David French

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

So one of the early promotional posters has the severed head of Athena, the statue of an Athena idol, severed head, laying on the ground, and just the words, defy the gods. matched

So, and then we began to see this sort of marketing throughout in the buildup, defy the gods. matched

And you know, when you're watching it, you think, matched

oh, this is going to be interesting. matched

This is Odysseus just sort of charting his own path, going his own way. matched

And we're going to watch that all unfold. matched

And let me put it this way. matched

I was going to see this movie no matter what. matched

They could have had a tagline that says, The Odyssey, this movie will suck. matched

And I would go, I'm still going to this movie. matched

As long as Christopher Nolan is directing it, exactly. matched

And so, but I was so interested by that Defy the Gods. matched

Defy the Gods, it was a declaration. matched

So then I watched the movie. matched

And yes, there was a lot of defying the gods, a lot of it. matched

And very specifically filtered through this specific concept called that they refer to as Zeus's law, which was sort of a version of the golden rule and sort of a version of a more ancient rule. matched

that was very directed towards hospitality, that you entertain a stranger because you might be entertaining gods, small g gods, unawares. matched

But it really, in the Nolan version of it, kept kind of morphing and growing into something akin to, adjacent to, in the same neighborhood as the golden rule. matched

And you just see serial violation of it after serial violation after serial violation with absolutely catastrophic consequences, just catastrophic. matched

And so people are defying the gods left and right. matched

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