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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1971991" data-attributes="member: 151">FWIW, in Troy, the scene isn't played exactly as you read it, iirc.  A solider is sent to get Achilles, all right, but he's not sleeping: he's coming off of a bender.  He's deadly, but he's clumsy and clearly hung-over from a night of wine and wenching.  He's basically 'phoning it in' for the King...a 9 to 5 salaryman warrior. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Personal pet peeve: Any time someone uses wildly different data sources and magically combines them, almost instantly, to get some plot-necessary result.  "Wait, what if you compare all the suspects who are left-handed against the DMV's records of Mazda owners in the greater NYC area?"  Just once, I'd like someone to say: "Well, I can export those to some SQL databases and try and find a match, but I'll need to write a custom query application and then test it...that'll take about eight hours, sir."  Favorite really bad fake tech line comes from Lois and Clark, a few years back.  When something goes wrong with "the database", the villain tells his tech assistant to stop it.  Her reply?  "I can't!  It's collapsing into a sub-directory!!"  Makes me giggle, even now.</blockquote>