Pop Culture

I have to recognize that I'm totally out of touch with popular culture 😞.

One good thing is that pop culture is spreading out, and there are fragments of older pop culture built in, and I do recognize them.  But not playing video games cuts out a huge sliver of connections that I could have had. 

For instance, I failed to recognize a character called Kassandra who was evidently from a video game (Assassin's Creed Odyssey.)  I don't think I'm going to make the effort to familiarize myself with this game; its title makes me think it won't have much to offer. 

Kassandra, a character whose name I knew from the Trojan War, was a sister of Paris.  She could foretell events before they happened, but she was under a curse, which made those who listened to her disbelieve her predictions!  So she would tirelessly warn her family and her friends, and (despite innumerable instances of her having predicted correctly) they would laugh off her warnings.  I first was introduced to her by Marion Zimmer Bradley in the book Firebrand, and MZB had created a wonderful character; I just adored Cassandra (as you might have expected).  But tragedy followed her everywhere. 

Well, what can you do.  The ancient Greeks delighted in tragedy.  Some of the heroines of modern Japanese Anime are more pleasant to follow, such as, for instance, Kiki, of Kiki's Delivery Service!  It's a bit of a whimsical story, but that's the way it goes.  A surreal story that sort of grabbed me was Millennium Actress, which (if I understood correctly) took place over over a century.  (Must watch the DVD again...)

Kay.