Episode Six List: Battle on the Beach
Observations. Random list:
1. There are Amazons? And they're women? Who look like runway models? I am learning so much about Greek Mythology by watching this series. (Or maybe I'm not. Maybe these brawny babes are a bit of a add-on to the original text...?) (Shrugs shoulders.)
2. Meanwhile in Troy, Helen is party to many slow, whispery, foreshadow-y type conversations with assorted members of the household. She is definitely not a shout-y person; I woulda yelled once or twice by now. (Note to self: Helen has a King and a Prince dueling for her.) (*considers speaking with a breath-y, quiet, indoor voice more often...)
3. Ajax and Menelaus have a chat about walls, women and war. The King is pining for his Mrs and can't understand why she didn't come running when he clearly won the duel. He won! She was watching! Why oh why didn't she throw herself into his waiting, jacked-up arms?
Poor clueless boy; his girl wants more than muscles and money.
4. Odysseus looks battle-weary. He wants to go home. It's a testament to the strength of The Bro Code that he stays to fight another day for a King who is losing the plot. Agamemnon is coming undone. His conversation with Briseis? Is twisted. Has he lost all humanity? And Achilles? SO stubborn. The Greek camp is a bit of a hot mess ...
5. And then, when there's 15 minutes left in the episode, all hell breaks loose. ALL HELL, oozing everywhere.
S P O I L E R A L E R T:
The gods have been meddling again, and Paris is alive. (!!) He leaves the wilderness, lets himself in to the city, has a quickie with Helen before gathering up an army of ten (of the most alive men in Troy) to attack the Greeks on the Beach. (Seeing Achilles is still sulking in his tent to prove a point, the supplies are undefended, just waiting for someone to swoop in.)
Bells ring, arrows fly, swords swing, fire burns, blood spurts, heads roll and people die. Jane Austen did not write this love story. Patroklus, wearing Achille's armour, is killed by Hector just as Andromache gives birth to their son back in Troy. SO much happening in the dark, all involving much spurting blood. A long awaited SON is born after years of infertility! Achilles' great love has been killed in battle! Emotional events.
But we just zipped through them like speed racers. There is just no time to get all the feels sorted before the showdown between Hector and Achilles takes place. AND THAT? Is heartbreaking. Saddest scene so far - Achilles driving away, pulling a bleeding Hector through the sand. Insulting. Disrespectful. Inhumane. Unimaginable pain for those who desperately love him.
I have no more words.
(Pssst. You totally should go watch this episode right now. I mean it. Everyone was acting their guts out and It Is Awesome. WELL DONE Louis, Bella, Jonas, Johnny, Joseph, David, David, David, Chloe, Tom, Garth, Carl, Amy, Aimee-Ffion, Frances and so on. )
1. There are Amazons? And they're women? Who look like runway models? I am learning so much about Greek Mythology by watching this series. (Or maybe I'm not. Maybe these brawny babes are a bit of a add-on to the original text...?) (Shrugs shoulders.)
2. Meanwhile in Troy, Helen is party to many slow, whispery, foreshadow-y type conversations with assorted members of the household. She is definitely not a shout-y person; I woulda yelled once or twice by now. (Note to self: Helen has a King and a Prince dueling for her.) (*considers speaking with a breath-y, quiet, indoor voice more often...)
3. Ajax and Menelaus have a chat about walls, women and war. The King is pining for his Mrs and can't understand why she didn't come running when he clearly won the duel. He won! She was watching! Why oh why didn't she throw herself into his waiting, jacked-up arms?
Poor clueless boy; his girl wants more than muscles and money.
4. Odysseus looks battle-weary. He wants to go home. It's a testament to the strength of The Bro Code that he stays to fight another day for a King who is losing the plot. Agamemnon is coming undone. His conversation with Briseis? Is twisted. Has he lost all humanity? And Achilles? SO stubborn. The Greek camp is a bit of a hot mess ...
5. And then, when there's 15 minutes left in the episode, all hell breaks loose. ALL HELL, oozing everywhere.
S P O I L E R A L E R T:
The gods have been meddling again, and Paris is alive. (!!) He leaves the wilderness, lets himself in to the city, has a quickie with Helen before gathering up an army of ten (of the most alive men in Troy) to attack the Greeks on the Beach. (Seeing Achilles is still sulking in his tent to prove a point, the supplies are undefended, just waiting for someone to swoop in.)
Bells ring, arrows fly, swords swing, fire burns, blood spurts, heads roll and people die. Jane Austen did not write this love story. Patroklus, wearing Achille's armour, is killed by Hector just as Andromache gives birth to their son back in Troy. SO much happening in the dark, all involving much spurting blood. A long awaited SON is born after years of infertility! Achilles' great love has been killed in battle! Emotional events.
But we just zipped through them like speed racers. There is just no time to get all the feels sorted before the showdown between Hector and Achilles takes place. AND THAT? Is heartbreaking. Saddest scene so far - Achilles driving away, pulling a bleeding Hector through the sand. Insulting. Disrespectful. Inhumane. Unimaginable pain for those who desperately love him.
I have no more words.
(Pssst. You totally should go watch this episode right now. I mean it. Everyone was acting their guts out and It Is Awesome. WELL DONE Louis, Bella, Jonas, Johnny, Joseph, David, David, David, Chloe, Tom, Garth, Carl, Amy, Aimee-Ffion, Frances and so on. )
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