ENDING HAMILTON - The Final Five Songs!!! | Unedited Reaction
Added 2024-09-11 05:06:05 +0000 UTCElection of 1800 + Your Obedient Servant + Best of Wives and Best of Women + The World Was Wide Enough + Who Lives Who Dies Who Tells Your Story
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PENDRAGOOOOOOON Very much a blast from the past, I love that book series.
Panda Creations
2024-11-20 04:28:50 +0000 UTCThey are definitely all supposed to mean familial love as sisters. Historically the letters written to Hamilton from Maria she refers to him as “my love”. Over time the letters suggest she eventually became infatuated with him. Her letters to Reynolds suggests that Reynolds used this to further exploit Maria into doing his bidding. He typically used the threat of physical abuse towards her and the children as his way of forcing Maria into doing things. So I too think the “love” line is supposed to be a double for both Peggy/ Maria and Angelica (“if I tell her that I love him” is definitely a different kind of love).
Renee Bush
2024-11-19 05:04:21 +0000 UTCalso on the Hamilton subject, I think the "me I loved him" is my favourite of the double meanings – does Angelica love him as her brother in law or because she was always in love with him, and was it Maria Reynolds who loved him or Peggy Schyler loving her brother in law ("Peggy confides in me"), or, of course, both Kudos to you both for holding it together through the finale, I sure was sobbing for pretty much all of it
Maddie
2024-10-05 03:43:23 +0000 UTCholy crap legally blonde???? that is unironically one of my top musicals of all time too and deserves all the love in the world (fun fact about me lol, i have worked costumes on it twice), I've loved watching all of Hamilton with you both, have been here since I think week two (or week one but accidentally watched part 2 first? can't remember) and I love all of your thoughts and insights on it, so so excited to see you both talk about Legally Blonde because it is an underrated masterpiece
Maddie
2024-10-05 03:41:56 +0000 UTCIf you notice, near the end, either near or in the chorus, Eliza sings, "Will they tell my story?" while the ensemble sings, "Will they tell your story?" Also, right before Eliza gasps, everyone looks straight at her, and the spotlight is on her while she sings, "Who lives? Who dies? Who tells your story?" This is Eliza's story. Hamilton is about Eliza's story, but Eliza's story is telling Alexander's story.
Leo1235_812
2024-10-05 03:02:55 +0000 UTCI love the pendragon series, even though I read it like 10 years ago I still go back to it because it’s such a fun read. Seeing you pull it out got me way too excited.
Wesley Courson
2024-10-01 17:42:01 +0000 UTCAlso if I’m remembering correctly Eliza lived almost to see the CIVIL WAR. She lived a long ass time, like I think she was like 97/98 something like that. Like she was OLD OLD.
Kat
2024-10-01 16:31:37 +0000 UTCI love getting Casper’s musical input. He’s right! Songs in 3/4 are typically emotional, like even a waltz is emotional. It’s a dance, much like this song itself is. Burr and Hamilton have been dancing around each other the entire musical but this is where it’s really come to a head. They’re almost mocking each other too!
Kat
2024-10-01 16:14:20 +0000 UTCI know I've already commented, but I'm re-watching for fun! I wanted to point out that Peggy did not love Alexander romantically, but she was fond of him as a brother-in-law. We hear about that for a second during Helpless, and I thought it was really sweet. I wish we knew what kind of things they had sassy sibling chats about!
Kory Misun
2024-09-30 15:13:13 +0000 UTCThis is so amazing! I feel a bit late to comment, but will anyways. Something I don't see talked a lot about with this play is the how important the narrator is for each scene. I know Mortius touched on it early in the reaction, but it is such a consistent thing in this play for each song. The play is very self aware about it being told from information that we have about historical events, I think this is most prominent in "Room Where is Happens," when Burr says that no one really knows what went on, but then says "Jefferson claims" and we gets Jefferson side of events, Madison's side right after, and then Hamilton's last. This is also obviously important just in Burr's general narration throughout the story (and of course is brought to a thematic end in "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story.") But in regards to Mariah Reynolds, I see people miss all the time how Burr starts telling the story of her and Hamilton's affair, stops himself and then goes, "well, I'll let [Hamilton] tell it." Because the most prominent story that we know of the affair is, of course, the Reynolds Pamphlet. Which Hamilton wrote. So when Hamilton is saying "she led me to her bed, she came on to me, all I did was just not say no," the ONLY perspective we get from this scene is Hamilton's. Mariah's story is NOT told. I think it's important to remember, especially when we talk about her inclusion in the "Me, I loved him" line in the beginning. I have loved your guys' reactions though, thank you so much!
Molly Moleres
2024-09-29 18:52:30 +0000 UTCCaspar, how many languages do you speak? I speak English and Portuguese, and at least used to be able to have short conversations in Spanish. Want to learn Italian, but haven't gotten around to it yet. Took French briefly back in the 80s, but almost none of it stuck -- je m'appele Lori and ça va? are the only two phrases I remember! LOL (And I suspect I misspelled both of them.)
Lori Kingston
2024-09-28 12:12:28 +0000 UTC
