David French

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

And by defying the gods, I don't mean the literal Olympian gods because their existence in the movie is. matched

is really left open. matched

Odysseus has this vision of Athena, but is it really his conscience speaking to him? matched

Is it actually an Athena figure? matched

It's left very agnostic, but the consequences are not. matched

The consequences are horrific. matched

And you even see Odysseus lamenting matched

the conduct of the Trojan War and the use of the Trojan horse, which was his strategic idea. matched

And the movie flashes to the looting, the pillaging. matched

There's strong implication of rape in the destruction of Troy and the Trojan War. matched

And what the matched

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

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