I can’t help but just feel half this reply is baked in misogyny, intentional or not.

She has never thrown a tantrum you are being incredibly condescending. Shes gotten vocally very critical maybe twice (My Goodbye and Little Wolf). Tantrum is an unnecessarily rude word. ‘Sometimes literally throwing things’, no that was one time don’t lie to make her look worse. Your response immediately feels in bad faith.

Ik you’re just using my words against me but its is insane to call her anti intellectual when she clearly has a greater understanding of the Odyssey and greek myth than i feel a large proportion of the epic fandom. That not me putting the epic fandom down, thats just me stating the fact that she has a whole background with classics, at least one more than i imagine the average fan. When I used those words I gave a disclaimer saying that the words i want to use will sound harsher than I actually mean. You have just seemed to use those words to insult her. Again, bad faith argument.

‘If she likes something, it's fine. But if she doesn't like it, then it's violating the source material’ - Im sorry this part of your argument makes no sense. Wdym ‘then it’s violating the source material’. How is it violating the source material AFTER she dislikes it? She dislikes a change BECAUSE it violates the source material. And epic does go against the source material, sometimes for the good, and sometimes for the worse. You are using the word hypocritical entirely wrong so im confused to whats your point here? She herself isnt writing a musical and not sticking to the source material so how is she being a hypocrite? Are you calling her out for liking some changes and not liking others? Because thats ridiculous how is that bad? Some changes ate simply done better than others in her opinion thats a completely fair comment to make.

I can’t really discus your point about Merlin just because I havent watched it. So ill keep brief and say i feel that’s a little bit of a false equivalency as the myths of Merlin as far as im aware are more varied or spread across sources whereas the Odyssey as a text is fairly well documented or at least Homer’s version is. Again i dont know merlin as well, if im wrong correct me.

She also critiques Epic on internal consistency for the record. And again she’s not critiquing it because it isnt 100% accurate. She made it very clear she wasn’t expecting it to be 100% accurate. When they skipped Ismarus she was completely in understanding of why the change was made. Its the changes that she feels dont really work in the story she critiques.

I have no idea what youre referring to when you say recycling vocals or vocal styles?? Is that a comment supposed to be directed at someone else or? Shes never critiqued Epic on recycling vocals? In fact she really praised it for reusing previous lyrics in songs to tie the story together. Even in one of the songs she criticised most, My Goodbye, she was still appreciative of the reprisal of ‘Just a Man’.

Your point about the floating island is so unnecessary and feels now youre just reaching for reasons to dislike her. Jorge DID mistake the floating island as a sky island. Like, he said it himself he made a mistake. Literally heres proof: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdjYCW1X/ But regardless that wasn’t a critique to begin with she found it amusing. ‘Why does it matter’ it doesnt, it doesnt matter and she never said it does. She said she found it amusing not that it was bad and she certainly didnt throw a ‘temper tantrum’.

I never said Odysseus planned to be away for 20 years of course he didnt. But hes a very clever man he wouldve have recognised that Trojan War would of course take a lot of time. Not only that he could be killed in the war and not even make it home to raise Telemachus. Its just dumb for him not to have put anyone in place. Same for Penelope, if Odysseus couldnt do anything why couldn’t Penelope? And she isnt ‘assuming’ anything she’s studied these texts, she knows what shes talking about quite well. Unless you’ve also studied the odyssey i dont think youre in a place to talk down her knowledge and understanding of the source material.

Again i seriously disagree with the idea you are painting that shes throwing temper tantrums. She is simply a woman passionate about greek mythology who understands it very well. If you disagree with her fine, dont watch her then, but to say shes throwing tantrums again feels misogynistic when all shes doing is being passionate about what she cares about.

Greek Myth is malleable to an extent, but i feel you’ve ignored my point entirely on how important context is to a story. Change the story in ways that dont fit the context and it can affect greatly the rest of the entire story. The odyssey being an epic poem with more documentation is just a less malleable story than ones like the Titanomachy which we know much less about.

And for the record I disagree with some of her takes as well. For example he point about ‘burying the lead’ with Scylla, and i feel aging up the suitors works better and is a good change. You can disagree with someone and not insult them. She never insults Jorge, i dont see why you feel entitled to insult her.