The Passion and the Blood: A Comparison
(Les Misérables through a lens of Trigun)

(big spoilers for both)

In Les Misérables, the musical, the Bishop and Marius, for a time, sing the same melody, the Bishop singing early on about his hopes for Valjean's redemption and Marius, near the play's end, lamenting the deaths of all his friends on the ( Read more... )

I noticed there haven't really been any discussion posts in here for a while, so I thought I'd start a topic.

( What would you think of... )

Where do you feel that the musical did the best job of adapting the novel for the stage?

Which parts work the least as an adaptation?

Which parts of the book do you wish had made it into the musical?

For all the fanfiction readers and writers:

What kinds of Les Mis fic do you like the most?

What kinds of Les Mis fic make you want to smack some sense into the author?

What would you like to see explored in fanfiction that's rarely or never been written?

(Hi, this is ( Read more... )

Discuss:

Character in the novel you most want to smack?

Marius, hands-down.

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I've been having a bit of childish fun plugging characters' names into this French version of the white pages:
http://www.pagesjaunes.fr/pb.cgi

Discuss (a bit biased, perhaps, on my part):

Why does Valjean get no love in the fandom?

I don't mean that people pretend he's not important to the story, but how many Valjean-fan communities/sites do you see? ;)

I've been such a terrible mod; I apologize profusely! The only thing I can say in my defense is that I've been away in Montréal, but still ( Read more... )

Hello, sorry I'm late with the discussion.

Alright, so regarding this:

Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange,
Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n'eut plus son ange.
La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva,
Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.(He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. He died when he had no longer ( Read more... )

Alright, another (lame) discussion.

Which actors do you think physically look the part, at least canonically?

For me, probably...
Valjean: Ivan Rutherford
Javert: Someone not white, obviously... perhaps Philip Hernández.
Fantine: Rachel York/Susan Spencer
Enjolras: This fellow; I believe it's Alexander Diepold ( Read more... )

Alright, here's a new topic.

I recently read an article concerning La Bohème and if it is, indeed, a perfect opera (which I really disagree with ( Read more... )