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I need to tell you, the sound is VERY important, and the final frame of the video is 👌👌👌.

thinking about hadestown as a story in which each character realizes both that they're in a time loop + that there is an audience observing them at different points throughout the show

there's this moment in if its true where it seems like orpheus is pleading with the audience to change how the story goes. eurydice knows this has happened before by come home with me reprise ("i can sing us home again" "no, you can't" "yes, i can" "no, you don't understand") but orpheus doesn't know until doubt comes in ("who am i to think that she would follow me into the cold and dark again?"). the gods are both observed and observing (hades and persephone and hermes all stand off to the side for most of the show when they aren't the main people in a scene); for hades and persephone, this happens year after year anyways without any kind of time loop narrative, but hermes is fully aware from the beginning of the narrative structure of the story, obviously.

persephone knows all along that she's being observed, but the amount she cares varies between actors (amber gray's persephone does not care that there's an audience; jewelle blackman's persephone is desperate for this story to be witnessed). hades never knows.

cause here's the thing! to know how it ends!! and still!!! begin!!!! to sing it again!!!!!

[id: tag reading, in all caps "Hadestown is haunted send tweet."]

The fates are an interesting case in this. They know how it goes. And are actively forcing everyone else to stick to the plot, because that’s their job. When the other characters stray from the loop, the fates nudge em back on

all it takes is one musical to fuck up all your spotify stats forever

something i adore about hadestown is that it still meant something, y'know what i mean? like okay, no orpheus's song did not convince hades to give up his empire. hades' love for persephone isn't enough to deconstruct the machine he's built and has convinced himself that he needs in order to protect what he has. but he let them go. he saw the love eurydice and orpheus had for one another and it convinced him to let them try. orpheus may have turned around but they still walked, they almost made it. doubt set it but they were right there. that's further than anyone else can say. nobody else had made it that far. who's to say someone else can't make it a few steps further? persephone is able to leave the underworld and go home again when she needs to. spring has come again, if we're lucky autumn just might too. will this change be permanent? we don't know. but it's something. it doesn't knock down the wall but it's one brick out of it. and that means something. it wasn't all for nothing. it's a crack in the wall. there's a reason we keep singing this old song.

wait okay. is six of crows. shadow and bone. im so confused

okay see. I didn't realize it was a book series. I thought it was just a show lol

ngl the show feels like its own thing bc it’s almost like fanfiction lol. the timelines are wack, the pacing is weird. and the show was a prequel for the actual six of crows show they were going to do, so the majority of what they do in the show isn’t in the books. so. yk

ooohhhh i see i see understood

wait okay. is six of crows. shadow and bone. im so confused

okay see. I didn't realize it was a book series. I thought it was just a show lol

wait okay. is six of crows. shadow and bone. im so confused