[ SECRET POST #4220 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4220 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Please, have this argument with Andrew Lloyd Webber who has actually come out and said there's no plot.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

If Webber wants to change that, there are at least two songs that need to be cut. Until then, the canonical text has a plot. "Word of god" statements that contradict the structure of the text can be safely dismissed as bullshit or hyperbole.

Which is a crying shame because the basic plot bunny of "which character gets to go on to heaven" is one of my favorite themes in literature. It's the second act of Gilgamesh, Seannan McGuire did a nice short story with Valkyrie cheerleaders, and then there's Hibane Renme and Wandafuru Raifu. But Webber was just creating a largely unnecessary frame around a poetry collection so he didn't do anything with that conflict beyond "Memory," which I still hate having played second violin and viola on it for seven consecutive years of school.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I mean, I suppose "it doesn't really have a plot" is a nice way to avoid admitting that the frame story you shoehorned into a poetry collection so that you can get a hit original song pretty much sucked. But it's there and it does suck as a story.