About the fans of this Fandom.

I absolutely LOVE Epic. I found the whole playlist on Spotify and fell in love with it as someone who loves mythology in general.

However there's something I noticed which "bothers me" and it's not really about the musical itself.

What exactly caused other fans to see this musical as directly affecting and modifying the Odyssey, as if what happens there actually affect the original Odyssey.

Like, they genuinely act as if he (the genius behind Epic) created the Odyssey as a whole and that the Odyssey take after the musical/what happens in the musical affect the actual original Odyssey.

What's even worse is they know is the musical that takes after the Odyssey, but still act as if it's the other way around.

On reddit it's not a lot, I've seen it twice though (where things that only apply to the musical gets inserted in the Odyssey as if they actually apply to the original) but on other platforms (mostly YouTube comments sections) everyone treat the Odyssey as if Epic is where the Odyssey originated from.

Some people genuinely don't even know the Odyssey is a thing and they think it was written AFTER the musical.

Is it just people not being smart/bright or is there something I'm missing? Because everyone I interacted with on socials who also knows Epic acts as if Epic came first and what happens in the musical affects the actual Odyssey.