#this surprisingly can be applied to a lot of movies where you are not spoonfed the plot

[dtvhomeofhappiness]

Rocky horror is like if you got an advent calendar and each day you got a puzzle piece. you have no clue what the picture is going to be, and the puzzle pieces seem so drastically different. the only hint you're given is at the beginning, in which a big pair of red lips sings to you as you get a one or two word description of some pieces.

the first piece you get is that this is a sci-fi story. then, that Brad and Janet are a young couple that are very in love. third, that they're going to see an old friend who was described by the big red lips.

from just the first three days, you understand nothing, and not how it connects at all. how does this being a sci-fi story fit into this couple and their old high school teacher?

then, after the first week, you feel as though nothing is connecting aside from Brad and Janet sort of connecting to everything but not really. a guy got murdered? there's a gay mad scientist? there's a creation? who are all these characters? what happened to going to meet that friend? you feel as though nothing connects and nothing makes any sense. some people, especially those not privy to a puzzle about gay mad scientists, will either stop opening boxes altogether, or stop paying attention to the pieces they're getting.

for the next week, you're still confused as to what's going on, what the picture might be. though, if you pay close attention, you can start to put things together, such as that Riff Raff does not like Frank-N-Furter, and that Frank sleeps around. a lot. now, on most peoples first attempt on putting the puzzle together, they will not notice these things, or that they are crucial to the puzzle as a whole.

It's not until the 17th (still going with the puzzle advent calendar thing) that pieces start being obviously connected, such as that the man who got murdered was the "old friend's" nephew, and that Frank does not like people who look at UFOs, and that Dr. Scott knows a lot about those. we start to learn that Frank's chronic "sleeping around" has an impact on those who surround him.

And then, on the last day, everything falls into place. sure, some things had started to connect earlier, and if you had not given up any hope after the first two weeks and payed close attention, you probably could've gotten a good idea of what the picture was going to be, but it's that last couple days that tell you everything.

Rocky Horror isn't a movie about "nothing", or even worse when some people (cough cough, conservatives) see the second week's pieces and think it's "all p**n no plot", you just gave up looking at the pieces because you wanted to know the picture after the first week.