iconic things about west end heathers
-Veronica’s shirt gets pulled open during dead girl walking and the audience just goes BUCKWILD with cheers
-Veronica keeps trying to talk to Heather C’s ghost and Heather keeps deliberately interrupting her with loud drain cleaner retching
-JD panickedly trying to get Veronica to leave the house instead of having to meet his dad and then getting flustered when he shows up
-Way better dialogue between JD and his dad that actively shows the dad as a shitty abusive guy who JD is deeply uncomfortable with
-Veronica ranting to JD about how everyone is making suicide seem like a cool thing that will help you “get back” at your teachers and people who were mean to you (gee i wonder what the writers might have been getting at with that new line? i have at least 13 reasonable guesses)
-In general, both JD and Heather Chandler genuinely seeming like vulnerable (albeit fucked up) teenagers instead of Cool Scary Adult Villains
-Heather Duke finally getting her own full-length song and quick-changing into Heather C’s red outfit
-Heather C mirroring all of Veronica’s poses during the scene when she shuts Martha down
-JD as a tech guy during Shine A Light (which is diegetic now!!!) and Veronica exchanging “are you seeing this shit” glances with him while she has to perform for the camera
-The musical motifs referencing Our Love Is God in Veronica’s new song
- “BUT I LOVE YOU!” “… /Dude/.”
-“I wish your mom had been a little stronger”
“DON’T TALK ABOUT MY MOM!”
“I wish she’d stayed around a little longer”
“SHUT UP!” and /then/ he pulls out the gun
-Veronica bringing the croquet mallet to school with her at the end and incorporating it into the fight choreography with her and JD
-“god knows why you want to save them, but you beat me fair and square”
-Actually resolving the Veronica/Heather McNamara/Heather Duke relationship instead of just having Heather D be an asshole and then suddenly nice at the end with no explanation
-Heather M and Martha hugging at the end!!!
