#queue's asking?

I was listening to Glad You're Alive (which I am aware the canonicity of in regards to Trexel's character is probably dubious but eh). We know that Trexel isn't young, and in my mind he's probably mid-late 40s. In Glad You're Alive he does say that David 7 is one of the few people he's actually had a connection to in his life. Which actually explains so much. I think Trexel's two closest companions were probably Percy and David 7. Percy the clone who was, y'know. Brutally taken away from him and almost certainly recycled. Are we surprised that Trexel began desperately cycling through clones upon becoming part of the consultancy team? Are we surprised that he utterly refuses to get attached to anybody ever?

BOOTH STARTED IN THE AUDIENCE. Okay so I was sitting on the second row, right? And like, they did the first song, and Booth wasn't there, and when they do the "hey gang, look who's here" bit, its Prop noticing him in the audience. And from behind us, I hear "you want me up there?" and all the assassins start cheering and beckoning him up, and he goes "no, no, i'm just here to watch" and they all keep cheering and he kind of sighed and was like "oh, okay" and just GOT OUT OF A SEAT AND WALKED UP THE AISLE AND CLIMBED ONTO THE STAGE.

and then when he shot lincoln, he swung himself down the stairs off the stage and ran back up the aisle, and the "sic semper tyrannis" wasn't yelled by him, it was yelled by all of the other assassins. which was just. a really cool parallel to oswald.

oswald firing the shot at JFK was done really well. like, the other assassins kind of literally FORCED HIM. like, fromme and booth were holding the gun steady so he couldn't move it, and guiteau was holding his arms.

Moore was incredible during the gun song. as always. just. emptied her bag by throwing the things that she didn't want and therefore forcing guiteau and the others to keep ducking out of the way of flying objects. apart from the shoe, which she gave to guiteau. and he just held. and then when booth confiscated her gun, guiteau gave her the shoe back and she was just waving a shoe for the rest of the song.

Back to Oswald, they had two different people playing Oswald and the Balladeer, and the death of the balladeer was like, they tore her instrument off her and started ripping the petticoats out of her outfit and forced her offstage, and then the guy playing Oswald was the guy who was the bartender in the saloon, so Booth reaches over the bar, grabs him by the front of his shirt, drags him OVER THE BAR, THROWS HIM TO THE STAGE AND RIPS HIS DRESS-SHIRT OFF HIM, TO REVEAL HE'S WEARING LEE'S TSHIRT UNDERNEATH.

When Oswald tried to flee from the assassins, Booth chased him up and down the aisle and back up onto the stage, and Guiteau had to hold Booth back from attacking Lee when he was calling him a vacuous vapid non-entity. Like, Lee was kinda curled up on the stage and Booth was standing over him SCREAMING and the others had to hold him back.

Lee was killed at the end of Something Just Broke, they did the famous photo shot, and then the lights went out, and when they came back up they were back in the carnival and Lee was like, freaking out and patting himself down where he'd been shot (which has like, so many intriguing implications im OBSESSED.)

Booth did kiss Prop, which I am willing to accept only because Prop also had immense sexual tension with Squeaky (she had all of the guns on her person, and the one that she gave to Squeaky was in a thigh holster and she made squeaky take it OUT of the holster herself and they were very up in each others spaces about it.)

Booth stole the Balladeers banjo during the ballad of booth because the balladeer was pissing him off. Also Booths death was done by the balladeer shooting him and dragging his body off-stage rather than him shooting himself.

FROMME KEPT TRYING TO PICKPOCKET MOORE DURING THEIR SCENES TOGETHER. AND SHE WAS NOT SUBTLE AND MOORE ABSOLUTLEY NOTICED BUT SHE JUST KEPT TRYING.

How I Saved Roosevelt was done so cleverly, like, the actual song was done by Zangara forcing his way through the crowds, and during the bystanders versus they would step in front of him, so in his verses he was just running back and forth across the stage trying to get in front of the cameras but there was always a bystander in his way.

they hung guiteau from the ferris wheel in the carnival. not particularly important but the imagery was haunting.

On one hand, I do think its funny that like, Artie *immediately* domesticated her (like fr, she went from kidnapping him with electrified handcuffs to wearing a blanket cape and playing chess in like....a week?), but also my god she should have been so much more fucked up.