages!'
'How do you know that, Sire?'
'Because everything is... a bit 'mid'!'

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

@CountDankulaTV Synth music (as in proper, fully instrumental) did a sort of reverse Brexit and went off to Continental Europe; we ended up with Britpop, Cool Britannia, all that malarkey. Also, everything '90s was 'extreme' when it generally wasn't, really. The '80s endures, for good reason.

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

Expecting the modern incarnation of Hollywood to produce a decent, faithful adaptation of a classical Greek myth is a lot like going to your local garage, paying them a few million bucks and asking them to create a fully-working, realistic replica of a Sherman tank.

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

@pureMetatron This is probably the reason that a 'barbarian' faction is depicted wearing steel plate armour. It's not a dumb mistake - it's an intentional visual clue that 'civilisation' in the form of bronze, associated with the aristocracy and Greek heroism (boo!) is about to be surpassed.

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

@JANUSZCZAK I discovered Renaissance Unchained the other day, on Amazon, and have been thoroughly enjoying watching it. My immediate thought was 'this feels very BBC4'; then I rewound to the beginning and realised it is!

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

@UbermenschMind They really had that level of dental care back in ancient times? I suppose that's why Leonidas grinned when Xerxes threatened to blot out the sun with Persian arrows. 🏹🏹🏹

[Jonathan Lane @AbnonTha]

@Azreal51265232 I really want to see a decent, high budget classical naval combat game. Ideally a TBS, but realistically probably an RTS. The visual representation of trireme combat in this was simply breathtaking; it would be fantastic to see that in a strategy game.