NBC's SMASH, Season 2 -- Discussion- Page 102
NBC's SMASH, Season 2 -- Discussion
SMASH#2525
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:36pmAnd since ReNt does exist in this world, I can't believe no one on the show noticed the parallels. These are people who can frigging find a Marilyn Monroe parallel in everything they say or do, but no one seems to notice how eerie the ReNt/Johnathan Larson and Hit List/Kyle Bishop parallels are.
SMASH#2526
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:37pmBut what exactly did Kyle do for this show? It's now a sung through show with music and lyrics by Jimmy. The parallels aren't exactly the same.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
SMASH#2529
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:44pm
The message of BOMBSHELL has something to do with masturbating monkeys?
SMASH#2531
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:46pm
Well, he wrote the book. I mean, no the parallels aren't exact. But "edgy," "hip" off-Broadway rock musical with a lot of buzz has a creator die just as the phenomenon is taking off is still a pretty close parallel.
Not to mention the performance where they are supposed to do a concert that turns into the staged show. Granted, I think ReNt's was a dress rehearsal, but if Kyle were alive, at least HE'D have seen the parallels!
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
SMASH#2533
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:50pm"Looking up"? Are you insinuating that our Kyle is in Hell?
SMASH#2534
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:51pmI would like to think the Smash writers would know that explicitly drawing the Hit List/Rent comparison would be in very poor taste. So they'll just skirt around it and imply it now that they stuck themselves in that corner.
SMASH#2536
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:53pm
Oh, I know that they won't actually have a character mention it, but it's just absurd that they've established ReNt exists in their world and then have this go and happen.
Does anyone know if Kyle will be back for season 3?
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
SMASH#2537
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:54pmBut I thought he wasn't a bottom! I thought the only thing that topped him was that ice cream truck!
SMASH#2538
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:55pmNow that he's dead, I can stop respecting his wishes to be called 'versatile." Boy was a bottom.
SMASH#2539
Posted: 5/4/13 at 9:55pm
Kyle's contribution to the show was storyboarding the songs Jimmy wrote with the assistance of Julia and Jesse. It's the first musical he worked on ever, and he's like 22, so the forced Rent parallels are actually kind of professionally offensive to Jonathan Larson was well.
I can't wait for season 10, when Karen is too old to be in the Hit List movie.
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SMASH#2540
Posted: 5/4/13 at 10:01pm
"I would like to think the Smash writers would know that explicitly drawing the Hit List/Rent comparison would be in very poor taste. So they'll just skirt around it and imply it now that they stuck themselves in that corner."
You give the Smash writers WAY too much credit. They know nothing, Jon Snow.
SMASH#2541
Posted: 5/4/13 at 10:02pmI wonder how Jeese L. Martin and Daphne Rubin-Vega feel. You could almost tell how pained Jeese was in that scene with Julia in the office (and not just because he was acting.)
SMASH#2543
Posted: 5/4/13 at 10:09pmMaybe they'll do a Matthew Shepard allusion and we'll find out from Kyle's autopsy that he was positive.
SMASH#2545
Posted: 5/4/13 at 10:14pmJesse L. Martin and Daphne Rubin-Vega are probably just glad to have a paying gig and could care less.
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SMASH#2547
Posted: 5/4/13 at 10:16pm
Good point. But still- that was something that impacted them both personally.
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SMASH#2548
Posted: 5/4/13 at 10:21pmI mean, on one hand it was almost twenty years ago, but on the other, it's still kind of icky.
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