TracerBullet42
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Oh...and the guy fighting with the BIG hammer was cool, too...
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shilsen
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Thanee said:The cool thing about Achilles and especially the fight between Achilles and Hector was, that he seemed so extremely superior to everyone else (even Hector, who was basically superior to everyone else, tho he had some trouble with Ajax). He just was completely ahead in terms of fighting prowess (Achilles would have beaten Ajax without dropping a sweat, much like the guy in the beginning). Very cool.
Nah, Hector just got lucky with the big guy
I was actually hoping that Ajax was going to hurl a rock at Hector at some point, just because it would be a nice allusion. In the Iliad, Homer is explicit about the fact that Ajax is a better warrior than Hector, and in both of their one-on-one encounters Ajax ends up hurling a stone at Hector, flattening him once (Apollo puts him back on his feet) and knocking him out the other time.
Hector was just so LG.
You mean Lawful Stupid, right?
El Ravager
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shilsen said:
Interesting you would say that. To me, in the movie Hector seemed like the only sane person in Troy.
Chain Lightning
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I think Shilsen meant that ... usually players that tend to pick LG as an alignment end up playing it like 'lawful stupid'. Not saying Hector was stupid.
Although Shilsen, I think that generalization is meant more for Paladins specifically right?
But I agree, Hector was the only sane person in Troy.
Although Shilsen, I think that generalization is meant more for Paladins specifically right?
But I agree, Hector was the only sane person in Troy.
Thanee
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shilsen said:
No, Lawful Good. He was everything but stupid.
He was extremely honorable (only when he killed Menelaus, one could say, that wasn't really honorable, but then again, he told him that the fight is over before
).The only time, where you could rate his behaviour as 'stupid', is when he faced Achilles. He knew, he would die (actually he knew it the day before already), yet he chose the honorable path.
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shilsen
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Exactly. I noticed after I posted that I forgot to add the smiley, but was hoping enough people have seen the "Paladin as Lawful Stupid" threads to be able to pick up the tongue in cheek aspect.Chain Lightning said:
There's no denying that in both the movie and the epic, Hector is one of the very few sane people in Troy (in the movie, he's the only one). He does what he has to simply because of loyalty, to king, family, and country. And he does it knowing full well that he is going to die, his son is going to be killed, and his wife will become a slave. Achilles may be the hero of the Iliad, but Hector in many ways is emblematic (as Odysseus is) of the newer, civilised world, where war for the sake of glory is somewhat outmoded. I've always thought that it is entirely fitting that the last words of the epic refer not to the wrath of Achilles but to the funeral of Hector, tamer of horses.
WayneLigon
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Went to see it today. I liked it quite a bit; I'll probably go back to see it again during the week, as a matter of fact. I though everyone was quite good in it, esp. Bana and Pitt. I esp. love Agamemnon's scheming; hard to beleive that was the same guy that played Stryker in X2.
Didn't matter to me that Bloome used a bow; they mention several times that Trojan archers are the best in the world, so it's no surprise he's good enough to kill someone with a bow. Not like it was his decision to use a bow or not, anyway; seems like some people just want something to complain about.
Didn't matter to me that Bloome used a bow; they mention several times that Trojan archers are the best in the world, so it's no surprise he's good enough to kill someone with a bow. Not like it was his decision to use a bow or not, anyway; seems like some people just want something to complain about.
