Ugh, that sounds terrible, Jilli. It sounds like Wicked is a MUCH better gothy musical, with good music and intelligent plot and character development.
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Sean K - Nov 30, 2012 9:11:10 am PST #22919 of 30000
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Atropa - Nov 30, 2012 9:26:54 am PST #22920 of 30000
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Ugh, that sounds terrible, Jilli. It sounds like Wicked is a MUCH better gothy musical, with good music and intelligent plot and character development.
Oh, Wicked is the One True Musical for me, absolutely. The images I've seen from The Addams' Family musical look good - they got the image and style right. But the plot, oh G-d, the plot. I want to find the writers and ask them if they knew anything about the property before they started writing the musical.
JZ - Nov 30, 2012 9:35:06 am PST #22921 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Re your whitefont: That is seriously not any iteration of that particular character that I would ever, ever have recognized in a million years. It's in fact an iteration of the character that I'm fairly sure would have the original chanting, "Kill it, kill it with fire."
Frankenbuddha - Nov 30, 2012 9:44:58 am PST #22922 of 30000
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That is seriously not any iteration of that particular character that I would ever, ever have recognized in a million years. It's in fact an iteration of the character that I'm fairly sure would have the original chanting, "Kill it, kill it with fire."
Same with the whitefonted subplot, JZ. It sounds like they used La Cage aux Folles as the template which is totally wrong.
Atropa - Nov 30, 2012 9:46:47 am PST #22923 of 30000
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It's in fact an iteration of the character that I'm fairly sure would have the original chanting, "Kill it, kill it with fire."
Pretty much, yes. And I was so giddy with hope when the news of an Addams Family musical was first announced! But alas, no. And when it was here in Seattle last month, everyone kept asking me if I was going to go, if I was excited about it, and so on. I felt like such a killjoy (and not the MCR kind, dammit) for Holding Forth about the wretchedness of it.
JZ - Nov 30, 2012 9:52:56 am PST #22924 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh my God, Frank, you're completely right. I KNEW I knew that plot already, but the title kept slipping away.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2012 10:49:48 am PST #22925 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The guardian movie--anyone have a first (or maybe second, amateur) hand opinion?
Jessica - Nov 30, 2012 11:01:26 am PST #22926 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2012 11:18:12 am PST #22927 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wow, those commenters did not like your DH not liking it. His explanation seemed pretty simple, though. Not sure why it went over any heads.
Jesse - Nov 30, 2012 11:19:33 am PST #22928 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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