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[wannabecinderella]

thinking about how Orpheus got what he initially wanted in the end. thinking about how his love and his passion convinced just one old capitalist to let spring return again. how the people outside Hadestown wouldn’t see the tragedy, only the triumphant return of the springtime they longed for.

thinking about how, even though he failed, the world still became a better place because he tried.

[grid-daisies]

The way you could hear such a loud gasp from the audience when Orpheus turned around

[hummingirls]

everyone say thank you eva noblezada for putting SO much rage and grief into flowers in the proshot. the studio recording can't hold a candle. roaring and sobbing that nothing is going to wake her now. shaking while cradling the face she can't remember and the person that she was. FUCK

[tending-the-hearth]

imagine going to your first rehearsal for a musical and the first words your characters say to each other are “come home with me” “who are you” “the man who’s gonna marry you” and your first duet is a song about a wedding and you get to fall in love doing a show about The Tragic Greek Lovers Ever and then years later you get married to each other and you become the version of the lovers who get a happy ending and get to go home together and you get to do the show again together and now the characters have a different meaning

[snekysonjr]

Lalalalalala

[izloveshorses]

it's time for spring. we'll try again next fall.

(happy time loop tragedy musical in movie theaters day to all who celebrate)

[river-of-wine]

Hades gives Orpheus a trial he knows he himself could never succeed at, but it isn’t just that Hades knows he would turn around. Hades has been failing this trial every single year. He shows up too early. He turns too soon. He is so full of doubt that even the natural order of the world, that Persephone will return to him, is not something he can trust. Hades would fail the trial he has given Orpheus, and he already has. All alone, his blood runs thin.

[sophicbaek]

i love u hadestown proshot i love u close ups on the musicians i love u costume details i love u staging details i love u light design details i love u turntable i love u patrick page's boot i love u soon-to-be married reeve & eva in these roles i love u hadestown and ur message of hope despite it all i love u musicals i love u i love u mwah

[jpinesart]

something i adore about hadestown is that it still meant something, y'know what i mean? like okay, no orpheus's song did not convince hades to give up his empire. hades' love for persephone isn't enough to deconstruct the machine he's built and has convinced himself that he needs in order to protect what he has. but he let them go. he saw the love eurydice and orpheus had for one another and it convinced him to let them try. orpheus may have turned around but they still walked, they almost made it. doubt set it but they were right there. that's further than anyone else can say. nobody else had made it that far. who's to say someone else can't make it a few steps further? persephone is able to leave the underworld and go home again when she needs to. spring has come again, if we're lucky autumn just might too. will this change be permanent? we don't know. but it's something. it doesn't knock down the wall but it's one brick out of it. and that means something. it wasn't all for nothing. it's a crack in the wall. there's a reason we keep singing this old song.

[morally-supportive]

the hadestown proshot was great but it’s kinda weird that it got all blurry at the end

[morally-supportive]

[vizienta]

Fuck man, I can’t believe my favorite character that’s been doomed by the narrative since the very beginning just died :(

[morally-supportive]

i really hope they find a way to animate the “you were trying to save a wish for me?” moment in season 5

[nerdasaurus1200]

I have never related to Grog harder in my life.

[nimiten]

a look into the past

[samglyph]

This is true of the manga, but I love how the anime accentuates the absolute physical trust the apprentices have with Qifrey. Specifically with Agott, the way she is so ready when Qifrey says “hang on tight, I need my hands free” to cling to him a mile into the sky, and then in the latest episode, how, as soon as she impacts Qifrey while flying to him, she makes no move to save herself, she just curls into him and trusts that he will keep them from falling.

And I think it works as a signal to the audience, to subtly go “hey, I know we don’t trust Qifrey right now, he’s being shady, but we can always trust him to protect the physical wellbeing of his kids. Remember that.” Idk man maybe I’m getting too attached to a teeny detail but aaaaaaghhhh that’s her dad.

[thelightfluxtastic]

stealing your tags

#anyways i think it's particularly notable that fiercely independent always-has-something-to-prove Agott is like this with him#and that none of the apprentices really hide how they're feeling around him even when that feeling is negative#Agott and Richeh make it known when they're unhappy with Qifrey#and they (two abused kids) just flat out wouldn't do this if he wasn't a safe person to be unhappy at

[hashtagloveloses]

frieren is about discovering what makes life worth living after you lost someone before you realized how you felt about them. dunmeshi is about how we are all animals in the end, and confronting the monstrous reality of consumption, in all its forms. witch hat is about how the technology that makes our society function could be used to make people’s lives better, but especially disabled people are left out, and those in power choose very specifically who actually benefits. how fitting that three of the most popular and poignant fantasy stories of the 2010s-2020s are about grief, consumption, and power.