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Just discovered that some British people (in HK) pronounce "Lamma Island" (in HK) like "Llama Island".

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"I feel silly TDDing this, it's just a trivial change"

*test catches a ridiculous mistake*

Another day, another good habit reinforced for the umpteenth time.

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"Pokemon!", the random little boy next to me suddenly says, excitedly.
"Pokemon", I confirm, calmly.

clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 · 4d

The most interesting things about this version of the story are the things that are original to it, and go beyond the myths, and that's why it left me a bit wanting. The Sea People reference is the on...

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So TL;DR: Nolan's Odyssey is competently executed and does interesting things, but in the end feels a bit dry.

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That said, it also feels a bit like it's going through the motions. Maybe it's a drawback to have heard these stories in so many forms before. "Ok, now we're at Polyphemos's island, time for that scen...

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The most interesting things about this version of the story are the things that are original to it, and go beyond the myths, and that's why it left me a bit wanting. The Sea People reference is the one I can think of right now, but I know there was more. Checking the boxes of the source material and all its adaptations gets in the way of those things.

Ooh, one more thing that was good, the language. The dialog is in modern English, not archaic, but it feels right, not overdone.

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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 · 4d

I didn't not like the movie. There is a lot to like about it. It may look like the casting is just "bring in some expensive names", but it's not, the casting is genuinely top notch. The actors are fa...

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That said, it also feels a bit like it's going through the motions. Maybe it's a drawback to have heard these stories in so many forms before. "Ok, now we're at Polyphemos's island, time for that scene". I can't put my finger on it, but while some moments had strong emotional beats, some also felt like burning time. Not filling time, the movie is not longer than it needs to be, but something else, transport between the heartfelt scenes.

My strongest word in support of the movie is that it did make me curious about the source material -- I have it all through cultural osmosis in broad strokes, but we get to know more about several characters, and now I'm curious how much of that is Nolan and Co, and how much is straight from the original myths and from Homer.

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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 · 4d

What if Odysseus looked like Jason Bourne, and felt like Oppenheimer about his legacy? Nolan's #odyssey answers this question, while asking many more.

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I didn't not like the movie. There is a lot to like about it.

It may look like the casting is just "bring in some expensive names", but it's not, the casting is genuinely top notch. The actors are famous, but they are more than pretty faces, they are very good at what they do and they were hand-picked for the roles for good reason.

It's very impressive that the movie:
- Manages to bring personal emotional moments to millennia-old stories that we have often heard in an epic and impersonal form, and those moments feel right, they're not glued on.
- Ties in rather recent historical knowledge about the Sea People and the Bronze Age collapse.
- Manages to take a story, the morality lessons of which make no sense to the modern mind, but reframe it in a way that does, and it works.

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What if Odysseus looked like Jason Bourne, and felt like Oppenheimer about his legacy?

Nolan's #odyssey answers this question, while asking many more.

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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 · 5d

Someone came out and joined me, and things became complicated. I was making things take less space in storage, and was explaining in a frustrated manner that no no, these things cannot be put together...

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In a scene even before that, I was Elphaba, maybe in a real-life setting, maybe in a play, it was something between. I had real magic and could levitate and do some other things. It was some final confrontation between me and some other magic user.

This is the first part of the dream that I remember, and it may have been inspired by the kid's performance two days ago, where Elphaba was one of the characters.

clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 · 5d

In an earlier scene, I was in a home where I had some level of family relation to the people inside. I was trying to hide something from them, something I had done or was doing on the regular, don't r...

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Someone came out and joined me, and things became complicated. I was making things take less space in storage, and was explaining in a frustrated manner that no no, these things cannot be put together, but these things can be put inside this thing, but then this thing needs to go above this one or it will be crushed.

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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 · 5d

Just before this, the same scene had been a computer game in isometric perspective, and I had been navigating a maze, going from square to square. One wrong step and I would have fallen 20 m into a ge...

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In an earlier scene, I was in a home where I had some level of family relation to the people inside. I was trying to hide something from them, something I had done or was doing on the regular, don't remember what, not sure if magic was involved.

I went out into the corridor outside, maybe into a storage room, wanted to rearrange something or other, make something less obvious.

Some boots were involved. There was also something about the thermostat and the temperature of the room inside.

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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 · 5d

One witch was complaining that the way her magic worked, her magical rings were embedded in her arm's flesh, so changing rings was very painful and time-consuming. If one ring didn't work, she couldn'...

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Just before this, the same scene had been a computer game in isometric perspective, and I had been navigating a maze, going from square to square. One wrong step and I would have fallen 20 m into a geyser below.

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