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Episode 153: The Theatre
🕑 Added 2022-01-10 15:00:08 +0000 UTCWe're finally here! The play that has loomed over us for the entire run of the podcast is finally in our hands. After years of hearing about the Trolley Witch and reading complaints about Mary Sues... it's time for Cursed Child!
We went very long on this episode, so I've split it into two almost 2 hour episodes. This week we tackle the first quarter or so of the first play (this is technically two plays!), the first half of Act One. There's plenty to discuss here: the history of the play, how much involvement JKR had versus her collaborators, and the unrealistic expectations the publishers and JKR may have set for the fanbase that doomed this play before it ever had a chance... and that's before we get to the play itself, which involves time travel wife theft and bad parenting galore!
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James Mason
finished my relisten to the podcast and now catching up to the cursed child content!
Y’all describing the Draco-Voldemort-Astoria situation knocked me the f out because every time I hear the word ‘cuck’ That One Erika Moen Comic inevitably flashes through my head like a Pavlovian lightning bolt, so thank you for the extra lols Also I love how this play is actually, incredibly, somehow seemingly cohesive?? I actually am warming up to Ron being the Goofy Joke Uncle Dad - huge improvement from him being just kind of a self-serving asshole w/ no motivations @ the end of Book 7
