Status Updates From Sweeney Todd; or, The Strin...

just learned that the expanded book version (which i am reading) changes the original serial ending :') i like this expanded book version better.

127: there had to have been a better way to dispose of bodies

125: my baby my babyyy :'((( at least for once in her life she is autonomous.

124: the irony of little to no surveillance in the prison while all she's been doing outside has been performing? and the weaponization of femininity the poison in the dress wow incredible

123: SHE ESCAPES??? what is with all these mixed up chapter titles. of course the animals in their enclosure are just like people in a(n) asylum/prison

122: THE TOWER WITH BIG BEN WOO THAT PHRASING! why is it ethical to be greedy about animals but not humans? the contrast between ben's merry feast and the sinister pie customers is so interesting

the concept of by the sea... oh slovett would HATE IT.

rereading the synopsis of the sweeney todd musical (which i did see on broadway 2 years ago but hardly remember) with my mouth open WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE???

121: sad for slovett like i'm sad for efosco and pmerlyn :'( her entire house trashed to pieces by her own mirror image the very afternoon of her death! how she refuses to sit opposite! it's so tragically freudian

and i just had the thought, it's only men buying pies yes but it's also only men getting haircuts yes? meaning it's only men getting eaten. the concept of a woman scraping a man's bones to make into a pie okay wait

120: such a theme of resurrection. mark! the dog not forgetting his master yet hmm. dogs being smarter than humans. i wish lupin had been more closely tied to the rest of this. and the asylum people. i wanted them to be not just parallels but actually involved. your honor slovett killed no one. your honor she played housewife. your honor i'm sad for her.

119: can't help feeling sad for him. the strict prohibition of suicide is really really comical

oh no internet archive DOWN so i can't track my percentages. anyway, todd and lovett are kind of romeo and juliet too aren't they??? one thinking the other is dead LOL hahahaha

118: so cheesy. so sweet. love.

??? different editions? they told him he died

117: plumping into the river lol. also who is narrating this and why do they get to decide what's worth telling. also the aside. theatrical.

116: the irony of the masses... wanna chop him up and bake him and eat him???

a swap in gender roles, no? mark in the kitchen, in domesticity, johanna disguised as a boy. so fascinating

115: :')))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
and this really is a bunch of shakespeare stacked in a trenchcoat. hello romeo and juliet!

114: it's mark isn't it

i love unhinged characters

ALWAYS HTE PRETENDING. EVEN PRETENDING TO HANG HER.

is the cook mark ingestrie i feel like i'm going crazy these people keep disguising themselves

113: this is so lucy westenra also. the concept of people who once loved (lusted after) you trying to kill you now ooooo

why the fuck is his shop number 69 i'm losing it

this feels just a little reminiscent of marie antoinette actually