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Since I know Grace is doing an ~*in-depth analysis*~ of the show, I figured I would just tell you about Blake:
I loved him. He was the best Moritz I have ever seen, hands down. (And this is coming from an insane JGalls lover.) Blake just- he pwned it.
Part of why he was so good was that- well, JGalls is amazing. Brian is amazing. Gerard is amazing. All three of them channel the character, and understand the character, in different ways, and all three of those ways make sense. And Blake, he gets Moritz so much- but he doesn't just get him as a character, he gets him as a teenage boy. His Moritz ACTED LIKE A TEENAGER. This guy is twenty-six, but he still pulled that off.
And with JGalls, Brian, and Gerard's Moritzs- you kinda get the feeling that, like, Melchior and Moritz are friends, but they don't have that much in common. Like, that if they hadn't known eachother when they were little kids, they probably wouldn't be friends. Groff's Melchior is so strong and so- not overpowering all the time, but for Moritz? Definately. Groffchior overwhelms Gallagher/Gerard/Brian's Moritzes a lot. I always accepted that Moritz and Melchior were friends, but it never came off as, like- oh yeah, they're best friends.
With Blake, it did. He wasn't a quiet Moritz, or an especially angry Moritz. He was sarcastic and rude sometimes and he treated Melchior like they had been friends forever, and at the same time he was SO Moritz and SO perfect. He was able to take Moritz and make his real- make him an actual teenage boy, not just a character.
When I normally see the show, I always accept- well, obviously- that Moritz will kill himself. But thinking about it now, I never really got why, you know? With Blake, you can see that he would kill himself, and you can see why- he wouldn't have HAD to walk off the stage after And Then There Were None with a gun in the air to get the point across. Fannt's letter could have had NO mention of Moritz wanting to kill himself. And yet, when he walked off stage, you could FEEL that something was up, and you knew.
He drops these little hints throughout the entire show that he hates failure- that he's afraid of failure, or of making people dislike him. He WANTS to be great at everything- not JUST because of his father, or anything, but because of HIMSELF. When he finds out that he passed, he's not just relieved and happy because he passed- he's relieved and happy because he PASSED!
And oh my god- when Hanschen says "Oh, the middle terms, that is.", he doesn't deflate and say, "Oh, yeah, now everything will be determined by the final exams." He doesn't get disappointed. He gets MAD. He turns to Hanschen and says, SARCASTICALLY and angrily, "OH YEAH, NOW EVERYTHING WILL BE DETERMINED BY THE FINAL EXAMS." And then, he ignores Hanschen, and goes back to celebrating.
And when he goes around the hug everyone, he hugs Georg, Otto- and then stands back, looks at Hanschen, and goes, "UGH." And then he hugs Blake.
It was SO HILARIOUS.
And like... I've had all kinda of reactions to the show, and the actors, and the characters. These have either been "I want to fuck them", "I want to cuddle with them", or "I want them to just go diaf." With Blake's Moritz, I honestly thought, "I want to be best friends with him." And I've never thought that about ANY of them before. (Especially Moritz. I wanted to fuck him. xDD.)
Like, Gallagher's Moritz, you feel for. You feel sympathy for him, and you want Ilse to come back- you want them to run off and play pirates. You want him to live. And when he dies, you feel terrible that he did. But it's the kind of terrible, like... if a celebrity you love dies. You feel terrible, but at the same time, iit's far away, and you get over it easily.
I still miss Blake's Moritz.
With him, you feel sympathy for yourself- you don't WANT him to die, selfishly, because you want to HANG OUT WITH HIM. You feel like you lost your best friend. And when Melchior finds his grave, and sits over it and says "Moritz... my old friend."... you don't get a feeling of "This is so sad, he lost his best friend." It's a feeling of, "Yeah, I know how you feel, I lost him too."
Seriously. When he was offstage, you MISSED him. You wanted Moritz to be the main character. At the end of Don't Do Sadness, not only was I sad because I knew what was coming (And over the fact that Blake's Moritz was amazing and just guhh during that song.). I was also sad because I KNEW this was his last big song, and I didn't want it to end. He lights up the stage.
I went into the show hoping to like him. I could ahve gone into it hating him and I would have come out with tons of Blake love. :D.
And... I thought this would never happen, but...
Blake now beats out Brian for title of "Ava's Favorite Castmember."
o___o.
I loved him. He was the best Moritz I have ever seen, hands down. (And this is coming from an insane JGalls lover.) Blake just- he pwned it.
Part of why he was so good was that- well, JGalls is amazing. Brian is amazing. Gerard is amazing. All three of them channel the character, and understand the character, in different ways, and all three of those ways make sense. And Blake, he gets Moritz so much- but he doesn't just get him as a character, he gets him as a teenage boy. His Moritz ACTED LIKE A TEENAGER. This guy is twenty-six, but he still pulled that off.
And with JGalls, Brian, and Gerard's Moritzs- you kinda get the feeling that, like, Melchior and Moritz are friends, but they don't have that much in common. Like, that if they hadn't known eachother when they were little kids, they probably wouldn't be friends. Groff's Melchior is so strong and so- not overpowering all the time, but for Moritz? Definately. Groffchior overwhelms Gallagher/Gerard/Brian's Moritzes a lot. I always accepted that Moritz and Melchior were friends, but it never came off as, like- oh yeah, they're best friends.
With Blake, it did. He wasn't a quiet Moritz, or an especially angry Moritz. He was sarcastic and rude sometimes and he treated Melchior like they had been friends forever, and at the same time he was SO Moritz and SO perfect. He was able to take Moritz and make his real- make him an actual teenage boy, not just a character.
When I normally see the show, I always accept- well, obviously- that Moritz will kill himself. But thinking about it now, I never really got why, you know? With Blake, you can see that he would kill himself, and you can see why- he wouldn't have HAD to walk off the stage after And Then There Were None with a gun in the air to get the point across. Fannt's letter could have had NO mention of Moritz wanting to kill himself. And yet, when he walked off stage, you could FEEL that something was up, and you knew.
He drops these little hints throughout the entire show that he hates failure- that he's afraid of failure, or of making people dislike him. He WANTS to be great at everything- not JUST because of his father, or anything, but because of HIMSELF. When he finds out that he passed, he's not just relieved and happy because he passed- he's relieved and happy because he PASSED!
And oh my god- when Hanschen says "Oh, the middle terms, that is.", he doesn't deflate and say, "Oh, yeah, now everything will be determined by the final exams." He doesn't get disappointed. He gets MAD. He turns to Hanschen and says, SARCASTICALLY and angrily, "OH YEAH, NOW EVERYTHING WILL BE DETERMINED BY THE FINAL EXAMS." And then, he ignores Hanschen, and goes back to celebrating.
And when he goes around the hug everyone, he hugs Georg, Otto- and then stands back, looks at Hanschen, and goes, "UGH." And then he hugs Blake.
It was SO HILARIOUS.
And like... I've had all kinda of reactions to the show, and the actors, and the characters. These have either been "I want to fuck them", "I want to cuddle with them", or "I want them to just go diaf." With Blake's Moritz, I honestly thought, "I want to be best friends with him." And I've never thought that about ANY of them before. (Especially Moritz. I wanted to fuck him. xDD.)
Like, Gallagher's Moritz, you feel for. You feel sympathy for him, and you want Ilse to come back- you want them to run off and play pirates. You want him to live. And when he dies, you feel terrible that he did. But it's the kind of terrible, like... if a celebrity you love dies. You feel terrible, but at the same time, iit's far away, and you get over it easily.
I still miss Blake's Moritz.
With him, you feel sympathy for yourself- you don't WANT him to die, selfishly, because you want to HANG OUT WITH HIM. You feel like you lost your best friend. And when Melchior finds his grave, and sits over it and says "Moritz... my old friend."... you don't get a feeling of "This is so sad, he lost his best friend." It's a feeling of, "Yeah, I know how you feel, I lost him too."
Seriously. When he was offstage, you MISSED him. You wanted Moritz to be the main character. At the end of Don't Do Sadness, not only was I sad because I knew what was coming (And over the fact that Blake's Moritz was amazing and just guhh during that song.). I was also sad because I KNEW this was his last big song, and I didn't want it to end. He lights up the stage.
I went into the show hoping to like him. I could ahve gone into it hating him and I would have come out with tons of Blake love. :D.
And... I thought this would never happen, but...
Blake now beats out Brian for title of "Ava's Favorite Castmember."
o___o.