Aaand still following Mark Watches Stuff.
But I put all my thoughts under a cut to save space, and here they are:Well. So far there have been a person or two who picked up on Duck's pendant being a heart shard early on, no one who picked up on the thematic suitability of Ruslan and Ludmilla (it's an opera about a prince who must find and rescue his betrothed princess from a witch; I had to look it up) unless it was in a reply I didn't see, a bit of misapprehension on the plague of crows that murdered Fakir's parents (he didn't call them, they were already there when he wrote his story) and, s'help me, one or two people who say they don't want this story to end....
That's the next episodes, you'ns. Just wait. Friday, I believe.
But at long last, I now have a right and true understanding of Pique and Lillie. That Pique is the representative both of the audience and the Prevailing Norm of the Beginners' Ballet Class at the Academy, I caught. But it has been pointed out that Lillie, in addition, is a Fanfic Author obsessed with others' pain and drama. And now the world makes sense.
And of course there is a layer or two of meta- story that has been pointed out, notably how much the audience becomes a part of the Story. This one caught me by surprise, and it shouldn't have; for goodness' sake, we always tried to expand the stage to include the auditorium at least once every production in college-! Autor gets to say it, that the town (and we) have been conditioned to accept whatever happens and whatever shows up as normal-- talking animals, taking out hearts and still living, locations that transform as the Story requires at the moment-- thinking nothing more of it than as the way things have always been. And we fall for it, we who have seen Saturday morning cartoons and Sesame Street, we suspend our disbelief and it takes a couple of commentators to see it afresh and ask: why are there anthropomorphic animals? Why is there magic? Even when we see that Duck herself is surprised at it all?
Which is why I like this show. It's better storytelling than a lot of literature I had to study. Plus, music.
I realize, too, just how much this LiveJournal forum has spoiled me, with the fans who have actually seen Nordlingen and posted pictures. I know the difference between the clock at the Academy (fictional) and the church's belltower (actual, if fictionalized) where Uzura ends up. If I haven't said it before, thanks you'ns.
That's the next episodes, you'ns. Just wait. Friday, I believe.
But at long last, I now have a right and true understanding of Pique and Lillie. That Pique is the representative both of the audience and the Prevailing Norm of the Beginners' Ballet Class at the Academy, I caught. But it has been pointed out that Lillie, in addition, is a Fanfic Author obsessed with others' pain and drama. And now the world makes sense.
And of course there is a layer or two of meta- story that has been pointed out, notably how much the audience becomes a part of the Story. This one caught me by surprise, and it shouldn't have; for goodness' sake, we always tried to expand the stage to include the auditorium at least once every production in college-! Autor gets to say it, that the town (and we) have been conditioned to accept whatever happens and whatever shows up as normal-- talking animals, taking out hearts and still living, locations that transform as the Story requires at the moment-- thinking nothing more of it than as the way things have always been. And we fall for it, we who have seen Saturday morning cartoons and Sesame Street, we suspend our disbelief and it takes a couple of commentators to see it afresh and ask: why are there anthropomorphic animals? Why is there magic? Even when we see that Duck herself is surprised at it all?
Which is why I like this show. It's better storytelling than a lot of literature I had to study. Plus, music.
I realize, too, just how much this LiveJournal forum has spoiled me, with the fans who have actually seen Nordlingen and posted pictures. I know the difference between the clock at the Academy (fictional) and the church's belltower (actual, if fictionalized) where Uzura ends up. If I haven't said it before, thanks you'ns.