Episode 565 : Giant Other Cheek

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1. jas says:

   January 19, 2022 at 9:24 am

   Saw The Eternals and really liked it, especially the first half. The ending could have used some work, but I really liked the mythos and thought they did really well at handling so many characters. The one character I thought could have used some more work, unfortunately, was Circe (Sersi?).

   Just a random thing I liked–I liked that Salma Hayek’s character was named Ajak. 🙂

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   • themagicaltalkinghat says:

     January 19, 2022 at 3:17 pm

     Is there a significance I’m missing, for you, for that name? I think it’s the name of the character in the comics.

     They did at least two gender flips of characters that I know of.

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     • jas says:

       January 20, 2022 at 4:42 pm

       Oh, I just meant the gender flip of the name. So Hayek’s character would presumably have been the model for the mythological figure of Ajax, just as Gilgamesh was Gilgamesh. I think that opens up a whole lot of ways of thinking about how Ajak got reimagined as Ajax that kind of force one to abandon fixed notions of gender.

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