Agreed on the matter re: icecreambenjamin - after seeing most of his posts through the past few months, I find it hilarious that he would call out froote as someone who "sticks his relentless hatred of DEH" into everything when his tone was reasonable, while benjamin is the one who spouts relentless hatred of CFA everywhere. And tone-wise icecreambenjamin is certainly the one who always has that aggressive, pretentious "my tastes are inherently superior to yours and make me smarter than you" tone (especially as seen in another thread where he responded to a call for show equality with "Fine, enjoy your crappy show"
. People who take that stance that their own tastes are inherently superior or that it makes them superior are just plain evil in my mind. It's why I've now come to decision to just put him on block/ignore. I don't need to see evil in these threads. There are many others who have made strong arguments both Pro-DEH and anti-CFA without being assholes about it.
As for the race, I'm glad it's a close one. I personally still am rooting hardest for CFA, but I'm sad that Great Comet isn't considered a contender because I"d be equally happy with it winning. I loved every facet of CFA and Great Comet. DEH, while I appreciated some aspects of it, I ended up walking out of it with the exact opposite reaction that many others did - most of this probably comes from my own mental disorders than the show itself though, but considering it was about someone with anxiety and I have anxiety and autism itself, I don't think my negative opinion of it was entirely invalid, though of course neither are the resounding positive opinions of it - I really wish it was able to touch me in the way it touched so many others, I suppose. But in terms of the acting and all, I still liked Andy Karl a lot more, so I'm a little sad that it's apparently such a runaway for Platt (who I also thought did give a great performance - I was just much more pleasantly surprised by Karl.)
Also I disagree with those who say CFA didn't have any resounding memories. To me its music was much more memorable than DEH's, which I couldn't really remember any of the songs from the day after. But then again, I love folk music in the first place. But the next day I still remembered CFA as the best experience I had ever had in a theater. All I remembered about DEH the day after was how it made me feel like killing myself up until I saw Hello Dolly instead later that night. But again, that doesn't take away from the major positive impact it had on most, which it does deserve recognition for. I guess I'm just bitter that I didn't get that same reaction out of it.
