SpaceEel

one thing I hate so much now that hadestown is becoming popular is the media illiteracy people have. All the people saying that ‘flowers’ implies that Hades SA’s Eurydice have no understanding of the whole plot bcs it makes no sense. The whole reason hades destroys the planet and is trying to create world that he has complete control over is for his wife. There is absolutely no reasoning that the man who has built a whole world for his wife just because he’s jealous he can’t be with her every season would cheat with her with a girl he doesn’t care about. Hades might buy people’s soles for a living and embody capitalism but he wouldn’t cheat on his wife with anyone he has his priorities

I think my favourite part of the hadestown proshoot is when Eurydice says, "Is he always like this?" and Hermes, who has seen this story a thousand thousand times, who has tried again and again to warn Orpheus not to come on too strong, says with Extreme Exhaustion in his voice, "Yes."

I’ve been trying to put my finger on why Hades being depicted as a villain is so annoying in other media but works so well in Hadestown, and I think I’ve figured out why: Hadestown Hades isn’t the bad guy because he’s the god of the DEAD; instead, he’s the bad guy because he’s the god of WEALTH. Usually, whenever Hades appears in a movie or video game, he has some stupid motivation like “ughh I’m tired of being lord of the underworld I wanna be lord of everything” or “I’m the Greek mythology version of the western concept of Satan, fear me!!” but Hadestown really said screw that and made his motivation “I love my wife so much but we have a shitty marriage arrangement and her long absence combined with my severe self-doubt has lead me down the hellish road to corruption by all the riches under the ground.”

people always talk about the doomed love timeloop when they talk about hadestown. look i love that shit as much as the next homosexual but can we please talk about the revolutionary politics. genuinely one of the best anticapitalist pieces of art of the 21st century. can we watch act 2 with our brains please

In a local production of hadestown that i saw, when it came time for orpheus to sing epic III, the fates didnt give him his guitar back. You see, up on the platform by hades' office door, a shiny black guitar has been mounted on the wall throughout the whole play. It is this guitar that orpheus is given to play epic III on: hades' guitar. He once sang a song of love like orpheus, you know.

what they don't tell you about hadestown is that orpheus and eurydice are not the main characters. neither are persephone and hades. or hermes. or the fates. the main character is whoever in the band is playing the trombone because holy fuck

In "Our Lady of the Underground," she also repeatedly dares the shades to try to name her. No one has a name, no one can remember each other's names either. Persephone, as a goddess and as someone unbound by the employment contracts, pulls out her name like it's a party trick. She confidently enunciates each syllable, pushing the consonants. And in response the shades cheer! It's almost a familiar cheer. How can we tell she's Our Lady? She can remember her own name.

rouxls kaard forever icon. starts a polycule by inserting himself into a failed relationship. also does it because he thinks the people he's fighting against are also in a polycule and he wanted to one up them. his negative rizz causes the failed relationship to get back together. he is the moment