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Originally posted by Mort
I also liked the portrayal of Achilles – that guy must have had fun with the role.

I was annoyed that they left out the Patrocles plot concerning Achilles, and made Hector less than he should have been. Hector was a hero for whom the only equal was Achilles, and it was only Patrocles' death that spurred Achilles to confront him after his tiff with Agamemnon.

I was also quite amused to find out that the "political" reason for tension between the Greeks and the Trojans was Troy's contol of access to Byzantium.

Byzantium? A city that won't be founded for something like 1,500 years after Troy is destroyed? Umm, okay.

Another oddity was that Cassandra at one point was predicting the future course of the war for Helen. In her prediction she made several pronouncements about the fates of various heroes, Hector, Paris, Agamemnon, and so on. She specifically mentioned Ajax. Now, Ajax was an important hero, but he didn't seem to show up in this version anywhere else. I found it odd to include a specific reference to Ajax, more or less the 'sir-not-appearing-in-this-film" of the miniseries alongside Ulysses, Menelaus, and Hector.

Agamemnon being described as the "High King" of Greece was kind of silly too.