(apologies for double-posting- commented on the wordpress before realizing it was here)
“Alas, the guy playing Leonidas has no acting chops at all, and set against the rounded vowels and British consonants of the gentleman playing Themistocles (who actually can act), his tendency to pronounce “earth” “oyth” and rush out his lines as if speed is all that matters… is hilariously jarring.”
Just finished Jill Paton Walsh’s Themistocles book, “Farewell Great King,” and her Themistocles…is so clearly of the opinion that Leonidas has no chops at all. At much of anything.
It has a very uncliched (in my uninformed opinion) depiction of the Persians, and may be of interest to you for that alone. That, and the fact that it’s ridiculously structurally clever.
This should double as a thank you to sovay for reviewing that book in the first place; it is unaccountably lacking in reviews otherwise, and I wouldn't have heard of it without seeing that post.
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“Alas, the guy playing Leonidas has no acting chops at all, and set against the rounded vowels and British consonants of the gentleman playing Themistocles (who actually can act), his tendency to pronounce “earth” “oyth” and rush out his lines as if speed is all that matters… is hilariously jarring.”
Just finished Jill Paton Walsh’s Themistocles book, “Farewell Great King,” and her Themistocles…is so clearly of the opinion that Leonidas has no chops at all. At much of anything.
It has a very uncliched (in my uninformed opinion) depiction of the Persians, and may be of interest to you for that alone. That, and the fact that it’s ridiculously structurally clever.
This should double as a thank you to