#201
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:21pm
Clay Aiken as Joseph — Page 9
#202
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:22pm
You also reacted emotionally and so did the rest of the gang. They smelled blood and went on the attack. That is an emotional reaction. Trolling works on all sides.
#203
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:22pm
What emotional reaction was dblue looking for? One of "Oh"? You got all bent out of shape, no one else.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#204
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:22pm
I'm loving the color assigned to this meltdown: "highly saturated ginger"....does it come in a boot?
#205
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:25pm
I totally forgot this glowing review.
"In a Broadway musical, Aiken is perfect—he can throw that cheesy, octave-spanning man-voice of his around all he wants and hit all those honky gospel notes. It sounds great! He can slowly, slowly raise his arms in the air as he holds a note for 45 minutes. He can make his corny, cartoony facial expressions, and onstage, they’re utterly appropriate. Also, musical theater takes place in a land only slightly more erotically charged than Smurf Village, so here Aiken’s suppressed, indeterminate sexuality seems logical, usual, male. And he doesn’t seem hick. Partly because the twang is replaced by an equally theatrical Cockney and partly because he’s in a funny show. (The theme of his big number is “You won’t succeed on Broadway if you don’t have any Jews.”) Every joke gets a roar. “When I’m up here onstage, I’ll be the idol of my age,” he sings, and the women go crazy. You can almost feel them sucked toward him by some unholy mix of maternal yearning and abject horniness."
"In a Broadway musical, Aiken is perfect—he can throw that cheesy, octave-spanning man-voice of his around all he wants and hit all those honky gospel notes. It sounds great! He can slowly, slowly raise his arms in the air as he holds a note for 45 minutes. He can make his corny, cartoony facial expressions, and onstage, they’re utterly appropriate. Also, musical theater takes place in a land only slightly more erotically charged than Smurf Village, so here Aiken’s suppressed, indeterminate sexuality seems logical, usual, male. And he doesn’t seem hick. Partly because the twang is replaced by an equally theatrical Cockney and partly because he’s in a funny show. (The theme of his big number is “You won’t succeed on Broadway if you don’t have any Jews.”) Every joke gets a roar. “When I’m up here onstage, I’ll be the idol of my age,” he sings, and the women go crazy. You can almost feel them sucked toward him by some unholy mix of maternal yearning and abject horniness."
#206
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:25pm
I see one of Mikers' other personalities has posted in other threads about how some people think reviews should only be posted if they agree with them. How ironic.
#207
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:27pm
Mikers, that is not a review from Joseph, which is obvious from the references to Broadway... and, well, from the entire review. I have no opinion on other shows he's done, because I haven't seen them.
#208
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:27pm
That's a review from goddamn Spamalot.
...and it's sort of damning with praise.
...and it's sort of damning with praise.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#209
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:28pm
To say nothing of the fact that "You can almost feel them sucked toward him by some unholy mix of maternal yearning and abject horniness" is hardly a glowing review. 
#210
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:29pm
Reviewing the audience is really bad form but his review of Clay's immense talent is on the money.
#211
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:30pm
Shirley Maclaine, are you sucked toward Clay by some unholy mix of maternal yearning and abject horniness?
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
#212
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:30pm
Please copy and paste the part of my review where I said Clay does not have talent. You can't seem to pinpoint it. I'm sure that's not because it didn't happen...
Oh.
Oh.
#213
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:32pm
Still attention seeking, dbue? Are you unhappy that the focus is not on you right now?
#214
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:34pm
Not at all, I'd just like you to back up your statements. I backed up every single one of mine in my original post.
Updated On: 8/5/13 at 03:34 PM
#215
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:35pm
Yes, Mikers. Which exact comments in dblue's review did you find offensive?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Updated On: 8/5/13 at 03:35 PM
#216
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:37pm
I agree with me but it is different if the "review" is only posted to cause an emotional reaction. That is called trolling.
No, it isn't. Because that is not what happened.
No, it isn't. Because that is not what happened.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#218
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:37pm
Such as? Lord knows you can cut and paste.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Updated On: 8/5/13 at 03:37 PM
#219
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:38pm
"All the ones that were unnecessarily negative."
Like what? Everything I said that wasn't a glowing review, I backed up with reasons why. Doesn't sound unnecessary to me.
Like what? Everything I said that wasn't a glowing review, I backed up with reasons why. Doesn't sound unnecessary to me.
#220
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:38pm
I agree with me but it is different if the "review" is only posted to cause an emotional reaction. That is called trolling.
No, it isn't. Because that is not what happened.
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Yes it is. That is the only reason you are here. dblue chummed the water and you came seeking blood.
No, it isn't. Because that is not what happened.
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Yes it is. That is the only reason you are here. dblue chummed the water and you came seeking blood.
#221
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:40pm
You still haven't explained how I "chummed the water." No specific examples, and nothing to back up your statement. Your argument is weak and now you're just grasping at straws.
#222
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:41pm
First of all, everyone is responding to YOU. Not dblue or anything dblue did.
Second of all: come on. Share some choice hateful quotes from the review.
Second of all: come on. Share some choice hateful quotes from the review.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#223
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:42pm
"Still attention seeking, dbue? Are you unhappy that the focus is not on you right now?"
Wow, Mikers!
Same goes double for you!
Wow, Mikers!
Same goes double for you!
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#224
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:44pm
Sharks circling me....
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First of all, everyone is responding to YOU. Not dblue or anything dblue did.
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That's why she's desperately trying to win back the attention.
#225
Posted: 8/5/13 at 3:45pm
Answer my question: what specific sentences in that review were unnecessarily negative?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
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