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Am I the only one who can't understand how Cassandra could foresee the future - but somehow failed to see that Apollo is about to curse her?!

I mean - WTF?!

The damn god is about to turn her life into living hell, she's more then capable of actually knowing it in advance and do something about it, and she's like "Nah, I'll just go shoppin' for a new tunic"?!

I'm telling you - those subtle inconsistencies make me doubt this whole greek mythology thing...



Apollo was rejected by a mortal after giving her powers. As a god of prophecy, he should have seen that coming.


I've seen that point expressed cutely in an old goth metal lyric:

    If he did grant
    Wherefore then did
    He not foresee?
    Be like egal
    As if to him
    Might be?
I guess he preferred not to know.


Maybe her actions prevented even greater catastrophe.


She must have read The Aeneid


I disagree.

She failed - miserably - as mount Olympus' VP of future foreseeing, and that's totally unacceptable.

Where's HR in all this? the recruiting manager!? Anyone??

Are those the kind of unrealistically supernatural powers baring individuals we want to have in our company?

I don't think so...




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