i HATE JD INT HE FUKN HEATGHERS MUSCIAL IM GOING TO RIP MY HAIR OUT WHY DID THEY MAKE HIM LIKE THAT MEANT TO BE YOURS PISSES ME OFF SOOOOOO BADD ESP CUZ OF HOW THEY TWIST HIS MOTIVATIONS throughout the story they twist him to be more like Loving I suppose, as well as sympathetic and emotional and its INFURIATING because THATS NOT JD. they tone him way down for audience approval and to be palatable and i hat eit. For one how they changed the scene with kurt and ram, where instead of pulling out a gun the two just fight. this makes him seem waaayyy more reasonable cuz they started it and its just a fight, it takes away the shock of him HAVING AND PULLING OUT A GUN even if its just blanks he fires. and then how they made veronica seek him out for sex in dead girl walking, which means including finding and breaking into his home HELLO???? JD IS THE ONE WHO DOES THAT. WHY WOULD THEY CHANGE IT. but we know why its because it would make jd seem way more scary and offputting and they need romance to sell. VERONICA WOULDNT EVEN DO THAT ANYWAY ???
and then ohhh my god meant to be yours pisses me off soooo bad like i said cuz of how they change his motivations. they make it seem like he wants to blow up the school to get veronica back NO??? HE WANTS TO DO IT OUT OF VIOLENT EXTREMISM, TO SEND A MESSAGE, he wouldve done it whether veronica was with him or not!!!!! and so it turns whats a cautionary tale about falling into extremism into just "waaa i want u back im going to blow them up for you" SHUT UPPPP
not to mention how they took out the 2 assault scenes in the musical version like. yeah its just fukn blatant that they cant handle JD as he is in the movie but if so why the fuck r they adapting heathers.
the ending also pisses me off SOOO BAD WHY DID THEY MAKE IT SO HE SAVES THE SCHOOL. in the original he didnt do that because there WAS no saving to do, the bomb was forcefully taken care of by veronica, he commits suicide not out of a noble sacrifice because there wasnt a sacrifice to make. he does it because he succumbs to his nihilism. he says it himself "lets say i blow up all the schools. what then?". but nooo we have to make him do a noble sacrifice to save everyone cuz 😐 idk???? so in the end we have a character meant to be violent unstable and self serving into just Some Guy who made some mistakes but he makes up for it in the end!! he just really loves his girlfriend!!!!! NEVERMIND THAT HE TRIED TO KILL HER IN THE ORIGINAL. in the original he might have loved her but that love might as well not have been there because above that all JD wanted to do was to send a message to everyone and change the world through violent extremism and he was more than fine with discarding Veronica in favour of that
ALSO ONLY SLIGHTLY RELATED irrc they took out the line "you fucked me up pretty bad veronica. you have power, power i didnt know you have" WHICH PISSES ME OFF cuz sooo much about the original movie is about the agency of female characters, especially at the time it was written where female characters often didnt have much agency and storys mostly revolved around love interests, the movie was a subversion of those tropes and that line is the perfect conclusion to that message they just. discarded that. Okay. I HATE IT oh my god oh my god
