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It’s always Achilles that, Odysseus this. But no one mentions Diomedes!

Dude was without a doubt the strongest fighter on the field while Achilles was having his temper tantrum. Without him the Greeks would’ve lost ten times over. Lowkey he is more of a protagonist in the Iliad than Achilles.

Achilles is like a one time use nuke that goes off in the very end, but Diomedes was there the whole time doing his best next to Odysseus and Agamemnon trying to keep the Greeks from losing. The dude battled it out with deities when he had to.

He carried.

My roommate never closes her door - ever. Whether she is awake or asleep, day or night. Now she has started complaining that I wake her up when I leave my room or close the door / go to the bathroom. I’ve tried to be a little more careful with the noise but honestly I don’t bang the doors or do anything unreasonably loud - it’s just that sometimes I need to use the bathroom in the morning.

Is it reasonable for me to suggest that she closes her door?

The dialogue in this movie is crisp as hell. It genuinely contains some of my favourite lines in all of cinema. Like…

“It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”

“Try it.”

Or…

“People are smart, they can handle it.”

“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.”

Just absolute gold (backed up by fantastic acting of course). Overall, it has a lot of these moments that feel like they don’t really belong in an action-comedy blockbuster about aliens - in a good way! The whole movie really didn’t have any right being as good as it was

Im from mainland Europe, and we use the term dating fairly casually. Like, you would ask someone on a date fairly openly and it wouldn’t be all that serious. You’d just go out together and see where things go.

But ever since moving to the UK, it seems like people are terrified to actually call something a date or to openly ask someone out (in an explicitly romantic way). Like, it feels like people have a different feeling about what it means to „date“ someone. It seems very serious here.

Is this true? What could be the reason for this?

As above - broadband in my area can only give you 24 mb/s max and that’s absolutely nothing in a household of 3 with WfH.

So, is it worth switching to a mobile router with either 4G or 5G connection?

Really the WiFi can’t get any worse right now - I usually only get 2-3 mb/s on my devices and it frequently disconnects. So anything above that will be an improvement

I don’t know if there’s something wrong with me or if this is common experience.

But sometimes when I fall for a girl, I have both the desire to be with her as well as kind of wanting to be her as well. Like, I fall for people who I admire, who I think are cool, have a cool style etc… and there’s like definite romantic attraction. But there’s also this part of me that’s like - „oh I’d really like to be like you as well“. And sometimes after the relationship that’s often what I take away from it - like adopting some of the qualities and styles that I really liked about the person.

So I don’t know if that’s healthy or not. And I’m not sure what to make of it.

Is this a common experience? Or is something wrong with me?

This is my first time watching the show.

I feel like Patrick changed from S1 to S2. I feel like he became a little darker and more provocative in S2. He has fewer moments of sweetness and more of him causing chaos and being relentless.

Was this an intentional change?

It has the best arc for Tommy, it has the best relationship with him and Grace, it explores his PTSD the best (with the tunnellers behind his bedroom wall).

The scene where Grace sings for him and he‘s just like… „already broken“ - fantastic. The scene where Freddie runs to Ada after the baby was born with that heartbreaking music - art. The scene where Tommy is all „are you laughing at my brother?“ - so calculated.

It’s the season where we really get to see the contrast between who Tommy was (a sweet, animal loving boy) and who he is now - a cold, Machiavellian gangster. We see how the war impacted everyone in the most personal way - with Danny wizzbang‘s tragic story and his repeated breakdowns.

It’s just such an emotionally sensitive piece of TV, that I feel the other seasons don’t measure up to. The other seasons may have better action, better villains, more compelling stories - but in terms of character development, sensitivity and gravitas, S1 takes the cake for.

I find myself drawn to unity‘s story every once in a while. Especially when I go through heartbreak.

Arno is a tragic character. Pretty much everyone around him dies. By the end, he is all alone.

His love for Elise was pure and strong. She (kind of) loved him back. But not quite in the same way that he loved her. He would have done anything for her. He would have given it all up. But for her, Arno was not worth her revenge. He was not a priority in the same way that she was for him. And ultimately, she dies choosing revenge over him.

And Arno is left alone. Picking up the pieces. Grieving for someone who, in the end, did not choose him - not fully at least. When he does that final leap of faith, it’s not a triumph. It’s just acceptance and grief.