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You know it's funny, this was supposed to be an art blog but it's kind of turned into my ramblings about epic the musical
I blame the tumblr epic community for being so welcoming and cool
Under appreciated moment in the Troy saga!!
I know everyone is still getting over the thunder saga (which is so fair) but listening to the remastered Troy saga reminded me of one of my favourite moments (musically) from the entirety of epic.
It’s in Open Arms (bc of course it is) and it’s when Polites and Odysseus first encounter the lotus eaters. It starts at 1:08 minutes in, where you can hear the chorus in the background building up this beautiful scale of notes like some kind of heavenly choir, and then they go back down again and it’s just?! So pretty?!
Like I don’t know what the musical term for it (I haven’t done music theory since high school) but it’s so pretty and it gives me so much serotonin. Definitely one of my favourite moments so far.
My fellow Epic fans, we are sleeping on a GOLDEN opportunity here:
The fake Penelope in Suffering? From now on we should start calling her SIRENOPE
Hear me out
So Tiresias said “I see you draw your final breath, I see a man who gets to make it home alive, but it’s no longer you”
Odysseus has already drawn his final breath
Whoever is going to kill the suiters is not Odysseus, or at least not the same one.
Whoever will return to Penelope and Telemachus isn’t the same Odysseus who hesitated to kill a cyclops, they aren’t the same Odysseus who escaped Circe’s wrath by talking about his wife.
A monster will return to Ithaca
But Odysseus has already died on the journey to there
Idk if he died at the end of monster, due to different beast, or in those seven years with Calypso, but the Odysseus who heard that prophecy isn’t here anymore.
He has already drawn his final breath.
(Idk if anyone alr tought of this but i started thinking of this at dinner and was like holy shit so i had to share)
Now that the Thunder Saga is here, No Longer You is SO much clearer!!
Jay finally gave us the first four lines of the chorus vocals at the end, because they help interpret Tiresias's first verse:
"I see a song of past romance" -> "Siren Song" -> the song Suffering, in which "Penelope" sings to Odysseus
"I see the sacrifice of man" -> "Scylla throat" -> the song Scylla, in which Odysseus decides to let Scylla kill six men so the ship may pass through
"I see portrayals of betrayal and a brother's final stand" -> "Mutiny" -> the song of the same name, in which the crew betrays Odysseus and Eurylochus (who Odysseus calls "brother") stands against him
"I see you on the brink of death. I see you draw your final breath" -> "Lightning bolt" -> the song Thunder Bringer, where Odysseus is nearly killed by Zeus and is almost drowned, and in which he sacrifices his crew (further cementing him as a monster)
If you watched the live stream, you'd also have seen Jay mouth along to the very final part of the chorus, which I have long suspected (and now know!) to be "Od-y-sse-us," in the Danger Motif, foreshadowing his monstrous, vengeful presence in the song of his name.
That means that the chorus' only other two lines must connect to the time in between the end of this saga and the beginning of his revenge--if anyone has any new ideas as to what they are saying, please share!! Isn't it so cool how the sagas are so thoughtfully connected???
Mutiny
(My gods Tumblr ate the quality- click for better quality I guess?)
im way too lazy to finish this (and I did this just bc im impatient about my Scylla animatic)
how things actually go in the Olympus during the Thunder Saga
Sillies
Back to our king.
"We are the men made monsters, we are the ones who conquer"
I LOVE THIS SAGA SO MUCH
Me rn
The timezone just hit differently guys
The timezone just hit differently guys