The third part of this post is brought to you by me listening to the soundtrack in the car

[soc_puppet]

There's nothing like driving an hour and a half on the open road in a bus to make one appreciate driving an hour and a half on the open road in a small car ¦D

Similarly, driving an hour and a half on the open road in a bus piques one's appetite, especially when one has not gotten a terribly good breakfast earlier in the day. It was enough to stop the shakes, I thought I'd be fine!

In other news, there was an owl in our backyard today. So I took pictures:




Family's guessing it's a barred owl. Saw it when I went to get the mower and attack the front lawn. It was still more-or-less there when I left for the library earlier tonight. Socool o_o.


I would also like to take this moment to briefly complain about the Broadway adaptation of The Lion King. I saw it on the stage in question when I was eleven, and while I found myself A-OK with the gender swapping of Rafiki (Needs moar ♀ characters!, someone in charge said; Let's just change one of the ones we have!, someone else said), I now (and possibly also then) find myself rather irked by the change in Nala's motive for leaving the central pridelands prior to finding Simba. To the me of today, it stinks of hokey plot device. I mean, come on! The best alternate reason you can come up with for Nala to leave focuses on making her a victimized female?! If I am interpreting my feelings correctly, then I am insulted on behalf of the character. And. Stuff. Grr! (Also, props to Disney for not originally taking that route, and giving her a Perfectly Legit Reason for branching out instead of trying to amp up the drama unnecessarily. Remind me - should I be surprised to be saying that about Disney, or not?)

End rage.



....There is a mite on my screen. It is running away veeeerrry fast. It's veeeeerrrry tiny. I am strangely charmed. *watches the mite*

Comments

[vitani]

I don't think it makes Nala's motive JUST that. After all, her song while leaving, Shadowland, is the best in the show, and it makes it clear that she's strong and she's going to find a way to help her pride. She repeats that she'll return several times. If she just was running off because she couldn't handle Scar, she wouldn't come back at all.

I think they were trying to make the show appeal to adults, too, and while I find the Scar-hitting-on-Nala thing kind of. Disturbing. It also provides for another song I love - The Madness of King Scar. So no complaining here. And though he didn't do it to Nala in the Lion King, he DID knock around Sarabi. Sarabi doesn't have a role in the musical, so Nala had to take on both parts.

[soc_puppet]

And lo, my memory can indeed fail me! Though I do seem to remember Sarabi crying over Mufasa's corpse, if only 'cuz it was really cool what they did with the ribbon (paper? whatever) coming out of the headdress' eyes...

[vitani]

Oh, she was PRESENT in the show, she just wasn't given a significant role like she has in the movie.

[soc_puppet]

Thinking of it now, that might've been a good opportunity to flesh out Sarabi's role a little more in addition to avoiding any creep-factor with Scar --> Nala, while at the same time giving Nala extra insentive to leave: Scar could've tried to make a move on Sarabi instead, and Sarabi could've warned Nala that Scar was on the prowl for a mate, so maybe she, as the previous prince's fiance, should get the heck out of Dodge, now that the prior "queen" had turned Scar down.

But hey, it's not my play, so whatever.

[vitani]

I think the problem is that means they'd have to find another singer and give her song time in order to have Sarabi in a bigger role.

[polysamachan.livejournal.com]

I was actually more annoyed at what they did to Scar in that scene. He was conniving and ambitious, not a pedo.

[polysamachan.livejournal.com]

ALSO, I felt that Nala was also trying to leave to find food and such..?

[soc_puppet]

So true, blech >_<

I know that was Nala's stated reason in the movie ("I left to find food!"), though I don't actually remember if she said that in the musical. I -do- remember seeing a Disney commercial break special on the musical and one of the influential people mentioning that they wanted to give Nala a better/stronger reason to leave, since food was the only reason she left in the movie.

[kaitodoushi.livejournal.com]

My mom says it's a Barred Owl and she's the expert! (sorta XD) She says it might have a nest close by... In which case you may wanna be careful, ha ha.

That's really cool! When my mom saw the picture she was like "o_O Where did you find that?!" *stare* And I love owls >_>

[soc_puppet]

Works for me :3 And it stops in our backyard from time to time, so it could just like the available menu here X3

I should see if it's still there today...

[ytak.livejournal.com]

Cool owl! Hopefully he/she will keep the pigeons away.

[soc_puppet]

Not much of a pidgeon problem around my house in the 'burbs, but I wouldn't object if it kept the squirrel population in slightly better control ;) Or the rabbits, maybe...

[ytak.livejournal.com]

Ooo, keeping the squirrel population down is a good bonus. I want an owl in our yard to do that. We have too many squirrels.

[lyzzle.livejournal.com]

Aww! How pretty! I love owls. ;o; I got to pet one last week at a wildlife center! (And I got to hold a baby opossum. :3)

I don't remember that part of the show! Granted, it's been several years since I saw it, so I don't remember much at all, except that it was awesome. ^^;

[soc_puppet]

Ahh, socool! Socute! And yes, the owl was veeerry pretty *_* I almost wanted it to leave feathers, except we aren't supposed to keep them, 'cuz we might be accused of hunting them.

XD It's been ten for me, and I didn't really absorb all of it at the time myself ('specially lyrics 9_9a), but I do remember that part.