what was your reaction to the reunion of Odysseus and Penelope?
817526
I thought that the symbolism was a bit over the top, the cockatoo in the third paragraph was a bit too glib, and the lime jello made the whole thing seen just a tad tawdry and filthy.
629115
yes i so totally agree with you!!!! i too kinda got sappy at the end! i wish it didn't have to end it was a great show and i will really miss seeing new episodes of it however i will continue to watch the old ones. i loved how they made everyone have a happy ending and it was fitting that Phoebe had 3 little girls the future charmed ones maybe? well the only real disappointment i had with the final episode was that we didn't get to see Pru again that would have been cool! it went out with good ratings and a great finale.
730467
Yes, I was happy, seeing almost everyone had their happy endings.\n\nAnime/manga endings really make me feel all mushy, and this is especially the case with the last pages of Furuba (Tohru and Kyo as *you-know-what-I'm-not-going-to-spoil-it-for-everyone* was so sweet.\n\nI will have to wait for the official scanlations so I can understand the real deal of the ending.
1139488
I've always been fond of Odysseus. I like his intelligence and self confidence, although he does have his flaws.
815853
Yes - I laughed so hard, I cried. My wife laughed so hard that she fell out of her chair. The entire theater was roaring with laughter. We had to see a second showing because we didn't understand half the stuff the first time, because of all the laughter.\n\nGo see it, you won't regret it.
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I was more angry with Alfonso Cuaron and the third movie. The parts that were cut about the Maurader's map, and details about the connection Lupin and Sirius had to Harry's father. Oye. I could go on for days. \n\nI'm the most happy with the fourth movie, really. Considering how much of the book had to be cut out due to time restraints, Mike Newell was AMAZINGLY true to the book. I loved that movie so much!
508571
To me, it seemed and felt as though my own childhood/high school sweet heart was with someone else. The new guy did not bother me so much as annoy me, but when she was with Casey it was a shared agony. I guess I really empathize with Erik. I was happy that he came back. \nAnd I agree they should have ended the show when he left.
829390
odysseus is cunning, very clever, faithful to his wife ( penelope)\nalways caring for his mates \nanything else?
593868
My friends gave me a surprise party...my mom was in on it and  I thought no one cared and was so depressed...then my friend called and asked my to go out for a pop and I thought...she has even forgot...we had to stop at another friends on the way to get a book..(so she said)and everyone was there and surprised  the heck out of me!!! It was great!!!!
1017484
I think I was expecting more about the voyage and actual event than a love story.  That part was sort of cheesy at times.  But, when they got to the iceberg and things starts happening it becomes a gripping story of courage and grace and strength.  We always ask ourselves in hindsight how did this or that happen and to see an reinactment of so many unnecessarily lost lives was so wrenching because it really happened.  There isn't so much obvious blame.  Some people did the right thing - some panicked and some acted like lowlife - just like what happens all the time.\n\nMy daughter was just born when it came out and i remember thinking how hard it would have been to leave with the other women and children and hope that her father meets up with us.  I think I decided there in the theatre if we were ever in such peril we would all stay together.  Plus my husband is smart when it comes to survival, I'd much rather take my chances that he will know how to keep us safe and together rather than split up and hope for the best.
112240
I spent the summer working on a yacht in the South of France years ago. I was going out with a girl on the next yacht. We had a great summer.\nAt the end of the season I went to visit her in the UK & found out that her family were loaded.\nWe lasted another couple of weeks. Maybe I felt out of my depth, dunno. Just didn't want to stay with her.\nWhen you find true love it will punch you in the stomach & squirt Mace in your eyes. It will not matter whether they're rich or poor. I wish my wife was rich, but she's not. I still would not swap her for the most beautiful, rich woman in the world.
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I went to my 20th reunion.  Wouldn't have missed it and won't bother doing it again.\n\nI am one of those who was a "late bloomer".  I walked into my reunion with my husband and the "popular" group had no idea who I was.  Mind you our graduating class was only about 100 students (if that) so we all knew everyone in our class.  I was thin and young looking.  They were old and fat!  I loved every minute of it!
641405
I saw it. And I liked it very much.\n\nThe movie was a very good representation of the book.\n\nBooks always have more background and more details.\n\nSome things were changed or deleted, to keep\nthe story moving, but all-in-all my wife and\nI thought the movie exceeded the expectations\nwe had about what the movie could have been.\n\nBravo!!
733513
Once upon a time, there was this funny-walking penguin who thought she was God.  Someone saw this penguin and thought, hmmmm, this penguin is alone and walks goofy, she needs a friend, so they believed in you, and took you home with them.\n\nThen, one day you were sad and inconsolable, for you did walk funny, and your friend tried to cheer you up.  Then, your friend bent down and kissed you, and poof, you were a Goddess, sent to see who would help the poor and afflicted.....
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Absolutely.  One of the lonliest moments of my life I was surrounded by about 10,000 people.\n\nI was married, with a new child.  I was in the Navy, just getting back from a 6 month tour to Europe. 3 months in, my wife left me taking my son with her.  When our ship arrived back home, there were literally 10,000 people waiting for their loved ones.  Holding banners and holding back tears of joy.\n\nI walked down that pier alone.  Not a soul there to welcome me home.  Especially my wife and son.  No banners, no tears, no hugs or kisses. That is one of the only times of my life I ever walked with my head down.  I couldn't stand to see the anticipation and joy of those thousands without breaking down.  \n\nLonliest moment of my life....
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Menelaus had demanded that only he should slay his faithless wife; but, when he raised his sword to do so, the sight of her beauty caused him to let the sword drop from his hand. Instead, he led her in safety to the Greek ships.\n\nHelen returned to Sparta and lived for a time with Menelaus, where she was encountered by Telemachus in The Odyssey. After Menelaus' death, Helen was exiled by Menelaus's son, Megapenthes. According to another version, used by Euripides in his play Orestes, Helen had long ago left the mortal world by then, having been taken up to Olympus almost immediately after Menelaus's return.\n\nAssuming the story of Helen is, to some extent, based on a real event it is worth knowing that this and many other Greek legends point to the existence of a matrilineal inheritance system. Thus Menelaus' right to the throne is based on his being married to the daughter of the previous king. However beautiful Helen may have been, this suggests a more cynical reason to fight over her.\n\nHelen committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree. After her death she is deified.
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Yes, it's incredibly difficult to read & I didn't enjoy it. Admittedly, I used Cliff Notes to help me.\n\nBook summaries\nBook 1: Ten years into the war, Achilles and Agamemnon quarrel over a slave girl, Achilles withdraws from the war in anger \nBook 2: Odysseus motivates the Greeks to keep fighting; Catalogue of Ships, Catalogue of Trojans and Allies \nBook 3: Paris challenges Menelaus to single combat \nBook 4: The truce is broken and battle begins \nBook 5: Diomedes has an aristea and wounds Aphrodite and Ares \nBook 6: Glaucus and Diomedes greet during a truce, Hector returns to Troy \nBook 7: Hector battles Ajax \nBook 8: The gods withdraw from the battle \nBook 9: Agamemnon retreats: his overtures to Achilles are spurned \nBook 10: Diomedes and Odysseus go on a spy mission \nBook 11: Paris wounds Diomedes, and Achilles sends Patroclus on a mission \nBook 12: The Greeks retreat to their camp and are besieged by the Trojans \nBook 13: Poseidon motivates the Greeks \nBook 14: Hera helps Poseidon assist the Greeks \nBook 15: Zeus stops Poseidon from interfering \nBook 16: Patroclus borrows Achilles' armour, enters battle, kills Sarpedon and then is killed by Hector \nBook 17: The armies fight over the body and armour of Patroclus \nBook 18: Achilles learns of the death of Patroclus and receives a new suit of armour \nBook 19: Achilles reconciles with Agamemnon and enters battle \nBook 20: The gods join the battle; Achilles tries to kill Aeneas \nBook 21: Achilles fights with the river Scamander and encounters Hector in front of the Trojan gates \nBook 22: Achilles kills Hector and drags his body back to the Greek camp \nBook 23: Funeral games for Patroclus \nBook 24: Achilles lets Priam have Hector's body back, and he is burned on a pyre \n[edit]\nAfter the Iliad: the end of the war and the returns home\nAlthough certain events subsequent to the funeral of Hector are foreshadowed in the Iliad, and there is a general sense that the Trojans are doomed, a detailed account of the fall of Troy is not set out by Homer. The following account comes from later Greek and Roman poetry and drama.\n\nAchilles fights and kills the Amazon queen Penthesilea and the Aethiopean king Memnon. Very soon he is killed on the battlefield by Paris with a poisoned arrow to his vulnerable heel. (See Achilles' Heel). After his death, Ajax and Odysseus feud over who should keep his armour. They submit their disagreement to an impromptu court and Odysseus is awarded the armour. Ajax subsequently goes mad and slaughters his livestock, believing they are the Greek commanders. He then kills himself in shame.\n\nThe Amazons come to join the battle. Philoctetes, a crippled Greek who had been abandoned by the others along the journey, was recruited by the god Heracles because it was prophesied the war could not be won without his bow.\n\nOdysseus devises a plan to take the city. He has his men build a large, hollow wooden horse, and then he and twenty others hide inside. The Greek ships withdraw out of sight of Troy, apparently admitting defeat, and leave behind the horse, purportedly as an offering to Poseidon for good winds on the return trip. The Trojans take this inside the great walls of Troy, and then feast and celebrate their victory and the war's end. At night, Odysseus and the soldiers creep out of the horse and open the gates to the other Greeks who have sailed back under cover of night. The city is sacked, and in some accounts burned for seven years.\n\nPriam is killed. According to one tradition, Hector's wife Andromache throws their son Astyanax and herself from the ramparts to save them from slavery. According to another, Astyanax was killed by Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, to ensure that Hector's son could not seek vengeance for his father's death against Achilles' son. Andromache became Neoptolemus' concubine, later to marry Helenus, Hector's brother. A Roman tradition held that Aeneas escaped wi