[ SECRET POST #5429 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5429 ⌋

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Comments

[pantswarrior]

I... definitely felt like this for awhile. The first time I saw it (live, in a cozy old-fashioned local venue, with a shadow cast in front of the giant screen and lots of enthusiastic fans with props) I kinda went "...Why is this a thing?" A couple of my friends said it was their favorite movie and after actually seeing it I was like WHAT. (Didn't help that I couldn't understand a lot of the dialogue because of the entire audience yelling stuff over it...)

But over the years I kind of get it. The show itself is not actually that good, but it's more about the community and the bonding experience. And in spite of aspects that aged really poorly, there is a message of "be yourself no matter what other people think" that especially was welcome to my LGBT+ friends in an era when they really didn't get that kind of encouragement openly. Nowadays I'm not sure people get how unusual that was (never mind that Frank is not exactly good queer representation, hahaha).

And also now I appreciate camp more than I used to, and that movie is PURE camp. And in spite of it not really being quality cinema, it is really fun to use as fodder for parodies and ridiculous crossovers (as long as you don't take any of it remotely seriously).

But I mean. Even if I have grown to understand the appeal, doesn't mean you have to. You're allowed to just think stuff sucks.

[(Anonymous)]

I appreciate the bonding experience aspect, and it's not like I'm trying to follow the story, but man, anytime I've seen it with a shadowcast I haven't been able to understand the audience call-backs because it's dozens of people shouting at once so I can't hear what's actually being said and I miss the humor. I gotta try with a better cast, I think.

[pantswarrior]

Exactly. I didn't understand what was going on AT ALL until I got online and looked up the script, and found a version that included the standard audience responses. Then the story... made MORE sense? But it's pretty dumb to begin with, and a lot of the stuff the audience is supposed to say seems pretty random. I still don't really understand how that happened, but eh well. I'm just going to go with a variation on YKINMK.

[(Anonymous)]

I saw the movie (with skilled all volunteer shadowcast) when I still was in high school. I looove ridiculous crossovers.

Stuff like this is an extremely aquired taste. Kinda like Homestuck.

[pantswarrior]

It's just so ridiculous it's fun to mix up with other stuff somehow, I can't even explain it.

One of these days, I swear... back when I was heavy into Ace Attorney fandom, I met a Gumshoe cosplayer at a con and we added each other on FB and I found out that he was into RHPS and a regular in his local shadowcast. I assumed Eddie, until someone tagged him in pics. ...He was Columbia.

Ever since then I have wanted to write a fanfic where Phoenix or Edgeworth find out that Gumshoe is into RHPS and make the same assumption, only to discover...

[(Anonymous)]

That would be an amazing fanfic!

[arashinoookami]

Even if I have grown to understand the appeal, doesn't mean you have to. You're allowed to just think stuff sucks.

You know, if more people understood this simple concept, the internet wouldn't be as terrible a place as it is.

[(Anonymous)]

For real though.