#Just so many wonderful performers

[fairyofshampgyu]

he’s literally so beautiful and handsome

[sneez]

some parallels i noticed on my most recent rewatch which made me explode [id in alt text]

[skitskatdacat63]

2011 British gp Fernando is such a mood...

[boraababy]

sometimes I think of when astronauts come back to earth and because they’re not poets they don’t have the words to describe what they just experienced and to me it’s like when cyclists are asked how their day was and they just say ‘yeah good legs’

[charlie-rulerofhell]

Love of the Lost

[skinzchoerim]

I can't tell if I'm not the target audience for dOpamine or if I get it. It seems everyone finds the song really fun and exciting, but for me it sounds a bit... haunting I guess would be the word? Which makes sense with the lyrics acknowledging it's an obsession that makes the narrator lose himself, so maybe it's not trying to be deceptively cheerful in its sound and visuals while hiding the darker truth in the lyrics and MV like angel did, and instead it's laying it all out and making the listener intentionally a bit uncomfortable. But I haven't seen anyone else have these complicated feelings about how it sounds, so maybe it just doesn't fit into the type of sound that I personally find exciting

[britneyshakespeare]

Much Ado About Nothing, II.i

[mooremars]

Just thinking about how absolutely wild the structure of Camelot's songs are within the context of the show. I am sure people have been saying this for 60 years but I want to talk about it now. Like I do genuinely love it but what were they thinking????

The first scene has 3 songs and a reprise. And depending on the version, different amounts of Guenevere starting us off.

Arthur in fact has two songs in the first scene. At least using 2023 as an estimate for timing, he will not sing again for over 45 minutes. After that, over an hour (including intermission). He is the main character. I know a hallmark of most versions is that he can't sing for shit but still.

The way The Simple Joys of Maidenhood barrels straight into I Wonder What the King is Doing Tonight like I don't think you're supposed to stack two songs immediately on top of each other in this way.

Genny also has two songs in the same scene later. And this time no one else is getting one in between. The middle of act 1 is for her.

Really all of act 1 is for her because more than half of the songs in it at least prominently feature her. And no one can catch up in act 2.

It's not even close. She has three full songs basically to herself, another one that's probably like 80%, a reprise that's mostly her, another solo reprise in 2023, except for 2023 another song with just her or with Lance, and one song with Arthur.

Iconic

Arthur has four major songs and then the tiny slices of Camelot reprises while Lance only has two or three. Even I can do this math, Genny wins by a landslide.

Depending on the version, the main couple either doesn't have a song together or has a song but it isn't even a love song. They all just sing about each other. Sometimes in front of each other. But together... nah.

There are no songs with the three leads and in fact there are like twice or three times the number of songs with one or two people singing than songs with more than that. I don't know the normal ratio but I feel like usually there's more ensemble stuff.

And like obviously act 1 ends with a monologue and that is brilliant and the best decision ever but also extremely weird that then the last song before intermission is sad Genny.

I am no musicals expert but literally none of this seems to make sense to me and yet it all somehow works and I'm obsessed with it.

[deviousdiesel]

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[theheadlessgroom]

@beatingheart-bride

"I felt like I had sworn in front of a princess!" Randall admitted with a shy laugh, the rest of his family laughing along as he rubbed the back of his neck: Though he would freely admit he could cuss a blue streak with the best of 'em, he tried to keep his mouth clean in public, and certainly keep it extra-clean in the presence of an upper-class young woman like Emily. Needless to say, his failing to do so absolutely mortified him in the moment, though he could certainly laugh about it now.

"I, uh...I didn't want to sound like I had no manners," he continued sheepishly, adding, "It, uh...it did take a while for her to convince me that she wasn't offended by my cursing-I felt awful, I really did, in the moment, though, I felt like it made it seem like I was born in a barn..."

"Awww, reminds me of when August and I first started getting to know each other," Josephine giggled amusedly, seeing a lot of similarities between her husband and grandson in the moment as she went on to explain just how nervous her future spouse was in the early days, very flustered being around such a confident, forward, and scantily clad woman (which quite flattered her, honestly).

"I used to have him over for coffee after performances, and bless his heart, he was so nervous-the only thing louder than his racing heartbeat was the way his cup used to clatter against his saucer! Well, one day, he got so wound up that he dropped his cup and spilled coffee all over the rug (which didn't bother me much; if anything, the coffee stain made that cheap ol' thing look better), and between his very rapid-fire apologies, I could hear him cursing under his breath, and that only made him apologize even more!"

"I'm not usually one for vulgarity," August admitted bashfully. "But I was just so frustrated and embarrassed by my inability to sit still that it just...slipped out, and I felt awful, just awful, swearing in the presence of a lady!"

Most people wouldn't bat an eye at swearing around someone in her profession, but he was a consummate gentleman to everyone he met, and so he didn't think twice about apologizing to her (even though, as she told him, she'd heard worse).

[mariocki]

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

"Jane, did you ever stop to think that... if anything happened to me, I mean anything bad, there wouldn't be any money for you? I wouldn't be here to sign the checks. You wouldn't even have pocket money. Did you ever think of that?"

"Yeah, I've thought about that."

[karamazovanon]

i love how your blog simultaneously includes insightful thoughts on the themes of dostoyevskys work and blatant shitposting. this is how the dialogue around classic lit should be

firing warning shots to keep the property values low <- not entirely sure if the warning shots are the shitposts or the opinion pieces but it's working either way

[knightingale]

kinda nuts that they hired actors in their mid-late 20s to play aegon ii and helaena when the younger actors that portrayed them in ep 6 are the actual age of the characters

[liu-yu-xin]

Im #1 yuwin hater bc it was so popular but their dynamic is actually so off like its company assigned gay bait and winwin was bad at pretending he didnt hate it and yuta seemed annoyed winwin was bad at it and had to compensate for them both and was way overselling it which made winwin hate it more. Vicious cycle. victims of the fujoshi industrial complex really

[alicentflorent]

Anyone else think Van still believes in the wilderness shit and actually wanted to go fully ahead with the hunt in hopes that it would cure her cancer? What if she even sent the postcards in an attempt to get everyone together?

[taylorsabrina]

i'm so bummed that i can't afford guts tickets, woomp woomp. :(((((