#with EPIC I heard snippets in like early 2021 when jorge was FIRST ever posting about it

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Just saw in a tag of yours that you're not that excited for the final stand musical. Why? It's still in production.

Yeah, I know! You can still dislike something even though it’s unfinished just based on the demos and BTS stuff. Like if you didn’t like Jorge’s demos for EPIC, it’s hard to believe that would change with official release, y’know? There are times where that isn’t true (looking at Hamilton here), but I don’t think TFS is one of those times, personally.

I’m just not all that impressed by what I’ve seen with it. There’s a song written for Ares that just kind of sounds like Thunder Bringer’s lyric format reskinned, and the pacing of the clips I’ve seen weren’t my favorite, musically. I’m not well versed enough in music theory to tell you what about it throws me off specifically but some of the songs feel jarring with the speed of the music vs the lyrics— or maybe it’s just the type of instrumental? Idk something about it just doesn’t mix well for me. It could totally be the style I’m not liking— it’s this kind of overly modern style that sounds more like the mixing to a regular song than a musical (a kind of style that, especially when mixed with generic lyrics, makes it feel kind of bland and uninspired imo)— so that could change with an official production but idk that one’s a toss of the dice.

And this is a bit nitpicky, I know, but I didn’t love the metaphors used for Ares either because it all felt kind of random to me? Like listening to that snippet of Ares’ song, while ik it’s not the entire thing, it’s kind of hard to tell what kind of character he is or even who he’s supposed to be which is kind of important in a musical where every second needs to have some kind of meaning. It could be a situation where I just don’t understand what the creator was going for or I just don’t like the vision he has, but it just doesn’t thrill me. I’m not all negative, though, so I will say that I remember a song about Poseidon that I kind of liked. Specifically, I really liked the line, “haven’t you heard them say before? you can’t outrun a storm”. I liked the feeling that gave off and I remember thinking it sounded nice.

I will admit that I haven’t heard any new snippets of TFS (I think the last ones I rlly heard were at the end of 2024) so maybe there’s been some changes made to the style and lyrics of the songs I tried but I doubt it’d be enough to get me interested tbh. Like I hope it succeeds and all and I’m glad people are enjoying it, but it’s just not something I’m too interested in seeing the end result of 💔

Hope that makes sense! It’s nearly 7 am and I haven’t slept yet lolol