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Similar, except more ridiculously I got stuck on Natty Bumppo and couldn't even remember the name Hawkeye. I knew obviously Natty Bumppo was not going to be the right answer but I also felt slightly vindicated to at least have hit upon the right author. I had it in my mind only because I had watched Jerry Seinfeld's ludicrous poptart movie in which Amy Schumer plays Post.

I was surprised that Ken accepted just Johnson for the president when there was no timeline or other apparent justification that it could only be LBJ and not Andrew. I felt bad for Amanda with all of her wrong guesses after a middling start. 1893 seemed early for Chanel who didn't even cross my mind. Luckily I pictured Coca Cola and settled on that quite quickly. Same except for Ken Follett. I was annoyed with myself for not thinking of suet.

The part where they opened with how hilarious "dozen" is reminded me of what annoyed me about the first George Washington sketch -- the premise that somehow these strange things were "American" and not originally British.

I got it because of the Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch. The audio version I listened to included the line "would somebody shut that bloody bouzouki player up!" or something similar.

I'm very familiar with the myths, have read Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Vergil, Ovid, etc. It's all in the presentation and this series wasn't working for me.

That is certainly a fair interpretation but since they have not (as far as I have watched) shown us Cassandra's story explicitly that feels to me like it is missing.

Sarah Sherman had a bit part on General Hospital recently. https://www.soapoperanetwork.com/2024/09/general-hospital-saturday-night-live-sarah-sherman-etiquette-coach

So clearly there is something up with multiple people as well as Zeus receiving the same prophecy. And of course there is the oddity that the show is using the spelling KAOS rather than CHAOS in both its title and in the written prophecy. (In Greek, since CH is one letter, chaos would be only 4 letters: ΧΑΟΣ.) I have stopped partway through episode 4 but I think we know from Prometheus that somehow multiple people will come together to possibly dethrone Zeus. After seeing a mention of how Caeneus, Ariadne, Orpheus, and Eurydice seem to be those humans, I can't shake the idea that KAOS could be an acronym made up of the humans' initials, even though only Ariadne and Orpheus match exactly and Caeneus and Riddy would have to be changed or forced in.

I don't know if I am going to keep watching. I abandoned this episode in the middle of Riddy's conversation with Caeneus after they bailed on the divers' party. I don't understand why if the Fates hold a contest for living people to try to go to the underworld to get back a deceased loved one and both Anatole and Orpheus were given permission, Dionysus thinks that only Orpheus will succeed and Poseidon knows that will spell doom. If they stop Orpheus someone still has to stop Anatole. Orpheus agreeing to work with Anatole and then betraying him felt repetetive. I get it, nobody is trustworthy. For a moment I assumed that Orpheus was calling Dionysus Dennis so I was confused when that turned out to be the cat's name.

The fact that Eurydice had decided to leave Orpheus makes me dread how their story is going to end more than the standard version. Knowing she wasn't happy makes his love seem creepy rather than romantic. Maybe they will come back to it later but I feel like I wish we had more background on Orpheus' fame and Riddy's unhappiness. In all the myths I can think of babies who are supposed to be killed are miraculously saved (Zeus in particular gestating Athene in his head or Dionysus in his thigh; lots of others like Oedipus or Perseus who were left for dead as infants because of prophecies but were saved and grew to adulthood) so I was surprised that Zeus apparently obeyed Hera and killed it in this case. Maybe he furtively did something we couldn't see and the baby will turn out later to have survived after all.

This series is probably too brutal for me. I am watching because of the Greek myth theme but I feel like it reminds me of things like Mrs Davis (which I loved) and Good Omens (which I liked) and not really getting there. The voiceover (which is a technique I am not against in principle) often feels intrusive. I already didn't trust Minos when the Trojans were returned home so I wasn't shocked when Cassandra went off. I wish that they hadn't decided to present her as filthy and apparently mentally ill only because it feels too obvious to explain why no one ever believes her.

It's noticeable that the focus in the trailer is Lorne. Hardly any of the castmembers are shown speaking. I don't know how much of the cast and the sketches the movie will spotlight. I'm thinking of it like Gosford Park, where I had to let go of the expectation that the conversation of the Upstairs people needed to be audible and intelligible as the Downstairs people came more into focus.

Probably irrelevant, but upside down in a calculator it would look like OhhELL

I enjoyed this segment about the theme music for the show when I heard it on the radio this morning and didn't realise until the wrap-up that they were replaying it from a year ago. The composer Siddhartha Khosla discusses the theme. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/only-murders-theme-1.6934087

Surely until relatively recently Streep would have fallen outside the "classic" film mandate. I thought they used to be quite strict about movies being 25+ years old and was occasionally surprised as as got older and the films seemed to get newer but when I did the math they were in fact that old. But recently I think I have seen some movies within the 25 years -- at least I was shocked to see the 2001 Moulin Rouge when they honoured Nicole Kidman. Also a Trollope fan here.