Dearest, beloved, Fandom Wank.

I know you were looking forward to great excitement today. Some of you said words to me that indicated you anticipated fiery 'judgement' upon those who remained fresh and dewey white, those you call n00bs.

Anyway, you got today instead.

Stop anticipating things, we'll just break your hearts.

Sincerely,

Sepia P. Magpie, Esq.



PS: Use this post to reflect on how you could be better people. Or just fuck around in the comments.

Musical wank? On my birthday? Oh internets, you're so good to me.

It all starts out on stupid_free, where someone posts a bit of stupid related to evyltemptryss spamming comms about her friend's Rent audition.

This prompts musikbox to make a (sadly now deleted) comment about how much she hates Rent, apparently because she just discovered that it's, like, a total ripoff of Puccini's La Boheme. And also that it's not classical enough or something.

When people point out the lots of popular entertainment is based on adaptations, that's okay because she hates those too. And Rent sucks because there aren't enough special effects in it.

Don't worry guys, she knows because of her learnings.

She also happens to be a big Phantom fangirl, and insists that Phantom is the better musical because "Phantom singers have to have alot more skill vocally because it's a really tough score to sing, so many sharps, flats, and high notes."

Never actually seen Rent or La Boheme, but HER MOM KNOWS SOMEONE AT THE MET U GUYZ.

yes, I know everything about Rent because jee, I've heard the music.

Then dindin posts the whole thing as a meta-stupid, which leads to more wank about how she implied everyone who likes animation is childish.

*blows out candles*

I will probably bring on the wrath of some Rentheads for this, but . . . this is just too amusing IMO:

So, Harry Potter isn't the only film opening soon. But at least the early reviews for it were pretty positive. The same, however, could not be said about the upcoming film version of Rent . . . or, at least, at first.

For the past two weeks now, early industry screenings for the film have been occurring. So some fans, who are members of specific guilds like SAG, have been able to view the film early and many have been posting reviews of the film on BroadwayWorld, TalkingBroadway, and even Oscarwatch.com.

And the majority of the reviews - when first posted in these three places at least - weren't very raving. Some very much the opposite in fact.

One Rent fan named Munkustrap, who went to a screening posted a very negative review a few days ago, and seemed very solid in his opinion on the film. After a few days however, the review was deleted. (The original review gave it 2 stars out of four. The thread for the deleted review can still be found here however.) Why, no one could guess, but Munkustrap said he's had a change of opinion after seeing the film again, deleted the first review himself, and began posting more positively about the film.

Most of the BroadwayWorld posters however (some who haven't seen the film yet) are pleased as punch Munkustrap has a change of heart about the film - for whatever reason. User MJohnson05 however notes this rather large change of opinion, as well as the fact that a few other people who posted critical reviews (including himself) seemed to be doing a 180 about the film suddenly - or at least being more positive about the film when posting about it - in a thread started by user BroadwayGirl107 in which she too has a negative and disappointed view of the film:

( I thought other people were being contacted to change their reviews the way I was contacted to. Glad to see that's not the case )

( Wait a minute - you were contacted to do what? )

User EvelynNesbit1906 confirms that there has been contact to posters on Broadway World about speaking more positively about the film, ( because she has been contacted too. )

( I hope I don't have to fear Nathan Lane PM'ing me about The Producers film. . . )

( It all seems a bit worrisome... )

The back and forth about this - and whether or not people are just having a more balanced opinion about the film now or not - all comes to a head when Anthony Rapp himself (Mark Cohen to all Rent fans) - realizing he's been busted as everyone knows he used to be a regular poster on BroadwayWorld until Sony Pictures asked him to stop and to only post things on the official Rent Blog - posts in the thread to defend himself about the PM's he admits sending:

( Celebrity in the thread! )

Despite the cheering from almost everyone about Anthony posting and "clearing this up," MJohnson still sticks on point that what Rapp did made him feel uncomfortable:

( He didn't ask me to discuss why I felt what i felt in a PM with him -- he asked me to post it on the board. That's where I thought it drew the line. )

( That MJ felt uncomfortable being engaged in a discussion is perhaps a matter of how comfortable he was with his own opinion. )

Yeah, or maybe it's a request that probably shouldn't have been made in the first place?

:sits back and waits to get asked to change her post to a more balanced one:

ETA: Um, Anthony? Maybe you should just let this go already? *stares*