It's the first two-fer! Because 'Polyphemus' flowed so rightly into 'Survive,' I couldn't stop and just kept going. The latter two songs are very likely to end up as their own videos, but this one demanded a two-for-one video.
Absolutely ADORE this interpretation of Polyphemus and how much pathos Jorge gave to him as a character. So much to talk about here from all sorts of angles, but obviously I go on a lot (in a very surface level way) about xenia and its impact with both the source material and this adaptation. Legit my brain was like exploding while listening lol.
I was already excited for this saga (if we couldn't tell), and Jorge has thus far delivered!
I'm also gonna note for comments I've seen on this topic across several of my uploads: if you take an issue with me doing adaptive analysis of this musical to its source material, that's not going to change, so maybe my videos on EPIC aren't right for you. I made it clear at the jump that's how I'm going to go through this musical because of my academic/personal background, so if you're down for that and any criticisms I may then make in the future, great! Glad to have you! If you're just here to hope I don't do that or to say "this isn't Odyssey the Musical," then I don't think you're going to have fun here -- and what's the point in wasting time on my videos when you could watch other people who are analyzing it from a different angle? Life is short.
Okay? Cool. Just wanted to say that, because that specific comment has popped up several times and I just want to nip it in the bud best that I can :)
Finally a note about xenia: whether or not Odysseus and his men realized they violated xenia doesn’t matter in terms of considering who’s esoterically in the wrong. Even violating it unwittingly is still violating it, so Odysseus and his men are in deep trouble for rolling up and killing the sheep and intending to take all the stuff in the cave.