Victor Creed has never been an idiot, he used his Immortality to do menial things like studying and, as the scene shows, update on technology and its uses.
#TheOdyssey was absolute ass. Boring. The characters were either wasted or miscast completely (two in particular we all know who they are). The dialogue is hilariously bad due to the modern tone.
But, my #1 gripe with the movie is Christopher Nolan. I think...(Cont)
In Texas they told me to stop at Buc-ee's for gas.
I have been to shrines. I have stood in temples that took two hundred years to build.
I was not prepared for the gas station.
There were one hundred and twenty fuel pumps.
I counted them because I did not believe them.
A man beside me was filling a truck the size of my first apartment, and he was not filling it because it was empty.
He was filling it because he was here, and here is where a man fills things.
Inside was a hall so vast I lost the horizon.
A wall of jerky. A wall of fudge I did not know the country produced.
A brisket sandwich handed to me by a man in a beaver costume.
And I want to be clear, the beaver is not a mascot.
The beaver is a saint.
The people speak of him the way my grandmother spoke of the mountain behind her house.
And the bathrooms.
I had been warned about the bathrooms and I had dismissed the warning as the pride of a loud people.
I was wrong to dismiss it.
The bathrooms are famous across the whole state and they have earned it.
I have slept in worse hotels. I nearly bowed upon entering.
A janitor was polishing the floor with the devotion of a man tending a garden he loved, and when I thanked him he said "welcome in," which I have since learned is what Texas says instead of hello, and also instead of I am glad you exist.
I went in for gas. I was inside for ninety minutes.
I came out with fudge, a shirt printed with a joke I do not fully understand, forty dollars of jerky, and a feeling I can only describe as having been to church.
I did not need any of it.
I needed all of it.
I have walked through the great cathedrals of the old world. I lit no candle there.
I lit no candle at Buc-ee's either.
But I did fill the truck.
And I understand now that in Texas, this is the same thing.
This actually happened with me watching The Faraway Paladin. MC would easily be labeled a heretic, in comes this big, fat, old head of church with a permanent scowl and bad attitude. Was expecting the usual flavor of either he's working with the bad guys, or he's just personally greedy or lustful, or something that we've all seen a thousand times.
Instead he was a legit devout man and took all he was doing very seriously, hence the scowl, and accepted the MC once he saw him as an ally of The Light or whatever their source was. I was expecting another Shield Hero, but got something that's so rare I don't recall another example.
Past Eunhwa is your clingy desperate soldier wife.
Current Eunhwa is your mellowed senior soldier wife.
(Who doesn't speak much intense lines anymore but still loves you dearly)
Playing Rogue Trader helped me understand why the imperium is the way it is better than any novel. Every time I tried to apply my world morals to it, there would be unforeseen suffering caused by it down the line. And this would keep happening until I started playing by that universes rules, not my own then things started making sense. I started adapting and being able to predict outcomes by playing by it's rules. Psykers don't have to be evil to cause evil or untold damage and you don't put them down because you hate them or even for any cruelty. Often its because they can't control themselves and will eventually end up killing thousands of people.
When a planet threw me a parade I demanded the lower classes got front row seats because why wouldn't I. I wasn't born into their world, wasn't 'brainwashed' right so I can be nice. I was bringing my views in with me and in doing so they were front row seat to a chaos invasion caused just to get at me. They were closest to me because I wanted to be nice without thinking, without being logical, without seeing ten steps ahead and it got them all killed as collateral, it got the guardsmen distracted dealing with tons of civilians, where they would have been much further away from the danger and would have had a greater chance of escape had I just acted more like an imperial ruler and kept them away.
My favourite part of the game is how it teaches you, you are living and playing by their universes rules not your own and to protect humanity it needs you to be more ruthless. You start genuinely sacrifice thousands to save billions because you have to and chaos really is everywhere. The nature of their universe is unforgiving thanks to chaos, humanity can't become some noble bright empire people say they intentionally 'refuse' to be just to be evil (wrong) whilst chaos and the warp is bleeding into reality. Any person really can let it in, any person can cause a chaos incursion costing billions. It's corrupting influence is everywhere, in every dark corner and it needs constant vigilance and inquisition just to hold it back.
You begin to understand why the imperium functions the way it does when you're lacking any current way to deal with the warp as it is. It's purely out of necessity. Even if it's just a suspicion of corruption, the outcome if you leave it compared to executing a handful of potentially innocent people is untold amounts of human suffering. It's funny Tau always talk about the greater good, when that's what most of the imperiums calculous is built on. It's easy to be an advanced society when you have no connection to the warp and your people can't become corrupted, conduits and portals for it. As soon as Tau encountered the true horrors of the warp their entire fourth sphere turned imperium on each other and the tau that returned had the same outlook the imperials had because that's what the chaos infested universe needs you to become to survive it.
But people see it purely from our worlds morality and point of view and just see cruel monsters.