Hard-Earned Wisdom (Epic final analysis)
The wisdom that Odysseus was taught when he went off to war, and the wisdom that Telemachus learned by seeing what the war did to his father, cannot coexist. One of them has to be destroyed.
Epic: the Musical: the actual end this time seriously!
In any case, the way her voice gets higher, and higher, and higher, and then even higher in her final chain of "waiiiiiitiiiiiings" is the craziest vocal feat in this whole show. Seriously, they might have just saved the best for last as far as voice talent goes.
Epic: the Musical: the Curated Fanimatic Series (the continupocalypse)
Why is Telemachus even in this story?
Epic: the Musical: the Curated Fanimatic Series (continued moster than even the mostest)
If you don't spit it out soon, all that water will destroy you.
Epic: the Musical: the Curated Fanimatic Series (continued the mostest)
For the most part, Epic plays its allegory for war trauma in pretty abstract forms, rather than a direct one-to-one "Odysseus doing thing X is supposed to represent real world veterans doing thing Y." Calypso is an exception. She's drugs. She's just drug addiction.
Epic: the Musical: the Curated Fanimatic Series (continued even more)
If there is anybody in this story besides Poseidon who merits boss music, it's Scylla. Especially the way Gigi portrays her. Holy fucking shit.
Epic: the Musical: the Curated Fanimatic Series (continued more)
Ghost Tiresias might have the single best singer in this whole damned project.
Epic: the Musical: the Curated Fanimatic Series (continued)
Poseidon is the ocean, the ocean is in the way of home, and the ocean hates Odysseus.
Epic: the Musical: the Curated Fanimatic Series
I'm not going to declare that this whole album is reinterpreting the Odyssey as a metaphor for military PTSD until I've seen more of it, but the first two tracks definitely make it seem like that.