#2⭐

[itspronouncedtessa]

Okay, this one did pmo a little

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December 9

Book 95

T.C. Parker

Consequential

Hummingbird 1.2

[itspronouncedtessa]

Unhealthy relationships aren't cute

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December 1

Book 91

Sarah Pinborough

We Live Here Now

[itspronouncedtessa]

The shark was pretty much jumped in book one, no need to drag this out.

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August 17

Book 62

Mark Lawrence

The Book That Held Her Heart

The Library Trilogy 3

[lem-cup-rev]

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beeeeee…

ware of men who come in stripes!

The Movie, The Movie, The Movie

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I never saw Beetlejuice until recently. My friend watched it before I did. She said, “...I guess I expected too much.”

I figured she meant it had dated misogyny. But when I watched it, I was like “Oh.”

Beetlejuice kind of doesn’t have a story!

To me it felt like a proof of concept. It was all vibes and ideas. And it’s harder to divine as a modern kid, but I think those vibes and ideas must have been shockingly brilliant, like nothing that existed before, hence why it’s so iconic.

I didn’t get much out of it, but my favorite thing was the freaky abstract sculptures being brought to life and dragging themselves across the floor! Plus the insane monster faces the Maitlands pull. And the comically casual way they present them. Ooh, and the incredibly eerie way the door opens onto a clay landscape of evil tim burton snakes. I would like more of that world.

It made me all the more delighted by what the musical raised from its rotten bones!

The Cartoon, The Cartoon, The Cartoon

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I love how deranged it is to watch Beetlejuice (1988) and say “I think he and the kid should be best friends!”

But, of course, they were seeing the unused potential of Lydia being a goth that loves creepy stuff!

Beetlejuice as a character is just a real gold mine: The most nakedly scummy guy, taken to a supernatural extreme by being a ghost/demon that crawls out of a grave and eats bugs and steals your soul. And the cartoon is a great vehicle to see more (than 5 minutes) of him. Like, even though he’s defanged in a lot of ways, the essential appeal is identical. The voice is a huge part of it. And so is the ‘...y’know what I mean?’

I love how they run with the prompt for the Neitherworld and make it a spectacular Dr Seuss nightmare playground.

Altogether, it’s one of those kids’ cartoons that doesn’t offer me a lot, but I enjoy it from time to time.

The Musical, The Musical, The Musical

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“Holy crap! A ballad already! And such a bold departure from the original source material!”

It would be so fun to perform any of these songs. But I’d try out for the big guy himself, of course. I love emcee characters.

I am soooo jazzied about adaptation, and I can’t get over the fact that they picked up every great half-idea in the movie and made them into way, way more of a thing!

Not to mention drawing from the cartoon with details like the word ‘Netherworld’ and the galaxy-brained potential for BJ and Lydia to be pals.

Beetlejuice gets to actually be the center of the action, doing a huge rowdy showman schtick, dancing on the 4th wall, and he gets a clear goal that ties in the Maitlands and Lydia.

Lydia’s two throwaway lines about being suicidal and having a new stepmom become an entire character arc and motivation. She gets to be both sassy goth and struggling kid. The crux of the story is her awesome misguided deal with the devil, which I couldn’t believe was not the original plot of the movie.

The Maitlands gain an entire personality, where their whitebreadness is played up, they’re comically scandalized by every ghoulish happening, and their death incites character change by derailing their stifling normalcy.

Even the gag line “If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn’t have had my little accident!” was spun it into the refrain of an entire song and a core theme!

Though, if there’s one thing they actually lost, it’s that Delia became a lot more pathetic, where I think the humor of her in the movie is that she’s totally wearing the pants and is unswervingly confident and demanding about her nonsense modern art house.

The Sequel, The Sequel, The Sequel

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It was neat! Definitely had more of a story.

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