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For the annual Christmas show, saw "Once On This Island" with 
isabel79 and TC and her friend D. Took Uber for the first time because TC felt we were running late, and while I refuse to use it myself, I have no qualms about riding along in someone else's Uber. Its a good thing we did though, because coming home, we found out that the 30th ave station was torn down for renovation! Man, I woulda been so pissed if we walked in the cold to find a closed subway stop!
Went to the Downton Abbey exhibit first, and now I know a lot more about the show! Like Rose's scandalous love life! Or that the mom was American!
Its funny, because they have exhibits for hot and the other one, but wayhot doesn't get her own display! Also, at a least two different exhibits, they quote Mary as saying, "I'm going upstairs to take off my hat!" So I was asking E, is that like her catch phrase or something? But she'd never heard of it, but then I googled it, and apparently it was a thing!
Also, they had a staff quiz to show what position you'd be most suited as. I predicted valet, and I was correct!
Had lunch at City Kitchen. They had some cool restaurants in there, though I was kinda annoyed it took like 15 minutes for the burger place to open up. Its like, how are you not ready when everyone else was? Their peanut butter and bacon burger was good tho!
Onto "Once on This Island"- Hmm, despite Lea Salonga being like the pride and joy of my people, at least when it comes to musicals, I'd never seen her in anything live. But now I have! While we were waiting, I guess there was a last minute casting change for the lead female, because the actress came in through the lobby all eggcited saying this was her first time getting to play this. She did end up doing well, so good on her!
I mean, it was a nice production, with a talented cast, but I'm a little iffy on the story. So Ti Moune (I had to look that up, I totally thought it was "Timun") was some girl who survived a big storm thanks to the gods. She was raised by a kindly old couple, but falls in love with Daniel, some kid from the rich side of the island whom she doesn't even know beyond seeing him drive around in his car.
One day, he gets into a crash, and while her father makes the dangerous trek to inform Daniel's dad so they can get him, Ti Moune watches over him. She even makes a deal with the goddess of death to keep him alive in exchange for her own soul. He lives, the guy's family comes to retrieve him, and despite her parents' objections, she takes the dangerous journey to his side of the island to be with him.
She gets there, sneaks into his room, and he's all, "Who are you?!" She informs she's the one who healed him, and they need to be together for him to fully recover. I guess we're supposed to think that's romantic, but its like, here's some beautiful young girl who totally wants to be with him, he's not going to turn her away!
Indeed, she spends weeks in his room helping him to recover, but I think we all know what that's code for. I highly doubt she spent all that time changing his bandages and fixing his ankle!
Anyways, he has his fun with her, but then its revealed he has an arranged marriage, and even though she has dreams of them being together and making a family of their own, he sticks with his fiancee.
And its weird, because the goddess of death comes to her all, "Ha, you traded your life for his and this is what you get! Here's this knife, I'll give you your life back if you kill him!" So she sneaks up on Daniel, but eventually can't do it. But what's weird is, she drops the knife, does a poor job of explaining herself, and Daniel just picks up the knife and walks out of their all, "Gee, that was odd!" not, "This girl tried to kill me!"
I mean, she does get kicked out, and waits at the gate for him, not eating or sleeping. And then he shows up after his wedding, because the tradition is for these rich folks to toss their change at the poors for good luck. And he like sees Ti Moune, and is all, "Here's some change, seeya!"
And for some reason, she still loves this a-hole! And her love touches the gods, so then when she dies immediately afterwards, they turn her into a tree, which cracks the wall between the rich and poor so the gate can never be closed again, and she can watch over him. And its like, why does she want to watch over that jerk!? It does not make cents!
But like I said, it was a good production, even if the story didn't resonate with me.
TV commentary:
The Librarians- Well, that was resolved rather quickly! So the animosity between Nicole and Jenkins fixes itself in an ep. So Jenkins and Baird are fooled by Rasputin because Jenkins for some reason thinks Nicole hates him so much that she was trying to find some artifact to try and kill him. But she doesn't, she really wants to stop Rasputin.
She ends up getting stabbed with the artifact (which can kill even immortals), and after they defeat Rasputin, he gives up his immortality to save her. Though I'm not sure if he gave her his immortality so she can be immortal again, or if the energy was enough to save her and now they're both back to being mortals.
I mean, he's lived a long life, so it seems like he's fine with giving up his immortality for her, but given his intense level of distrust, I'm surprised he believed her so quickly, even if Rasputin stabbed her. And I guess that was enough to end her vendetta against the library? Not that she's rejoining it, sounds like she's going back to living a normal civilian life?
But in the end, Flynn mysteriously leaves with no explanation. Which, you'd think the gang would be more worried! Because it doesn't seem like those events would make him be all, "Eff the library, I quit!"
I guess it might have to do with the other ep and the Librarian from a previous age warning him its dangerous to have multiple Librarians active. He even chastises Jenkins for allowing it to happen, all, he should know better. Actually, he should. This guy read a book once saying that this one time there were two Librarians at once, a civil war happened? Jenkins has centuries of experience. If he saw no problem, I'd take his judgement over an old story.
And even then, there's context. The former feuding librarians were brothers who thought they knew better than the other. There's no argument between Cassandra, Stone, and Ezekiel on methods really, they seem to get along pretty well. Of course, since this seems like it will be the overarching plot for this season, I'm sure for some reason they'll start butting heads out of nowhere.
Also, they're not worried about the timeline changes from Dare living longer than he did? I mean, if he was Librarian for 20 more years, doesn't that mean some other person didn't become Librarian?
isabel79 and TC and her friend D. Took Uber for the first time because TC felt we were running late, and while I refuse to use it myself, I have no qualms about riding along in someone else's Uber. Its a good thing we did though, because coming home, we found out that the 30th ave station was torn down for renovation! Man, I woulda been so pissed if we walked in the cold to find a closed subway stop!
Went to the Downton Abbey exhibit first, and now I know a lot more about the show! Like Rose's scandalous love life! Or that the mom was American!
Its funny, because they have exhibits for hot and the other one, but wayhot doesn't get her own display! Also, at a least two different exhibits, they quote Mary as saying, "I'm going upstairs to take off my hat!" So I was asking E, is that like her catch phrase or something? But she'd never heard of it, but then I googled it, and apparently it was a thing!
Also, they had a staff quiz to show what position you'd be most suited as. I predicted valet, and I was correct!
Had lunch at City Kitchen. They had some cool restaurants in there, though I was kinda annoyed it took like 15 minutes for the burger place to open up. Its like, how are you not ready when everyone else was? Their peanut butter and bacon burger was good tho!
Onto "Once on This Island"- Hmm, despite Lea Salonga being like the pride and joy of my people, at least when it comes to musicals, I'd never seen her in anything live. But now I have! While we were waiting, I guess there was a last minute casting change for the lead female, because the actress came in through the lobby all eggcited saying this was her first time getting to play this. She did end up doing well, so good on her!
I mean, it was a nice production, with a talented cast, but I'm a little iffy on the story. So Ti Moune (I had to look that up, I totally thought it was "Timun") was some girl who survived a big storm thanks to the gods. She was raised by a kindly old couple, but falls in love with Daniel, some kid from the rich side of the island whom she doesn't even know beyond seeing him drive around in his car.
One day, he gets into a crash, and while her father makes the dangerous trek to inform Daniel's dad so they can get him, Ti Moune watches over him. She even makes a deal with the goddess of death to keep him alive in exchange for her own soul. He lives, the guy's family comes to retrieve him, and despite her parents' objections, she takes the dangerous journey to his side of the island to be with him.
She gets there, sneaks into his room, and he's all, "Who are you?!" She informs she's the one who healed him, and they need to be together for him to fully recover. I guess we're supposed to think that's romantic, but its like, here's some beautiful young girl who totally wants to be with him, he's not going to turn her away!
Indeed, she spends weeks in his room helping him to recover, but I think we all know what that's code for. I highly doubt she spent all that time changing his bandages and fixing his ankle!
Anyways, he has his fun with her, but then its revealed he has an arranged marriage, and even though she has dreams of them being together and making a family of their own, he sticks with his fiancee.
And its weird, because the goddess of death comes to her all, "Ha, you traded your life for his and this is what you get! Here's this knife, I'll give you your life back if you kill him!" So she sneaks up on Daniel, but eventually can't do it. But what's weird is, she drops the knife, does a poor job of explaining herself, and Daniel just picks up the knife and walks out of their all, "Gee, that was odd!" not, "This girl tried to kill me!"
I mean, she does get kicked out, and waits at the gate for him, not eating or sleeping. And then he shows up after his wedding, because the tradition is for these rich folks to toss their change at the poors for good luck. And he like sees Ti Moune, and is all, "Here's some change, seeya!"
And for some reason, she still loves this a-hole! And her love touches the gods, so then when she dies immediately afterwards, they turn her into a tree, which cracks the wall between the rich and poor so the gate can never be closed again, and she can watch over him. And its like, why does she want to watch over that jerk!? It does not make cents!
But like I said, it was a good production, even if the story didn't resonate with me.
TV commentary:
The Librarians- Well, that was resolved rather quickly! So the animosity between Nicole and Jenkins fixes itself in an ep. So Jenkins and Baird are fooled by Rasputin because Jenkins for some reason thinks Nicole hates him so much that she was trying to find some artifact to try and kill him. But she doesn't, she really wants to stop Rasputin.
She ends up getting stabbed with the artifact (which can kill even immortals), and after they defeat Rasputin, he gives up his immortality to save her. Though I'm not sure if he gave her his immortality so she can be immortal again, or if the energy was enough to save her and now they're both back to being mortals.
I mean, he's lived a long life, so it seems like he's fine with giving up his immortality for her, but given his intense level of distrust, I'm surprised he believed her so quickly, even if Rasputin stabbed her. And I guess that was enough to end her vendetta against the library? Not that she's rejoining it, sounds like she's going back to living a normal civilian life?
But in the end, Flynn mysteriously leaves with no explanation. Which, you'd think the gang would be more worried! Because it doesn't seem like those events would make him be all, "Eff the library, I quit!"
I guess it might have to do with the other ep and the Librarian from a previous age warning him its dangerous to have multiple Librarians active. He even chastises Jenkins for allowing it to happen, all, he should know better. Actually, he should. This guy read a book once saying that this one time there were two Librarians at once, a civil war happened? Jenkins has centuries of experience. If he saw no problem, I'd take his judgement over an old story.
And even then, there's context. The former feuding librarians were brothers who thought they knew better than the other. There's no argument between Cassandra, Stone, and Ezekiel on methods really, they seem to get along pretty well. Of course, since this seems like it will be the overarching plot for this season, I'm sure for some reason they'll start butting heads out of nowhere.
Also, they're not worried about the timeline changes from Dare living longer than he did? I mean, if he was Librarian for 20 more years, doesn't that mean some other person didn't become Librarian?