All it took for these right wing douchebags to magically come out in favor of the odyssey after spending months rabidly trying to cancel it was one (1) educated woman criticizing it lol
If the academy gets pulled into coming out swinging against the biggest adaptation of Homer in probably a couple generations off the back of one prominent scholar deciding to be Reviewer 2 to Nolan's work, it will say, IMO, pretty damning things about academia's ability to foster public engagement.