How long are we white-fonting, btw? The free net content goes poof on Sunday midnight like Cinderella and the pumpkin, if I recall. Do we WF until then, after which we can black-font discuss to our hearts' content?
I coughed up the four bucks for the iTunes purchase for the whole thing. Regardless of my issues with the denouement, I'm glad I bought it, because DAMN, these songs are catchy. I found myself humming the tunes all day under my breath without meaning to. The duet opening the Act II remains my favourite -- the overlapping lyrics there are very clever indeed. As for NPH, I always knew he was adorable and talented, but I think this is the first venture where I found myself actively crushing on the dude. The bit during the aforementioned duet where
Billy and Penny sing "I cannot believe my eyes... it's plain to see, evil/rapture inside of me" against the wall makes my heart go pitter-patter. The harmony is *gorgeous*, and the way NPH leans back against the wall in his wee hoodie, looking bitter and like his heart is breaking -- whoa boy.
I am the white-fonting part Vonnie. I stopped counting the number of times I saw that song, and specifically that part (or maybe it's just the wall thing, and then I just might have a thing for scenes with walls and agony in them).
Hee! Vonnie I've been singing that same part over and over today.
Hee, Shir, I think it just may be the
wall thing. Well, wall and the agony, like you said. The beginning of that bit when NPH *throws* himself to the wall -- OK, I find that hotter than anything in the whole show. And the way his voice goes for broke when he sings "evil inside of me"? Day-um. And the clever, clever lyrics. I particularly love the way Billy's line of "how the world's full of filth and lies" and Penny's "how the world's finally growing wise" start together, diverge, and come back on that final "-ise".
I've seen that
wall duet scene before.
Was it
West Side Story
?
I watched Act III earlier today, and was completely caught off-guard by the ending. The
tonal shift
just smacks you upside the head.
I just re-watched all the way through, and the
tonal shift
still seems rather abrupt. However, part of me wonders if it is Joss sort of saying
"Hello, you're rooting for the bad guy! What exactly did you think was going to happen?"
I don't know. It still seems a bit off, somehow. Overall, I think that Act II is my favorite of the three.
That said,
Bad Horse
actually being
a horse
fills me with glee for some reason. I wonder if that's just Joss being goofy or it's a joke aimed at all the
hyper-intelligent evil gorillas
that exist in comic books.
Overall, though, I completely agree with the assesment that NPH is made of awesome in this.
I just caught that the
Wonderfluonium case says, "DO NOT BOUNCE."
Well, I have no idea where and if I've seen the wall duet before, but I now declare myself as a "Wall of Agony" genre fan. Two people (or more!), one wall, tons of agony, possibly singing. You just can't go wrong with that, you know?
I dreamed the music all last night -- no tthe words, just the music. Of course, there was a red tabby kitten named Harriet in my dream. and some world saving. I guess I needed a sound track
The Watcher's interview with NPH: [link]
A teensy bit spoilery, but nothing for Act III.
