The whole time, Eliza has been the most wonderful, trusting, amazing person and she has let everything roll over her but now all the frustration and anger that’s been brewing under the surface from all the times Alexander has ignored her or chosen his work over her is coming out and she’s taking control of her life
The progression of “I knew you were mine, you said you were mine, I thought you were mine” is so beautiful and heartbreaking I’m crying
How she quotes Angelica twice and simultaneously reminds us how close they are and how much more Angelica knew about Alexander from the moment they met I love Eliza’s relationship with Angelica so much you don’t understand
Eliza is finally realizing what Angelica meant when she said “Be careful with that one love, he will do what it takes to survive” which she probably didn’t understand and brushed off at the time
The fucking beautiful imagery in “you built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals”
Her confusion when she says “I’m searching and scanning for answers” is also beautifully heartbreaking
“The world seemed to burn”
This entire song is beautiful and heartbreaking
“In clearing your name you have ruined our lives” is a beautiful summary of how Alexander is obsessed with how people see him and acts without thinking about consequences, and how these two things came together into the worst thing he ever did Alexander you fucking idiot
“You have married an Icarus, he has flown too close to the sun” is such a beautiful summary of the situation honestly it just says it all
The way everyone else is focused on the affair but Eliza recognizes the difference in the way Alexander is writing, how he is so desperate to redeem himself that he barely makes sense
Actually can we talk about this for a second because Eliza is easily as smart as Angelica but she never really gets to show it because she’s more of a romantic and even though she’s interested in politics and the revolution she’s more interested in making sure her family is safe but she knows exactly what is going on and she can read into Alexander’s emotions through his writing and she is absolutely done with all of his shit
The absolute disgust in her voice at “you, you, you, you”
“I’m erasing myself from the narrative” is so different and so much stronger than “let me be a part of the narrative” when she was younger and still trying to be a part of Alexander’s life and she’s taking control and I’m SO PROUD ELIZA
“Let future historians wonder how Eliza reacted when you broke her heart” fucking savage
“The world has no right to my heart, the world has no place in our bed” she’s so powerful right here and I love it so much
“You forfeit all rights to my heart, you forfeit the place in our bed” she’s forcing him to take responsibility that this was all his doing and that absolutely none of this is her fault
“I hope that you burn” she wants absolutely nothing to do with him I am so in love with this woman who has been dead for 160 years send help
In summary Eliza is a beautiful human being and if you hurt her she will fucking drag you
I was listening to this the other day and had a realisation
you know how they specifically talk about how Hamilton tells Maria Reynold’s story and it’s skewed, well so is Eliza’s
for such an important character in the narrative this is the first time she’s really had the chance to talk for herself, to make decisions for herself
in Helpless – a medley not a solo – she is seduced by the man her sister brought to her, and we know from Angelica’s solo, that Angelica rejected him, we also know that Hamilton didn’t mind which sister he won, he says it to Aaron Burr in Helpless, “If you marry a sister you’re rich son,” is it a matter of if, Burr, or which one?” and Hamilton asks her father for permission to marry her, not her
in that would be enough she is the distraction from the war, she is an ideal not a person
then later she is the cajoling wife getting in the way of his work, who doesn’t see the value of his effort, she nags so he cuckolds her
then we get Burn
where she talks about taking herself from the narrative, but in many ways this is the first time Eliza is in the narrative for herself, and not how others, Angelica, Hamilton himself, see her
and we see she’s not the meek mouse her sister believed her, or the quiet docile wife who nagged Hamilton, she is a creature of fire, of rage
so when we get to the very end it’s Eliza who stands triumphant, Eliza, not her husband, who is the abolitionist, Eliza who works with the poor, and records their stories
contemporary accounts of Eliza herself say she was, Hamilton left her debt ridden and she lost the family house, and she still became a force to be feared, she fought tooth and nail to get the biography published, she continued her charity work well into her 90′s, which is when she raised money for the washington monument
This is Eliza’s moment, this is when we get to see Eliza as she is, a firebird, glorious and determined and righteously pissed off
there is a hint that by burning the letters we only had their voices to give her a narrative, but Miranda made that decision, so when Eliza catches fire, which she does burning the letters, we burn with her
I’m still positively reeling from the new episode but I really, really wanna talk about Pearl’s song for two specific reasons (which I had to process back-to-back so consider me thoroughly destroyed.)
Beyond the fact that it’s beautiful and touching and basically everything about it is perfect – the pacing, the colors, DeeDee’s vocals, the lyrics, the cinematography, the emotion – I feel like this song does a little extra for us. It might feel like a rehash, especially given how much material we already have concerning Pearl’s feelings for Rose, yet despite all previous musical numbers and instances of Pearl addressing that, this still feels very fresh and unique a perspective to bring to the topic.
Because I think what’s really gripping about this song is how it’s not even really about Rose, it’s about Pearl! Who she is, what she wants, how far she’s come.
It’s about Pearl wanting to move on, about her loving Rose but her wantingtomove on from Rose, to move past petty feelings, to focus on what’s important now.
I’ll say that the moment that really struck me most in this song was when we take a step back and we see Pearl fully, when she’s standing on the glass of the balcony and delivers these lines:
War and glory, reinvention
Fusion, freedom, her attention
Out in daylight, my potential
Bold, precise, experimental
I feel like this is Pearl reflecting back on all she dreamed of, the things she aspired for before Rose left. She was a renegade soldier, fighting for change, ideals of freedom and self-importance. Pearl came from a background where she was never meant to fight, but she worked at it, became something stronger than she was, for herself as much as for Rose. Out in daylight, my potential. Bold, precise, experimental.These are things Pearl truly sees herself as, or at least, she used to. Someone who was growing, becoming something better, something she could be proud of.
Then immediately she falls, doubts herself, thinks of what she is now, what she’s become in Rose’s absence. She thinks herself ‘petty and dull’, as if she’ll never be anything beyond that (what does it matter? it’s already done), but she has to be here without Rose. Be there for Steven. Because if there’s nothing else Pearl can do that’s worthwhile, she at least wants to be there for Steven.
That’s why this song is so heartbreaking to me, but also gives me hope. Pearl isn’t quite there yet, but she desperately wants to be, she wants it to be over. She wants to move beyond this. Yet the song isn’t hopeful, it’s a sigh of defeat. Benign acceptance thatit’s over, isn’t it?
But Rose is gone, and she’s still here, and she still can’t move on.
I think she can, though. I think it’s important that we’re shown Pearl wants to become better. I think that’s the point of her character, in the end. As much as it might sometimes feel like Pearl’s entire character is built entirely around Rose, to the point where it feels like they’ll never be separate, I think it’s more that her character is built on top of the impact Rose left on her.
Pearl’s development is about her learning to love herself, to better herself on her own terms, for her own reasons, and this song is amazing because it shows that she wants it and she’s slowly getting there, despite how much it still hurts.
Steven probably told her to do it. Like she just get’s the pan out the oven like nbd and Steven’s like “*GASP!* GARNET WAIT! You have to wear these oven mits. Safety first!” Pearl: Steven, Garnet is capable of holding items of EXTREME temperatures that no mere cloth could possible protect humans fro- Garnet: *wearing the oven mits* Safety first.
Square Mom needs to set a good example for her son.
What if Sans’s telescope prank wasn’t only a prank, but also a test?
Normally, the kind of prank where you trick someone into getting a mark on their face is a stealth one. The embarrassment is through them not realising the mark and going on with their lives until someone else decides to tell them, or they look in a mirror eventually. They also realise they were the ones who participated, unknowingly, in getting a silly mark.
In this scenario, everyone basically yells SANS and tries to call him on it, resulting in him joking about a refund. But there’s no way Frisk would know about the eye blotch. The normal run of the joke would be for Frisk to obliviously carry on until they find a mirror somewhere. Instead, most people confront Sans immediately.
Maybe he was testing to see if we, the player, really were there. Frisk could’ve turned on him and called him on the prank… despite having no way to know they’ve got a pink eye. That’s what WE know. We outed our existence to Sans.
This is an interesting theory, but, I have something that may counter it. Frisk looked into the telescope and saw red all over when they did. Even though they might not know that the mark is on their eye, they do know that there was nothing to see in the telescope. So this might just be something along the lines of Frisk telling Sans, “The telescope doesn’t work,” or “Something’s wrong with your telescope.” I like this theory, but I just wanted to point it out.
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