everlasting true love, i am yours

to the original:

like it strips out all the seasonal/nature imagery which is insane to do in a song about THE GREEK GODDESS PERSEPHONE, it replaces this really intimate and vivid scene of these two people meeting with a generic and impersonal "and then you loved her... because you were a man... and she was a Woman...", frankly along with the lyric changes to chant II it totally strips it clean of all erotic imagery, it takes out the RHYME SCHEME... like this is supposed to be this moment where Orpheus reminds Hades of what it meant to be young and in love before the years changed him, but instead of actually invoking this tender and meaningful scene from his youth he just says a bunch of cliches about what it's generally like to love someone. like it kind of breaks the whole scene for me. why would telling him "love is when you love a girl a lot, and you feel like she's the only one in the world for you" introduce any new emotion or information to the situation. it's like if ratatouille ended with Anton Ego taking a bite of the ratatouille and instead of phasing back to his beautiful French childhood he just says aloud "what a wonderful dish, it really reminds me that food tastes good, and connects us all". Do you guys see what I mean it's kind of driving me to madness. WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS

I Apologize

please do consider that i am extremely tired, so this is likely to be incoherent but.

oh yes absolutely the parallels between Edmond and Hamlet himself are definitely the most prominent ones! like, aside from themes of madness, poisoning, revenge, suicide, manipulation etcetera they're VERY similar for a whole lot of different reasons. i actually made a post about the similarities between them, i'll link it tomorrow when my brain starts working again.

but i also do think that Edmond, because of the role he plays in regards to other people and himself, is also quite similar to King Hamlet, Hamlet's father.

because obviously the person who pushes Monte-Cristo to get his revenge is none other than Monte-Cristo himself (we could argue that a better parallel for King Hamlet would be the Abbé Faria but i personally disagree with it).

the Count basically haunts himself in the same way the Ghost haunts his son, constantly reminding himself of the immense trauma he went through despite how excruciating that must be -- in the same way the Ghost makes his own son avenge him, despite knowing what that will cost Hamlet.

but also. the Count also haunts other people both in the sense that he's always lurking in the background doing something nasty to them AND that he's like. a ghost of their past, a symbol of their guilt and their sins! and i'm not just talking about Villefort&Co, but also Mercédès herself (who is Gertrude, but also Ophelia)!

the psychological (and possibly physical) abuse that Edmond endures in prison -- and which Monte-Cristo* refers to after he escapes -- are very much similar to the ones the Ghost suffers in hell, and just like the Ghost, he is unable to talk about them. we do know what he went through, but only because of the omniscient narrator. no one else does.

We interrupt our regularly-scheduled POC awesomeness to bring you a single post of WHAT. THE. FUCK.

Did Oniisama E just choose a shot of a neon sign as the characters walked down the street to lampshade its Radclyffe Hall influences?

Above: screenshot from Oniisama E episode 20, an extremely famous photo of Radclyffe Hall, old book cover with an illustration based on Radclyffe ‘John’ Hall and her girlfriend.