Good evening owls,
Put out the cat, go to the bathroom--this is the big daddy of them all.
JSA Storytime: Ring Cycle
Ethan Jackson
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Justin Flores
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aiming for a 6:05 Central start, I gotta get things lined up too
Juan Howard
/stretches
Tyler Mitchell
HERE WE GO
Xavier Jackson
So we open with a prologue here, and as I said last night, the music is SO much denser it's hard to describe. But this opening is a (pitched down) version of Brunnhilde's hail to the sun, going into Rhine music...eventually ending in the Fate motif.
Hudson Carter
Hello, Storyteller.
>GOTTERDAMMERUNG
>The Twilight of the Gods
I have no smart ass thing to say. That's just a great title.
So, how's everyone holding up?
Jackson Russell
I fixed something on my PC that had been bugging me, got some more garden soil, and ordered a plant delivery
It really is a metal title, isn't it
Jose Wilson
Valhalla music touches throughout here
Austin Cruz
So this is what the very first pages of PCR Rheingold were referring to--this is the first time we actually hear explicitly about it. Wotan gave up an eye to cut a branch for the spear, and the tree faded.
Jordan Myers
The "sing, sister" is a musical refrain throughout this very formal scene
Nicholas Williams
(everyone has trouble staging this scene--it's very static and talky, but the musical narration is glorious, and there are some very important callbacks later in the show, like right here)
Ian Hernandez
>Chekov's pile of flammable god-killing logs
Liam Jones
Hey OP.
The Rope of Fate is the one you use to hang yourself, right?
Connor Turner
It's def interesting to see what comics can do and cannot do vs. the opera itself. Like one of the strengths of having a page of art is you can abstract or dramatically visual or move away from the characters without really impacting anything. On stage, obviously, not an option. But shit, you can't hear a comic.
Josiah Taylor
Holy shit, those Rhine maidens are shameless sluts, just look at them.
Easton Myers
I'm not even trying to tag all the musical references because of how quickly they layer on and how transformed they are, and that's a lot of what is going on here
Matthew Nelson
Basically my favourite moment in this entire thing is what the Rhine Maidens do at the end of this one.
David Price
I'm actually here to post even though i've missed the first 3/4 and am coming in late so just kinda shitposting along
Luke Hill
This is Erda's "sinking" music--and then here comes all the Alberich references, and FATE again
Lincoln Rogers
I'm happy to have everyone here--I know this is A LOT to put it mildly
CURSE motif
Juan Miller
Might as well listen. I missed Valkyrie but I'm gonna catch it back with the free trial option.
BTW because this thread is all, like, educated - what's the deal with three fates/norns popping up in different mythologies? Just a common origin point?
Caleb Diaz
Anyone catch the Direct yesterday? Now that I'm over my usual bitterness at the lack of Metroid news, there was some decent stuff.
Jeremiah Cook
Jaxson Smith
Man I don't have the ears for this. How young did you get into opera, OP?
Daniel Bell
>Just a common origin point?
Might be tied to the prototypical Indo-European culture?
Josiah Peterson
now this begins a long musical segment, often performed on its own as "Dawn and Rhine Journey" with the voices cut out
I was always into classical hardcore more than just opera but I watched the PBS stuff and then man, I would have been a 3rd year in college? Friend said "come visit me and we'll go to Meistersinger"
Justin Hall
Kind of interested in BD2 but I'm not sure how you do the super-traditional JRPG but let's be clever about it a second time around.
Alexander Wilson
I was always into symphonic music but I got the DRAMA bug hard after that, lol
but also it takes many, many listenings to start to catch all the references and nuances and cross-references in these works
this bass clarinet theme is Brunnhilde's
James Richardson
I've legit gone from laughing at the machine to being in awe of it.
Josiah Nelson
so this is a slow depiction of sunrise over Brunnhilde's rock, moving into a love duet, moving into a musical depiction of Siegfried sailing the Rhine
Caleb King
be in awe of that brass section too
Zachary Myers
It is goddamn impressive for what is essentially like two dozen gigantic seesaws.
Angel Rivera
Should someone stage a real version of the opera from FF6 Y/N?
Camden Gray
I started to turn around on it when Wotan and Loge descended to the underworld over it in the first opera but yeah they do some really great staging with it for what is a pretty straightforward device. Being able to map that out in your head and see the potential in it is pretty fucking clever.
Michael Baker
annoyingly, I can hear the prompter a bit, boo
SPOILER: THIS ENDS BADLY
Chase Nelson
Also totally different topic I just found out about the Draka book series today and WTF.
Josiah Myers
>Simpfried
Easton Long
Oh no. Siegfried in Brunnhilde's armor. Xe's trans now!
Brayden Fisher
the S.M. Stirling? He's always been, uhhh, a bunch of pounds of crazy in an undefined sack, right?
Nathaniel Miller
Yeah, there's this trashy military sci-fi thread up on /tg/ and holy shit. Someone posted an Ao3 fanfic co-written by the author and it's something else.
Landon Wilson
Calling upon the gods is always painfully ironic in this opera, as we know they have abdicated (and Brynnie knows this too at one point)
the C the last Brynnie I saw let out at the end of this scene is the greatest loud note I have ever heard in my life
Benjamin Morales
Brayden Howard
The hell are you two on about? This romantic dialogue is really weird and awkward, almost like these two barely know each other and just making up bullshit. ... Oh, right.
>Separated. We shall never part.
PFFFTHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Nicholas Cruz
Austin White
Morris was a goddamn YOUNG 50.
The internet would lose their shit at Medieval Courtly romance.
Gabriel Lewis
I don't want to dig up citations right now (too distracting from the opera) but very much so.
John Richardson
it's a 19th century german work, Cranky, it's all metaphysical and shit
Here PCR depicts Siegfried going off and doing random hero shit on his way
You can really hear the waves in the music
Matthew Gray
Note the shady people at the top of the page, we're going to meet them soon
Jayden Kelly
>Trying to fuck a woman you aren't related to? VERBOTEN, taste my steel!
Jason Powell
Julian Howard
(the mood darkens considerably in the music there at the end, into the 'woe' motif)
Jaxson Long
Hagen is, btw, the magnificent bastard of the opera, with the best music
Owen Mitchell
Two thirds of those women want a better look at his "Nothung".
Levi Gonzalez
Boy i know you didn't just call Brunhilde "mediocre."
Brody Cook
Jason Ward
I like how they position Gunther and Hagen here so Gunther is nominally at the head of the table but to the audience it's centered on Hagen.
Colton Hall
Oh, assumed they were just in charge of that army he singlehandedly destroys.
Asher Russell
To continue last nights commentary, Hagen would e best boy, if he wasn't such a dick.
Charles Johnson
Is this comic saying incels are evil?
Leo Morris
>it's a 19th century german work, Cranky, it's all metaphysical and shit
I know. It was a joke that I made because I'm not educated enough to get it, so I just latch on to the surface layer.
Ian Gray
It's just showing you the different paths you can choose in life: incel, volcel, simp, unhappy marriage.