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The week I complain about my "one day of melted brain per week" problem to my therapist is the week I have TWO melted brain days

My mental illness is showing and it's ruthless

It's because I didn't take my meds last night, isn't it?

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is it very greedy of me to want someone eating for me at all times? 😅

#probably it is #and yet #I want and I want and I want

Ok so I loved both of them from the start, obviously, like ok just *look* at them. The images are very big so I’m.. im not attaching them but!! A harlequin/jester looking fellow and a big mob boss guy made of ROCKS. Like. IM NOT GOOD WITH WORDS!!!!! but these are the kinds of character designs I fall in love with instantly. Mob bosses in fiction should be big, like. Like super intimidating. In my opinion. And quakemaster is and then obsidian is just. Like. !! HE JUST LOOKS COOL he looks fun to draw. And I adore the dynamic that is the type that theirs is and so obviously I was rooting for there to be romance between them and there WAS!!! AND. ugh it makes me so happy when some of my favourite dynamics appear in fiction

#rambles #cucumber quest #cq ch5 spoilers #cucumber quest spoilers #idk #maybe I’m not sure #probably it is

is anyone a mongoliaboo. is that a thing

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Thoughts on the concept of a STAR WARS opera?

Can it be done?

Sure.

Do I think there’s a decent chance it’ll be good?

No.

Star Wars does have a lot going for it as a story. Romance, adventure, duels, eccentric & vivid characters, death, magic, incest… what is opera without at least a few of these tropes, among others. They call it a “space opera” not without good reason.

It’s not just a story, though. It’s a movie. It’s a movie a lot of people have seen. We know what Star Wars is and what it looks like. Mark Hamill plays Luke, Carrie Fisher plays Princess Leia, etc. The Death Star looks like the Death Star. A lightsaber looks and acts like a lightsaber. We know what everything is “supposed” to look like and we know exactly how the story goes. (I’m using “we” liberally, but, then, this is one of the highest grossing movies of all time.) This is to say nothing of the score. Drawing heavily from Holst, John Williams did a great job creating and sustaining one of the most iconic scores of the last half-century. How many people can hum the main theme, or The Imperial March? All told, what of Star Wars does a general audience forget? Forget there are devoted fans who’ve made a hobby of knowing Star Wars forwards and backwards. I would wager a a good portion of a general audience has a conception of how everything plays out.

This is what any adaptation goes up against. What do you do when everyone has an idea what you’re supposed to do? Whom can you satisfy, except by bowing to the altar of “accuracy?” Is that satisfying as a creator, to beholden yourself wholly to another’s work? If you reject accuracy as a standard and make something your own, what’re the chances you’re shooting yourself in the foot? Would the audience accept a radically new direction?

Apart from the property’s iconic status, there’s another challenge an adaptor faces. That’s the challenge of translating a bigger medium to a smaller medium. I think this is a problem of many screen-to-stage adaptations. Film is literal and enormous. TE Lawrence can blow out a match and the camera cuts to the actual vista of the Arabian desert. In the case of Star Wars you may show a dogfight near the Death Star. Throwing all the tools of movie magic, you can, with total control, create visuals your audience can recognize as real. The stage lacks the spatial and budgetary splendor required for such “realistic” storytelling. What theatre has going for it, of course, is metaphor evolving in real time in the same space as the audience. That’s a beautiful thing, but it’s an entirely different capacity to tell stories. Film can portray force lightening vividly, whereas theatre cannot; theatre can only suggest it.

Perhaps this last point can be most put most succinctly: Star Wars doesn’t need to be an opera. It has done quite well for itself without being musicalized. Would an opera of Star Wars really enrich the material? I beg for Lucas to stop tinkering with his own handiwork. I do not beg for Luke to sing a High C.

All this is to say, a Star Wars opera would have the deck stacked against it. It’s not impossible, but an operatic adaptation doesn’t have a lot going for it. If it were done, without knowing anything else about it, I would guess it enjoys a lukewarm reception at best. Maybe companies program it in an attempt to diversify their audiences. Maybe they actually get some people in the door who wouldn’t otherwise go. A new fan is a good fan, sure. I would not, however, think many people would find it artistically fulfilling. If I want Star Wars, I can easily access the movie I and countless others have enjoyed many times before. Why would I want to see something that competes with that? Why would anyone else?