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fitzrove · 2 years ago

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jfkfkdkddk i just realised it's gonna take me a couple months to release my video essay so maybe i'll just blurt out some of my tanz der vampire hot takes now

- ALFRED IS THE MAIN CHARACTER come on you guys,,, you can like and be interested in other characters but it's a problem when the show itself doesn't remember how it was written. The very structure of the show (music, dialogue, plot, scenes) rebels against trying to change this and productions that push him aside just end up jumbled and messy. It's literally a main reason Kunze hated Broadway Tanz

- tied to this, so many people view carpe noctem as this "haha weird random nightmare dance number, guess it was added to pad the runtime" like no... that is literally a way for the show to metaphorically recap and further develop the central themes of the show to the audience at the beginning of act 2... open your eyes...

- I'll take Kunze's "tdv is a musical symbolizing the fall of the berlin wall" (true take of his) over "a longterm relationship with krolock is the ultimate way for sarah to liberate herself" any day. 😭

#like.#rant about the sarah and krolock thing ahead #when i write todolf fanfiction it's never about how rudolf's relationship with tod is a way for him to be liberated or smth #in fact it's always vaguely horrifying #i mean the closest thing to liberation is the todesengel au where he Steps Out Of Time but with that i tried to strongly imply that its #actually really awful because he gives away agency & moral & opinion and becomes inhuman because of that #but anyway. krolock and sarah #it just doesnt read as liberating to me to have her go from the house of one man to another... she always said FREEDOM IS OUTSIDE/out there #not 'freedom is in krolock's castle specifically'#means to an end!!!!!#actually thats also how i feel about tod and elisabeth fjkfkf means to an end #i _like_ that the 'romance' in the stories stands for much larger metaphorical themes #shipping is fine and fun but romance in the traditional sense doesnt fit the actual productions #because it makes them just like every other kitschy musical in a way they were originally not #to be clear i'm not meaning to be a hater jgldkdj all fandom is fine and ppl like those ships for various reasons #but the original show is so complex and those complexities are personally important to me #i wish it had stayed that way :'0 maybe then more people would write alfred/sarah and alfred/krolock kfkdösjfkd

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