What were they thinking?


What in the world were all those guys thinking who tried to answer Andromeda's riddle before Perseus tried? Did they have a desire to get burned alive at the stake? I wonder what made them so confident about having the correct answer? Were they perhaps mentally unstable types?

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Well, that and if they win, they get to rule the kingdom.

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They also got to shag Andromeda if they got the right answer -- they felt it was worth the risk.

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Did they know what the riddle was before agreeing to guess it?

"There is no escape, John!"

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To DDeRo64: No, Thallo told Perseus at the burning no man lived to tell what the riddle was. Which makes me think there's a goof, since Perseus heard the riddle in front of a whole room full of people...

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I believe you, but I'm going to have to see the movie again, which will then [I can't think of the right word] me to watch the sort-of-remake and its sequel. Then I'll probably have some compulsion to watch Jason and the Argonauts again. So now I have to watch four movies! Thanks a lot!!

"There is no escape, John!"

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Yes. One of many goofs.

Didn't notice that one.



"In a day we pass from the Northern Lights to doomsday dawns."

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jasrowy is more correct than me... although Thalo said they didn't live to repeat it, that may just be referring to their quick deaths.

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They didn't know the riddle and the riddle changed each time, that's what the guard said to Perseus when the man was burning.

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