#For reference he murdered a baby he let scylla eat 6 men and then he let zeus kill another 42 | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

losttranslator · 12 days ago

Text

see the ithaca saga was very good but I really wish odysseus had actually gotten into the specifics of what he's done when penelope asks beyond just 'left trails of red' and 'traded friends' and 'hurt lives'

Like, it's so painfully VAGUE that when Penelope says she doesn't care I'm still left thinking "okay but would you really not? would you not care about the baby murder if you knew about the baby murder?"

And it's not to say Penelope is wrong to forgive Odysseus or that she wouldn't still love him if she was told the details (beyond just 'woe is me I betrayed friends and shed blood yadda yadda'), but it would have a lot more impact if Ody actually listed everything explicitly instead of the age old 'I'm not the same man' and we saw Penelope's reaction to THAT

#epic the musical #odysseus epic #penelope epic the musical #odysseus×penelope #Astyanax #For reference he murdered a baby he let scylla eat 6 men and then he let zeus kill another 42 #Not pinning the loss of the fleet on odyssey because it really isn't fair and there's a difference between being dumb #Like when he told the cyclops his name #And CHOOSING to cause somebody's death #But that's what I want to see penelope react to: the deliberate choices to kill/let be killed #I don't think she'd care about the sirens either so whatever BUT THE BABY #WHY COULDN'T SHE REACT TO HER HUSBAND - A FATHER - KILLING A LITTLE BOY

17 notes · View notes