Questionable Media Month Part 4
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amatyultareChapter 4 – Troy and Gabriella Redux
Is not having watched High School Musical going to significantly impact my understanding of this book?
…do I care? (‘No’ is the answer to that one, if you were wondering.)
Sadie’s further thoughts on Alex: “I felt extra disconnected without him at my side…the traitor took his campaign of infamy into the cafeteria, where he sat with the rest of the soccer team instead of me…Okay, maybe I scared him away the time he tried to sit with me.”
Uh, so just to confirm, I am supposed to dislike Sadie at this point, right?
“Unlike Alex, Adrienne came through for me on the friend front. Her extreme good nature meant she had considered me a friend all these years, even though I never invited her over after Alex moved in next door.” Complete forgiveness and acceptance of whatever Sadie chooses to do=good friend. Having any thoughts or opinions of your own=bad friend. Oooookay then.
Anyway, the drama club still hasn’t picked a show. Sadie suggests Grease, but New Hot Music Teacher shoots it down because another school in the area is also doing it and the company who owns the rights won’t let two schools in the area perform it at the same time? I’m pretty sure that’s not a thing, but it’s also implied that NHMT is just bullshitting so he can propose his idea, so I’ll let it go.
NHMT’s idea is a musical revue, which is part of his territorial tiff with Established Club Advisor, because NHMT is the ~music~ teacher and a revue is pretty much all music. ECA dismisses a revue as a glorified talent contest, which leads to this immortal exchange:
“Obviously you’ve never been in any kind of theatrical environment, Donald, or you wouldn’t make such obscure comments.”
“If you’d ever been in any kind of educational environment, Tony, you would be able to use ‘obscure’ in a sentence properly.”
OH SNAP.
Also, I have seen and heard of some unprofessional teacher behavior in my day, but this is pretty impressively unprofessional (in front of students, no less!).
Lucey suggests High School Musical 2. Man, she really is evil.
Why is ECA asking Sadie, a student in the club, her opinions about who in the club should be cast in which parts? And making High School Musical’s Gabriella into a blonde instead of a brunette has nothing to do with ‘casting against type’. How would that change the character at all? What is going on?
New Hot Music Teacher starts his pitch for what I suspect will bring us eventually to the Twilight musical (*sob*) but Established Club Advisor shuts him down and seems really weirdly enthusiastic about the HSM2 option.
“This…scared me”. You and me both, Sadie. You and me both.
Is not having watched High School Musical going to significantly impact my understanding of this book?
…do I care? (‘No’ is the answer to that one, if you were wondering.)
Sadie’s further thoughts on Alex: “I felt extra disconnected without him at my side…the traitor took his campaign of infamy into the cafeteria, where he sat with the rest of the soccer team instead of me…Okay, maybe I scared him away the time he tried to sit with me.”
Uh, so just to confirm, I am supposed to dislike Sadie at this point, right?
“Unlike Alex, Adrienne came through for me on the friend front. Her extreme good nature meant she had considered me a friend all these years, even though I never invited her over after Alex moved in next door.” Complete forgiveness and acceptance of whatever Sadie chooses to do=good friend. Having any thoughts or opinions of your own=bad friend. Oooookay then.
Anyway, the drama club still hasn’t picked a show. Sadie suggests Grease, but New Hot Music Teacher shoots it down because another school in the area is also doing it and the company who owns the rights won’t let two schools in the area perform it at the same time? I’m pretty sure that’s not a thing, but it’s also implied that NHMT is just bullshitting so he can propose his idea, so I’ll let it go.
NHMT’s idea is a musical revue, which is part of his territorial tiff with Established Club Advisor, because NHMT is the ~music~ teacher and a revue is pretty much all music. ECA dismisses a revue as a glorified talent contest, which leads to this immortal exchange:
“Obviously you’ve never been in any kind of theatrical environment, Donald, or you wouldn’t make such obscure comments.”
“If you’d ever been in any kind of educational environment, Tony, you would be able to use ‘obscure’ in a sentence properly.”
OH SNAP.
Also, I have seen and heard of some unprofessional teacher behavior in my day, but this is pretty impressively unprofessional (in front of students, no less!).
Lucey suggests High School Musical 2. Man, she really is evil.
Why is ECA asking Sadie, a student in the club, her opinions about who in the club should be cast in which parts? And making High School Musical’s Gabriella into a blonde instead of a brunette has nothing to do with ‘casting against type’. How would that change the character at all? What is going on?
New Hot Music Teacher starts his pitch for what I suspect will bring us eventually to the Twilight musical (*sob*) but Established Club Advisor shuts him down and seems really weirdly enthusiastic about the HSM2 option.
“This…scared me”. You and me both, Sadie. You and me both.