#except this one specific version of chess i HATE where they dropped the ball on EVERY SINGLE SONG

[pigeon-in-a-pie]

No but this is exactly why I love chess and exactly why it's so hard to share with other people!

Every time I watch chess, every rendition I know about is in the back of my mind, and are all canon to me. Every interpretation and characterization come together into one cohesive and fully developed story. They all add to each other! So it's very difficult to explain because I'm never quite sure which bits belong where or from what.. and I can't expect anyone else to listen to like 11 different versions of the same thing.

It makes sense in my head, I swear!

breaking my silence on chess the musical to say that i would literally not give a fuck about this show if i thought it was good or fully successful at what it is saying. SORRY! i love how messy she is. i love how since 1984 and continuing to this very day people with entirely different perceptions of and opinions on the musical have attempted in their own ways to "make it good" by creating all these different versions with like notably different plots, characterization, and song order, and i love how fucking bad the vast majority of these are despite it all. i hope people keep trying to fix chess the musical forever and until the end of time. i hope no one ever figures it out. i want every currently living theatre director in existence to make their own version and for all these versions to come out on broadway at the same time, making that year's musical season entirely comprised of various different versions of the cold war chess musical by tim rice and half of abba. i want not only our greatest minds but also our middlest-of-the-road and worst minds to come up with their own conclusions as to why chess does not entirely work in its original form or any subsequent forms like to really think about it and yes i do want someone to dedicate their entire life to perfecting chess by releasing version after version after version until they die peacefully but still, as always, in the grips of obsession. i want marriages to be broken up. i want mental states to be shattered. i dream of this world