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oh god people are gonna be insufferable and might just make the most horrendous takes for them.... i hope that doesn't happen but with how epic ended im just scared

See, there's hoping that it does not happen but it isn't much hoping!

I think when you work with the Iliad as your inspiration/base material, it's the issue of POV. Like, the Iliad has as many singing voices as it has warriors on the battlefield, etc. Homeric text avoids this problem because it's an epic narrative where everyone comes into focus for a little bit and there's enough time to introduce your main actors, but with a musical I don't really see how it's entirely... possible. So if he chooses the narrative to be Achilles' POV, as I have little reason to believe he is interested in the Trojans due to how Odysseus was softened down, then there's not much room for complexity for the Trojans because of POV limitations alone.

Hector and Paris are complex and an outsider's POV would not work for them. He'd have to somehow pick a new "voice" for each given song if he wants to present them as equally compelling.