Blind Reaction to "Warrior of the Mind" (song #5 of the Troy Saga from Epic the Musical)

[@christianr1517]

Visuals help. The context for this song is ody after 10 years of war and killing the baby ody is starting to suffer mentally from all those years of violence. Open arms his his friend noticing the signs he's losing himself and suffering from ptsd and essentially like "wars over its ok to loosen up you can be human again" this song is Athena noticing his friend is getting through to ody and ody starting to relax and she wants him to stick to the cold hearted general she trained him to be. They haven't been stuck and it has nothing to do with going to the cave.

[@bluestarartist2010]

I feel like after they talk and listen to the audio, they should check out the animatics too to have a visual experience to go along with it

[@polochuck2371]

To clear up the a bit of the confusion this song is a flashback of when they first met when ody was a kid n has been guiding him since then

[@lesterwiggins229]

Love you guys’ reaction and glad to see more people discovering this musical and giving it a chance. Not sure if anyone had pointed it out yet; but there seems to be a bit of confusion as to what is happening and when the song is taking place. The song immediately starts after the song Open Arms as Odysseus is reflecting on Polites advice. Being the goddess of wisdom and Odysseus’ patron and mentor; Athena decides to intervene inside of his mind. Reprimanding him and reminding him of what she has taught and instilled in him since the day they met when Odysseus was young by replaying the memories for him to see. Athena has been a constant influence on Odysseus’ life and thought process up to this point; so she wasn’t going to let her efforts be undone by some well-intentioned but naive advice from Odysseus’ best friend Polites, so she decided to set Ody straight. This whole song takes place inside Odysseus’ mind, and only took a few seconds in real time within the story. If you hear the song start to “glitch”, that means that we are switching from real time to “mind time”. Something to look for in the future. Hope this helps.

[@natalietalbot5871]

Don’t let’s go me, we need to talk about this!!! 😂 I’ve been like this every second of every song in this musical!!

[@beckenfuggle644]

Jorge just announced the release date of the Wisdom Saga as August 30th. OmG! God Games is in that saga and Athena makes an appearance. I can't wait.

[@mariethedicedragon5977]

The clock sounds at the start if the song are the hit for the audio that this is a frashback, more of a "you best smarten up, I've put a lot of work into getting you here". There. Is also the change with time in how he affects her whith how she sings the "warrior of the mind" line.

[@kindracorbridge6118]

I just discovered your channel because of this video, and I'm really impressed by your awesome reactions. Additionally, there are a ton of animatics for each song that I believe you'll enjoy. To make it easier, I've created a playlist with the animatics in order. You can simply use the playlist I provided without worrying about the viewing order. Unfortunately, I'm unable to include a direct KZbin link, but it's the newest playlist on my channel. The order of the sagas is as follows: *_The Troy Saga:_* - The Horse And The Infant - Just A Man - Full Speed Ahead - Open Arms - Warrior Of The Mind *_The Cyclops Saga:_* - Polyphemus - Survive - Remember Them - My Goodbye *_The Ocean Saga:_* - Storm - Luck Runs Out - Keep Your Friends Close - Ruthlessness *_The Circe Saga:_* - Puppeteer - Wouldn't You Like - Done For - There Are Other Ways *_The Underworld Saga:_* - The Underworld - No Longer You - Monster *_The Thunder Saga:_* - Suffering - Different Beast - Scylla - Mutiny - Thunder Bringer

[@PandaBear221B]

Thanks for the info! So glad you enjoyed the reaction. Good to have you here 💛

[@beckenfuggle644]

Tegan is such a power house of a voice

[@MrJoeyWheeler]

Visuals help, but I think it's very, VERY important to NOT use them for your first time listening. No visuals are canon to what happens, at best there are SPECIFIC visuals which were commissioned by Jorge himself for use in a release stream, and those are few and far between. And even those specific animations still have a lot of leeway in designs (Eurylochus is depicted with a massive anime sword in some of them for example). Simply put, the only thing "canon" is the music, and the stage directions provided by Jorge. Plus, watching the animatics can also colour your idea of what's happening in the songs and as I've seen with NUMEROUS people reacting to them, they get too sucked into the animation and treat that as authoritative and end up with incorrect assumptions. A good example, there are backing singers in a later saga which are confirmed by Jorge to be from characters who are present in the scene, but no animation features said characters, leading many to think it's non-diagetic singing.

[@TheaPetrichorian]

The giant anime sword isn’t artistic leeway - it’s something Jorge specifically described that he was imagining and therefore asked for asked for.

[@Manyfetch]

I did find it very amusing that you both were convinced that the pack of druggies who, when asked for food, basically offered a blunt, had some massive trap planned as opposed to just offering dumb advice