A TikTok Musical That's Truly EPIC 

My reaction to the THUNDER SAGA ⚡ - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-94wXkUkAePE.html THUNDER SAGA analysis ⚡ - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y352wZuJqcY.html

who just watched the Thunder Saga?

CAN WE ALL APRECIATE THE CAST? THEY DIDNT GET A SINGLE PENNY FROM THE FIRST TWO SAGAS AND THEY *STILL* TOUGHED IT OUT OUT OF PASSION FOR THE PROJECT TO THE POINT THEY WERE DOWN TO REMAKE BOTH SAGAS?!?!

Talya got the role of Circe by auditioning for Zeus. That's why the "anyone can audition" thing was so nice.

Its great that you can actually hear how he goes from heavily hamilton influenced to finding his own voice and sound

Those transitions of the cast's auditions into their official roles is the coolest fucking editing ever

Jay you need to get this guy to do the documentary about this musical. Let him in and let him cook!

"The very essence of creativity is exploration of the mind." - Mr. Pam Pam. (im getting this tattooed someday i swear)

I've been in this community ever since Jay posted "Your Light," which is now a scrapped Polites song that was replaced by Open Arms. I've got to say that I'm really REALLY happy that this musical is getting more attention, because I remember sitting in my room hovering over his page and waiting for the next snippet, the next update, behind the scenes, anything. I remember when the Troy Saga was released officially and I was super hyped. Now the first saga of Act 2 is releasing in just a couple of hours. Couldn't be happier. I really appreciate you taking the time to make a video about Jay and this absolute masterpiece of a project. I adore the editing and the way you articulate just how special this guy is. Much love, man.

The transition from the auditions to the actual songs was actually genius🔥

I love how, as time goes on you can see Jay develop his style for music. I feel like in My Heart Says Go and the very early beginning stages of Epic he writes fast paced rapping songs very similar to the style of Lin Manuel Miranda in his plays Hamilton and In the Heights. However as he developed Epic he moved away from that style and now has the video game boss battle-like style you mentioned. Once this style was developed that's when his music really started to shine and gain a lot of popularity, because it was reflecting his personality better. As someone who loves Hamilton I think it's pretty obvious that Jay took a lot of inspiration from it while working on Epic which can be seen in the story, pacing, and characters. I also think it's amazing that this musical is getting very popular because it draws a lot of new eyes to musical theater by creating a large online fan base in a way only Hamilton has done before (of this scale). In that way I see Epic as a lot like Hamilton but for a newer generation. After the musical theater scene was kind of dead for a while due to covid, it's really great to see it getting kick started again by Epic. Anyway I just think Epic is rlly cool :)

I love the fact that Jay went from a Hamilton-ish to what it is now. It shows how good his music is and the originality of the musical

You know, I don't think I'll ever be able to be convinced he didn't hire an actual siren to sing suffering. her voice is just too good.

I have to say, I've never seen someone who understands the multiple layers of how amazing this project is: 1. Jay's musical vision and genius 2. The community involvement and support 3. Specific influences compared to Jay's compositions 4. The inspiration the project gives to others Thank you for making it easy to share with friends who don't have the time to dig into why this is such an amazing phenomenon. You have my deepest gratitude 🙏

I just recently discovered EPIC and I am completely obsessed with it. When I watched this video and learned about the entire process, I couldn't stop admiring the talent of Jay and the team. Many thanks to the team for creating such amazing music, and thank you for making this video 😭

Eyyyyy! I just watched the Thunder Saga last night! There were over 50,000 people there at one point! It was amazing! So many artists and amazing people came together to make this project the best it can be, and I couldn’t be prouder of Jorge. He is a genuinely kind and passionate person, and he deserves the world ❤

Clever timing with video with the release of Thunder Saga 😉

Bro, when Jay is on someone else's camera he moves his face like Matthew Lillard

marketing genius for you to post this right after thunder saga

spread the fandom further. FURTHER FURTHER.

finally, someone who is as crazy about The Challenge as I am. that song literally transcends musical theatre and in my eyes is definitely deserves a spot in top 50 songs of all time.

"Spoilers" is crazy... it's nearly 3000 years old... still SLAPS as it is revived here though

Has anyone else been part of the epic community since before the original troy saga released? I say that to my friends and they think I'm mad, being so invested in something that isn't even finished for so many years. But like many people, I know true talent takes time. Side note the thunder saga TOOK. ME. OUT. Absolutely mental go listen ⚡⚡⚡

as a puerto rican both him and lin Manuel miranda make me proud. cuz these are the only musicals I've liked/loved. was never a fan of musicals till these two and it was two brothers from PR

Really cool video!! Makes me so happy to be part of the community ! :D

Somehow the first song I heard from Epic was Get in the Water and it just intrigued me. I was like "What is this and please tell me if there's more!" and i was so happy to find everything else. Jay having a super infectious personality and the community being the most welcoming I have ever seen has solidified my love for this project. I will always be excited to see what the team puts together.

BRO AND THE NEW SAGA..... OH MY GOSH...

Holy hell the skip from Luke’s audition to the studio recording made my heart skip a beat it was fantastic

When he said Just A Man didn't originally resonate with him but with each song it got better I knew we where on the same boat waiting for Odysseus' next foe.

EPIC THE MUSICAL IS GETTING MORE ATTENTION!!! WO HOO

I unknowingly fell in love with Open Arms back in January and didn’t know it was part of a musical. When I started listening to the songs individually, I was skeptical how they’d fit together in a musical until I listened to them in order. Now, I’m looking forward to each saga to come, and to every and anything Jay has to offer. Whether they’re behind the scenes content, new sagas, and new musicals

I’ve been waiting for this moment for the perfect video deep dive. When you’ve made the post Yeah that’s all I got. But yeah; I’ve been waiting for someone to make this kind of video about epic. Well done my friend. Well done.

As a writer myself, what I love about Jay and his project is that you just feel the fucking love this guy has for his project and his attention to detail. There's SO MUCH to explore in the story and the music, so many easter-eggs, and it's all so seamlessly put together. I rarely come across anything this well-thought-out and when I do, I just marvel in it. WHAT HE DOES IS SO INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT, yet he did it! It's amazing!

THE CHALLENGE IS A MASTERPIECE I CANT FREAKING WAIT FOR IT TO COME OUT

Haha Oh my god this video got recommend to a friend of mine, so we watched it together and suddendly saw my own animatic 20:26 xD Thanks so much for featuring my work! And great video!

Love that the first (I think) instrumental during the commentary was from “Charybdis” its a really underrated

The thunder saga is out and I had genuinely forgot it was musical after the Troy saga. Then I came across the rest of epic and heard "No longer you" and I was like "I won't listen to the rest though. Then I listened to more, more animatics I watched and then I listened to Underworld and cried like a dang baby. I burst into tears with the momma. Then listened to Monster and I was like, let's go and then realize "Oh this isn't over?" Now thunder is out and it's cheesy Pete my body isn't ready! I'm writing a fanfiction AU myself and seeing this gives me power to keep going... I probably be as epic as Jorge but this guy is amazing. He truly shows to never give up on a musical dream. My Spotify wrapped is gonna be insane this year with Jorge's songs.

Ive been watching since the Circe Saga which isn't awhile compared to others, but I've watched all of his yt shorts about EPIC and I feel like I've been here since the beginning. It's one of the most beautiful and inspirational projects I've seen. (which may seem like an exaggeration but it's really not) I'm glad more peoole have found this masterpiece and that it's finally getting the attention it deserves.

I remember joining this community at the end of 2022 and since then, I've been down in this wonderfull rabbit hole. And I will gladly stay here. In fact I am not coming out of it. 😌👍

I remember becoming aware of EPIC sometime 2 years ago because of the skits one of my favorite youtubers (CrazyCae) made. I wasn't really into it because the only songs I heard were Warrior of the Mind and My Goodbye and I didn't think to dig deeper until about 4 months ago. I started actually getting into the fandom and I absolutely do not regret that decision. It's fun to watch Jay and the cast do their shenanigans, listen to the music on repeat, and talk with others about it. I'm glad I'm able to be here and watch/listen to is as it's being developed and released.

despite being a late fan who joined REALLY listening to the songs when circe saga released, I just cant fathom how much I enjoy listening to every single saga day in day out (mostly just thunder saga cuz its amazing and pain-inducing first time I heard it)

I came across Epic through a ‘Get In The Water’ snippet, and just needed to see where it came from, because it had been playing in my head non stop. It lead me to Epic two weeks after he’d released the Circe saga. I’ve listened to all the songs (Thunder Saga included) too many times to count, I know the order of them all, I know the lyrics to just about all of them, I was on the livestream for the Thunder saga, I joined the discord server, I’m trying to get my friends to listen to it as well, I plan on reading the Odyssey now after I finish an audiobook of the Iliad (though I haven’t even gotten it yet, I might some time this week) and honestly this musical has just transformed my life. It gets me so hyped and happy and Polites’ part in the underworld killed me and Mutiny and Thunder Bringer and Oh. My. Gods. His music makes me feel so many emotions, and the snippet of I Can’t Help But Wonder got me sobbing and AHHHH Mr. Jalapeño is the best and everyone in the community absolutely loves him!

The day Jay releases the challenge (and the whole Ithaca saga) my life is his

The Thunder Saga was a hell of an emotional ride 🤧

It's crazy how he created his own style since the start bc when you see his old work you can tell he picked up from lin Manuel Miranda he take his punctuation of syllables and everything but he slowly veered off

I genuinely couldn't agree more about the whole thing about the first like two songs, I wasn't a fan but every time i listen they get better and I do not understand how or why but I'm 100% here for it. The sheer amount of reappearing of certain lines throughout each song to point to things absolutely blows my mind and I'm so glad EPIC has been getting the attention it deserves.

10:28 OMG THAT CHANGE LUKE ARE YOU SERIOUS!? ❤❤ I joined the community of Epic when the Troy Saga just came out and I was intrigued about the song 'get in the water' because at that moment many people auditioned. I'm so glad to share this with such amazing people who are so kind and talented, never regretting to be here and be part of this Epic journey ❤️

god this musical is SO good, I can’t wait to have the full version of all the songs

Well after hearing the first sentences : Yes, you did it Jorge. I'm a video game nerd and my sister loves musicals, she showed Epic to me and I literally only listen to Epic since 2 months now haha thanks a lot for this. And for clarifying why I love this musical in particular. You love video games too and it actually feels like a video game, but I never really thought about it. You just built it very well so that it speaks to video game fans haha

I just saw My Heart Says Go at international thespian festival! I had NO CLUE it was by Jay himself!

MORE PEOPLE NEED TO SEE THIS!!!!!! I feel like I know was more about Epic now then ever before. This NEEDS more eyeholes on it now.

Hold them down while you talk about tension in the family about dropping out of med school gave me chills

I can’t be the only one that thinks when he sing-talks he sounds like Lin Manuel-Miranda?

jay's excitement for the project is contagious. i think everyone who works with some art form or long term project can really appreciate when they see someone that is so passionate about what they do.

Your “Music That’s Built Different” section is my favorite part of the video. In such a short duration you perfectly articulate why the music is as amazing as it is.

The amount of talent that Jorge has is absolutely unreal. EPIC is by far my favorite musical and it's only a concept musical. It's truly the only musical I've encountered where every song is an absolute 10/10. The storytelling is ridiculously good.

Honestly though, when I watch Animatics for the song I complealy forget this is a Musical and always feel like I'm watching some Anime, In the Live Stream the complete Animated scene with Scylla got me soo hooked. I joined the fanbase of EPIC some time after ending of Decmcember 2023 begining of January 2024 when articullary the "Just a Man" audio was all over the place. The song sounded cool and look it up and what I found war GOLD. Even if you don't see any Behind the Scenes stuff, you can FEEL the passion Jorge and the cast has for this proyect specially in the Voice Acting. IS SO GOOD!

2 minutes in and gotta take a breather, i’m so deep into this hyperfixation that i get more exited when people talk about than recognition of my own stuff. Jay really is so talented

I keep coming back to this video because I love it so much, but to also add to that point at 13:01 , that the 3 new saga releases (Thunder, Troy Redux, Cyclops Redux) all managed to get top spots, like top 3 for Soundtracks and top 10 for music in general on iTunes.

10:08 my special bookmark

I found this a lil while ago through one animatic of Ruthlessness. (I’m not on TikTok :P ) I was entranced by the song but didn’t really look further. Then I found more and more animatics. I never knew they were connected to each other until finding Jay on RU-vid. Then on instagram. Then I found a compilation and I was purely amazed. All the callbacks, all attention put into the smallest details and the story and the singers and it just pulled me in. It’s entrancing. And just beautiful to hear everytime. Now I’m here and I was there to hear the Underworld Saga and Thunder Saga come out. And I’ll be around more cause Jay is just an inspiring man who’s just so cool. Sorry I’m rambling again!

Man I love epic, the motifis, the voices, everything. I LOVE ESPECIALLY THE COMEBACKS LIKE EVERY OTHER SONG HAS A COMEBACK TO ANOTHER! The thunder saga has a lot of comebacks

I threw this on to watch in the background, and I found myself unable to stare away. You captured the epic story perfectly in this RU-vid video.

1:34 mr chili man truely has an infectious amount of enthusiasm

This musical is one of my favorite to sing and to attempt to match pitch with, idk if there's any spots/open calls for anymore singers but it'd be so cool to be able to attempt to sing a character from Epic

I would also like to add with “information hidden between the lines”, the melody of Storm can be heard in the song Ruthlessness when Poseidon says “I mean you totally could’ve avoided all this had you just killed my son” implying he was the one who sent the storm their way. There are many more details like these throughout the whole musical and it’s just chefs kiss 🤌

All bangers, No misses, No joke!

I remember first stumbling over the musical Epic when there were animatics of Warrior of the Mind popping up everywhere on Tik Tok and Instagram and I’m so glad I listened to the full song and discovered this masterpiece! Loved every saga since! And the Thunder Saga absolutely destroyed me ngl

The first I saw of the musical was the Done For TikTok a while ago. I was impressed. I looked into more and became further invested. I adore your video.

I stumbled across Survive on a spotify playlist and it had me hooked INSTANTLY! It definitely had that epic video game boss battle feel, and his voice is so amazing I had to go digging for more! I got into it maybe a month before the Underworld saga, have been listening to it all on repeat since, and just a few days ago caught the livestream! So great to see this masterpiece getting the recognition it deserves, and it's only growing! Thank you for doing it such justice with your video! 😄❤️

I have listened to this musical at least 2 times today

Dude I never saw you before but let me tell you the writing in this was so great even though i knew most of the facts [adhd brain go brrr] i was so captivated by the pacing and how well you made it and wathed the whole thing though. Thank you and i 100% agree that the challange is litteraly perfect [ might have cried to that one couple of times ]

I. Agree. With. Every. Single. Word. You. Say! Like damn you can summarize this so good! I hope so much that this will become one of the most known musicals across the world because EPIC is truly amazing!

Thank you for making this! I found Epic a few weeks ago thanks to the Spotify algorithm Gods, so I've been trying to learn more about it. And I've been loving all the animations I've found for the songs. Now I'm tempted to finally join TikTok so I can see more of Jay's process! Thanks for bringing everything in one enjoyable and informational video!

0:25 I always got this feeling from the Epic and made me replay the classical God of Wars again.

I was watching animatics for another musical and clicked the recommended for a video about polyphemus. I got hooked instantly and watched multitude of animatics (there are so many great artists) I couldn't choose ONE songs over another and loved all of them. It just felt like there was so much love in this musical.

I discovered the musical a few months ago, and that's all I can think about. What magic did Jay put into it? Bro, the editing of the auditions... gave me goosebumps

GOOD GOD THOSE TRANSITIONS ARE......EPIC 10:09 Edit: YES I AGREE, IN YOUR WORDS: THE CHALLENGE IS AN EFFIN MASTERPIECE 20:52 , I MEAN IT INVOLVES MY FAVORITE CUT SONG " MAN OF THE HOUSE" AS WELL AS PENELOPE'S HEAVENLY MOTIF

Great video! Real ones have listened to My Heart Says Go! This is an incredible love letter to one of the most unique musicals ever written! I can't wait to see how this changes musicals going forward! Already I've seen a girl post about how she writing a musical about Julius Cesear! Its just the beginning and it all started with the pandemic and the ingenuity of a guy on the Internet!

I've only just now found your channel and you've got great delivery of narration! It's paced well, it's got that right intonation and emotion. That shit takes a lot of work and I appreciate it.

I think a big part of EPICs success is that Jay is not only an _extremely_ talented musician (and he did the right marketing) but also an amazing person. Like you said, he is so nerdy and bubbly and his happy motivation is so contageous, he makes it feel like he is right there in the fandom with you. This and the fact that he sees himself on one level with everyone he works with makes him so fit for leadership, because he hypes everyone up and includes the success of everyone instead of getting arrogant and/or distant. He is awesome in every way💙💙💙

I remember discovering the Troy saga and wondering what would happen next. Truly am impressed with how much it has advanced

I’ve been following his journey with Epic from the beginning and I’m so so so happy for him. I’m so happy there’s so many people who love it and are as passionate in some cases more than me… im so excited for this to be finished some day

i only recently got into epic shortly after the underworld saga released, so this was a really neat video to pop up in my feed! i only really knew the fact that it all started on tiktok. i enjoyed learning more about the background and jay!

0:25 HOLY SHIT IT DOES THO The little jingle at the beginning of Ruthlessness is so reminiscent of an old video game villains opening battle song

Apparently I have a musical about a color to go watch

This video perfectly sums up everything, epic video! lol-

I cannot agree more, The Challenge is already my favorite song in the entire musical and it's not even out yet!

I’ve been following the musical since the Troy saga came out and I adore it so much. Th musical and the community as a while inspired me so much, I’m currently working on an animation to “Monster” and I want to create an animatic to one of the songs from The Thunder saga. I love this community so much! Thank you for the video

Honestly I got into epic when the ocean saga was released, honestly I have been I big of this musical and can wait for the the rest of the sagas to release, everyone who’s has help bring this musical to life or even done animatic has done a great job

This is such a cool video, I had no idea Jay had path this interesting, and you did a great job as a narrator, I like the structure of the video and your insights very much

You just made me realise how much I ACTUALLY love Epic

I got into Epic back when Just a Man had a trending audio snippet among the Instagram art community. This was between the release of the Cyclops Saga and Ocean Saga. Ive been hooked ever since

Thank you for tagging all the animators! Thank you for sharing and making this video as well. EPIC is so powerful and beautiful and with each new saga the past saga get more fleshed out with meaning and character growth! Thunder was amazing and it became beautiful when it tied the pass sagas an how Ody has change his relationships with his crew and himself.🥰

I was just in the live like a few hours ago, I love seeing epic get more recognition, It's incredible.

Everyone Also go to listen to "My Heart Says Go" Jay's an amazing storyteller and we really need to hype him up more

Nice video! Fun to watch after the Thunder Saga!

I'm so glad that smaller youtubers are also coming across this musical and falling in love with it!!!!

This feels so surreal because I've been following him for forever, I remember when I first came across his page he had only uploaded a couple of videos and was working on the first draft of Warrior of the Mind and I binged them all in a couple of minutes. And now look at him! Look at everything that's happened and the amount of people that are in on it and following it!! It will forever be my flex that I was a fan became it became a super mega ultra hit with multiple awards.

My heart says go is SO GOOD!!!