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Kaz wouldn’t ask Inej or any of the crows if they would still love him if he was worm but he would ABSOLUTELY have asked Jordie that question and if it anything less than an immediate and enthusiastic yes, he would start crying
as someone who has held solitaire so close to her heart for the last 10 years, nothing could have prepared me for seeing michael holden in the flesh
nobody:
ithan: i'm just a little guy🥺
just me thinking about how a man walking down a crowded road will check to make sure his wallet is still there, and in doing so tells the thief exactly where his wallet is. Kaz looked at Inej to make sure she was still there, and in doing so told van eck exactly who to take 😭😭
Wylan being enraptured by the "extremely rare" butterflies and the intricacies of their ecosystem and then mercilessly handing them out like doritos is the most hilarious representation of the duality of his character
six of crows fans pls dont tell me Kaz is short for Kazimir or something
Would now be a good time to mention that Leigh Bardugo was originally going to call him Baz?
joost can't find a romantic way to describe anya's brown eyes and meanwhile kanej waxes poetic about each other's brown eyes. joost thinks he could compliment anya's laugh except he doesn't know how to and meanwhile kaz wants to bottle inej's laugh. joost didn't have enough money to buy out anya's indenture but kaz bought out inej's indenture. people say that anya uses grisha magic when it's not really magic per se but for a moment kaz was a boy again who believed that there was magic in the world.
Friendly reminder that people are allowed to be apprehensive about the Wicked movie. Fans of the Broadway show have been waiting YEARS for this movie to be made, but unfortunately it's being dropped during a time where adaptations of Broadway shows just aren't hitting the same, because they're not being catered to the right audience.
Even if you overlook the casting, and the fact that they're not even being marketed as the genre (the saving grace with this one is that most people know that Wicked is a musical), the actual musical aspect is enough to trigger a fear of the unknown.
I've seen a lot of people defending the most recent Mean Girls movie by saying, of course the music is going to be different, because it's a different medium and the stage version won't translate well on screen. And I do partially understand that, I get that changes need to be made for it to work better, but they changed the arrangements of the songs entirely, and I think that has more to do with trying to hit a different audience than it does about screen translation. It's a weak excuse when you look at the bigger picture.
Movie adaptions of musicals have been made throughout cinema history, and SO many of them have been successful for the right reasons, and some of them were even recent. Grease, Hairspray, Mamma Mia, Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, West Side Story, Tick, Tick... Boom!, Chicago, The Sound of Music, In the Heights, Matilda—the list is endless. And, sure, there are issues with each and every one of them, things we can complain about, stuff we can pick apart, but the one thing that's consistent is that they all have the right energy. Changes were made because they needed to be, but the music and the vibe stayed the same. There's no excuse to revamp the entire thing.
Which brings us back to the fear of how they're going to handle Wicked. If "movie musicals shouldn't have as much music in them to balance it out" then what are we doing here? Because Wicked, in particular, is a musical where the score acts as a driving force for the plot, and if you're going to take half of that out to cater to an audience that doesn't like musicals, or change the arrangements, revamp the numbers etc. then it isn't going to work.
Obviously, we can't judge it too harshly yet, because we've had a 1 minute teaser trailer, but please remember that fans are allowed to be apprehensive.
And, side note, creators of movie musicals need to stop trying to make musicals for people that don't like them. If they focus on their target audience, then they'll be successful—that's filmmaking 101 and should not have to be said but here we are.
"This show is bursting with action and overflowing with suspense right from the beginning. From the very first episode I was hooked on the story and even now it still lingers in my thoughts. Brings back the feeling of old heist movies: you think you know everything, only to find out that the group leader, Kaz, has a brand new trick up his sleeve. Fast paced and wonderfully adapted, I’m finding it impossible to think of anything I didn’t like about Netflix's Six of Crows." @socdaily | NO MOURNERS EVENT day five → what could've been (template)
Six of Crows: A Comic Adaptation
Part 1, Chapter 3
Pages 9–10
Watching Flynn, Declan and Ithan operate on a single braincell without anyone telling them what to do is peak entertainment
when you're only one chapter into hofas, cluelessly trying to put the pieces together after two years of wild theories and connections
An evening in Ketterdam
If someone would have told me that Jack Dawkins and Belle Fox were basically Thomas Cresswell and Audrey Rose Wadsworth in a different font, i would have watched The Artful Dodger sooner, are you kidding me?
I did a thing
whoever did the arrangements and production for the mean girls 2024 musical numbers needs to be arrested and then barred from ever touching another broadway song bc wtf
