#hookedoncaptswan

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I’ve seen The Greatest Showman twice now...

And it is officially my favourite movie of 2017. This is going to be a long post with lots of gifs (none of them are mine). You have been warned.

This movie is essentially my kryptonite with it’s beautiful interracial romance

It’s bad ass choreography

Like look at how beautiful they are when they’re dancing on the roof and how fluid the movements are and I just wow

And the shot glasses in The Other Side like OMG dude that bartender needs to get some serious credit, damn son and then Hugh and Zac just killed it

Oh and Rewrite the Stars...not enough words to praise the choreography in this scene. Has a musical number ever been done on a trapeze before? I really don’t think so. It astounds me that Zac and Zendaya did most of this (If not all, I’m not sure) by themselves and they looked damn good doing it too.

And look at these costumes!

I want Jenny Lind’s wardrobe. For real.

You can’t really see her dress in the gif above but it’s the best I could find.

AND THE MUSIC, OH LORD THE MUSIC. I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO THE SOUNDTRACK NONSTOP SINCE I SAW THE MOVIE. 

Seriously if “This Is Me” does not win best song at the Golden Globes there will be hell to pay, because the lyrics are incredibly moving and Keala Settle’s performance is one of the best things I’ve ever seen in my life.

And starting the movie with Hugh Jackman saying “Ladies and Gents this is the moment you’ve waited for” and doing those poses was such a powerhouse move. The sheer ballsiness and confidence of that act just blows my mind.

A Million Dreams is one of my favourite numbers and I love how it shows Barnum and Charity transitioning from childhood to adulthood and how Charity has always been the one constant in Barnum’s life. I’ve already mentioned how gorgeous their dance sequence on the roof was.

Rewrite the Stars is beautiful with the way it shows how much Anne and Phillip want to be with each other but Anne is always out of Phillip’s reach and I CANNOT WITH HOW MUCH I LOVE THEM AND THIS NUMBER OKAY?

And look at the smooth moves in Come Alive. Basically every song has a purpose, every song moves the story forward and/or comes out of an emotional moment for these characters. Nothing is frivolous, nothing is wasted. 

To sum up, The Greatest Showman is a tour de force of romance, costuming, choreography, and music. It is visually spectacular and the transitions and the cuts are seamless. The casting is on point and I want Zac Efron, Zendaya, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Keala Settle, and Rebecca Ferguson to make a million more movies like this. Also I firmly believe that Pasek and Paul are this generations Rodgers and Hammerstein and I can’t wait to see what they do next. Please go see this movie and watch Hugh Jackman doing this

I LOVE IT ALL!

[iriswestsallen]

I’m bitter as hell but I just saw a post that made a fun point: Emma’s gonna get to live happily in SB with her parents and her husband and her child - and Regina’s trapped in HH, which means part of Emma’s happy ending is Regina being as far away as possible :))))

lmao yesss!! i love knowing SQ don’t interact like ever. regina away from my babies and their baby is a very good thing. 

[cs-con-news]

hi! is there any way you could pass along my desperate plea for a GA ticket to the NJ convention? I got a bunch of photo ops last year but I've been abroad since and I missed the release/sell out of the GA tickets :(( if someone is willing to sell me theirs, I'd be SO grateful, since this would be my first (and last) OUAT convention and I REALLY don't want to miss it!!

Can anyone help out this shipmate?

[qqueenofhades]

BUT LIKE, THAT SCENE, FOR THE ENTIRE EPISODE

I ENJOY THAT YOU SENT ME THIS ASK AS IF WE ARE NOT LITERALLY SITTING ACROSS FROM EACH OTHER IN MY LIVING ROOM, BLOGGING AWAY LIKE GOOD FANGIRLS.

but anyway. yes. so much yes. Lucifer is the kind of show that could do a whole musical episode and have it barely distinguishable from actual canon. It doesn’t take itself seriously at all, it already has Lucifer sing, and you could have a Deckerstar duet (for obvious reasons), a Maze grunge/power pop/punk anthem, Dan and Ella doing the backup singing (we already had Girls Night, just send the girls out again and make them do their karaoke more skillfully). Have Chloe and Lucifer perform at Lux, and maybe Linda gets tipsy and joins in. And Amenadiel gets smashed on two Cosmos and throws some rap down or does a Hamilton cover. Hardcore.

Like. I mean. This would be exactly the show anyway.

I need it. And they have promised it to us. And it will inevitably be amazing.

[ask-oockillian]

hookedoncaptswan replied to your post: Are you an alcoholic?

ooc: it’s interesting that you chose this headcanon because I don’t know if the show has ever really defined it as anything other than a bad habit. I don’t think A&E would know how to handle actually defining it as alcoholism even if it was

The show canon is that it’s a problem. Pan referred to Killian as “a one handed pirate with a drinking problem.” As a boy, Killian gambled away the money he had been saving to buy his freedom. He spends a whole day drinking in Storybrooke when he isn’t able to get an appointment. That’s beyond bad habit. That’s a problem. 

The show also turns it into a joke, which is a bigger deal, imo. 

[emma-swan]

@hookedoncaptswan // BEZI STOP, YOU'RE GONNA MAKE ME CRY. AND IT SUCKS THAT I'M STUCK AT WORK RIGHT NOW, TOO.

[captainheroism]

#such a waste of potential OMG YES I SAW THE SCENE ON YOUTUBE TOO i quit the show like two years ago after they made him full hydra but i kept up with it from afar until they killed him off as hive and nOW THEY COME BACK AFTER THEIR RATINGS WENT DOWN HARD TRYING TO BE LIKE HERE'S A HALF ASS REDEMPTION 'ARC' THAT'S JUST US SORT OF ACKNOWLEDGING THAT HE COULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD GUY HAD WE GOTTEN OUR SHIT TOGETHER like ugh eff that bitch bYE

I’m so mad at them!!! like you, I stopped watching when they made him Hydra because, wtf??? and now, because their ratings are low, they’re bringing us the Ward & Skyeward we deserved like TWO YEARS AGO? naaah too late buddies, too late. more I’m watching their scenes in that Framework, more I’m sad and ANGRY at the writers tbh.

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Who has two thumbs and just saw The Greatest Showman for the third time?