So long as he is with her

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[sitandstareatthestars]

Literally everything makes me think of the wasted potential

[thistlefig]

I see a lot of people online saying that Orpheus (Hadestown specifically) looks back because he loves Eurydice so much, that there isn't a world in which he doesn't look back, because the kind of man who wouldn't look back is not the kind of man who would go after her in the first place, etc. It's inevitable because of the strength of his love. But I don't see that as being the whole picture. Textually, it is explicitly his doubt in himself, and in the narrative of his life, that makes him look back: "Doubt Comes In", and he wonders, who is he that Hades would let him win? Who is he that Eurydice would follow him through the dark? Orpheus used to have a very simple, naive view of the world and his place in it. He was single-minded. At the beginning he tells Eurydice he's the man who is going to marry her because...well, that's how the story should go, and he is a poet first and foremost. Then, when he meets Hades, he is confronted by what Eurydice did and what the world is really like. He is shattered by the realisation that Eurydice wasn't just a simple, "pure" victim, but that she signed her life away. He is beaten down and loses faith, he goes into "Is this how it is?" after he's literally already done the impossible by reaching Hadestown on foot. He should have proven his abilities to himself by this point, but things aren't going the way they are supposed to and he doesn't know who he is anymore. He isn't just a boy in love with a girl who sings a song to bring back spring: he's a boy who didn't look back when he should have the first time when she called his name; she's a girl who chose her immediate needs over his grand ideals. His faith in a world where they make it back together is broken. He looks back because he doesn't trust himself or the narrative that he's found himself in. It's even more heartbreaking to me, because the Orpheus he was at the beginning of the musical might not have looked back, but that version of Orpheus doesn't make it out of the Underworld.

And to top it all off, the version of Eurydice from the beginning of the musical, before love softened her hard edges and made her trust him, probably wouldn't have followed Orpheus out of Hadestown. Eurydice really does trust him to get her out, because she's looking for the Orpheus she used to know and she's seen the power of his song and worldview.

Am I rambling into the void or does this make sense to anyone else?

[izloveshorses]

'theatre is dying' okay but everyone is flocking to see a beautiful hit musical now that it's been released in the cinema, something more affordable and accessible to most people, and ticket sales in the west end in particular have spiked

'cinema is dying' okay but everyone is flocking to their local cinema to see a beautiful hit musical, and so many have shown up this weekend that licensers decided to extend its theatrical release for another week, a massive rarity in the current climate

maybe the answer to saving art is... seeing art?? and making art accessible??

[sitandstareatthestars]

A C O N C E P T 👏

[sitandstareatthestars]

I'm sorry Yungblud and Adam Driver are in the Dakotas at the same time??

Is he there for the concert???

AH

[sitandstareatthestars]

Honestly? One of the better edits I have ever made

[sitandstareatthestars]

Honestly? One of the better edits I have ever made

[jbberry7]

Adam Driver visited the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota. Source: Whitney Rencountre on FB. #AdamDriver

[sitandstareatthestars]

Look at this bean, out traveling, living his best life, I LOVE TO SEE IT 😭 Hope his family is there too

[sitandstareatthestars]

WDYM ADAM HAS TWO FILMS PREMERING AT NYFF AND IM GOING TO BE THERE???????????

[raeldazla]

Every time I have seen Hadestown - on stage or in the movie theater - people gasp when Orpheus turns around. I just love how it's so old and yet everyone is still always hoping that this time

[sitandstareatthestars]

Literally it hasn't gotten old for THOUSANDS of years, no matter what, no matter how many people KNOW the end, the hope is ALWAYS there because love ❤️ 😭

[justslightlyconfused]

That ‘comment on your a03 work’ email hits like a line of cocaine every time. unmatched dopamine increase. shoutout to everyone who leaves a comment on fics. you deserve the world

[write-on-world]

[sitandstareatthestars]

Literally giving me LIFE every time

[sayuupi]

Sketching some bears from the bear cam! 🐻🐟

[sitandstareatthestars]

You have your father's heart

[moonshynecybin]

have you guys ever seen a crocodile with its fingies out

[moonshynecybin]

[devilishdescent]

[sitandstareatthestars]

Someone plz art the reylo from the new Star Wars Legacy Book im BEGGING

[sitandstareatthestars]

Someone plz art the reylo from the new Star Wars Legacy Book im BEGGING

[liminal-zone]

Some new Star Wars book came out (Legacy by Madeleine Roux) and reylo is canon again, baby (is it visions? multiverse? au? Idk) with Rey v domestic Ben Solo and here are some of my fave tweets.

[sitandstareatthestars]

Personally?? I think this is leading up to something, we got this, the "rey" project movie poster has kylos saber on it, Adam and Steven talking about the script, the Kylo comic coming out 👀👀👀👀

[liminal-zone]

Some new Star Wars book came out (Legacy by Madeleine Roux) and reylo is canon again, baby (is it visions? multiverse? au? Idk) with Rey v domestic Ben Solo and here are some of my fave tweets.

[sitandstareatthestars]

Personally?? I think this is leading up to something, we got this, the "rey" project movie poster has kylos saber on it, Adam and Steven talking about the script, the Kylo comic coming out 👀👀👀👀