honestly ironic that it was a folie 8 ball on the night they didnt play any mania
i have said this before but mania is currently undergoing the same process folie has been undergoing the last few years, it’s just earlier in its timeline. maybe it’s not been entirely the reaction and treatment from the fans and more the personal frustration and emotions associated with the album for the band, but the fan reactions could possibly play a part in why they’re reluctant to play these songs compared to the other albums.
folie underwent this same process - after the break patrick didn’t even want to play the songs from it, and it’s only in the last few months that they’ve added them back with any confidence. I’m hopeful that the reaction from the fans to these songs being integrated into the setlist encourages the band that they can do this with mania too. they have said multiple times that they are proud of mania and they stand by what they did on that album, and i hope in tours to come they can play songs from mania and not worry about how fans will react (and also have grown from this tour cycle enough to be confident and comfortable as well).
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Why don’t you want five in school?
Oh, I've ranted about it before in the tags of THIS POST but in general it makes me wildly uncomfortable. As an adult, the thought of hypothetically being forced back to high school is the fucking pits, you could not pay me enough to do it - and I even had a good time in high school! Five is almost 60 years old and they're going to force him to go to classes and hang out with teens? That feels bad from every angle! It forces Five to act in a way he'd only do under great duress and fucks his agency and autonomy as an adult so badly. There are better, more interesting ways to play with the consequences of his physical vs actual age than sending him to goddamn high school. There's other, less dominating options for the "he looks like a kid and never actually graduated" problem.
You do you if that's your jam, don't let a random dude on the internet yuck your yum, but Five in high school is a squick for me.
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Another old Hollywood actress that gives me strong Meg Giry vibes is Judy Holliday - especially in Bells Are Ringing.
I LOVE JUDY HOLLIDAY SO MUCH
I'm in the beginning stages of drafting a fic where films develop in the Phantom timeline about a thousand times more quickly than in reality, and everyone is wondering who will be the first great diva of the screen, Christine or Carlotta...and then suddenly dark horse Meg is singled out from the movie chorus and it's her the camera and public ultimately fall in love with.
And that is exactly what Judy Holliday did to Bette Davis and Anne Baxter at the 1952 Oscars: the actress playing a ditzy blonde trying to better herself in a romantic comedy beats the two competing divas from the same drama. I love that shit.
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