Amyable Nature

I’ve always been too intimidated to post a Phantom fanfic anywhere because I feel like I could never do the original material any justice. Leroux, Webber, Kay…even Charles Dance. I just…I can’t.

So, maybe I should write a 2004 movie fanfic. I detest it, so there’d be no pressure. Hurm…

It’s worth keeping this DVD for Sharon Millership as Meg. Poor, poor Meg. And I find myself feeling worse and worse for Simon Gleeson’s Raoul. I don’t dislike the performers themselves, don’t get me wrong, but I find Christine and “Mr. Y” increasingly selfish and down right unlikable. Mr. Y (whether directly, indirectly, intentionally, or unintentionally) used Meg up and sold her out and now the poor girl is suicidal. Christine was unfaithful to Raoul, got herself knocked up with another man’s baby and then happily went back to marry him so that he could support her and her child. Never telling him the truth. That is vile. 

I think Christine dying is a bit of a cop out, so I don’t accept it as a suitable ending…but can you imagine Mr. Y and Christine living happily after all the torment they’ve inflicted on the other people who have loved them? That is heartbreaking. 

I have this irrational fangirl fear that something happens every time I mention “Phantom of the Opera” without a mini disclaimer…because while it could refer to this

or this

or this

or God forbid, even this

…my irrational fangirl fear is that most people will automatically assume I refer only to this:

So…