i just did a high school musical marathon and let me tell you something. we all colectivelly slept on the greatness and graciousness of chad fucking danforth:
one of his first lines is making fun of sharpay saying she spent her winter break shopping for mirrors as if he was killing it and i think that's a very underrated moment
he was so invested in taking his best friend off the musical he developed a very detailed plan and used three synchronized watches to make sure everything would happen at the right time. that's commitment right there
he then recognized his mistake and put just as much effort in helping troy and gabriella do the damn audition
he walked around school carring a basketball for absolutely no reason
he had strong ideals and his priorities straight which made him immediately call troy out on his bullshit as soon as he started being an asshole on the second movie
he becomes more than just friends with ryan and does the BEST musical number of that movie while exploring his own sexuality potential in the arts, breaking free from the stigma around "dancing"
he had yet another flawless and very underrated performance on the third movie next to his bff, "the boys are back", in which he shows that yes he DOES like boys dance – and better than any other character actually
he has the best (and also the only) character development in the trilogy because he went from judging his best friend for wanting to sing to actively helping him be part of the school musical, then he began to accept the fact that he himself actually kind of liked performing as well and at the end he fully embraces his gay artistic side and becomes one of the PROTAGONISTS of the show which is just so incredible and inspiring and very well constructed
and last but not least he felt so emotional about separating from troy that he just left the stage in the middle of a show and left a giant audience WAITING while he was playing basketball and talking to his bff which is probably the highest possible level of drama queen and i think that's beautiful
oh and do i need to remind you that he gave us the iconic what team? WILDCATS, what team? WILDCATS, what team? WILDCATS, get your head in the game!
chad danforth and corbin bleu, we did you wrong. this was the funniest and most iconic, not to mention extremely handsome and crazy talented hsm character ever and i wish we saw it then. i hope someday we can make you justice
