David French

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The SkyePod · French Friday: Nerdfest 2026 · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

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actual movie seems to be saying is defy the gods question mark and not defy the gods exhortation defy are you sure about this is this what you want to do and as i put it in my piece you can watch this unravel unfold matched

And you could imagine a natural law theorist just kind of nodding along. matched

Yeah, there are moral laws in the universe like there are physical laws in the universe. matched

And if you violate the moral laws, if you violate these universal binding obligations on humanity, there will be, not there may be, but there will be consequences. matched

And that's how I sort of began my piece is sort of, do you think moral laws exist in the sense that their violation carries a consequence in the same way that a violation of a physical law carries a consequence? matched

And I think the best way to describe my reaction to the movie was imagine you go to a movie and the tagline says, defy gravity. matched

And you go expecting to see people flying and soaring and all of this stuff. matched

Instead, you just see a bunch of people tumbling to their deaths. matched

Because if you defy gravity, you can't actually defy gravity. matched

We can temporarily do it through whatever, but gravity is gravity. matched

And this was, don't think of it as defy the gods, think of it as defy the moral law. matched

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Watch what happens. matched

And so in that sense, it felt like a very traditional small C conservative movie. matched

Yeah, exactly. matched

I think a lot of people focus on the fact that he's reunited with Penelope and he's sort of sailing off into the sunset happily, and he leaves his son on the throne, happy ending. matched

But he's not king. matched

He's not king anymore. matched

So he comes, he confesses, he sort of pays his penance, but then he's also an instrument of justice for the violation of the divine law by the suitors. matched

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