Thanks so much for including my video omggg 😭🫶. I'm glad you enjoyed it. You're the first one to use a video of mine, too! Congrats on being the first 🎉.

I love the “You’re not sure you follow?” part. Odysseus is a pretty clueless for a warrior of wisdom. No wonder Athena left him

"I'm not sure I follow" cuz homeboy is LOCKED IN on Penelope. Everyone else is just a ken or Barbie doll.

The infant is a constant source of guilt and regret for Odysseus and is the catalyst for why he acts the way he does. Polites recognizes the guilt and offers the open arms ideology, which is what leads to him sparing Polyphemus. Sparing Polyphemus leads to the Poseidon attack, leads to meeting Circe, leads to Underworld, so on and so forth. Astyanax (the infant's name) is the whole thing Odysseus' story hinges on which is why it happens at the very beginning. It's why, in Monster, Odysseus brings that event back up, that he's throwing the guilt away and he'd pull another Astyanax if necessary. It has to do with everything.

Circe and her siblings(her brother Aeetes, father of Medea, and her sister Pasiphae, mother of the minotaur) are half nymph. Their father was Helios(the sun personified) and Perse(an ocean nymph, daughter of Oceanos and his sister-wife Tethys)

Jorge said in a livestream, that the lines the soul of the dead are singing are their final thoughts before they died. So polities still believed in greet the world with Open arms to the end and Odysseus’s mom was still waiting for him on till she death

To explain the ending of Done For, or at least my interpretation of it, the reason Odysseus doesn't follow is because he is so loyal and in love with his wife that Circe's meaning goes right over his head. It doesn't even click. And a really cool thing that is confirmed by Jorge about There Are Other Ways is that when Odysseus beat Circe and said "you lost" the moly stopped protecting him from her magic like Hermes warned it would. So she put a spell on him and that's why he started singing part of Puppeteer when she put her spell on the crew. Then with his own willpower and devotion to Penelope he broke free of Circe's spell. Which is doubly impressive when you realize she's literally a demigod since her father is the god of the sun.

He dropped a baby, dude. That kind of thing tends to stick with you.

Just to note in "No Longer You" the prophet was talking about the events that will happen in the thunder saga. The animator just got some of it wrong, just to clarify.

Also, awesome detail, Gigi designed Odysseus's dark side all the way back in Just A Man and had it all planned out for Monster.

"oh he is having flashbacks"

When he’s in the underworld, he’s seeing the souls of everyone who’s died, even the infant. These aren’t flashbacks

So, fun fact, the men arent rubbing it in when theyre down in the underworld. The voices of all the dead are singing their last thoughts before they died.

Now I get it, the Prophet doesn't mean it literally, he meant it mentally! The kinder Odysseus will not make it back alive. It's the

i don’t know if you caught in gigi’s monster animatic how when he’s laying on penelope’s lap she rips Polites headband off Odyssey’s head. confirming he’s leaving behind Polites message of being kind and open. When i watched that my heart sank 😭

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Her being ominous is a reference to the fact that Poseidon used to be an Underworld god sometime in the past of Greece.

The creature that Circe summons is a chimera! It has a lion head at the main body, a goat head around the shoulder, and the upper body + head of a snake as a tail! Of course, there are different interpretations of chimeras, but the one shown here is more accurate to the mythology iirc

My post video thoughts:

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