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  Welcome back to the BSB podcast.
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  I'm RJ Miller Zelenko.
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  And I'm Brian Kitson, and we are excited for a new season here at the BSB Podcast.
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  However, this isn't just a new season for us,
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  as ATG Detroit is also kicking off their latest Broadway season with
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  the arrival of the notebook at the Fisher Theater.
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  General spoiler warning, nothing is off the table in our two-part
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  the notebook musical discussion.
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  So if you haven't seen it yet,
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  pause this video and come back once you have.
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  If you're still with us, let's dive in.
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  And I'm gonna dive in with a with a truth bond here,
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  RJ. As we like to do here at the BSB podcast.
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  I ~ am not a notebook girly, and I know that's gonna shock a lot of people that
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  are listening to our podcast here.
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  I did not necessarily watch it repeatedly,
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  as I know some people did. Shout out to Kylie who went with us last night.
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  She loved the notebook, the movie.
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  She had an emotional reaction to this.
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  I think I've seen the notebook once.
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  I have the book. I bought the book so that my sister could read it for the website.
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  So if you want a ~ s review of the book,
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  please check it out. Other than that,
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  this was not a movie that I necessarily was watching all the time.
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  This was not one I was going on my way to turn on.
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  I don't know what it was. Maybe I was more of a Titanic person personally.
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  ~ But that being said,
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  I don't think that this was one that I was maybe as emotionally connected to,
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  which is I think is just setting the tone for the expectations
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  of what listeners should have as we're going into this discussion.
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  But I have to know, were you a notebook person leading up to this?
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  No, but this is this is dredging up the the one and only memory I have
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  of the notebook, which was so true to
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  no.
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  to who I am as a human being. band tour
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  I sense trauma.
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  in high school. You know those trips where you all get on a bus with like fifty
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  other kids, well, only fifty in my case,
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  because we were a tiny school.
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  and you travel across the country in a bus for like a week and
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  So they showed movies because what else do you do with a bus full
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  of high schoolers who like technology,
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  phones didn't exist yet. So that's what it was.
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  So it was probably let's let's take it back to the year like 2010,
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  2020. ~ they put on their notebook and let me just say,
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  because it was a school sanctioned event,
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  like they could only show us certain rated movies.
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  But I'm pretty sure
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  Of course.
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  that the notebook was like just outside of that rating,
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  but our band director didn't know.
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  And so he puts on the notebook and I just remember I mean,
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  I'll watch whatever's in front of me and I'm on a bus for hours on end.
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  So I watched it.
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  I cannot completely recall the steamy scene,
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  but I know that there is one. And let me just tell you,
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  when you have a bus full of like 50 to 60 high schoolers
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  who are extremely immature, it was a time.
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  It was a time. And that is my only experience with the notebook.
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  So
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  What
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  an experience that truly was to watch it in a bus full
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  of teenagers and that that it's not traumatic,
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  I'm like saying it's not trauma at all,
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  right? But that is like a formative memory for the notebook that I think that like
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  nothing's gonna top that. So like why even try?
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  Honestly.
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  But truthfully, when you're looking at this,
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  I mean, this is a story that I know people love.
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  The notebook, of course, Nicholas Sparks.
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  He is one of the most renowned ~ romantic writers that is out that are out there,
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  made into the movie with Ryan Gosling and ~ my god,
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  Rachel McAdams. Super popular.
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  And then eventually it came to the stage 20 years later.
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  And this was one that I remember.
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  Everyone thought it was gonna win for I remember like correct me if I'm wrong,
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  it feels like everyone thought this was gonna win Tony Awards and then like
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  it didn't and it closed and it was over and we all forgot about it and then
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  the tour came. And so it's interesting because I think that there's
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  a lot of nostalgia for people here,
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  but there isn't necessarily a ~ a mass appeal for this.
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  I don't know, like this is ooh,
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  I'm gonna really have start to set up to a lot of people here.
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  ~ but when you like look at the show,
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  I mean, it's your opinion.
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  I mean it has
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  True. That's why we're here. Everybody wants to hear our opinion,
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  all twelve of them.
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  but like truly, this is a story again that is so widely recognized,
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  and then it transfers over to Broadway,
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  ~ beginning with its premiere at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in 2022,
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  making it to Broadway ~ in March of 2024,
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  and then only played for like 300 performances.
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  When it comes to a show such as this,
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  so when you're looking at I I feel like we say this for every show that there's a
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  a stage adapt adaptation of something else.
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  We always ask ourselves, do we need this?
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  So RJ, I'm I'm gonna pose that to you real quick.
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  Was this a necessary musical that the world really needed ~ at this time
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  in our lives?
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  So
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  my answer
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  may not reflect my actual feelings about this show,
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  but arguably I
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  Mm.
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  would say actually yes. I think in a way that I think people
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  are seeking something like this right now as an escapism.
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  Okay.
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  I think that they're they're wanting nostalgia,
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  there which is why we've seen how many of these in the last year.
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  Like every other show we see, if not I honestly almost every show we saw last year.
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  was some kind of callback to either a a a pop icon,
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  a ~ pop culture movie,
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  something like everything there is the lack of new idea.
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  Maybe it's not a lack of new idea,
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  it's it's a an a want from
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  the collective to recreate a thing that's already been done but in a different way.
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  And so do I think do I think it was needed?
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  No.
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  Do I think it was wanted?
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  Perhaps.
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  And this moment has been brought to you by Cat's The Jellicle Ball,
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  Honestly, we could go on and on and on with the amount of shows that were
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  IP driven to get people to tap into the nostalgia factor of the show.
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  And I think that like it is brilliant in the way that they're doing that because.
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  If anything's gonna sell and it's not the stars that are in the show,
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  it's gonna be nostalgia. People wanna go see their favorite shows in a new way.
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  ~ or I should say less in a new way,
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  and they wanna see their favorite shows exactly the way they have it in their mind,
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  but in a new way. And then it does try,
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  I think a lot of these try to attempt to bring something new to the table.
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  Sans maybe like Rocky Horror, which I think is in a direct adaptation.
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  ~ but again, we haven't seen it,
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  so I don't know. ~
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  But I will say that I think that the notebook does something interesting.
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  Where it does, I feel it changes something while keeping it all intact.
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  And what one of the things that stood out to me a lot when we were seeing
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  it last night was that there was such a heavy emphasis on older Allie
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  and older Noah and their journey,
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  even more so than you saw in like the movie,
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  that made it more about like I we talked about this last season too,
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  legacy.
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  And like what do we leave behind?
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  And like what is stands the test of time,
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  those kind of things, and like memory and and like how that how does that play
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  a factor in all of this, instead of focusing just on like kind of like
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  the romance aspect of like being rekindled,
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  love, finding each other again,
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  which not not saying that that's bad for the movie,
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  but I think that's like the movie's identity,
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  is like the love story, which this one almost felt like the love story
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  was second nature to the story of
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  growing older and worried about losing what we do love,
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  if that makes any sense.
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  Yeah, that was definitely something that kind of took me by surprise,
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  but as the show went on, it it did make sense as to why they were doing it that way.
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  I was kind of anticipating I mean,
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  again, all these previous shows where we we have something similar where
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  you have a narrator who is the older version of whoever,
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  and then they slowly fade out.
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  I was surprised at how, like you said,
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  how consistent and basically the entire
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  Show, they stay on stage. especially Act One.
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  even when the storytelling and memory part of it is happening,
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  they still were on stage. And that is for sure a choice.
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  I can't say that I envy those actors because you have to remain
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  so engaged and pretend to be enjoying or not enjoying the thing that you.
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  see and sit and watch every single day,
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  multiple times a day sometimes.
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  But no, that it was that's one of those things that like differentiates this from
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  from the movie.
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  I will say it reminded me a lot of the Neil Diamond story that we saw,
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  ~ Beautiful Noise, where, you know,
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  Yes.
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  in that
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  one he's talking to his therapist and he's kind of exploring his life.
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  ~ where this one definitely felt like you're kind of calling back
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  to Allie's memories, or you're like she's trying to like pull something,
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  and you know you also have Noah kind of remembering.
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  And you have all these different pieces.
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  And so you get like this memory story that I think works actually a
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  lot better here than it did in A Beautiful Noise,
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  which is one of the positives I think of the notebook is that this story.
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  lends itself very well to like being a memory story.
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  But also what comes with the memory story is that sometimes the story itself
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  is a little ~ for lack of a better term,
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  it's convoluted. And so this is one of the parts where,
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  you know, we have a nonlinear story almost happening.
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  It's like sort of kind of semi-linear,
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  but it's like also it lacks structure and there's a lot of fading in
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  and out going on. And so you know you do have like the begin
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  Beginning you start at the hospital.
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  You do kind of go into younger Noah and Younger Allie and then you
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  go into middle Noah and Middle Allie
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  But I think I was almost thinking it was gonna be linear,
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  kind of like a beautiful noise.
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  I thought it was gonna like more like we start at a point and we just kinda journey
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  to the point that we know eventually she has to end up in the hospital without
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  her memories. And we know that it's like dementia,
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  Alzheimer's. We know it's something like that.
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  But like we're journeying to that point.
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  And it was nothing like that. There was nothing about this story that
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  was really linear. And I think that almost while I knew the story,
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  it was also a little bit confusing to follow that that line from like point
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  A to point B.
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  Yeah,
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  I I cannot imagine going into this show not having any idea because
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  it was so gray. Like there was so much like ping ponging
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  from present to past to middle
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  to to younger to older to middle.
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  Like there was no and then sometimes all at the same time,
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  which that's easier to like understand when they're all,
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  you know, standing next to each other.
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  But the timeline of the story itself,
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  of their story specifically, I was like,
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  when does this even having seen the movie before,
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  I was like, wait, when does this actually happen?
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  And when are we getting to this part of the story?
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  Because it it was it was actually hard to follow for me.
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  There's one scene that I'm gonna bring up specifically.
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  And I think it it it's it's towards the end of the show.
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  But I think it's really important because I was kind of talking about this with
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  Kylie on the way home. It was the scene where they're kind of montaging
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  the like the bits and pieces of life as they're kind of nearing the
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  end of their journey. And the one scene is with middle alley standing
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  on what I'm assuming it was like a bus station,
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  and someone said, Thank you so much for coming.
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  ~ hope to have you back, or like,
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  how long will you be here? you know.
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  And then she like walks off that stage,
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  signifying that she's staying,
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  wearing one dress. And she comes back to be with Noah and wearing
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  a completely different costume in the matter of seconds.
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  And I feel like in my head, I was like,
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  okay, so clearly time is passing,
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  but you didn't tell us that time was passing.
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  But also, especially when time is so important in a story like this.
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  But also, if you're looking for the emotional component,
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  having her wear the same c costume and like almost running back would have been
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  the more logical choice for a story that you're telling here.
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  And that's just one example that I kind of pulled out of like storytelling-wise,
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  I was it left a lot to be desired because I couldn't follow where the like
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  for that one, where the the train station scene happened and then where
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  she returns to Noah and how that's connected.
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  Kylie was like, well, if you in the movie,
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  it actually ends up being like weeks later she returns.
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  Which again, like it would make sense if you know the movie quite intimately.
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  But it's not something that's really communicated there on stage because they have
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  such a short time frame, ~ that it does I feel like that some of the aspects
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  of that story do get a little bit lost as you're trying to figure out
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  the pieces of Noah and Allie's lives together.
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  Yeah, and that I think is also why the emotional component for
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  me was not wasn't there. Like as as a story.
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  Like I struggled to follow
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  Where we were, when we were, what has what has happened,
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  what are the things that are happening that I can't see.
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  and having to fill that fill in those gaps,
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  but really having no idea what's actually taken place.
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  especially when it came to like her family side of it.
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  And yeah, then obviously like the fiance.
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  There was just like that whole ending,
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  honestly. I was like,
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  How how would anyone ever know that all of these things happened and and this
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  is why she's back? Yeah, and to your point,
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  like, yeah, she I did notice that too,
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  that she had changed costumes and not remembering the movie,
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  I was like, Why would she change dresses if she's just going running back to him?
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  That was my
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  Right.
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  thought initially. ~
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  But yeah.
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  Because it doesn't make a lot of logical
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  s like if you're talking about like trying to streamline a story,
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  which I think that they were trying to do,
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  streamlining it would have been like the emotional crux would have shown
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  her like running back. Like, you know,
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  she shows up in the rain because that was like a montage thing that they did.
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  That was like a c callback they could have did.
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  She runs back and she's like, I'm here again.
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  And again, I know they're trying to do time constraints.
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  And I think that one piece of this puzzle when it comes to time stream constraints
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  is really important. And I'm gonna bring it up in second.
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  But I feel like they could have done something differently.
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  So hear me out.
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  Because you know, obviously I'm a sideline stage manager,
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  writer. ~ I like to pretend I know what I'm doing.
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  But I get that they wanted act one to end with the scene that she arrives back
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  at Noah's. Like, like when Adult Allie arrives,
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  they lock eyes and they're they're right there with each other.
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  So I understand that as they didn't want you don't want to change much about
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  act one. Something about the structure of the show that I think a lot
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  of people need to understand too is that the first act is like 45 minutes
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  to like an hour.
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  It is not an hour and a half like a traditional musical.
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  it was something that I was actually again talking about with Kylie.
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  It was just like they there's a half an hour of time that they could have used here
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  somewhere because act one, just under an hour,
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  act two, just under an hour. We were out so early from the evening.
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  So here's what I would have done.
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  Why not take that half an hour and put it in act two?
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  Cause I feel like ~ you could have almost followed act one.
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  You got to the point, you got to the point of her story that you wanted to end on.
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  You wanted your big like
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  Almost Elphaba moment, you know what mean?
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  And then you end and the show goes black.
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  Why not put the half an hour in the other half of the story where you're kind
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  of explaining everything of how sh she as an adult came back to him,
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  what that resolves, and some of the resolution of like the fiance coming back,
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  the family, and then like also a little bit more of them getting older,
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  but before she has her dementia Alzheimer's moment.
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  That I feel like that was the like if you're talking about time,
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  the theme of time here with the show,
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  we needed more time in that for that s that second act,
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  that first part of the second act to really explain some of the things
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  and give us the emotional crux.
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  Cause I feel like that was what was missing.
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  I wasn't ever emotionally connected to any of these people because A,
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  I didn't see the movie as much as ever everybody else.
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  And B, they didn't establish enough for me to actually have that connection with
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  them.
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  Yeah,
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  the the pacing of the show and where they chose to
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  highlight or have more scenes or more time ~
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  was just kind of bizarre to me.
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  I I didn't feel like I could not that I felt like
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  I could relate to any of them but again that emotional attachment just never
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  happened and the show itself crawled.
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  And I know that it is a ballad heavy I mean basically the entire show is ballad.
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  Which is insane. I mean, it makes sense for the fact that Ingrid Michelson
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  was a big proponent of composing and influencing the score.
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  And I actually love her music,
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  but for musical theater, I don't know.
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  It was the same song 20 times,
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  and it didn't help.
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  I I don't think it helped the story.
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  It didn't make me it was pretty,
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  but it didn't make me attach to the storyline and it didn't attach
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  the storyline to itself. So I don't know.
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  It was this is this is a a little bit of a head scratcher for me,
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  the show overall.
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  Yeah, absolutely. I and I do want to say that I think that there
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  are some incredible performances in this.
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  So this is one of those shows that I do think that the story
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  and the performances are really separate for me.
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  ~ and those who have listened to our past podcast obviously know that I grew
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  up in a world where ~ it was really hard to understand until I started doing this
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  how you could win best musical or best performance,
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  but it wouldn't it wasn't one in the same.
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  And then it shows like this, where like I think that all of the actors were cast
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  really well.
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  I think that the parts were done really well.
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  I think it was the story itself that really just I struggled with,
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  you know. So like I just want to give a shout out to some of these actors.
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  Like, first off, I just think that John Rubenson and ~ Angela Birchett were just
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  fantastic as older Allie and older Noah.
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  I felt like I was most connected with them just because you got to
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  see the struggle that they are dealing with.
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  But every set, every
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  You know, 'cause it's like three different relationships,
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  even though it's one relationship,
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  and you get to see all these different actors play with each other,
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  they were fantastic. The parts of them together were great.
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  It just felt very disconnected and convoluted of a story that I just almost needed
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  something more to connect it on.
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  Yeah. The it was the missing p pieces were was everything in between,
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  I think.
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  Did you have a favorite Ally and Noah though?
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  Like did was there one set younger,
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  middle or older that you were really connected to or d or ~ drawn to?
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  It would have to be I mean depends if we're ta are are
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  we talking about the character or the performance because two different things
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  That's a fair question.
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  as you just
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  mentioned. I think
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  I don't know. I mean, I the the least I will say the least connected
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  I think was young Allie for me,
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  or just young Noah and Allie. But again,
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  I think that could be
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  For sure.
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  based on my age.
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  But I think I related to
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  I'd agree with that though. I feel
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  to older and Noah and Allie in the sense of like watching
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  the struggle of a couple who have gone through a lot.
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  And I think this is like an unspoken struggle in our world today.
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  So to see that represented, I think naturally drew me into those characters
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  and and really I mean, same to those performances as well.
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  I think that the most interesting because you know me as a psychologist,
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  I love to I love little bits I can feed off of.
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  And the idea of you finally got everything you wanted and something that's
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  out of your control still took it away is that is like intriguing to watch.
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  And to watch Noah continue to make decisions because he loved her
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  and he was choosing to love her every single day.
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  And in a way, she was almost choosing to love him every single day too,
• 21:08
  in different ways, as you see when she stops kind of talking when he's not there.
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  But just being so disconnected from each other.
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  The other two felt like traditional rom com rom romedies,
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  you know, where that one felt like it had something that was a little
• 21:24
  of a little more substance. And I do have to agree with you.
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  I think the younger ones were so I was so disconnected from them because that
• 21:30
  was such young love, you know,
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  that it just feels so almost yeah,
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  we've all experienced that, but it was so far removed from where we're
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  at in our life right now that it like didn't even compute to me that that
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  was something to be like connecting to.
• 21:43
  Yeah, and I was I was shocked at the amount of laughter
• 21:51
  Yes.
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  specifically towards the the those younger characters.
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  ~ I think because like we all I shouldn't make that generalization,
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  but we've all either known someone or have been the person with that young love,
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  right? Where it's just like puppy love.
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  Nowadays I just like roll my eyes at the at that.
• 22:13
  And so that dynamic,
• 22:16
  I didn't realize how cringe it was until they were saying the things.
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  Ha ha ha.
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  And then I was like, ~ like when when they go when he starts the song saying,
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  like, I'm in love with you, and they like just met.
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  I was like
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  Chill out, bro.
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  Gross
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  gross not real but also like this is what society has taught us.
• 22:39
  Sure.
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  So I think as a 30-year-old,
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  I'm like, God, this is so unhealthy.
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  Like this is so toxic. ~ and obviously,
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  like we find out, we know the way that it ends,
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  and it like happens to work out for them.
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  But in the real world, this isn't,
• 22:54
  I mean, that's not the real world.
• 22:56
  In the real world, that is that is like a needle in a haystack.
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  I but I'm also gonna throw this out there.
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  ~ you mentioned about like this is toxic.
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  I don't think that their relationship at the end is any less toxic.
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  Noah is keeping himself locked into a facility because
• 23:15
  he can't almost live without her.
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  And in fact, depending on how you interpret the ending,
• 23:18
  because I found out that apparently Broadway ends differently,
• 23:20
  they used to cover up the bodies,
• 23:22
  like a nurse would cover up the bodies like a blanket,
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  and they got rid of that for the tour.
• 23:25
  ~ they die together because he can't live without her.
• 23:30
  So like
• 23:30
  Is it still like is it healthy?
• 23:32
  Probably not. It sounds like there's a lot of codependency going on there,
• 23:36
  which is a different conversation.
• 23:37
  But that is you're right. That is exactly the kind of romance that people tell
• 23:41
  you you should be going after.
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  The one that you meet when you're a child,
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  you have sex way too young, and then you should be like you should go back
• 23:48
  to them and you should run back to them.
• 23:50
  And like that's not healthy, that's not copesthetic at all.
• 23:52
  ~ and we've just learned to kind of accept that as like that's what true love is.
• 23:57
  And
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  The notebook is not the idea of true love.
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  I think that people should remember none of Nicholas Spark's books
• 24:05
  are actually like healthy relationships.
• 24:09
  They're all they're all like fucked up situations.
• 24:10
  They're all situations that add drama for the sake of adding drama.
• 24:13
  and this one doesn't escape that even on Broadway.
• 24:18
  Yeah, and as someone who is hyper independent and does not like drama,
• 24:25
  I think that also plays into why I just really struggled with with this show
• 24:29
  overall. Because I was like the ev everything about this is gross to me.
• 24:35
  ~ but it just goes to show like then you can have people two people down
• 24:41
  who absolutely love our our hopeless romantics and just absolutely eat it up.
• 24:47
  Which I think most of the audience typically was.
• 24:49
  And yeah,
• 24:53
  and then you have, you know, two thousand people sobbing.
• 24:55
  So ~ you know, to each their own.
• 24:58
  You know, I will say this before we we have to cut it off for the
• 25:02
  end of our discussion, but you mentioned comedy,
• 25:04
  and I do want to come back to that real quick.
• 25:05
  ~ did you also feel that the show's comedy undercut a lot of the emotional pieces
• 25:12
  of the show? And the one that really came to mind was old Noah is
• 25:17
  in his hospital bed, just had a stroke.
• 25:19
  I almost felt myself tearing up.
• 25:22
  I almost had that tear. And then the one PT guy walks through and is like,
• 25:26
  and then they're fucking. And then like like it's like
• 25:28
  So the I literally had a tear sitting here in my eye and like literally like
• 25:32
  it zooped right back up. I was like,
• 25:34
  nope, not doing that. And it I get that like we're trying to undercut
• 25:37
  how serious this show is, but I feel like it also just didn't do
• 25:42
  the show the service that it deserved when it came to those emotional pieces that
• 25:45
  a lot of people are trying to connect with to feel something about the notebook.
• 25:50
  Yeah, I if they had taken all of the comedy out,
• 25:53
  I think I would have enjoyed it more.
• 25:54
  ~ and
• 25:55
  Yes.
• 25:56
  some of it wasn't even super intentional.
• 25:58
  Like the comedy from the nurse,
• 26:00
  I can kind of understand because that is the reality of working in
• 26:04
  a hospital andor rehabilitation center.
• 26:07
  ~ so that part I could get, but like the immaturity and kind
• 26:13
  of like the I don't know, the just it was so clearly intentional.
• 26:19
  making those you know, making the PT guy super,
• 26:21
  super young and kind of immature.
• 26:23
  like why why did we need that?
• 26:29
  Did we benefit from that? I don't really think so.
• 26:34
  No. And like what we should be focusing on is like the moments where
• 26:38
  her family c comes to see her and she doesn't recognize them.
• 26:40
  And like again, almost felt a tear.
• 26:42
  And then I s I swear right after there was a joke.
• 26:44
  And I was like, ~ okay. And there we go.
• 26:46
  Like I could have been a balling mess.
• 26:48
  Guys, I need you to understand,
• 26:49
  I'm not actually going to test this.
• 26:50
  I can cry so easily at a show.
• 26:52
  It's not it doesn't take much to make me cry.
• 26:54
  I love a good tear session. And then but like every time I got near that moment,
• 27:00
  it was completely cut off by like some
• 27:03
  A lot of sexual jokes, but again,
• 27:04
  I digress, but then just like a lot of jokes that was like to cut the tension
• 27:09
  for a show that almost needed the tension for it to make sense.
• 27:12
  So
• 27:12
  Hundred
• 27:13
  percent agree.
• 27:15
  and so with that, we are running out of time for this part
• 27:17
  of the notebook discussion, but stay tuned for future episodes of the BSB podcast.
• 27:20
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• 27:28
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