Oh...Fuck OFF!!
I need to know where to send hatemail to Andrew Lloyd Webber and tell him to read a fucking book and get over himself.
Is this going to be a rant post?
What the fucking fuck is he thinking?? I was semi-worried about this Phantom of the Opera sequal, but I put my deamons to rest in hopes that it would just be centered around the phantom and it would just leave Raoul and Christine alone...but Nooooooooo.
Thanks to THIS DAMN ARTICLE. Oh and THIS one.
WHY Andrew? Why??! I really thought he understood Raoul as a character, but instead it sounds like he's resorting to really bad fanfiction for insiration.
Why do people hate Raoul so much? I can't get over the 'wussy' and 'fop' accusations. Raoul is neither a wussy, nor a fop. We have perfect examples of this both in the book and in the musical. In the book, he was in the French Navy. And in the movie, he rode through the snow in a thin white shirt to find Christine. He followed her to the Phantom's lair, where people who knew him daren't go. He put his life and family name on the line for her, and he's a wuss?
As for being a fop...why? Because he dresses well? Has nice hair? Is well-bred? Or are we just against people with families in high places with lots of money? Is it because of this that he doesn't deserve the girl he's loved since he was a kid? Or because, heaven forbid, he actually had a normal childhood without some depressing traumatic childhood expirience?
I mean really, the Raoul hate is just BULLSHIT. If you don't get into him ok, fine. But there's no reason for all the hate. He was definitly the better option for her (Christine) in the end.
Or do some people really think that the Phantom was a really great match for her? He was crazy, murdering stalker for fuck's sake!! Even in this damn sequal, he's having crazy sex every night with a fucking robot! A Christine robot!! And this is the guy she'd be better off with?
How many women in their right minds could honestly say that they would choose the Phantom over Raoul, or ANY man for that matter.
The way the book ended, the Phantom understood that Raoul and Christine were meant to be together and he let them go. He also intrusted them both with comming and buring him after he died, a wish that they both honored. And now LORD WEBBER decides that he's feeling all 'mused up' so he's going to write a BAD sequal where Raoul is an irrisponsible drunk who's dwindled away all their money?? WHAT?! *breathes*
Mr. Webber, if you screw my first ever musical love over, I will fuck with your mind...and your mail.
In conclusion, don\t be hatin' just because he's better looking than you are.