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I'm back! And there are way more people reading this than I'm used to.

Welcome back to Everything I noticed in TGWDLM:R Part 4!

This is from after intermission to the end of Show Stopping Number.

Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 are here

Again Spolier Ahead to the musical.

In between 

Paul and Ted are walking through the halls of Hatchetfield High. Paul comes from one of the aisles holding a flashlight and after a moment Bill runs onstage after him shouting for Alice.

While Bill talks about Alice, Paul is scanning the area and looking under what I’m guessing is the doors(?) of the school. This leads to both of them crawling on the floor.

Not Your Seed

This song was so sad. You can really see how they have integrated more of Alice and Bill’s relationship and characterization from Nightmare Time.

I don’t remember which verse, but Bill starts walking towards “Alice” but she keeps pushing him away. She also keeps stopping Paul from interfering as she keeps talking to Bill.

When the breakdown happens (the “why does it hurt to love you part”) Bill is kneeling on the ground and “Alice” sits down next to him and hugs him. They stay like that for the rest of this section until the beat drops. (This whole part hit me so hard.)

The most heart breaking moment was near the end where Alice, Deb, and the other girl surround Bill and hand him the shotgun. Bill stands there frozen in place.

Paul has to run in there and grab Bill tossing the shotgun away (but you know what happens after).

In between

When the aliens get scared off by the US military we finally get to see General MacNamara. Jeff gets another wig(?), he has the iconic ponytail.

When we transition back to Professor Hidgens and Emma it’s mostly the same except as Emma connects the dots and figures out that they need to destroy the meteor Hidgnes slowly makes his way to his desk (The one under his cork board). He grabs the syringe and tranquilizes Emma.

The black backdrop comes down and a single light is hanging above Paul. MacNamara places a chair next to Paul and begins to explain everything. (The scene is relatively the same but I just like how they set up the whole scene. 

Since I haven’t been shouting out people as often, shoutout Brandon Baruch and Yelena Babinskaya for the lighting. It goes crazy especially during the later songs.

Show Stopping Number

One of the most iconic songs in the musical (in my opinion). Emma and Ted are tied up, Ted even does the “Wha- What the fuck??”

The piano was not already placed on stage so I was excited to see how they were going to reveal it.

As Hidgens reveals that he has a background in musical theater, the piano (I’m assuming it’s on some sort of dollie) is pushed onto the stage from the left. 

For suspense Hidgens slowly brings his hands to the piano as Emma and Ted scream and beg for him to stop. He keeps teasing them by taking his hands away from the piano and then slowly bringing them back. At one point he makes it look like he won’t and Emma and Ted go “thank god” and sigh in relief, before Hidgens breaks out into song.

Talking about Hidgens again Will’s performance is so over the top (in a good way). He doesn’t stop striking poses and moving his hips. At one point (I don’t remember if this is before or during the song) he bends himself over the piano.

When Working Boys starts that's when the lights go crazy (again good job Brandon and Yelena). It’s very colorful and Will hit those high jumps!

This is partially a tangent but I feel like when Hidgens was explaining Working Boys Ted seemed more wistful. Idk if that’s just me. 

I don’t know if this is already a theory (I don’t really follow Hatchetfield theories sorry) but is the reason Ted gets so into Working Boys because he feels like it reflects him or what he wishes for? “a group of old college chums… long for the simpler times…But those glory days, they're gone for good...Or are they?” I recently(ish) listened to Nightmare Time and I feel like this reflects what we learned about in Time Bastard.

Anyways sorry for that tangent. Here is a little thing I found funny. I’m not sure when but somehow the belt tail came out right before Hidgens sings Working Boys. So throughout that part it’s just kinda swinging around. Will manages to fix it after that section of the song ends.

From the same place Charlotte and Sam appeared from Greg and Stu show up. Greg shows up like a cartoon character, his torso is fully parallel to the ground.

Paul shows up and unties Emma and Ted. They changed the set change joke but not by much. Since the piano can’t be moved it goes “Should I take this chair? Yes!”

Greg and Stu take Hidgens to the piano and rips open his stomach. It was AWESOME!!! You could see his ribs as they tore him open. You can really see how much work they put into these bits.

Ok that’s it for now. I just want to say thanks to all of you guys for reading the almost 9 page monstrosity of my ramblings so far. I gained so many new followers through this so it’s kinda nerve wracking to have an audience when I basically only had like one person a few days ago. Not really sure what to do after these posts but again thanks for reading!

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paul matthews is the type of guy who would hyperfixate on wars but instead of like the roman empire or WWII it would be the war between man and lobster from the trail to oregon. he would hyperfixate on it like some people on aliens or ghosts or consipiracies like he does NOT believe that it's real, but he is also the Only person that knows about it so his life is just an endless cycle of "haha so the lobster wars were like totally fake right" "Paul, what the fuck are you talking about"

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Okay, so I just finished watching the last episode of OFMD for the thousandth time and I just remembered a review I read before it came out that teased Stede getting a more comedic story in the episode while Ed got a darker one, and having watched that, it's actually not 100% true, but it is super interesting because I thought the same thing until this rewatch. The first two thirds of the episode, Stede is 100% the dramatic crux of the episode. After everything that happened in the last few minutes of episode 9, where his guilt completely overpowers him and we see him at his lowest so far in the whole show, it's devastating to see him trying to force himself back into those strict social guidelines that we know he hates so much for the sake of two people who would clearly have been happier if he didn't (Ed and Mary.) Seriously, this is probably him at his darkest. He pulls a knife on an innocent man. His family painted him out of their portraits. His wife wants to keep pretending he's still dead. His daughter hates him and his son doesn't know who he is. It's depressing as all hell. Meanwhile Ed is comparatively pretty lighthearted. He's clearly heartbroken, but it's not anywhere near as devastating as any of the stuff happening with Stede at that point. The crew are still supporting him in his awkward song-writing and crying in blanket forts. His talk with Lucius shows that he has an actual support structure for the first time in his life. And most importantly, for a while he actually seems to be getting better. He doesn't immediately lose all his development from throughout the series. He gets genuinely excited about the crew putting on a talent show and seems like he wants to be a part of it. Most vitally, he asks them to keep calling him 'Edward,' which is as we all know the name he uses when he's willing to be open and vulnerable with people. The beauty of the episode is the switch we get in two consecutive scenes; Stede coming out to his wife, and Ed killing Lucius. The coming out scene is unironically beautiful. It walks the line between being a revelation which was incredibly brave of Stede to do, and him just casually admitting a fact that he now knows to be true. When Mary hugs him, it's really the apex of his character arc. He can finally let go of the guilt he feels about abandoning her, knowing she has a better life without him in it, and he's no longer confused and tormented by his feelings for Ed. He finally lets himself be driven wholly by his heart and not by what he thinks is expected of him. By the end of the episode, this is probably Stede at his best emotionally. So from here, he gets a comedic arc where he gets to go all out faking his death. And it's hilarious. The last impression we get of him in the series is him finally free, ready to return to his love, something unambiguously happy. And all of the comedy of the last few scenes with him is still present in the viewers' minds, so we naturally associate his story now with all the lightness and brevity associated with the show's humour. In the meantime, immediately after the scene that gives us Stede at his best, we get the scene that gives us Ed at his worst. Him killing Lucius hurts so much, not only because it's Lucius and we all love him, but because it's so counter to everything Ed has shown himself wanting to be until now. He claims he doesn't kill people in spite of evidence to the contrary, and out of the entire crew, he's probably the closest with Lucius out of everyone minus Stede. He's the one who convinces Ed to tell Stede how he feels about him. He's the one who sees Ed crying in his blanket fort. He's the only one who snaps at him when he's making bad choices. So the sudden shift in their relationship portrayed so beautifully by Edward just smiling as he pushes him overboard is devastating, because if Ed doesn't care about Lucius anymore, who does he care about? The scene with Izzy immediately afterwards only makes it worse, because right now, he agrees with Izzy, but he's still willing to mutilate him to prove a

point; he doesn't care about anything anymore. And Izzy understands that. His glee immediately afterwards is proof that he's won, and he knows he's won. Blackbeard is himself again. From there, it's all downhill as he kills off every part of Stede he has left, from taking his ship, to destroying his books, to leaving his crew to starve. Our last image of him is him alone in his room, after adding a bloodied heart to his flag as a literal way of expressing to the world that he will never love anything again, crying at a picture of Stede's lighthouse, a parallel to the closing shot of Stede stood on his boat with one hand raised, emulating a lighthouse as he prepares to lead his crew away from danger, proving that even after everything he did to close himself off, he's still fundamentally broken. Symbolically, our last shot of Edward is a man who has driven all of the light out of his life, and our last shot of Stede is a man who is returning with a newfound light in himself. This structure was so well-done here, because honestly, giving all of the comedy to Stede and all of the drama to Ed would have been a disservice to both of their characters. Their arcs in this episode oppose each other perfectly, and the weight of comic relief is passed evenly between them, which is so much more satisfying on both a narrative and character standpoint This is basically a longwinded way of saying, I love this show, we need a season 2. Also I refuse to believe Lucius is actually dead. #LuciusLives.

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Okay, but why is nobody talking about Stede's scream when Badminton shot himself? It was so visceral and it utterly destroyed me, like props to Rhys Darby because he did not hold back on that at all

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i have yet to see anyone talk about the nandermo-deadly-tension musical leitmotif can we PLEASE TALK ABOUT TH

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You guys always act like Mega Mind is the only good deconstruction of character tropes when Galavant is right there

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I need BBC Ghosts season 4 to have an episode where Mike, Cap, and Thomas form a support group for people who feel responsible for the death of birds. The pain on their faces as they talk about each respective death is the most haunting thing on the show.

I mean look...

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Can somebody who knows how to edit please synch that one scene from Something To Share with the "You are my dad" vine?

You all know the scene I'm talking about

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Mary and the captains relationship is the funniest to me because there is literally nothing. It’s just a general mutual disliking. Now even a hatred or sworn enemies just they both seem like they’d rather the other simply wasn’t there. It’s wonderful.

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So it turns out Humphry did in fact die indoors and Julian died in a dining room, but it still wasn't the library, so unless it was another ghost who has since moved on, I'm still clinging to this theory. Plus, series three has added even more fuel:

Spoilers below, obviously

Okay, so I'm pretty new here but I have a theory for how the Captain might have died. Strap yourselves in whoever reads this because its going to be long and probably poorly formatted.

In the DVD extra Robin does a kind of walk through I think where he talks a bit about the building and when he gets to the library he says this:

Now we have a basic idea of where most of the male ghosts died. Pat and Thomas were outdoors as we saw, we can assume Humphry was too for his execution, Julian was likely in a bedroom, and the plague pit crew and Robin died before button house was a thing. That only leaves the Captain.

In the library you can see a mirror with a crack in it, which could be from something colliding with it. And if we look at the intro:

(Sorry for the bad quality) we see the Captain in a mirror with a crack across his head.

Going by what happened to Fanny we can assume that being instantly killed by something doesn't leave marks as she fell out of a window and doesn't have any cuts or bruises, so if it was the head like the crack suggests it could explain why there are no physical signs of death.

Given that so far all the characters in the intro are put in places significant to their deaths (Thomas is in the room where he challenged that one guy to a duel, Mary is in the fire place, Pat bleeds out from an arrow getting fired, Fanny is in a painting similar to the one her husband had) I'm gonna make a prediction that when we do see his death, he'll be shot in the library in front of a mirror.

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Has this been done yet?

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So anyways, while we're theorising, I'm trying to work out what each ghost's modern day profession would be based on what we've seen already. I'm just gonna compile a list to keep track:

- Mary - Director (1x04)

- Robin - Astronaut (1x05)

- Thomas - Advertising (2x01)

- Fanny - Crime boss (2x05)

- Captain - Wedding planner (2x06)

Julian and Pat are fairly obvious, but feel free to let me know if I've missed anything

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So...

Here me out. A human getting their 400 year old vampire friend to play a horror game on a VR headset and the whole time, the vampire is giving it all that “I am a terrifying creature of the night, no mortal game is going to scare me!” And then a jumpscare happens and the vampire goes fucking flying and crashed through a wall into the next room with a massive hiss and scream

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Okay, so I'm pretty new here but I have a theory for how the Captain might have died. Strap yourselves in whoever reads this because its going to be long and probably poorly formatted.

In the DVD extra Robin does a kind of walk through I think where he talks a bit about the building and when he gets to the library he says this:

Now we have a basic idea of where most of the male ghosts died. Pat and Thomas were outdoors as we saw, we can assume Humphrey was too for his execution, Julian was likely in a bedroom, and the plague pit crew and Robin died before button house was a thing. That only leaves the Captain.

In the library you can see a mirror with a crack in it, which could be from something colliding with it. And if we look at the intro:

(Sorry for the bad quality) we see the Captain in a mirror with a crack across his head.

Going by what happened to Fanny we can assume that being instantly killed by something doesn't leave marks as she fell out of a window and doesn't have any cuts or bruises, so if it was the head like the crack suggests it could explain why there are no physical signs of death.

Given that so far all the characters in the intro are put in places significant to their deaths (Thomas is in the room where he challenged that one guy to a duel, Mary is in the fire place, Pat bleeds out from an arrow getting fired, Fanny is in a painting similar to the one her husband had) I'm gonna make a prediction that when we do see his death, he'll be shot in the library in front of a mirror.