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Today I cried a little bit because I remembered that when Beethoven conducted his ninth symphony for the first time he got a standing ovation and one of the sopranos had to turn him around to see the audience. 

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Well, it has come to my attention, that this year there will be a new "István, a király" ... I'm not that thrilled.

With that said, here are some things we know:

first, István from the 2013 version comes back ( I have zero expectations)

(this guy, at least its not the pimp from the 2023 version...)

second, there will be 24 (!!!!) dancers. 24.... Now imagine the scene where the Hungarians are choosing a side to fight for, and there are only 12 people on each side. Comical.

its somehow going to be reworked to appeal more for the youth? ( i really hope its not going to be a clusterfuck...)

the songs are going to be performed more dynamically, whatever that means

Now, my predictions:

István is going to be overly sentimental in his songs

Sarolt will not be angry or outraged enough

Laborc will be shit

The nobles will probably be good

Hopefully, Koppány too

Réka is always a hit or miss, i don't know what to say

Asztrik will be good

Again the shaman is a hit or miss, we will see

Ah, Gizella, she will suck

Someone is going to play Lord Géza, as unnecessary as that is

The above mentioned characters are going to have intricate costumes, the dancers will not.

And for now that's it. I don't have high hopes or expectations for this production, and I will try to go into it with an open mind. That said, I will enjoy "critiquing" it. (could what I'm doing be considered a critique?)

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Male writers writing female characters:

“Cassandra woke up to the rays of the sun streaming through the slats on her blinds, cascading over her naked chest. She stretched, her breasts lifting with her arms as she greeted the sun. She rolled out of bed and put on a shirt, her nipples prominently showing through the thin fabric. She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards.”

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huh, well its been while, eh?

I found an old sketch of Mordremoth, and well, after 3 days, this happened. I wanted to add a rotting wood kinda feeling to it. It was a lot of fun working on the details. (i wanna make it again, just BIGGER :DD)

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I tried a little animation of blooming flowers in old anime style, with blur and shitty resolution, hope it works as intended !

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EVERY BODY KNOWS SHITS FUCKED

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Happy 30th birthday Chrono Trigger!

Time to play it again, it's been so long

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girls you won't believe what url was not taken

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I've been scream laughing at this for several days

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Guess who's back? (Snoop doooog!!!) ((forgot to say, i appreciate those 3-4 of you who read my ramblings and found it entertaining, ty for the comments!))

Ok, so last time i spent an hour writing down my thoughts and i only covered 20 minutes of the production. I'm not even halfway...sigh...(this may take a while to finish..)

So, we left of at the nobles leaving, now István is crying about the fact that he has to fight his uncle for the throne.

Also István looks like he just barely escaped from his wedding night duty. Again the music randomly picks up speed and... i dunno man, i guess it's for dramatic effect? But, you don't need it? The piece was already written with drama in mind. Oh, well.

(What better place for a heart to heart than next to a dead body, eh?)

Man, i just mentioned István escaping his bedroom duty, and who shows up? Fucking Gizella, moaning about being horny!

He kisses her on the forehead and leaves her alone (this is how the canon Sasuke/Sakura couple looks like).

Ugh, I HATE this song! (hate let me tell you, how much I've come to HATE you,)

She sings how much she hates politics and blah blah blah, lets move on pleaaaaaase! But no, they are singing in german too, and now they sound like a broken record repeating the same line over and over and over and over and over, and more people are coming to the stage and they are still repeating the same thing for almost a whole ass minute.

Moving on, finally, István is chosen as the next Lord, not much to say, other than the pagans finally take Laborc off the stage.

(poor guys been laying there for so long)

They are folk dancing to a slow number and i don't know how to feel about it. Dissonance.

(You had 0 reason to sit so close to her... there was literally a whole empty stage, you could have chosen any other place!)

(I don't like this, why are they sharing this weirdly romantic moment aren't they supposed to be cousins?!)

My god, he is crawling on the floor after her and she is not even fighting to get away. I like the expression on the shaman's face, he is so done with this shit.(im only guessing the guy in red is the shaman, we will see shortly)

Shaman walks in, sniffs loudly, slowly climbs the stairs (no music, of course, in this production we like awkward silences), high fives the conductor, pretends he is a rockstar asking if everyone is having a good time (no) and then he starts playing.

"Let's listen to Lord Koppány!" the music stops, Koppány walks back yells "NA!" the music starts again.... honestly if you don't know any hungarian with this one (1!) word people will understand you. It can be used in whatever situation you need.

The war cries are back, and Koppány still can't sing (ok he can, his voice is just not made for this role).

(some people still have mud on their face)

(these three just strutted across the stage, like they own it, slay i guess)

This is a surreal experience I have no other words for it.

Koppány's wives start stripping him, while he is stone faced. These 3 women are at his feet crawling on the ground and he has 0 reaction. Like at most, he is annoyed!

He is annoyed, he is so mean to them! Like, "Ugh, I'm so tired of these women throwing themselves at me!", he pushes them away, even tho the lyrics make it seem like its hard for him to resist them, what is this?

They are scared of him! They take a few steps back when he addresses them, what???

Nobles are back, and for one, they are on time. Although, the song gets sped up to comical levels.

The shaman tries mongolian throat singing.... to some degree of success....

I....I don't know, how to describe the following events....

Ok, so, some guys come back splattered in blood carrying these... drums? I don't know what to call them...they start playing and the shaman just ??? imitates a dying monkey.... I don't have any other words to describe this.

He starts smoking a joint....

(yeah, you need it bud)

Everyone is wilding, the shaman is dancing around, they kill a plastic horse? (I hate it. It's too over the top for me...)

Réka tries pleading with his father to no avail, and the scene just lacks weight. Koppány simply doesn't have the range or the strength of voice to make this scene good. He sounds like a little girl whining., why is he trying so hard to hit those high notes? Start lower my dude!

I'm skipping a lot, I ran out of things to say without starting to repeat myself. Anyways, Koppány fights against István, gets defeated by crosses.

Harold is back! Yipeee!... tries to comfort Réka, keyword on tries.

So, István won and now everyone wants to get their share of spoils, István looks reluctant about it all, Gizella is seemingly having an affair with one of the soldiers (?).

Let's just get this guy quartered so i can be free.

(what the hell is this)

As the music swells these 4 groups of people just fall to the ground, and scene falls flat with it.

Ok, István comes on stage, Asztrik is asking his questions about him keeping the sacred religion and all that, but Itsván is taking an eternity to answer yes! Why? Count to 3, not 5, not 2 ("unless you continue your count to 3!"). Asztrik sounds bored too. He shouts "AMEN!" and finally István is fucking king. I'm done.

Let's conclude.

-The good:

-there were no over the top costumes, everyone wore normal clothes, the main characters had fancier dresses, so you could tell them apart

-the beginning had a great visual

-The bad:

-everything else

In conclusion, you could make a drinking game out of how many times you cringe, or how many unnecessary silences there are, but i would advise against it, 'cuz you would get alcohol poisoning.

The end.

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I'm back on my bullshit, sue me.

Where were we? Ah, yes Hide the Pain Harold/ Lord Géza just got cardiac arrested after witnessing the hungarians opposing his hip new christian religion. Woohoo.

Now the following song is my favourite. Let's see what they do with it!

*deep fucking sigh*

My god. I forgot how badly Asztrik sings in this one. He couldn't have sung "Kyrie Eleison" any worse even if he tried.

Umm... Why did everyone paint their face with mud? Also why is everyone doing this weird Indian war cry? Also, also, the music is speeding up for some reason?

The people part before Terminator Asztrik like the red sea did before Moses. More Indian war cries

(You can tell who the bad guy is, 'cuz only bad guys wear sunglasses to funerals.)

Koppány and István, somewhat clumsily, lay lord Géza down on the dirt. Terminator Asztrik starts praying and then shouts at the people 'cuz they should be praying too. The people, startled, start chanting "Kyrie Eleison". Again, for some reason, the music is faster than its supposed to be, its like they are rushing to get this over with.

Jesus Christ, they really are rushing! István couldn't wait 2 seconds in silence before he started singing about how sad he is about his father's death.

Some of you could say I'm overly critical and I shouldn't be taking this so seriously, and I'm not, really, I do this 'cuz its fun for me. And I do try to see the good in these newer productions too, but ya know, I'm only human, and I'm biased towards the original.

Anyways, I feel István is overplaying the grieving son role. He didn't pace himself well, this song is supposed to build up slowly, his voice gains strength as the song goes on, but here by the middle he is already at the 'climax', so he goes right back to softly singing and builds up again, tho it is, understandably, rushed.

And then, Koppány enters. And very politely interrupts István. At first I think "Huh, at least he has a nice voice." NOPE. Oh, my God. This is the funniest shit I have ever seen. He doesn't have the range to reach the high notes, his voice is breaking! The Indian war cries are also back.

(he is struggling, the poor guy)

You can't take this seriously, you just can't. This man looks constipated, he is in pain, he certainly sings like he is pain.

Koppány looks awfully satisfied with himself, i think its wholly undeserved.

This shot looks familiar too, hmmm...

Ah, yes, found it.

Huh, just realized, the singers are not keeping tempo, the poor musicians are literally trying to predict the future by speeding up and slowing down, and when they inevitably predict wrong, the singers try to fix it by speeding back up, to maybe meet the musicians halfway. It's a mess.

Lord Géza rises from the fucking grave. I have no words.

(Yay for Nagy Feró!)

These two wander onto the stage, are confused, start singing. I am no longer surprised, half the cast in this production is confused by something.

Hey, Sarolt is singing, and she is kinda good too! But she is also rushing to get home and watch Szulejmán or something, i dunno.

Laborc/Romeo enters, Sarolt is not amused starts leaving, then (i laughed out loud, im not even kidding) he shouts "PAY ATTENTION!" Sarolt stops in her tracks and he continues on!

Awkward silence i so did not miss you! Also this overly long scene where Laborc is killed, while he shouts "No! Noooooo!", did not need to happen.

The 3 nobles are back and the music is fast and they are not on time, they sing slower than the music, the dissonance is killing me. István has had enough and tells them to fuck off, and that's my cue for tonight.

Goodbye, i dunno when i will pick this up again.

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“Caramelldansen” with every second beat removed

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playing gw2 is like. did you know many of the main characters have introductory short stories you can read online from ten years ago. did you know they make cute episode trailers for youtube and one of them is a mission impossible parody and one of them is the most heartwrenching scene acting in a video game, but it's. it's on youtube.

did you know there's short stories on their website about caithe finding herself after heartbreak, and zafirah coming to terms with misguided faith, and rytlock finally understanding his inferiority complex and the crutch he's used to overcome it at the expense of people he should've been there for. no it's not in the game it's on their website

there are official interviews with most of their voice actors discussing how they approach the character and the emotion they put into it and how they've developed over a decade

there's an alt goth version of the main sylvari theme that literally everyone swears by and it's really goddamn great but someone has to tell you where it is

don't even get me started on abaddon, one of the most important characters in their world, who isn't in the game and is barely mentioned