Thunder Bringer | EPIC: The Musical Animatic

"But we'll die...." "Remember that bag i said not to open a couple sagas ago?"

I love that Zeus's default facial expression is "Fuck me" eyes. I think this is my favorite depiction of Zeus.

My favorite fact about this is that Helios cried to Zeus to avenge his cow and said "If you don't, I'll go to Hades and shine the sun in the Underworld instead" and I can only imagine Zeus being like "Okay okay chill dude, I'll avenge your fucking cow"

"Wow Zeus looks so hot-" My middle school Greek mytho hyperfixation hitting me over the head: NO. WE KNOW BETTER.

0:49 when youre forced to watch a god getting really inappropriate with a cloud

The crew: attacking Odysseus Zeus: 🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺 insert singing abt himself 🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺

Then cut to the underworld where Hades is sitting there annoyed with the music all muffled, as bits of rock and the ceiling fall down around him Hades: Do they SERIOUSLY not have anything better to do up there than musical showtunes?!

Odyseus: "You killed the cows! You got turned into pigs! You opened the windbag! Why should I help you keep your lives when you've turned mine into Tartarus on earth?" valid point there theese guys are so incompitent I think if they somehow all escaped Odyseus would genuinley not get home

The ultimate adulterer himself, here to gaslight Odysseus, gate-keep Ithaca, and girl-boss his way into avoiding any consequence for his own bad actions

The psychotic smile Zeus has the entire song like he's enjoying this it's creepy

So are we not going to talk about how connivingly sadistic Zeus is when he brazenly touched a Penelope shaped cloud and then later creates a whole vision of Penelope to manipulate Odysseus into choosing to sacrifice his crew? The way Odysseus covered his ears like a frightened child who hates thunderstorms, the way Zeus uses Penelope to coax Odysseus to look at her while singing Suffering, a literal "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" and when vanishes, Odysseus is left with that longing look on his face, letting the rain clear away his consciousness to make the choice, that was so well done!

2:15 I love how Zeus becomes half genuine when giving odysseus his choices, like he's say "look man I may be chewing this scene to hades but this is serious. someones got to pay" it's so simple but gives so much depth.

"Look, I don't really care which of you actually killed the cow, Apollo is pissy about it, so somebody's gonna have to fess up and die."

literally sobbing. the way eurylochus is the ONLY person who doesn't attack odysseus when he makes his choice. fucking amazing holy shit.

I like when he addressed Odysseus as the King of Ithaca with a bow, it's more mocking and condescending rather than out of courtesy, since Zeus himself is the King of the Gods.

Its only here that I kinda realized that this song isnt just for Odysseus, but for Eurylochus as well. This song is the end of pretenses for both of them; Odysseus that he doesnt cares about anything else save for getting home to his family, and Eurylochus that he just wants to live but doesnt have his captains ability to lead with wisdom. He opened the bag, killed apollo's cow, refuses to make some sacrifices (hunger or Scylla) when needs must. While Odysseus got his reality check after the cyclopes and has suffered throughout the journey for it, Eurylochus only got his now. The difference being even in the worst circumstances, Odysseus can work a way out of his problems (blind the cyclopes, open the bag to escape Poseidon, convince Circe to help, choose Scylla/6 crewmen over Charybdis/the entire boat) while Eurylochus has no exit strategy when things go bad under his command. Even Zues's ultimatum exemplifies this; choose to kill Odysseus, the smart one who chose to suffer if only to have a chance to get home, or his mutinous crew, the group who while well-meaning are not warriors of the mind and have made a mistake (arguably several) they cant fix. The animation does so much with this just by having the last scene of the crew charging Odysseus like that can still do something about this while Eurylochus, now in Odysseus's sandals, having realized he messed up big and has no recourse, just stands there ready for his judgment. Odysseus has hardened his heart after the prophets augury and chosen the to be the monster in order to get home, but even he doesnt want to see his crew die. Its only the last push from Zeus that he makes the call, a hard one but the only that will get him home to Penelope. Him falling to the ground crying at the end is him losing that last bit of Humanity he had left. Now he has no-one else but himself to hold him back from going home. He can make every ruthless decision now as he has only his wife and son to lose. There's your win Poseidon; Ruthlessness shall be Odysseus's only mercy now. Curious to see how the next saga will work with this broken Odysseus. Great animation!!

Molesting a women shaped cloud is such a Zeus thing to do, I love it. Also, really good animatic

EURY BEING THE ONLY ONE TO NOT ATTACK ODY IS DRIVING ME INSANE. HES LOST ALL HOPE. HES RESIGNED. HES TIRED AND FEELS BETRAYED AND HURT. AND ODYSEUSS NOT EVEN FLINCHING WHEN HIS CREW MEMBERS DRAW THEIR WEAPONS. HES SO GUILTY BUT DEEP DOWN HE KNOWS HE WONT REGRET HIS DECISION. AND ZEUS LOOKING SO AMUSED AND CASUAL, USHSHWHWHSHS MAKING THIS IN 6 DAYS IS CRAZY ONMGH

This entire song and animatic is just Zeus going "Am i the fucking shit or what? Anyway, Apolly is fussy so who's taking one for the team?"

I like how in the beginning Eurylochus looks at Odysseus on how to act, but when he sees he's scared then he knows that he should also be scared.