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[camwyn]

Watching Troy with mephron. Have been throwing things at the screen quite a lot.

Threw my Hound of Tindalos at the screen when the Trojan marketplace had to be cleared of llamas.

LLAMAS.

Not lamas, which I could almost sort of kind of maybe see.

LLAMAS.

....back to the throwing things now.

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[shati.livejournal.com]

But what scene/movie/ancient civilization cannot be improved by the addition of totally random herds of llamas? I ask you.

[jezrana.livejournal.com]

...Llamas. *missed that*

[camwyn]

never mind the steel weapons, the anachronistic shields, the fact that everybody and their cousin has access to enough indigo to make Levi Strauss wet himself...

LLAMAS.

[drharper.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

Here's a llama. There's a llama.
And another Trojan llama...

[jezrana.livejournal.com]

...See, the thing is, though? I almost always fail to pick up on anachronistic things like that in historic epic movies. It's a combination of having weak history-fu and just getting caught up in the movie and taking things as they come. Like the steel weapons. I'm now going "...oh, right, Bronze Age", but I wouldn't have called that on my own.

But even I know there shouldn't be llamas in Troy.

[(Anonymous)]

the fact that everybody and their cousin has access to enough indigo to make Levi Strauss wet himself...

Wait, is that the jeans company or the anthroplogist?

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

Oops, not logged in. That's me.

[camwyn]

The jeans company. If I meant the anthropologist I'd've remembered the dash, or at least I think I probably would've.

[eor.livejournal.com]

The llamas were from Atlantis.

[mephron]

Atllamatis?

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

Atlantic, Atllamatic... Pronunciation drifts with time.

[fuchsoid.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank God, you saw it too!

[camwyn]

I have a thing for ungulates of all kinds. I was lookikng over the horses to see just how weirdly anachronistic the breeds were when OMGWTFLLAMAS.

honestly, there was a better chance of friggin' Sivatherium still being around in Troy's time than there would be of llamas being available to them. (There's an ancient Sumerian seal ring that contains an animal that's either a badly drawn giraffe, one of the Sivatherium species, or somebody in Sumer on drugs.)

[cupenny.livejournal.com]

... I had repressed the memory of the llamas until now. Now I do recall sputtering and flailing at the screen.

Llamas in Troy.

Then again, I'm one of the few people that does the same when wossname is listing off birds he smuggles out of South America in Romancing the Stone, and keeps mentioning Austrailian species.

[kelathefinn.livejournal.com]

Oh, THAT one. The Trojan War without the Gods. Yeah, right. All eye-candy and no nutrients.
WHERE can *I* get a Hound of Tindalos???

[camwyn]

Here. Although I got mine from eBay.