Only about three people on the flist are going to get this, but at least I'm amused! ^_^

[ladyamberjo]

A while back I had a conversation with Celinra regarding Light from Death Note and Enjolras from Les Misérables and why they should never, ever be allowed to play together. From there things degraded into theorizing that Grantaire isn't a particularly ugly human but is, in fact, a rather attractive Shinigami, and Combeferre watches all of this

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[darkrunner]

Now I need to actually listen to my newly acquired Les Miserable soundtrack. I was going to listen, and then I read the summary on wikipedia and was too intimidated by the length of the summary. O_o;; Also, whoever the original Broadway Epinine was somewhat bothered me. I'm spoiled by the youtube videos of Lea Salonga. ^^; But even knowing next-to-nothing about Les Mis, just picturing an 18th (19th?) century Frenchman with a Death Note is amusing enough.

[celinra]

Which soundtrack do you have?

And, I think it's 1823. And if that's right I will be amazed because I haven't looked at the timeline in years.

[ladyamberjo]

1832, luv. ^_^ But a cookie for you for being close.

[celinra]

...well, I still got all the right numbers in there. That's not too shabby! *nibbles on the cookie*

[ladyamberjo]

You have the Original Broadway Cast, then? I rather like that one, even if the Fantine and Marius grate on me. And I like Frances Rufele as Eponine, given her voice better suits the character than some of the other recorded actresses. Personally I can't stand Lea Salonga, what with her over-enunciating and her Disney-princess voice...it's that kind of thing that inspires those horrible, horrible fandom Eponines. Eponine's fangirls are among the worst I've ever seen. x_x;;

19th. ^_^ Though I'm not at all sure how effective a Death Note would be, given half the characters don't seem to have first names, and a good chunk of them are known only by aliases. >_>

[darkrunner]

That's why I need to actually see the show, instead of just the one (two, if you count the chrous of "Do You Hear the People Sing?") song. I didn't even know that Epinine wasn't singing about Jean until three days ago. ^_^;; A while back I was writing a paper, I think about democracy and communication, and I had a sudden urge to listen to "On My Own". I youtube'd it, and the videos I watched were Lea and then some other girl. Not knowing anything about the characters... I preferred the Disney-ish one. ^^;

[ladyamberjo]

*mind explodes at the thought of Jean/Eponine* He'soldenoughtobehergrandfatheromg o_x;;; Les Mis actually isn't as romancey as a lot of things make it out to be...the Cosette/Marius/Eponine triangle (which isn't even a real triangle given Marius found Eponine sort of creepy in the book) is pretty much it.

Fangirls have ruined Eponine for a lot of people...I still like her, but I stick pretty solidly to book!Eppy, because her fangirls...urrrrrrrrrgh. There's a lot "OMG WHY DUN YOU LIEK LEA SHES SO PRETTY UR JELLUS" because they have this visualization of Eponine as some magical selfless heroine who's utterly beautiful and divine and awesome, instead of a pitiful jealous sneakything (which is what really made her such a neat character). And they bash poor Cosette like mad, and hate Marius...and they're as retarded as most of Snape's fangirls. .___.

...Lea actually was a Disney princess! ^_^ She was Mulan's singing voice, and I think she may've also been Jasmine's.

[darkrunner]

Oh, that's right because Cosette is his... daughter? Dangit, I only skimmed the wikipedia article...

Yeah, that's where I knew her from. XD And I have this horrible habit of liking the people I've heard of, depsite what the character's actually supposed to sound like. (case in point: Sebastian Arcelus in Wicked)