Don't tell me how it ends!

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Image of a Bluesky post: Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social: I do not have childcare and people are seeing the odyssey before I can see the odyssey and it's just so fucking rude. how dare you first of all. I will not know if he gets back home until next week. No spoilers please.

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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social: I do not have childcare and people are seeing the odyssey before I can see the odyssey and it’s just so fucking rude. how dare you first of all. I will not know if he gets back home until next week. No spoilers please.

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Felt the same way about ‘Titanic’ and “Lincoln.’

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I wonder how well it would work out if a filmmaker were to make a high-profile movie inspired and named after some well known myth or historical event like these, and then have it suddenly change to a blatant alternate ending a good chunk of the way through that goes completely the reverse of how it “should” go down. Something different enough that it was obvious they were doing this on purpose and weren’t just ignorant of the original story

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Bjorn beat me to it.

TV show Kaos did something like that. Zeus, Prometheus, Medusa et al in modern dress. They took the old myths and played around with them. Persephone actually loves Hades, for example.

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A few years ago I read a fantastic webnovel (more like an epic) called Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, where the main character lives through the events of the webnovel he’s just finished reading. Its universe involves recreating historical events and at some points he just throws caution to the wind and does the opposite of what’s supposed to happen

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spoiler for Tarantino movies

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and to a lesser extent Inglorious Basterds do this.

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