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2026-07-24 22:33 UTC
@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io Saw it with the fam. I hoped for a tinge of Fitzgerald's translation "Sing in me, Muse..." But if he was sticking to the "feminist" translation, he missed the message. Circe's transformation of men to pigs was visually amazing. But part of the trick is Odysseus sleeps with her. His intentional unfaithfulness stands as an offense to his valuing of Persephone. And Circe knows that! We can have violence and body horror but we can't have our hero be unfaithful?
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@indythegeek@mastodon.mit.edu 2026-07-24 22:37
@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io And then to make Calypso a framing story instead of a complicated villain using Ody as a plaything? Compressing two of the most interesting female characters into one note tricks?