should be judged and viewed in different lenses.

way back home as difficult as possible, and Epic is a last survivor story about how the character of Odysseus changes as he undergoes different levels of hell while desperately trying to get to the love of his life. They're 2 different stories showing different themes and, therefore,

Odyssey (despite the creator of Epic saying otherwise), and Odyssey fans need to understand this because they are blatantly two different stories. Their differences are the whole point of making an adaptation. The Odyssey is a story that shows how much the universe hates Odysseus, trying to make his

artist. What I'm trying to say it that Epic isn't supposed to be a retelling of the Odyssey. Even Jorge Rivera-Herrans has publicly said that this isn't a retelling of the original story. Epic fans need to understand this because there seem to be some fans thinking that Epic is a retelling of the

Now, here's the thing I think both of these groups need to understand...an adaptation shouldn't be a one-to-one retelling of an original story. An adaptation should keep the overall story structure relatively the same, but the actual plot and story should be left up to the interpretation of the

It's just turned into a back and forth of Odyssey fans being butthurt that Epic wasn't a one-to-one retelling of the Odyssey, and Epic fans being butthurt that Odysseus's name was getting 'slandered'. (For the record, I'm not generalizing here. It's not ALL Odyssey fans, and it's not ALL Epic fans).