Stephaniej

@Rochellaine

Are there any musicals we actually agree on???

I already knew how it ended before I watched it and of course I’d read Liliom, so I might have been projecting too much onto it, but I found it difficult to care at all about Julie or Billy. Why was Billy so deadset against getting a job? And why on earth did Julie just put up with…[Read more]

@valtmy

Pretty much nil.

Its certainly an…interesting story. Many of the problems are fixed in Carousel, but its still a musical that makes me a tad uncomfortable. Okay, a little more than a tad.

@valtmy I know, how could you? In general though, I think they’re both pretty good book adaptions and Hollywood writers would do well to study them.

@rochellaine

I see 🙂 Well, red roses I think go with the unimaginative proposal. They’re rather boring and over done now 😀

*gallantly refrains from commenting on Carousel*

@valtmy

I haven’t seen Matilda, but I think Les Mis, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Phantom of the Opera are all good book adaptions, though POTO changes a lot of the plot.

@valtmy

In my opinion, most of the musical is awkward attempts to stick passages straight from the book to music.

@rochellaine

Were the white carnations for any particular reason? Or did he just like them?

That wasn’t particularly smart of them. I mean, if you stopped singing and actually did something you wouldn’t be in this here fix.

@valtmy

Haha, no not really. I don’t really think Jane Eyre is a prime musical example.

@Rochellaine

Exactly right. It would be hugely annoying 😛

I feel there are extremely few guys who like flowers as much as Quillon does 🙂 in fact, when it comes to flowers guys are even more unimaginative than in their proposals. Red roses are the only thing they understand.

I actually think you would have more luck vowing vengeance on someone…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Then again, my slightly more sentimental side likes the idea of the flower language that Sapphire and Quillon use. But it would still be simple. I’m sure there’s a flower that means “marry me”.

@rochellaine

Awww 😛

I wouldn’t like a particularly weird one like those examples because I would probably see through it right away and then just get annoyed. I would like the guy just to be frank and practical. “Would you marry me?” would be sufficient. Of course, all this would be done without pleading or tears or any of the other sappy…[Read more]

@rochellaine @valtmy

I just looked up unique ways to propose to someone and some of them were absolutely hilarious.

One of them was to play a trivia game and then casually ask Will you marry me? As one of the trivia questions. Or to get a specially printed jigsaw puzzle and ask the intended to put it together.

@rochellaine

Yes, you have confused me, but I shall move on with life.

@valtmy

Hello there!

@rochellaine

Ah yes, I do. As I said, I don’t know if I will use it, but I shame-facedly admit that I do have it planned.

I think mine is slightly more unconventional 😛 but I don’t want to tell you about it because it would give away most of the ending.

I think Victoria found it a bit forward too 😀 Of course, you can’t just have random German…[Read more]

@Rochellaine

Sorry I had to go do some housework so I had to wait till just now to read your rant, which was quote an enjoyable rant to read 🙂

Don’t worry, Justice wouldn’t propose on one knee. In fact, I do have a proposal scene planned out though I haven’t decided whether to use it or not. Its rather…unconventional.

As to the practice of…[Read more]

@Rochellaine

I would never hold anyone back from ranting on romance cliches, as long as I’m able to rant too. 😛

@ariel-ashira

That’s amazing news! Hopefully we’ll see you around a bit more 🙂

(Sorry for the delay in reply. It’s those pesky time zones)

@ariel-ashira

I can’t even imagine how hard that would be for you. I’m very close to my family and I don’t think I’d cope very well with spending two months away from them living with someone I’d never met. I will definitely be praying for you.

@daughteroftheking

Farewell!

@Rochellaine

Have you disappeared?

@daughteroftheking

“And stuff escalates from there” 😀 sounds like an example of my outlining 😛

It does sound pretty cool, especially a fairy named Brant and Rumplestiltskin.