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Believe it or not...I've not read The Odyssey. *Gasps* I know. But that made my appreciation and surprise with this musical all the greater! Christopher Nolan version? Nah, watch THIS! It truly lives up to its name and was a musical that was packed with creativity and talent! Kudos to Patron Pancake for the commission to this awesome musical!

Thank you for watching with me and for all the support!

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Romania Black - EPIC: The Musical - Reaction & Discussion! PATREON COMMISSION!

**EPIC HEADPHONE WARNINGS** Believe it or not...I've not read The Odyssey. *Gasps* I know. But that made my appreciation and surprise with this musical all the greater! Christopher Nolan version? Nah, watch THIS! It truly lives up to its name and was a musical that was packed with creativity and talent! Kudos to Patron Pancake for the commission to this awesome musical! Thank you for watching with me and for all the support! #romaniablack #epicthemusical #patreoncommission Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RomaniaBlack My Anime: https://myanimelist.net/profile/RomaniaBlack Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/RomaniaBlack You can mail me a letter or anything (except food, please) at this address: Romania Black PO Box 768 Harrisburg, IL 62946 USA

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Sunspots

Loved the reaction and discussion! Hadn’t seen this before – this was such an awesome experience! 🥰 Various things I loved: The animatics were all so excellent and so expressive, they really brought so much to the work. 🥰 Polites may be my favourite and also Circe, loved their songs and they had amazing performers! My favourite track was the Athena & Telemachus number “We’ll Be Fine,” especially the piano in that. “Maybe to fall is to learn one way” - love this line so much. And the way Zeus is a bastard in every interpretation just tickles me. 😆 I have to say I found Calypso so unsympathetic and insufferable, especially this line: “I’m sorry my love is too much for you!” – is just such a rancid and manipulative approach, ew. PSA: If anyone - partner, friend, parent, relative, ANYONE - ever says something like that to you, they love nothing but the theatre of their own suffering. Run far away! Now, themes of resistance?! 😆 I mean, it is Odysseus! 🤣 I do love how the main throughline of the story is Odysseus attempting to resist everything around him demanding he become monstrous. So this is the thing I wanted to highlight most, because Polyphemus here absolutely gave me Hoppered the Gauntlet (via Stargaze) vibes! They are both figures of revenge and victims of the “hero” in a sense. “My favourite sheep!” 😭 Thank you to Pancake for another amazing commission! 🥰 Looking forward to the next entry! 💙

Rose Jennison

Excellent! Absolutely excellent! Always so fun seeing a new person react to the twists and turns of this plot! I am sorry that you didn’t get your hoped for yaoi, but I feel like Odysseus being the most loyal man helps make up for it, lol Your line about this being a family affair in God Games reminded me that the musical also ended up being a family affair! You noticed the same last name for Jorge and the woman who voices Anticlea, that’s because she’s voiced by his actual Mom! So both Ody and Jorge are hearing their mom in the underworld. That must have been an emotional recording session! Hephaestus is played by Jorge’s father too, and I’ve heard that his sister voiced one of the winions at one point. Jorge also ended up dating the woman who plays Circe. Quite the family affair indeed! It’s cool that you get to this just as it’s announced that we’ll be getting an animated movie. Maybe someday you’ll get to do a reaction video for that too! I agree that it’s a good thing you got to see this version too though. The voices of these characters are all so amazing! But they might have to be switched out for others for the movie. I’ve seen that happen with other works. All the different styles of animation are fun to see this way too. I’m particularly fond of Gigi and Neal illustrator. I’d definitely recommend exploring some of the other animations for these songs, there are some very unique ones out there! Thanks so much for this video! It was a lot of fun!

romaniablack

Hahaha, you know, Ody being so loyal DOES make up for it, truly! And wow, the way that this series involves family even at the voice acting level is so cool! I love that! I cannot imagine the recording session, either! An animated movie of this would be so fun to react to!! I am curious if it'll be a musical or a straight through script, but either way, I bet it'll be fun! The animatics throughout this were so wonderfully done; I loved the expressions and the way everything aligned with the music. I've seen some Hamilton animatics that I FEEL are done by at least one of these artists, based on the style! Thank you so much for the comment and kind words -- I really had a lot of fun with this one!

romaniablack

Thank you so much for the comment and kind words -- My coworker surprisingly asked me about this the other day and I could actually say I had seen it! What an experience, though, right?! The animatics were SO well done! Circe's portions were so good -- and yesss, Athena and Telemachus's numbers just warmed my heart. It was so well done -- and yes, Zeus is just...THE WORST in all interpretations. *sigh* Always the highest on the pedestal, right? :P Calypso was...I totally agree with you -- I felt sad she was on an island alone; that sucks, but any type of behavior like that being so smothering and self-serving? Yeah, no. :P Themes of resistance indeed! The Odyssey of course! And yes, I love that Ody tries to resist becoming a monster and then when he "gives in" it just makes things worse! And oooh, I can see the Hoppered comparison with Polyphemus...I wonder if Nightow was inspired at the time? Or the staff of Stargaze was? Hm. But in any case, I'm glad this at least had a happy ending! Huzzah! Pancake chose a banger of a commission, indeed! Thank you for the comment!!