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Wiress: "There were only three left and I couldn't just buy one!"

Haymitch: "WHICH ONE OF THOSE TWO FUCKING TOLD YOU THAT?!"

Haymitch: "fuck... I guess Chaff and I crashed someone's wedding."

I think my main gripe with it as a story was certain movements and blocking, but I think I especially felt it during Chant II. This has nothing to do with the acting and everything to do with the lack of the turntable. One of my favorite pieces of blocking on the West End was the tension between Hades and Persephone. When Hades stepped onto the turntable to circle Orpheus, Persephone stepped on and stayed next to Orpheus as a sign that she was done accepting everything her husband did and was now going to fight for the boy. With the lack of a turntable, Chant II became incredibly awkward in it's movement, and Persephone didn't ever have that moment of defiance and it ended up just looking like she was chasing her husband before he did something irredeemable. This had absolute nothing to do with the actors and everything to do with the missing aspects of the show. The thing that I also really didn't like was how the blocking separated Nikolaus Colón and Namisa Mdlalose Bizana throughout moments where it was so weird for them to be. Hades leaves her side during "Way Down Hadestown" which, for someone who is meant to show that he'll always look back to make sure Persephone is there, he just walks away from his wife and moves down to the main part of the stage from where Persephone is standing at the entrance to the Underworld. The second was during How Long. While seperation is good to show the visual divide, they always start them in odd spots on stage where getting to a point of tension takes a lot longer in a song that is fairly short. I think that parts of the seperation were interesting during Chant, but again, it takes them way too long to even move close to one another to show that aching for one another during Chant. Now, the one blocking change I did find fun was Namisa Mdlalose Bizana's Persephone slamming the door in Nikolaus Colón's Hades's face at the end of Chant.

Finnick: *leans over* "Wiress once brought up that Beetee got her targeted directly by the capitol and technically sold her out in exchange for his life... so the bar is really below the belt."

Johanna: "Oh come on, we were all thinking it."

What does matter is that if Elizabeth Banks is invited to the premiere, keep those interview mics far away from that woman

Chaff: *hungover* "Me and Haymitch's what?"

Chaff: "We were all stuck on the puzzle, I said 'let the nerds handle it' and technically... they did."

...Haymitch fails to see how that would change his situation, actually. He's not unconvinced Effie doesn't have a crush on Maysilee or Lenore Dove... possibly both. And they already seem spend more time with his wife than he does some weeks... and they come to house nearly every evenng... and sometimes mornings on weekends...

(That totally counts as a college AU, right?)

Wiress names it for Beetee when he asks what the planet should be called other than it's technical name. Wiress asks how humans come up with names of things, and he says that they usually name it after themselves or something important to them. Wiress says they should name it after Beetee's "mate." They name it for someone who might never know that Beetee named the planet that will give them the key to saving their worlds after her.

Effie: *turns the corner to see a goose in the open cabinet under the sink, one goose drinking from the faucet, and the third goose just sitting in the sink under the water* "...you need to rename your geese"

Effie: "Marriage is not a requirement, darling"

Haymitch: *taking a drink* "Its a weird question to ask after ten years."

Katniss: "We do not need house ducks, Peeta."