I Agree With Everything You Said And I Demand More.

I agree with everything you said and I demand more.

One additional thought. The Takarazuka Revue didn’t choose to cast all female, they chose to adapt this musical into their all-female cast company. But to me the problem isn’t in the cast, it’s in the way the writers REWROTE AND DESTROYED ONE OF THE BEST MUSICALS OF ALL TIME. No internal consistency, characters are bland, Death is the protagonist now btw, and worst of all, they made the show KITSCHY.

2005 Vienne is the most intense and spectacular imo

rating elisabeth productions i’ve seen because why not!

1992 in Wien: fae king is concerned how into it random girl in the woods is after repeatedly telling him her name. blue! it’s so blue and the little pause at her wedding is the greatest bit. pia’s dress!!!! oh goodness, she radiates sisi for me, both story wise and history wise. she brings such respect to a woman i love and hopefully is resting in peace. also uwe and pia are literally bffs it’s beautiful i have never seen a gay man kiss a woman with as much love and respect as i do when these two play death and sisi. like even in concerts he *still* does the final act bridal carry. only downside is i need more physicality! 

2002 in Essen: pia’s last performance of sisi and i just-it’s bittersweet but the way she brings everything to the role. the literal screams and cheers of the audience with her final note in ich gehör nur mir gives me chills every single time. i wish they kept in the blocking with her and rudolf when he comes to her in the garden (the poor boy, or rather, young man at this point buries his face into her stomach and i literally cannot-) and the heartbreak of her saying “i never beg. i won’t even do it for you.” like it hurts so bad but so good. she also does a cartwheel. barefoot. petticoats and all! (also pia did a revival in i think…2018? in concert. she’s 60 something and she can still hit the g5 at the end of ich gehör nur mir. i literally teared up when i saw the clip. she will always embody sisi for me. forever. 

2005 in Wien: two feral idiots have an argument for two hours.literally the greatest of all time, i will be taking no other thoughts. was the first production i watched and i fell head over heels in love. went to school the next day, screaming about it to my friends (who didn’t care) and the promptly went to scream about it my history teacher (who did care). mate and maya are the most psychological and historical for me. the interwoven bliss of the tumbling, complicated relationship between death and sisi directly contrasted with the fall of the haspburg empire, the choice between yourself or what you have to do in this life, everything about it. serkan kaya is literally the greatest lucheni and i want to simultaneously wring his neck for killing sisi but also lowkey adopt him for his freaking runs and literally hitting the same note of a freaking trumpet. the physicality between mate and maya makes me melt, because it’s rough and feral and then soft and longing. the almost nose brush! the complete amusement from death followed by confusion and then fascination and then all of that is literally mirrored in the slowed down moment at her wedding when they circle each other cate please i’m going to combust- 

takarazuka: it’s a no for me. japan has beautiful sets and costumes, but the choice to make the entire cast female was terrible. i’m watching bad performances of women pretending to be men and singing parts way too low for their ranges. also death is just…weird? it’s unsettling. also the show doesn’t sound good in japanese compared to other languages like german, dutch, and korean. 

2012: kill it with fire. no, don’t even do that. wait until it’s coming off of a boat and then stab it repeatedly with a file. this is the worst adaptation my eyes have ever had the misfortune to see. the soundtrack itself isn’t terrible, and if anything mark siebert is probably my favorite when it comes to his version of die schatten werden länger [akt 2]. but the production set is legit just….it’s nothing. there’s nothing but a ramp. it’s so ugly. and GOD, death isn’t…he’s not some macho goth man? and then having actresses who play sisi entirely as timid, white, 20 somethings completely takes me out of the character and the story. there’s no strength. there’s no passion. i’m just watching pretty young women who have the worst, high school production old age makeup i have ever seen. i hate it so much. not a production but: there were some choices made to have elisabeth be played by two different actresses and that legitimately made me so upset, i had to go and do something else. it completely strips away sisi as a person and a character and i despise this take. 

2020: maya is too old to play sis but did i cry when she came out in THE dress? yes. everything else is awful. that fucking SWING I’M GONNA MURDER SOMEONE- please get rid of mark as death i’m so tired-

Kittyboy Rudolf is free serotonin 💖

Happy Lunar New Year!!!!!

Here's Der Tod in áo tấc (a Vietnamese traditional costume) and catboy(catman?) Rudolf because it's the year of the cat instead of rabbit in Vietnam

Why are these 2 the way that they are 🤣

adrienette season 5 dynamic my beloved

That’s a really good point because then there’s the question of: why doesn’t Gabriel just weaponize Adrien’s loneliness and sadness again? It’s possible that because Adrien has also been shown to have grown and is slowly but surely breaking out of Gabriel’s grip. While Gabriel can give Adrien commands, he, himself, is also feeling like he can no longer control Adrien completely anymore. Because Adrien would just sneak around behind his back.

So he has to threaten Marinette. But while Marinette is somewhat affected by the threat, she still doesn’t cower but is confident enough in her judgment to oppose Gabriel - regardless of what the threat entails. And by reassuring Adrien that she is supportive of him, and that Gabriel’s authority no longer scares her, Marinette is once again allowing Adrien to seriously consider opposing his father, like what happened in Risk, Strike Back, and Evolution when he finally says he wants to quit modeling.

We as a fandom don’t talk enough about this

In Chat Blanc, when Gabriel tries to separate Adrien and Marinette, Marinette’s response is to comply to that demand and breaks up with Adrien, prompting him to run after her and is forced to out himself as Chat Noir. This incident leads to the blue-eyed nightmare that is Chat Blanc.

But in Pretension, when Gabriel tries to separate Marinette and Adrien again, this time by threatening Marinette that if she doesn’t give up Adrien, he will make sure she can never work a single day in the fashion business. However, this time, Marinette stands up to Gabriel. More importantly, she reassures Adrien that she will NEVER abandon him.

This is important for 2 reasons:

1. It really demonstrates how gutsy Marinette has grown. She is no longer weak in the face of a looming authority like Gabriel Agreste. She is now confident, assertive, and not going to obey anybody, much less Gabriel.

2. Marinette shows Adrien that she can be his emotional pillar of support, so that he is no longer alone. He has somebody to rely on when his father fails (which, let’s be real, Gabriel gets worse and worse each season). And to show him that standing up to Gabriel is possible and absolutely the right thing to do, she could have inspired him to try and stand up for himself too.

Is Chat Blanc still a looming specter of threat? Perhaps as both Marinette and Adrien grow up into confident and self-assured adults, he will become less and less of a nightmare, just a “what could have been.”

In other words, I’m not pressed about the reveal. It’ll happen when it feels natural and consensual for both sides. Even if that means season 12 🤣🤣🤣

Y’all I was gonna say maybe Midorikawa Hikaru could be a good contender for Kusuriuri. Then I remembered he literally voiced The Man in the Fox Mask.

The lore deepens

We as a fandom don’t talk enough about this

In Chat Blanc, when Gabriel tries to separate Adrien and Marinette, Marinette’s response is to comply to that demand and breaks up with Adrien, prompting him to run after her and is forced to out himself as Chat Noir. This incident leads to the blue-eyed nightmare that is Chat Blanc.

But in Pretension, when Gabriel tries to separate Marinette and Adrien again, this time by threatening Marinette that if she doesn’t give up Adrien, he will make sure she can never work a single day in the fashion business. However, this time, Marinette stands up to Gabriel. More importantly, she reassures Adrien that she will NEVER abandon him.

This is important for 2 reasons:

1. It really demonstrates how gutsy Marinette has grown. She is no longer weak in the face of a looming authority like Gabriel Agreste. She is now confident, assertive, and not going to obey anybody, much less Gabriel.

2. Marinette shows Adrien that she can be his emotional pillar of support, so that he is no longer alone. He has somebody to rely on when his father fails (which, let’s be real, Gabriel gets worse and worse each season). And to show him that standing up to Gabriel is possible and absolutely the right thing to do, she could have inspired him to try and stand up for himself too.

Is Chat Blanc still a looming specter of threat? Perhaps as both Marinette and Adrien grow up into confident and self-assured adults, he will become less and less of a nightmare, just a “what could have been.”

In other words, I’m not pressed about the reveal. It’ll happen when it feels natural and consensual for both sides. Even if that means season 12 🤣🤣🤣