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Sometimes, like a bolt from the heavens, I am hit by the reminder than Doctor Odyssey had an episode where Bob the Drag Queen guest starred as a drag queen named Marsha D’Penguins and she did a lip sync to Hot To Go but while she was lip syncing to Hot To Go her wig caught fire and so the medical team had to put aside their polyamorous drama to do emergency wig surgery while on a boat and then Marsha D’Penguins, portrayed by Bob the Drag Queen, does another lip sync to I’m Coming Out, but at the same time an unrelated pregnant woman on the boat goes into labour, so we get a montage of the lip sync to I’m Coming Out as a baby. comes out. of

Thespians is very fun! Everything you’d expect from a Mischief show - it’s funny, it’s light hearted, it’s very very silly, you come out feeling happy. It’s not the strongest as musical (in the sense that while none of the songs are bad, I can’t think of any that are majors stand outs either) but I think that’s to be expected given it’s their first musical. I liked that it unabashedly takes place in an Ancient Greece where bigotry of any kind is nonexistent, and the fact that they actually went for it having the main romantic subplot be a gay one, instead of just doing that thing that musicals often do where they have a character make a bunch of gay jokes and then throw in a line about self acceptance at the end - that’s to be admired, I think. Also, I’ve always loved that Mischief’s companies bring their techies out for bows at the end (my friend worked on the Gloucester leg and got to be part of that! Very cool!).

I know that the dialogue style was, like, the Buffyverse’s Signature Thing, and it was considered really fresh and unique at the time, and all that, and while watching it 25 years or so on definitely lessens that impact, it is still good. Some great lines in these shows, not denying that. But GOD is it starting to drive me nuts that they ALL talk like that. Like, Buffy and friends doing the quirky talky talk? Totally works. Characters like Giles or Angel or Anya doing the same thing? Doesn’t feel as good, but hey, maybe they’ve just picked it up from spending a bunch of time with the Sunnydalers.

Really enjoying the mental image of grown adult man Jason Bell, in broad daylight, scaling a garden frame, climbing through a teenage girl’s (fairly small) window, tumbling on to the bed, grabbing said teenage girl’s apparently inexplicably non-password protected laptop, opening Google Docs, sitting and copy-pasting ‘who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears’ over and over again for several minutes, and then climbing back out the way he came.

You know what I really want to see but no one’s ever going to make because it would be really, really hard?

I’ve been reading all the ACD Sherlock Holmes stories on and off for about a year now, and I finally went back and read A Study In Scarlet this week. Three key things I think anyone who’s never read it should know: