Thunder Bringer - Blog Posts

Whilst Eurylochus isn't as faultless as my baby Polites, doesn't mean everything was his fault. Did he open the wind bag? Yes, yes, he did. Did that directly lead to poseidon killing of the crew? No, it didn't. Poseidon would have taken revenge on Odysseus and his crew either way, not just because they were pushed further away from Ithaca. As observed in the snippet of 'get in the water', we've seen that poseidon is more than capable of appearing anywhere in the ocean. Ergo, he was going to kill them all anyway, Eurylochus just spiced things up by changing the location they died. Furthermore, he wasn't wrong to mutiny against Odysseus, and realistically, he wasn't the one fully at fault for zeus and 'thunder bringer'. Now, I'm not saying he's faultless because most of the blame definitely falls onto him. What I am saying is that he was tired and hungry, and he'd given up. Think about it, he'd probably not eaten in days if he stopped off at the first island he came across and killed the sun God's cows. He'd just mutinied against his captain, his friend. Suddenly, the lives of all the crew rest souly on his shoulders. And he's just so tired. Tired of Odysseus ignoring his concerns, tired of seeing his friends and comrades die, tired of seeing Odysseus change for the worst and tired of being hungry. He wasn't in the right state of mind, he'd completely given up by the second half of 'mutiny'. During 'thunder bringer' he doesn't sound angry or even very betrayed. He just sounds apathetic, he's entirely given up at this point. He wants it all to end, and I can't say I blame him. What I'm saying is that, in this situation, would anyone have done anything different? With several gods already looming over you, wishing for your destruction, being so tired and so hungry, and having seen so many of your friends die would anyone really have left those cows?

Tldr; Eurylochus isn't entirely at fault, nobody is entirely at fault. All the actions taken are understandable. They are just humans and they make mistakes.

Okay, after listening to thunder bringer on repeat for the past couple of days I can officially say that I now understand all those people that willingly slept with zeus in Greek mythology.

Also, suffering and different beast are fucking awesome. I listened to the whole musical so far during a lesson today and those two stood out to me bc I liked them so much.

Current top 5 epic songs in no particular order:

Thunder bringer

Wouldn't you like

No longer you

Remember them

Open arms

The thunder saga of epic is making me fucking salivate. I love it, I am fucking feral about it. Mutiny and Thunder bringer are going to be my loop songs for the next forever and a half. I am officially not okay in the best way.

I just heard this cover (not mine) of thunder bringer sang by toad and GOOD LORD.

I need to share it with you guys so you can discover heaven too

Showed my mother thunder bringer last night. When Zeus sang “only I can undress her” she gave me the most hilarious look of absolute disgust, horror and apprehension all in one

Guys I know I’ve been posting a lot today but I was listening to thunder bringer and there was a flash of lightning as the riff started it was PERFECTLY IN TIME

show her i'm the judgement call.

This may be an already agreed upon thing because I fear my reasons are very obvious BUT

In my head act one of epic ends with Thunder Bringer, which means act two would open with legendary.

This would make act one about five songs longer than act two but I believe that those songs are a perfect point to spilt the story.

For starters 

Thunder Bringer: ends on a great cliff hanger. The whole crew is dead. Odyssey is left on a random island. But more importantly it is the climax of his character development. All of “act one” he is wrestling with doing all it takes to get himself home, while trying to be a good person/captain. So to end “act one” with Odyssey sacrificing what’s left of his crew would be so perfect because it would be the answer to the question of “when does a man become a monster” which he has been asking since the beginning!!!

Legendary: This song is so different from not only Thunder Bringer but all of “act one” songs. It’s so much lighter than damn near everything they would’ve heard thus far. Of course there is the overarching theme of worry/longing but at the core it a kid wanting to be like his dad. Introducing a new perspective, showing how Ithaca has changed in the last 20 years, leaving the audience worried about what happened to Ody, perfect way to start act two!

Also intermission would be the ten year time skip between the two songs