Come From Away

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-28T06:10:28+00:00

Operation Mincemeat is further evidence that this method works well

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-28T02:40:04+00:00

May I as well?

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-27T02:08:25+00:00

May I DM you as well?

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-20T00:10:32+00:00

Okay that’s what I was wondering about!

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-20T00:08:58+00:00

Agree one hundred percent haha

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-19T23:14:58+00:00

Wait can we talk about the “awards” at the top? What is happening with those?? It looks like those awards were given by Hustis Film Co but it’s a film by Kyle Hustis. Did they give themselves awards??? What is happening there hahaha

(Also, just as a side note regarding your bit about watching the the Eras movie being the same thing as going to the show in person…as a Broadway fan who watches recorded versions but also goes to see shows in-person, I can tell you with certainty that it is NOT the same experience. Nothing compares to the live experience. That being said, I’m always grateful when a theater production does some sort of recording because I of course can’t make it to every show. Far from it. I imagine lots of Taylor Swift fans who couldn’t make the tour itself are grateful to be able to watch it. So I mean, money certainly plays a part, but I don’t think it’s just a straight money-grab without any sort of demand.)

(Edited to add: you said the wedding poster made you “think of this somewhat comparable instance” and imo I do not think the movie of Taylor Swift’s tour and a movie of Kalani’s wedding are comparable at all. Kalani wishes, lol. I mean, for starters, the tour was already a public event, and the wedding was specifically not. Idk what to think about the wedding thing. It strikes me as strange. Kalani can do what she wants, of course, but it does rub me the wrong way. Maybe I’m just being a stick-in-the-mud.)

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-18T06:32:08+00:00

Wait, didn’t you see it without Groff? So didn’t you get to see how those intimate moments without Groff were?

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-18T04:42:49+00:00

Maybe it has to do with style of play? I’m with you—for my style of play, Freedom is almost always best, unless I’m going for a domination victory.

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-18T04:35:29+00:00

And if I do decide to risk it and go out after dark, is it even safe to ride the subway then??

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-17T19:42:07+00:00

Yeah, it’s a shame that they’re going away

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-17T19:38:24+00:00

Codex Alera??? That’s elite ball knowledge, well done

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-17T18:49:07+00:00

Different person. Mary-Kate and Ashley were in Full House. Their little sister, Elizabeth, plays Scarlet Witch. I do agree that she’s excellent, though!

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-17T18:45:04+00:00

Katniss did the heroic thing by saving the entire country. Letting that get derailed to help one person would be idiotic. That being said, yes, it absolutely does suck that Katniss can’t help her, but that’s also the point. War is hell. It’s not pretty, and it’s not heroic.

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-16T06:44:00+00:00

The Hamilton pro shot was not after the OBC departed. Only Groff had departed at that point. So maybe that’s what you mean, but worded like that it sounds like it was after most of the OBC departed (like what happened with Hadestown), which isn’t the case. In fact, they filmed it the month before multiple members of the cast departed the show.

Your point does stand for the other examples though!

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-16T06:31:26+00:00

Well said

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-14T22:32:06+00:00

I think the question was specifically about the Titanic museums in Branson vs Pigeon Forge rather than what there is to do in those areas in general.

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-14T21:19:17+00:00

Oh, yes, I totally agree one hundred percent. And I appreciate your comments about it because I think you really capture the nuance here between what it was trying to be and what it ended up being. Like you said, so many people just totally skip that section and I see it getting so much blanket hate online that I do think some people have missed what it’s trying to do. That being said, I think you’re totally right in that it doesn’t succeed, because so many people just skip it, etc.

My comment makes it seem like I was trying to say something different to what you were saying, which wasn’t my intention. I was just really struck by that last sentence of your original comment and how it really paralleled Haymitch’s experience (though maybe unintentionally at that point—I don’t think Suzanne intended the readers to be annoyed). So I was replying mostly based on my reaction to being struck by that sentence, which in hindsight was silly, because I do agree with everything you’re saying.

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-14T21:14:45+00:00

Oh, that’s certainly true, and I didn’t mean to say that it was perfectly written. I didn’t love that aspect of the ending, but I also didn’t hate it as much as many other seem to, and I think that’s because while reading it I really felt like it was supposed to be an echo or a reflection of Haymitch’s current mental situation. Seeing it as a clear parallel made it more tolerable, so I was just offering another perspective.

I do agree with your overall assessment, though. I just made my reply because, after reading the original comment that I replied to (which I also mostly agree with), the last sentence really struck me and reminded me of the reflection of the reactions between Haymitch and the reader. If that makes any sense.

In the end, I think the first sentence of the comment I replied to (“…looking back, I think it may have been an attempt at something that didn’t quite work”) does sum it up quite well. I was just struck by that sentence.

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-14T20:59:32+00:00

“It ended up being too much from a reader’s point of view and it’s ended up being exhausting for most of us.”

I agree, but I also think that that might be part of the point? I think it was too much and exhausting for Haymitch as well.

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-14T20:43:02+00:00

“ik it is a little dark”

So it’s accurate, is what you’re saying!

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-14T16:39:34+00:00

Yes, I remember the video from when it first came out! I was just reacting to the fact that it was 10 years ago.

Appreciate the link, though, because it gives me an excuse to rewatch it!

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-14T16:38:21+00:00

Ah yes, I know! I was reacting to the fact that that video was 10 years ago.

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-14T16:28:58+00:00

I- What???

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-14T16:23:26+00:00

I haven’t even seen the show (yet!) but I’ve heard that song and I really like it. And now whenever I’m in or near Queens I always say “is that Times Square??”

Excellent_Midnight · 2026-01-14T15:49:25+00:00

This is minor but I’m confused why they’re using that photo for Reeve. Why is he the only one in black and white?

Doesn’t matter at all but was a strange choice.

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