71. Legendairy Role Play

So, I mean, every week I'm going to ask, is there anything good going on in the Smutverse this week? I think yes.

Nice.

That's never the answer.

This is fantastic.

Tell me all about it.

So Christopher Nolan's Adaptation of the Odyssey finally released and and it naturally has caused a stir.

From the three-hour runtime to the casting of a Black woman as Helen of Troy, criticisms of the movie based on a 3,000-year-old fable are plentiful.

However, I would argue that this is the exact right role of media to get us thinking critically.

And while there are plenty of bullshit criticisms, I say again that people were mad that a Black woman was cast.

In what way is that important to anything? But I digress.

There are plenty of liberties that Nolan takes with this adaptation that are not part of any of the translations we have of Homer's original work.

Discussing the merits of those changes and how they change the story for a modern audience is the best part of discourse.

And I, for one, have greatly enjoyed seeing the number of people who are declaring that they want to read more.

Pick up Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey, which was the first ever done by a woman and in theory is the one that Nolan based a lot of his adaptation on.

Or you can read Madeline Miller's works like Circe or The Song of Achilles, which is on my bookshelf behind me because I've been meaning to read it forever because I loved Circe and really wanted to read Song of Achilles.

But expand

your horizons.

Learn.

Argue.

It's the oldest pastime that humanity has, telling a story and discussing how it makes us feel.

I love this so much.

I don't love, and this happened with the live-action Little Mermaid, too.

Oh, yeah.

Where they're always upset if the hypothetical race is wrong.

But...