Episode 28- [S6]- The Odyssey (2026)

Well, what was your first impression of the first 40 minutes? First thought.

Who wrote

this? Who wrote this? That was my impression.

Um, I told the story last week about Chris Nolan's son kind of hounding him about the Oscars and, Dad, you didn't win for writing.

And it's like, that's...

So painfully true.

You know, and you pointed out when we discussed earlier today that I'm certainly the type to nitpick about things that, you know, maybe aren't an issue, i.e. they weren't speaking in any sort of accent and were going straight American modern, which for me felt weird.

Now, again, I've been programmed.

by, you know, big storytelling to...

Yeah, big storytelling.

Big storytelling.

Yeah, no, Hollywood has given us the impression that everybody in any period piece speaks with a slightly stilted English accent and in very proper English.

uh, and, and addresses people very formally and everything is very formal, right? Uh, that may or may not be true of the time period of this certainly.

And Greek is, uh, you know, doesn't sound anything like English anyway.

So what does it matter? And who knows whether they said dad, father, mom, mother, you know, all those kinds of things.

Now I get it.

I get it.

We have been programmed to hear a period pieces a specific way, and it's all very kind of Shakespearean and it's, and it's kind of like doing, um, but given that you're not going with the kind of poetic nature of the writing anyway, necessarily, uh, you know, like to me, this anachronistic argument doesn't really make any sense.

Um, it, you know, it just doesn't, it doesn't quite compute.

It's like, yeah, this would be in Greek and it would, they would have weird ass Greek accents.

Uh, and they

should have all done Greek accents.

That would be wild.

That would be wild.

Um, may that might've even come out in the racist game.