| 7:11p |
The ancients.
How come that for once I have lots of random things to talk about, and LogJam is b0rked (I updated it at the weekend and it doesn't work properly with proxies).
Over dinner we started watching a program about the Romans - done by this really cool guy who is great at making things really easy to understand. However two things have really annoyed me. The first was that he said he found it strange that a Roman villa is more technologically advanced than a Tudor mansion. How is this any surprise at all? And if he's going to mention this he could at least explain why the Tudor's weren't so far advanced for those that don't know anything about how the Catholic church burnt and hid away lots of the knowledge of the Greeks and Romans, and how the Renaissance period was the discovery of such information.
The second thing that annoyed me was a little more minor, much like my dislike of the use of the term "hell" in Gladiator. Apparently the figure in the centre of a mosaic was the "God" Orpheus. Hmmm. Now, please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Orpheus half-muse (being the son of Calliope) and half, well, presumably human. That doesn't exactly make him a God. And if he were a God I'm sure he wouldn't have had half the problem with recovering Euridice. (Excuse me for any butchering of spelling but it's been a long time since I studied ancient history and mythology).
My other current stream of thought is back to Highlander. Horton was "explaining" why immortals are such abominations - saying humans should be free from them, and I was considering how good a thing it was that Horton never knew about Kronos as the latter would have soon "proved" the former to be right. That said Kronos would have killed Horton pretty darn quickly if they'd met.
But of course, that brings me to the "To Be"/"Not To Be" episodes, the final episodes of the series where they show what life would be like without Duncan MacLeod. A timeline where Kronos and Horton have met, and are at war. Of course, things are a lot different in this "world" and so things happen differently than they would have if the two had met in the normal timeline.
I'm really talking a load of unphilosophical nonsense aren't I.
The other thing I was thinking of was the worst death of the series. I think it has to be, without a doubt, the death of Phil Akin's character (who I think was called Charlie but my mind could be playing tricks on me). It was just so tragic because he found out what Duncan was at the very end. I cried bucketloads for that death. I can't remember what they played at the time, whether it was Dust In The Wind or Who Wants To Live Forever - I imagine it was the former. Both of those songs are hard to listen to without feeling at least a little upset.
I think I should be doing things, being productive, either online or off, but I'm still not really in the mood. The anticipation, the uncertainty. It makes it hard for me to focus on anything. Two and a half weeks. That's all I have left. It's scary. I'm truly afraid.
Current Mood: blah
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