Fiction 101

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:01]Hello.

[00:00:02]Here's a quick teacher thing to go over.

[00:00:05]This book, The Odyssey, and its predecessor, The Iliad, fiction.

[00:00:12]The No, it's not historical.

[00:00:15]No, no, no, no. This guy? Not real, either.

[00:00:20]It was a bunch of different authors, they believe, actually created this piece of, uh, beautiful poetry.

[00:00:29]Yeah. You didn't even know it was a poem, did you?

[00:00:32]Also, when you're looking through it, all of the characters in it, also fiction.

[00:00:38]No act No, not a single character is real.

[00:00:43]Helen of Troy?

[00:00:44]Fictional.

[00:00:45]Odysseus?

[00:00:47]Fictional.

[00:00:48]All of them fictional. Now, I would expect maybe you could get thrown by the actual people, but when you got to Zeus and Achilles, god and demigod, did you Did something register in your head that you're like, "Oh, maybe this isn't history?"

[00:01:06]And even if not at that point, even if at that point you thought, "Well, no, this was real for them. This is This is it. This is real." Maybe you believe in Zeus, I don't know. Believe in what you want to believe in.

[00:01:17]When you got to the Cyclops and the giants and the chick that turns everybody into pigs, did you think that was real? Or Or perhaps could you possibly understand that it is a beautiful piece of art meant to be interpreted and applied for their archetypes, storylines, and heroic journey that has absolutely nothing to do with who they get to play the roles? Because then you would get to the point when, I don't know, Lupita it gets to be Helen of Troy and you don't lose your ever-loving bigoted mind. Why?

[00:02:01]Because she's the face who launched a thousand ships, right? Yeah, that's not in here, either. I know, you're like, "That's a quote from The Odyssey." No, it wasn't. Not in The Iliad, either.

[00:02:11]FYI. But, in all fairness, she really did launch a thousand tweets. So, Chris, check on the great casting there. Uh also, Elliot playing Achilles. Now, I know a lot of you are like, "Achilles is the god of war." All of a sudden, you guys are all mythology experts. He's supposed to be huge and thundering and a hero, and he takes" Sure, but in The Odyssey, he's dead.

[00:02:40]If you read the book, you would know that he is in the underworld, and he is a shadow of himself.

[00:02:47]So, before you go judging casting, maybe I mean, just look at the Coles Notes, SparkNotes, maybe the synopsis on Google, whatever you got to do, AI it.

[00:02:58]Because a lot of people have been running their mouth about this for a very long period of time trying to understand why oh why it's not a historical depiction of a fictional piece of work with giants in it, gods, cyclopses, and sirens in the ocean.

[00:03:19]So, take a minute.

[00:03:22]Maybe go get the graphic novel version, so you can make yourself aware of it.

[00:03:28]And considering this is open-sourced, cuz it's so old, anybody can do anything with it, I think I'm going to go make a Lego version and see what other half of Twitter I can make upset.