🐋 July 23 is World Whale and Dolphin Day.
...and yet, a certain Pal has stolen the spotlight recently!
In the words of our players...
FLY! FLY, FAT BIRD!
Favorite part from watching The Odyssey last night was when they panned to the beach and revealed that Odysseus had been on the planet of the horses all along
The end of The Odyssey is literally about coming home to massacre all the strangers who have taken advantage of your hospitality and taking back what is rightfully yours, and the entire journey is also constantly just strange things showing up that often want to kill him and his men, typically by lulling them into false senses of security.
Even as warped and subverted Nolan’s version is from the original, his movie doesn’t at all communicate the need to be hospitable and kind to strangers. That doesn’t actually come through in his telling at all. I don’t even know how he thinks it does. The whole line is quite confusing given what he says and what’s actually shown on screen.
After watching The Odyssey it's painfully obvious Christopher Nolan knew the "nobody" pun would work but he rewrites Odysseus so much that it wouldn't work for his character. His omission of the pun has nothing to do with it translating into modern dialogue.
Nolan strips Odysseus of his clinically psychotic hubris and replaces it with trauma™. Can't really stab Polyphemus in the eye and then yell out from the boat, "Sorry I did that to you, bro. I got a lot of mental health issues I'm still working out!"