#And y'know. famously. there's Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton
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cannot believe this musical concept album gave me Real Feelings about a character from the Odyssey who appears, like, twice
#Polites is described in the Odyssey as Odysseus's bestest bestie and then like never features in any of the subsequent drama#to the point where there's no 'canonical' version of how he died#it's either by Scylla and Charybdis or when Odysseus's whole fleet gets got for eating Helios's cows#so I genuinely think it's a super interesting adaptation choice for Jorge Rivera-Herrans to pull him out to be a major character#and then make him the first to die on the trip home#Odysseus's first major miscalculation results in the death of his best friend#Which then immediately frames his taunting of Polyphemus not as hubristic smugness but grief and rage#It IS very funny though how much more heroic and moral JRH made Odysseus (by modern standards) than he was in his stories#Also a long-standing adaptation tradition when you are the writer director and star#Will always make fun of Kenneth Branagh for making Victor Frankenstein a mostly well-meaning guy Trying His Best. Not a selfish coward nooo#And y'know. famously. there's Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton#Anyway. Jorge Rivera-Herrans and Steven Dookie gave me real feelings about Polites. I salute them#Epic the Musical#Polites
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