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May. 16th, 2019 07:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsFinally saw the Cruel Intentions musical. Like I didn't feel like seeing it when it was up in NY since it was at a dinner theater, and I prolly wouldn't have seen it if it was at the Fox because I wouldn't want to deal with the traffic. But since it was at the Cobb Energy Center, only around 10 minutes away from home, and the tickets were decently priced, it was a no brainer.
It was fine. The musical performances were on point. I think the problem the show had was it couldn't decide between whether they were just doing a campy re-reading of the dialogue, or actually acting the stuff out. Plus, I swear they were rushing through the lines. Its like, are you on fast forward or something?
But yeah, it leads to a problem because on the one hand, it works for the parts of the movie where the characters were being outrageous or villainous. But it doesn't work for the Sebastian and Annette stuff. Like I love the movie, but even I was skeptical about Annette falling for Sebastian. And it comes off as even more unbelievable the way they were reading their lines.
Like its fine for the Cecile stuff to be campy, and to their credit, her scenes are hilarious. Same for the Blaine and Greg stuff (who are more of an item here than in the movie). Even Sebastian and Kathryn, since those scenes were them talking about being outrageously evil and cruel, the camp is fine. But the quick line reading hampers any investment you'd have with the show's main couple.
Anyways, small changes between this and the movie- like I said, Blaine and Greg are kinda a thing, and maybe I'm reading too much into things, but I feel Kathryn does... care is not the right word. But the movie always talked about Sebastian and Kathryn being two of a kind and how they're the only ones suited for each other. Or at least, so Kathryn wants Sebastian to believe. As she says, he's just a toy. This still happens in the musical. But my takeaway from her medley there near the end is that despite cruelly dismissing Sebastian as a mere plaything, she was pretty jealous and upset about losing him to Annette.
So in the movie, her calling Ronald just comes off as petty, but here I think its more malicious and revenge fueled.
TV commentary:
Riverdale- Crazy reveals as usual for the season finale. So the Gargoyle King is... Chic?!! So, turns out the big bad is Penelope, not Edgar. Well, he's still a big bad, being an organ harvester and all. But yeah, turns out Hal didn't kill Chic, but saw a "kindred spirit" in him and took him to Penelope, who dyed his hair red and started calling him Jason. But yeah, turns out Hal and Penelope's affair wasn't mere fun and games, looks like she was getting him under her thumb and redirecting his rage.
She wanted revenge on Riverdale, blaming them for what happened to her at the SoM and then the Blossoms and of course Jason's death. And so she gets the core four to come to a dinner party for the reveals, and basically makes them go through a series of trials to try and survive. But obviously, the end is rigged since she wants the Midnight Club to feel the death of a child like she did.
The gang manages to survive, with the final challenge being Betty has to shoot and kill Hal, or he shoots and kills all of them. Since the girls on this show are crack shots, she shoots his hand instead. Penelope shows up and executes him for his failure and she and the Gargoyles give chase. But luckily Toni got he 411 from Nana Blossom, and Cheryl just escaped with one of the twins with Alice's help, and they rescue the gang with the combined might of the Serpents and Poisons.
So in the end, Chic is captured, Hal is dead, and Penelope gets away. And poor Betty, this isn't the only family she loses this ep. With all the escapes and betrayals, Edgar says its ascension time. Which, you know what that usually means in cults. And with all this craziness going on, the gang doesn't get back to the Farm until its too late. They find Kevin, who says he was left behind, and a bunch of robes and sneakers, as if the rest of the chosen dissolved into thin air.
But Polly and Alice are among the missing. And what the heck, in a turn even crazier than Chic being the Gargoyle King, turns out Alice was secretly an FBI informant all along, working with her handler to take down the farm. And her handler is... Charles!! So Chic didn't kill him, he and Alice somehow found each other offscreen and she became an FBI informant? And so even though he's the g-d FBI, he tells his half siblings (which I totally forgot about that until Charles was all, that means I'm your brother too, Jug), you guys are pretty good detectives. So he's hinging his investigation on some crazy organ harvesting cult on a couple of high schoolers?
Other stuff, Hiram apparently arranges for Hermione to get arrested for attempted murder, with evidence being planted. And apparently he has something in store for his daughter too.
Anyways, the core four have some malts or whatever at Pops, vowing to have less drama (even though they just agreed to look into a disappearing cult) but we get a quick flash forward that seems to imply Jughead is dead and Archie and Beronica are covering it up for some reason. Like they talk about burning their bloody clothes, so the show wants us to think they murdered him or something, but obviously that's some sort of trick.
It was fine. The musical performances were on point. I think the problem the show had was it couldn't decide between whether they were just doing a campy re-reading of the dialogue, or actually acting the stuff out. Plus, I swear they were rushing through the lines. Its like, are you on fast forward or something?
But yeah, it leads to a problem because on the one hand, it works for the parts of the movie where the characters were being outrageous or villainous. But it doesn't work for the Sebastian and Annette stuff. Like I love the movie, but even I was skeptical about Annette falling for Sebastian. And it comes off as even more unbelievable the way they were reading their lines.
Like its fine for the Cecile stuff to be campy, and to their credit, her scenes are hilarious. Same for the Blaine and Greg stuff (who are more of an item here than in the movie). Even Sebastian and Kathryn, since those scenes were them talking about being outrageously evil and cruel, the camp is fine. But the quick line reading hampers any investment you'd have with the show's main couple.
Anyways, small changes between this and the movie- like I said, Blaine and Greg are kinda a thing, and maybe I'm reading too much into things, but I feel Kathryn does... care is not the right word. But the movie always talked about Sebastian and Kathryn being two of a kind and how they're the only ones suited for each other. Or at least, so Kathryn wants Sebastian to believe. As she says, he's just a toy. This still happens in the musical. But my takeaway from her medley there near the end is that despite cruelly dismissing Sebastian as a mere plaything, she was pretty jealous and upset about losing him to Annette.
So in the movie, her calling Ronald just comes off as petty, but here I think its more malicious and revenge fueled.
TV commentary:
Riverdale- Crazy reveals as usual for the season finale. So the Gargoyle King is... Chic?!! So, turns out the big bad is Penelope, not Edgar. Well, he's still a big bad, being an organ harvester and all. But yeah, turns out Hal didn't kill Chic, but saw a "kindred spirit" in him and took him to Penelope, who dyed his hair red and started calling him Jason. But yeah, turns out Hal and Penelope's affair wasn't mere fun and games, looks like she was getting him under her thumb and redirecting his rage.
She wanted revenge on Riverdale, blaming them for what happened to her at the SoM and then the Blossoms and of course Jason's death. And so she gets the core four to come to a dinner party for the reveals, and basically makes them go through a series of trials to try and survive. But obviously, the end is rigged since she wants the Midnight Club to feel the death of a child like she did.
The gang manages to survive, with the final challenge being Betty has to shoot and kill Hal, or he shoots and kills all of them. Since the girls on this show are crack shots, she shoots his hand instead. Penelope shows up and executes him for his failure and she and the Gargoyles give chase. But luckily Toni got he 411 from Nana Blossom, and Cheryl just escaped with one of the twins with Alice's help, and they rescue the gang with the combined might of the Serpents and Poisons.
So in the end, Chic is captured, Hal is dead, and Penelope gets away. And poor Betty, this isn't the only family she loses this ep. With all the escapes and betrayals, Edgar says its ascension time. Which, you know what that usually means in cults. And with all this craziness going on, the gang doesn't get back to the Farm until its too late. They find Kevin, who says he was left behind, and a bunch of robes and sneakers, as if the rest of the chosen dissolved into thin air.
But Polly and Alice are among the missing. And what the heck, in a turn even crazier than Chic being the Gargoyle King, turns out Alice was secretly an FBI informant all along, working with her handler to take down the farm. And her handler is... Charles!! So Chic didn't kill him, he and Alice somehow found each other offscreen and she became an FBI informant? And so even though he's the g-d FBI, he tells his half siblings (which I totally forgot about that until Charles was all, that means I'm your brother too, Jug), you guys are pretty good detectives. So he's hinging his investigation on some crazy organ harvesting cult on a couple of high schoolers?
Other stuff, Hiram apparently arranges for Hermione to get arrested for attempted murder, with evidence being planted. And apparently he has something in store for his daughter too.
Anyways, the core four have some malts or whatever at Pops, vowing to have less drama (even though they just agreed to look into a disappearing cult) but we get a quick flash forward that seems to imply Jughead is dead and Archie and Beronica are covering it up for some reason. Like they talk about burning their bloody clothes, so the show wants us to think they murdered him or something, but obviously that's some sort of trick.
