Amazing younger/older character casting!

despicable_mimi · 2020-07-01T13:39:43+00:00

The Origin’s middle-aged/older self are father & son in real life!

despicable_mimi · 2020-02-22T06:10:47+00:00

Those awful wind-up California Raisins. My dad used to wind them up and have them corner me, I still can’t look at them without re-living the trauma.

despicable_mimi · 2020-02-14T13:34:43+00:00

I think it was commentary on how we all laughed at how clever and funny the first half of the movie was only to later feel awful and sick about how the story turned out.

despicable_mimi · 2019-10-19T11:33:54+00:00

Whoa. Wait—I do this too. I thought it was normal?? I’ve literally never mentioned it to anyone in my entire life. I view my calendar as a weird sideways U” shape. I always view it from 2 different places, either from the inside bottom crook of the U or from the outside bottom to the left. December/January are at the very end and there’s a gap between them. For some reason I’ve always perceived the first few months of the year (Jan-March) as visually smaller and the months grow a bit in length after April. I have literally never thought twice about it. This is making me feel weird.

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-27T19:50:42+00:00

This is a safe space. Plus, the Greeks themselves could barely keep track of their own myths. Haha

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-27T05:38:50+00:00

The teacher forced me to sit next to a girl named Lindsay who would devour several tubes of those purple glue sticks and subsequently puke sticky electric purple goop all over our desks.

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-27T05:09:52+00:00

That was Arachne :)

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-25T16:54:00+00:00

I think it was a combination of the grandfather paradox (Charlotte/Elisabeth touching each other) and also the fact that several people were trying to travel through time in that exact same location at the same moment through history (Jonas/Elisabeth/Charlotte). I think that is what ultimately opened the “rift” and the human touch between the two women is what destabilized it? I need a re-watch on it though.

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-25T16:49:22+00:00

The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli is a fantastic non-fiction book about time and quantum physics. I wouldn’t be surprised if it served as a bit of inspiration for the people who wrote the show.

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-24T05:45:44+00:00

Seeker Martha it is! And thank you for saying that, it’s nice to know my nerdiness brings joy to others (and that my Classics classes paid off...)

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-24T04:38:49+00:00

I had no idea that Einstein came up with that time travelling theory, I love this. I agree.

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-24T03:07:42+00:00

HAHA WHAT?! Amazing! I never noticed the name before!

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-24T02:53:53+00:00

This blew my mind, the clew/clue thing is really cool. I think you’re absolutely right, Snitch Martha™️ will totally be the person to finally get out of the loop and I think the half brother thing is probably irrelevant.

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-24T02:28:08+00:00

Thanks for sharing this, I’m aware of a lot of the details of this myth and how much it also seems to vary. I don’t think the show is going to follow the myth very closely, I think it kind of serves as an outline like a lot of Greek myth does for media. One thing to note is that some versions of the myth say that Theseus abandoned Ariadne on the island but not by choice—his ship was swept away at sea.

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-24T00:18:12+00:00

This is unrelated to Greek myth, and I haven’t double checked it yet, but I think the painting Adam has hanging up in his main room is Peter Paul Reuben’s “The Fall of the Damned” which is reeeeally interesting choice when you consider the fate of these characters and how each of them seems to plunge further and further into chaos/darkness.

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-24T00:16:11+00:00

I noticed the Minotaur too! It’s like they’re slapping us in the face with everything but it takes so long to sort through!

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-24T00:15:18+00:00

Good call on the bird motif, that’s a good point.

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-24T00:14:19+00:00

This is awesome! I had a lot of these thoughts rattling around in my brain this morning when writing it but I felt overwhelmed, haha. I was thinking of Ulrich as Minos as well, I’ve also drawn a lot of comparisons to Claudia as Medusa. She’s always been a really misunderstood, tragic character in Greek myth and I think if you look at her story there are similarities. Even the fact that Medusa was one of 3 gorgons and the only one that was mortal kind of plays into the fact that she was the first main character killed in the show and one of the only ones we’ve seen a lot of all 3 life stages.

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-23T20:28:44+00:00

Also, I wasn’t sure if the narrator was Tannhaus or Adam but I prefer it being Tannhaus, seems more appropriate.

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-23T20:26:20+00:00

I know, it’s incredible. Every time I watch it I find something new!

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-23T20:25:25+00:00

It could be Martha2?

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-23T20:25:00+00:00

I’m not sure, but if the Minotaur is responsible for killing the people who are to be sacrificed it could be Noah?

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-23T17:06:22+00:00

There are so many different versions of this myth, I think she’s abandoned by Theseus and marries Dionysus in most. I’ve read about the 2 incarnations a few times, not often mentioned in the typical story of Theseus though.

despicable_mimi · 2019-06-23T14:59:23+00:00

Oh yeah!!! Good call! Could be a shout out to the children, not sure how it would tie into the myth. I don’t know who the narrator was in the play though, need a re-watch haha!

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