Dear Shelli and other interested parties

[arqueete]

So I was sitting here paging through the bare CD booklet as I was looking for a good lyric to change my MSN personal text to. And I stumble across this page...

1. That can't be grammatically correct, can it?

2. ?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1/1?1?1/1/1?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Comments

[starletfallen.livejournal.com]

1. Typo. It happens.

2. ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[dulcinea]

1. *missed. Certainly not the worst typo in that libretto. XD
2. THIS POINT COMES IN TWO PARTS
A) OMFG I HATE THAT SCENE IT KILLS ME. :( You know I <3 Jason and firmly believe that he isn't a total asshole; he just has serious emotional problems that he doesn't have the strength to work through. And, I mean, I really relate to that AND I HOPE I'M NOT AN ASSHOLE but idk, so. XD BUT THIS SCENE makes it difficult because Jason is rly being a hueg ass here :( :(
B) WTF they sex!?!!?! I thought Peter was all ~avoiding~ Jason and being all :|:|. That ~confuses~ me a little. Hrm.. It is after Pilgrim's Hands, so maybe this is like -- Jason and Peter starting to reconcile a little? But then it all blows up when the scene of dramaz happens and that's why Peter gets extra speically pissed off. Oh man. :(

[arqueete.livejournal.com]

What I like about 2 is that not only does it come out of nowhere, but plot-wise it seems to hold no purpose except to further cement that Jason is an asshole. JUST IN CASE YOU FOR A SECOND FELT SORRY FOR HIM KNOWING HE'S GOING TO BE A FATHER AND DOESN'T EVEN KNOW YET, ~HERE'S SOMETHING TO PISS YOU OFF~.

[arqueete.livejournal.com]

One thing I really don't like about it is that I like the idea of Peter growing a backbone in the second act, and the fact that he and Jason would've basically just gone back to how they were before had Ivy not been pregnant just sort of changes the whole story to, "A LOT OF SUCK HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T USE PROTECTION."

Or something like that. I'm half asleep.

[dulcinea]

Quite. It does thin the layers of the second act, I think, and make it a little more trite. That's what I feel happens with a lot of what goes on in LA!bare as opposed to NY!bare. I know the creators didn't like that someone else was messing around with their baby (eljay doesn't like that either), but sometimes it takes other people to help polish and finish a story. One person only contains so much awesome that they can lend to a work; other people have to contribute their pieces of awesome too to fill it out.

And -- what's the point of establishing Jason as an enormous asshole, essentially removing any ability for anyone to feel sorry for him in any way -- and then turn around and have him sing Cross/Once Upon a Time and kill himself? You alienate the audience from him and then make him a source of emotional vulnerability. I guess I can see the shock factor, like Ivy and her baby, but I could really do without that whole thing. Not hearing much from Jason's point of view until Cross/Once Upon a Time is interesting enough. It builds you up until you wonder what's driving him at all, but if you make him too evil, no one's going to care. Which would be really terrible considering Jason and Ivy are the most tragic characters in the play. For all his talk of Jason being a hero, Peter turns out to be the strong one in the end. Then again, maybe Jason is a sort of hero -- a tragic one who winds up dying as a result of his own character flaws.

[arqueete.livejournal.com]

AHHH YOU MENTIONED TRAGIC HEROES AHHHH BAD ESSAY MEMORIES