03-11-2007, 01:38 PM
All I've been saying from the start, Jona, is summed up this way:
Beware of falling into the "Logical Fallacy of the Obvious"--"He said thus and so, so obviously he meant...." In my experience, most of the time it isn't obvious at all until someone says it should have been, then the followers will all agree they'd seen it all along.
OTOH, I don't know the mindset or predisposition of the writers, so I really can't conclusively say. It seems to me, though, that they're portraying the 300 as larger-than-life heroes, and the hordes as the "bad guys, evil, scary nightmare figures", but maybe not because of their ancient nationality, just because they're the bad guys in the comic flick. I could be wrong, of course. It happens more often than I like to admit.
(BTW: I think both the Persians AND the Greeks wore perfumes, although probably not on the battlefield after a couple of days. It wasn't uncommon then, or now. Most folks don't mind the scent of a nice after shave lotion, you know? That's very likely discouraged in modern armies on the battlefield, nowadays, to prevent giving away positions.)
Beware of falling into the "Logical Fallacy of the Obvious"--"He said thus and so, so obviously he meant...." In my experience, most of the time it isn't obvious at all until someone says it should have been, then the followers will all agree they'd seen it all along.
OTOH, I don't know the mindset or predisposition of the writers, so I really can't conclusively say. It seems to me, though, that they're portraying the 300 as larger-than-life heroes, and the hordes as the "bad guys, evil, scary nightmare figures", but maybe not because of their ancient nationality, just because they're the bad guys in the comic flick. I could be wrong, of course. It happens more often than I like to admit.
(BTW: I think both the Persians AND the Greeks wore perfumes, although probably not on the battlefield after a couple of days. It wasn't uncommon then, or now. Most folks don't mind the scent of a nice after shave lotion, you know? That's very likely discouraged in modern armies on the battlefield, nowadays, to prevent giving away positions.)
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
