someone who exists (sort of)

(spoilers)

Patrick Page did an amazing job, especially considering his left foot was still in a boot from his injury. (Watsonian explanation: Cerberus played a little too rough with him one day.)

I loved getting to see all their facial acting up close

Amber Gray's ability to show grief and pity and fear through her facial expressions alone was amazing

It must be so fun being the trombone player, and the piano player, and the drummer, okay any of the musicians or cast members

I remembered that the fates circle Eurydice a lot but it was neat seeing how they circled Persephone at one point too. Like she too was bound by the fate of having to go back to Hades.

Loved the shot-from-below or shot-from-above shots of people looking down into the middle of the stage or people sinking/rising from the middle of the stage. Incredible sense of space with the filming.

So if you work for Hades, you get a company-issued tube top and leather overalls (with knee pads!) but you don't get goggles immediately? Is there a probationary period?

(Watches some more...) Oh! It was symbolism!

There's so much symmetry in the stage positions of Hades/Persephone and Orpheus/Eurydice to show the parallels between their relationships!

The close-up of Patrick Page as Hades trying so hard not to cry nearly broke me

When Hades sings "doubt comes in" when he's talking about Orpheus' test but you realize he's speaking from experience about the doubts that creep in when Persephone is gone T_T

Loved seeing the audience raise their glasses with the cast members at the end! And seeing the actors clink glasses with people in the first few rows!

My husband kept walking directly behind me when we went to eat after, yelling don't turn around! I half-turned at least three times and fully turned around when I got to the door and he was gone (because he was throwing something away)! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO ME???

he had to turn around. you can bargain with death all you want but it doesn't change the outcome no matter how much you hope it does. he was never going to succeed but he came so close to achieving the impossible ANYWAY because he loved her enough to even attempt it.

Eva Noblezada as Eurydice

Allie Daniel, Madeline Charlemagne & Bella Brown as the fates

ALSO i knew the reason orpheus could finish the song was because he finally understood the fear and doubt hades has every time persephone leaves BUT I DIDNT REALIZE THAT THE TRIAL HADES GIVES WAS ALSO BECAUSE HE UNDERSTOOD ORPHEUS AS WELL!! like hades knew he'd fail because HE'D fail!!

also also I know there's a Thing between hades and eurydice but I didn't realize that there was also one between persephone and orpheus until now, and I think it's intended to show that they're foils of one another, that pre-seasons hades was more like orpheus and pre-seasons persephone was more like eurydice and that their focus on orpheus and eurydice is because they remind them of what they had (and think they lost) - the love o+e have for each other reminds them of themselves, and so hades wants to take eurydice away/lock her away and persephone wants to protect orpheus/let him escape because they're trying to prevent them repeating their own mistakes in their own ways