Right. And then he got home, and to celebrate, he killed everyone. Party at Odysseus' house!

They were dicks! They deserved to die. They were really, really obnoxious houseguests.

"Welcome home, dude! Where's the k--GUCH! DUDE! YOU STABBED ME! WHAT THE FUCK, DUDE? NOT COOL!

I brought...you...Heineken...you bastard..."

Pfft. Odysseus didn't stab them. He shot them through the throat with arrows. There might've been a slight spearing or two as well.

Oh, yeah. Love. That's the most polite word for how I felt watching Derek Jacobi in that glorious coat.

::le sigh::

Oh yeah.

And Patrick Doyle's score is pure love. I got married to that music.

They were dicks! They deserved to die.

So kick them out of the house! Hell, he's the ruler of the city. Kick them out of the city. You know what's a crazy option? You AND YOUR SON having a nice big bloodbath.

At least Achilles was killing people for a reason.

Then there was the whole "dogs will eat their genitals" part.

OTOH Seamus Heaney wrote a great poem about it.

Head shot of Jacobi in The Coat: [link]

Achilles, what a heel!

This is cracking me up beyond all reason. I'm glad to know Sophia!

Also, Scrappy, I remember the very same Greek mythology book (and the companion volume on Norse mythology) and share the same abiding love.

I LOVED this book when I was a kid and it engendered a fascination with mythology. I still have a copy! [link]

I read that one in fourth grade, and loved it.

So kick them out of the house! Hell, he's the ruler of the city. Kick them out of the city. You know what's a crazy option? You AND YOUR SON having a nice big bloodbath.

Oh come on! They moved in and leeched off his estate for years, all the time making Helen's life a living hell. It'd be like MM and Pete and Sean and ND moved onto your couch for a decade to play Halo. You'd lose it too.

At least Achilles was killing people for a reason.

I don't know if being a petulant dick counts as a reason.

all the time making Helen's life a living hell.

Penelope.

It'd be like MM and Pete and Sean and ND moved onto your couch for a decade to play Halo.

Know what I'd do? (If I wasn't playing Halo with them.) MAKE THEM LEAVE. I have little use for Penelope either.

I don't know if being a petulant dick counts as a reason.

They were at war! Hector killed his boyfriend!

They did not just leech off his estate. They intended to force his wife to marry one of them, and take it entirely. And the alternative was not the threaten them and have them walk out quietly. It was to have them kill him, which they pretty obviously would have. On the other hand, none of that justifies killing the maidservants. That probably exceeded anything Achilles ever did for dickishness.