Whoa, this was a crazy ride. I can’t imagine the Circe (*cough* Hermes *cough*) Saga without this version of Hermes 😦😦😦 I love Epic’s final version of Hermes! ❤
Okay that Hadestown inspired Hermes song actually sounded so fun though. I definitely prefer what Hermes ended up being, but I would not be against getting a full version of that song at some point. Could be cool as part of a deluxe album
Totally down with Hermes fighting Calypso, pick on someone her own size. Odysseus Hermes’ hype man in the background 😌 The jazz version is very fun, but you definitely made the right final decision 😁
I love the different takes on Hermes. I'm glad that we can vibe with this current version. It'd be cool if (after Epic is done and released) that some of these drafts get to see the light of day in their own mini releases. Maybe an album of other songs that serve as an alternate universe to what was actually released.
I can't describe how in love I'm with these series (also as a Greek I love seeing a musical version of the odyssey.). I adore all the creativity behind everything and admire the love and care you and the rest of the VAs clearly put in these series. What fantastic work ❤
I love the vague version lol Specially when the harmonies come in however I DO LOVE THE FINAL VERSION😂 THE 🎶 ✨HERMESSSSS ✨🎶 (and jay) episodes were Iconic 😂😂
Quirky, nerdy Hermes is cute, I'm not gonna lie. Jazz Hermes, god's I'm in LOVE. But nothing beats our present Hermes. Trust Mr. Jalapeno to leave an earth shattering fact at the last millisecond of the video.
Okay...but I'm gonna kinda need that jazzy version of puppeteer that Hermes sings. I love what we got, but if we also got like a B-sides or something with that on it that would be crazy.
Ok, Jorge my man, the solution to your problem is very simple: You will release an official CD version of the complete Epic soundtrack (because you will!!!) and then you will also release a second CD with all the drafted/deleted songs that didn't make the cut! *This way* (reference intended) you will manage to share with the world all your hard work, us the loyal fans will get what we need and the Universe will be in order once again Jorge: but I never said there was a problem- Me in Lotus eater voice: *but we needs*
1:30 At this point, I had associations with a song from the Disney cartoon Tarzan, where Tarzan's friends were having fun and destroying things that Jane had brought. Honestly, the songs from Tarzan and the previous version with Hermes - Autumn are similar to each other. If anything, I'm just noticing, nothing more. Let's really wait for the early version of how the battle of Calypso and Hermes sounded, hee, heeIt's going to be something incredibly crazy!
one of my favourite things ever will always be that when i was little my dad read a book series called Who Let the Gods Out to me and his voice he used for Hermes sounds exactly like Hermes in Epic in my mind this is just how Hermes sounds in every iteration of himself now there is no changing it
"Oh and just wait until you hear about how there used to be a fight scene between Hermes and Calypso." Jay, my man, you *cannot* just drop that on us at the end of a video without an explaination
I want a playlist in the future for all the cut songs because the original Hermes was interesting. Also not related to this video but your depiction of Hermes in wouldn’t you like made me think of a dnd character who’s Patron was Hermes but Hermes only uses them to deliver messages he doesn’t want to deliver himself
As many have said, an explanation on the fight scene, please 🙏 😂 Also, the other iteration ideas were cool, but as it usually is, once things fall into place, i can't think of another Hermes for Epic.
My headcanon is that hermes himself ( reincarnated in Troy Doherty) heard Jay's nerdy portrayal of hermes and said "nah, lets fix that" and so the hermes - i mean- circe saga came to be
After the whole thing is finished I need a separate saga that’s just for scrapped songs/concepts because damn is that and a few other scrapped clips (shown in previous shorts) a banger
Okay, but the JAZZ song??? Oh wow that had so much potential, but seeing what we have thus far I see why he went with a different route. It DID give me Hadestown vibes. Maybe one day he'll repurpose. I LOVE these behind the scenes looks! ALSO fight between who and WHO?!
Wait wait hold on a second! A fight scene between Hermes and Calyso and you just brush past this fact like nothing! Simply unacceptable mr Jalapeno we need a snippet asap
Said it before and I’ll say it again, can we please get an “abandoned” album with all the songs that didn’t make the Final Cut? No context needed we’d literally hype it up so much
PLEASE, YOU NEED TO RELEASE ALL OF THE DEMOS ON EVERYTHING AFTER EPICS DONE, HADESTOWNS BEEN MY FAV MUSICAL FOR. YEARS. AND HEARING WHAT YOUR IDEA OF YOUNG HERMES COULDA BEEN LIKE WAS SO COOL!!!!!
I literally just got up from listening to the Hadestown Cast recording. Technically, it would be an older Hermes, as Orpheus was way before the Oddessy, as evidenced by the sirens.
The jazz was definitely fun but I love our present version a lot. I’m a fan of your work feeling more like you and less like other works. Tribute is not bad! I just like this better.
It’s wild to hear the evolution of what we now call “our Hermes.” !! Did the final iteration fall together naturally or do you storyboard to help inform ur decisions? . 🤯 to think there was ever potential for Hermes to have other lyrics, composition, & character development/voice than what we have now?! Glad you went the direction you did! 😍
Everyone’s understandably talking about jazzy Hermes, but I love how 1st edition Hermes is just like -I’m your friend now -eat this plant -*leaves* Idk man the cutoff of eat this root killed me. -
I love that you got inspo from Hadestown (My second favorite musical!) but I love the current Hermes! Also, A FIGHT SCENE BETWEEN HERMES AND CALYPSO?! I NEED TO KNOW MORE-
As a HUGE fan of both Hadestown and Epic: The Musical, I keep on forgetting that Hermes is a character in both of these wonderful musicals. Well, it's not that I forget he's a character. it's more like I forget that both of these Hermes characters are based on the same mythological deity. I'm glad that Epic's Hermes doesn't resemble Hadestown's Hermes. I love both characterizations because they both fit their respective stories perfectly.
I really want the full New Orleans jazz version of Puppeteer now LUL Always a trip to see the bts of character development, and please elaborate on this fight scene! :P
I'm SO GLAD to have the Hermes we have today. The other version sounded cool, and jazz is always cool. But like... He is an ✨ ICON ✨. Having him be so fun and chaotic makes him such a cool standing out character in EPIC, and perfect *meme material.*
Would be cool if after The musical is fully released, you would release an uncut version of everything. And the whole thing would be uncannon. I'm sad that everything will just lie there.
love that Hermes ended up making more appearances 🙏 he's just too iconic
🥹🙏🏼💙 thank you!!! I’m very happy with the way he turned out!!
@@JayHerrans thank YOU for working so hard on epic 🙏🙏😁
Me toooooo
We need to know about the fight seen! What happened?!🤨😁
1. love the jazzy vibe, but love our hermes even more
2. A FIGHT SCENE?!?! i must know more✨✨
Hermes slaps calypso in the old draft 😂😂😂
@@hearthatomjoel good for him 😌
The JAZZ WAS AMAZING
We need to know NOW
@@kariyamashi7302WHAT NO CALYPSO IS AMAZING!! I FEEL SO BAD FOR HER
Okay, but I was vibing with the jazz ngl 😂
Same😂
Same fr
Wait, wdym a fight scene with Calypso 😂 ?!???? Jay, you owe us an explanation!
HE REALLY DOES I NEED TO KNOW THIS
I WANNA KNOW WHAT HE MEANT BY THATTT😂
RIGHT NOW FRFR
I believe the song is on Patreon
They were fighting over custody of their child 🤨 Lover 🤔 Idk 😞
I love the Hadestown style one but nothing will ever beat Wouldn’t You Like. That song is by far my favourite in the Hermes- I mean Circe Saga.
😂
WAIT NOW I WANNA KNOW ABOUT THE FIGHT SCENE BETWEEN HERMES N CALYPSO
It better be the next video Jay posts
I'M OBSESSED WITH THE HADESTOWN-INSPIRED SNIPPET THAT'S SO GOOD??? GODDAMNIT I WANT A FULL SONG PLEASE
BRO EXACTLY
Whoa, this was a crazy ride. I can’t imagine the Circe (*cough* Hermes *cough*) Saga without this version of Hermes 😦😦😦 I love Epic’s final version of Hermes! ❤
Oh my gods me too!!!!!! But I love that hadestown version…..that would have been funny and really cool for us Hadestown fans
“Fight scene between Hermes and Calypso”
*W H A T*
Jorgie Gorgie really left us on a cliffhanger
Exactly !!!
i gotta say, the way you cut off at "take this root" makes it seem like hermes was trying to contact me about my car's extended warranty
Okay that Hadestown inspired Hermes song actually sounded so fun though. I definitely prefer what Hermes ended up being, but I would not be against getting a full version of that song at some point.
Could be cool as part of a deluxe album
I love "Wouldn't you like" but I'd trade my most flawless ankle to hear more of that jazz version.
We are in desperate need of a cut songs album. 🙏 You've put so much work into all of the songs.
THE JAZZ SCENE IS SO FUN- I would die to hear an entire musical version of Epic but its in New Orleans
Im so glad hermes turned out how he did
Fight scene between Hermes and Calypso??? I want to hear more about it!!
We totally need Calypso in Epic!
Totally down with Hermes fighting Calypso, pick on someone her own size. Odysseus Hermes’ hype man in the background 😌
The jazz version is very fun, but you definitely made the right final decision 😁
When the whole Musical is finished, PLEASE PUT OUT AN ALBUM OF ALL THE SONGS YOU DIDN'T USE. Cause this is a BOP!
Nerdy Hermes is such a mood tbh 😂 But I’m glad we got the wonderful Hermes we have today!!
ALSO WHAT A FIGHT SCENE?! I must know ALL THE DETAILS!!!
so instead of just talking to calypso into releasing ody, im now imagining hermes throwing hands with her off-screen instead 😭
I love the different takes on Hermes. I'm glad that we can vibe with this current version.
It'd be cool if (after Epic is done and released) that some of these drafts get to see the light of day in their own mini releases. Maybe an album of other songs that serve as an alternate universe to what was actually released.
I love Jays vocals and goofiness vs Troys energy and iconicness
MY GUY, JORGE, YOU CAN'T JUST END SAYING THAT HERMES AND CALYPSO WOULD FIGHT AND LEAVE US HANGING PLS I WANNA KNOW MORE
I love how Jorge just casually drops random spoilers or past drafts of random things related to the topic 😂
Meeee toooo
Excuse me FIGHT SCENE???? Gotto hear it rnn
I can't describe how in love I'm with these series (also as a Greek I love seeing a musical version of the odyssey.). I adore all the creativity behind everything and admire the love and care you and the rest of the VAs clearly put in these series. What fantastic work ❤
It's so interesting to know the progression of Hermes
YAY I’m so glad you enjoyed this!! :))))
I love the vague version lol Specially when the harmonies come in however I DO LOVE THE FINAL VERSION😂 THE 🎶 ✨HERMESSSSS ✨🎶 (and jay) episodes were Iconic 😂😂
The jazzy Hermes is so cool
Hope you’re having an awesome day!
Thank you so so so much!! I hope you have a wonderful day as well! 🥹
Mr Jalepeno be acting like Uncle Rick the way he left us on that cliffhanger
Jay: “Fight scene between Hermes and Calypso”
Me: *spits out my water* “WHAT”
Quirky, nerdy Hermes is cute, I'm not gonna lie.
Jazz Hermes, god's I'm in LOVE.
But nothing beats our present Hermes.
Trust Mr. Jalapeno to leave an earth shattering fact at the last millisecond of the video.
Hermes is great because unlike all the other run ins with gods that are mixed at best, Hermes seems genuinely gleeful to help his great grandson.
I’ve got to hear not only the fight scene, but Hermes in the chorus of puppeteer with Circe it would’ve been stuck in my brain for the rest of the day
Okay...but I'm gonna kinda need that jazzy version of puppeteer that Hermes sings. I love what we got, but if we also got like a B-sides or something with that on it that would be crazy.
My mom’s favourite song from Epic so far is “Wouldn’t You Like” so I’m very glad it ended up being added
Ok, Jorge my man, the solution to your problem is very simple:
You will release an official CD version of the complete Epic soundtrack (because you will!!!) and then you will also release a second CD with all the drafted/deleted songs that didn't make the cut! *This way* (reference intended) you will manage to share with the world all your hard work, us the loyal fans will get what we need and the Universe will be in order once again
Jorge: but I never said there was a problem-
Me in Lotus eater voice: *but we needs*
1:30
At this point, I had associations with a song from the Disney cartoon Tarzan, where Tarzan's friends were having fun and destroying things that Jane had brought. Honestly, the songs from Tarzan and the previous version with Hermes - Autumn are similar to each other. If anything, I'm just noticing, nothing more.
Let's really wait for the early version of how the battle of Calypso and Hermes sounded, hee, heeIt's going to be something incredibly crazy!
petition for jay to release all the cut songs as bonus tracks
👇
yessss
Woa a FIGHT SCENE?!?!
Please, tell us more!
What I need to hear about the fight scene
I need to hear more about that fight scene 😮
Dangerous is my favorite song, followed closely by Get in the Water and Puppeteer! Love seeing this background for Hermes development!
one of my favourite things ever will always be that when i was little my dad read a book series called Who Let the Gods Out to me and his voice he used for Hermes sounds exactly like Hermes in Epic
in my mind this is just how Hermes sounds in every iteration of himself now there is no changing it
I think the final version is the best, but I also really felt the jazzy version 😉
Ngl I *enjoyed* that Jazz! Peak Music you guys, peak music right there!
"Oh and just wait until you hear about how there used to be a fight scene between Hermes and Calypso."
Jay, my man, you *cannot* just drop that on us at the end of a video without an explaination
I want a playlist in the future for all the cut songs because the original Hermes was interesting. Also not related to this video but your depiction of Hermes in wouldn’t you like made me think of a dnd character who’s Patron was Hermes but Hermes only uses them to deliver messages he doesn’t want to deliver himself
As many have said, an explanation on the fight scene, please 🙏 😂
Also, the other iteration ideas were cool, but as it usually is, once things fall into place, i can't think of another Hermes for Epic.
The "put you through hell" foreshadowing was pretty sick though.
When he was sining the young version of hermes song, i immediately thought of tarzan, i have no clue why. And a FIGHT SCENE BETWEEN CALYPSO AND HERMES
My headcanon is that hermes himself ( reincarnated in Troy Doherty) heard Jay's nerdy portrayal of hermes and said "nah, lets fix that" and so the hermes - i mean- circe saga came to be
After the whole thing is finished I need a separate saga that’s just for scrapped songs/concepts because damn is that and a few other scrapped clips (shown in previous shorts) a banger
Hermes got me into the fandom. :D With his groovy vibe.
Okay, but the JAZZ song??? Oh wow that had so much potential, but seeing what we have thus far I see why he went with a different route. It DID give me Hadestown vibes. Maybe one day he'll repurpose. I LOVE these behind the scenes looks! ALSO fight between who and WHO?!
Wait wait hold on a second! A fight scene between Hermes and Calyso and you just brush past this fact like nothing! Simply unacceptable mr Jalapeno we need a snippet asap
I’m excited for the “Underworld Saga”! I really want a snippet of “Tireases” *I can’t spell 🥳* TIME FOR ACT 2 EPIC FANS WE ARE CLOSE
oh yea that fight scene..
“Over my dead body!”
“Now that sounds alot more fun!”
WHAT
WHAT
WHAT
FIGHT SCENE???
DON’T LEAVE US HANGING JAY 😭😭😭
Said it before and I’ll say it again, can we please get an “abandoned” album with all the songs that didn’t make the Final Cut? No context needed we’d literally hype it up so much
The jazzy one reminds me a lot of what they do in princess and the frog a lot
I need to know more about the fight seen! The amount of sass that would be! 😂
PLEASE, YOU NEED TO RELEASE ALL OF THE DEMOS ON EVERYTHING AFTER EPICS DONE, HADESTOWNS BEEN MY FAV MUSICAL FOR. YEARS. AND HEARING WHAT YOUR IDEA OF YOUNG HERMES COULDA BEEN LIKE WAS SO COOL!!!!!
I don't know why, but I like this "jazzy" version :)
This man DROPS THIS AT THE END AND LEAVES
I literally just got up from listening to the Hadestown Cast recording. Technically, it would be an older Hermes, as Orpheus was way before the Oddessy, as evidenced by the sirens.
The foreshadowing in the hadestown styled version is so good 👌
The jazz was definitely fun but I love our present version a lot. I’m a fan of your work feeling more like you and less like other works. Tribute is not bad! I just like this better.
The original hermes is cool too. But I love outlr hermes. He's so iconi
I think making him a like 80's college stoner works better somehow. Genuinely idk what to describe Hermes but i love him
I got so excited when you mentioned Hadestown bc I've been harbouring the possible headcanon that this Hermes is the same as that Hermes as well!
We love our Hermes. It's so cool to know all of your inspirations thru this shorts
See now I need hermes sing these renditions
I keep on seeing Hermes as a greek mythology fun uncle All Might for some reason, idk why.
It’s wild to hear the evolution of what we now call “our Hermes.” !! Did the final iteration fall together naturally or do you storyboard to help inform ur decisions?
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🤯 to think there was ever potential for Hermes to have other lyrics, composition, & character development/voice than what we have now?! Glad you went the direction you did! 😍
Everyone’s understandably talking about jazzy Hermes, but I love how 1st edition Hermes is just like
-I’m your friend now
-eat this plant
-*leaves*
Idk man the cutoff of eat this root killed me.
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i love hadestown and their portrayal or hermes but i also love your portrayal of hermes
honestly the hermes we have now couldn't be better
It seems like Hermes was also going to be a kind of fun character
I love that you got inspo from Hadestown (My second favorite musical!) but I love the current Hermes!
Also, A FIGHT SCENE BETWEEN HERMES AND CALYPSO?! I NEED TO KNOW MORE-
As a HUGE fan of both Hadestown and Epic: The Musical, I keep on forgetting that Hermes is a character in both of these wonderful musicals. Well, it's not that I forget he's a character. it's more like I forget that both of these Hermes characters are based on the same mythological deity.
I'm glad that Epic's Hermes doesn't resemble Hadestown's Hermes. I love both characterizations because they both fit their respective stories perfectly.
Now get Hermes to sing these deleted songs as a bonus version. XD
I'm sorry but, *TAKE THIS ROOT* caught me completely off guard
I really want the full New Orleans jazz version of Puppeteer now LUL Always a trip to see the bts of character development, and please elaborate on this fight scene! :P
Hermes with the New Orleans swag was giving!!!
I would give anything. Just to here TROY sing the hades town version 😭
I’m gonna need a 12 hour documentary on the ‘making of’ Epic the musical btw.
A fight scene?! Hell yeah, hermes vs calypso i Need to hear more about it 💚💚💚
I'm SO GLAD to have the Hermes we have today. The other version sounded cool, and jazz is always cool. But like... He is an ✨ ICON ✨. Having him be so fun and chaotic makes him such a cool standing out character in EPIC, and perfect *meme material.*
Ahhhh i love Hadestown!!! Cool to see some of the inspiration and i can hear it in the end song clip.
I love the jazzy vibe so much please make a song like that!
Calypso v Hermes fight scene?
"Someone arrived today
They said they're taking you away
That you're not mine to save
And so I punched them in the face"
Would be cool if after The musical is fully released, you would release an uncut version of everything. And the whole thing would be uncannon. I'm sad that everything will just lie there.
My therapist: Jazzy puppeteer isn't real! It can't hurt you!
The jazzy puppeteer:
Oh my fucking god I LOVE the jazzy part
Fight scene?!?!?!? Jay you can't leave us with that?!
Could we have this musical like Marvel’s multiverse? I need all versions of every song in full form.
ok and you just dropped the fight scene bomb and DIPPED ??? jay ur an insane man