Putting this here because i don’t want to keep yapping about something nobody knows about in discord servers (sorry arKAJve ily)
ANYWAY. I was thinking about Gambämark as I tend to do, and then Kurt and Josua’s relationship and THEN. The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals (from here on out: TGWDLM)
Specifically: Not Your Seed. And sure, it’s not perfect, there is no weird alien shit taking over peoples brains and making them sing in Gambämark but. enough of the lyrics work I think..
I think the thing that brought this to me in the first place was the same kind of theme with kid ‘runs off’ in one way or another with someone (Juntton in this case, Alice’s girlfriend in TGWDLM) and by the time the parent gets to them again it’s a little too late to change the kids attitude, strong ‘i am NOT the same kid you knew.’ energy
‘You left me out of your sight for one second/ And look what happens…’ Josua starts spending less time at home, and the next time he’s seen, it’s in the context of a rebellion against Kurt (might not directly be the next time i guess but if memory serves what WE see, kurt doesn’t see Josua until their caught in the freezer after he banished Mäskis-Gunnar)
‘And if you actually payed attention to me’ I believe that Kurt is VERY caught up in Gambämark and has expeditions for Josua taht he’ll follow in his footsteps, regardless of what he may actually want and care about
and in relations to mothers: Bill in TGWDLM had divorced his wife and is seemingly always trying to one up her in how he parents Alice which seems to be ALL he thinks about whenever she’s at his, and while there is no mention of Josua’s mother (because he birthed him) (what who said that) i personally chose to believe that she either died somewhere along the line or saw that Gambämark maybe wasn’t going to end up as great as Kurt believes it too and dips, either way Kurt has got some kind of anger/ sadness towards her which could very easily affect his parenting
‘No matter what you believe/ The apples fallen far from the tree’ Kurt’s little dream (not the right word but bare with) sequence after Josua calls him out for neglecting his own rules, include Josua saying ‘You’re not my father anymore’ or smth along those lines, and doesn’t want to be like him if he’s actively ignoring everything (everyome?) he believed in and loved (because i do believe that Kurt stuck to that shit like it was the bible at its conception)
The song ends with Alice’s character ‘dying’ which is Bills biggest fear, he does love her, it’s clear enough for us to see, but like Kurt, doesn’t quite go about showing that in any clear and obvious way that doesn’t feel controlling for the kid, and ends up just breeding contempt
But that is where the similarities end, where TGWDLM turns to the whole town getting taken over by the (woke) mind virus, Gambämark has a significantly better ending in which Kurt is finally like ‘oh yeah. so maybe i was a twat actually sorry gang!’ and they lived happily ever after or whatever idk
