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John_Galt 11:51 pm UTC 07/30/08 |
| In reply to: | The Devil's F'n Playground - Vin 05:50 pm UTC 07/30/08 |
| The chorus reminds me of Mal's adversary in Serenity -- at about the time he's watching the violent and unintended consequences of his future world... or maybe like Inspector Javert's final song in Les Miserables. There's something sad about the way reality and human nature eventually crush ideologues. You can fight your entire life to make the world into what you think it should be, but in the end, if you argue with reality, reality wins every time. Maybe this song helps us understand Hook's motivations a little better. He doesn't just kill children because it's fun or pleasant, he does so to serve a vision of the way things ought to be. Seeing Hook broken like this will probably make all the former true believers in the audience shed a genuine tear for the guy. And even those of us who aren't former Anarcho-Punks, Hippies-from-the-Commune, or Obama-Supporters will even understand the guy a little better. Falling out of love is kind of like loosing an ideology. Just aging can kind of result in this kind of disenchantment for some of us... Now I'm depressed. Thanks, Vin. -=John Galt=- > No matter > How tragic the loss > So I just wistfully clicked on my link to Jim's blog, > shocked to see that his last posting was a ghastly 9 > months ago, and I wound up re-reading his lyrics to "The > Devil's Playground," and was surprised to find them much > more striking and poignant than I remembered them being > the first go-round. > > Anyway, Jim uses his "Paradise Lost" chorus in it, as he > makes it a point to mention, and I had this thought: > > TDP is a song for Hook who, I assume, is a villain > (somebody correct me if I'm wrong on that). Now, the PL > chorus seems tailored to a heroic character, UNLESS Hook > is just very twisted, which could make for a very cool > moment, some sadistic bad guy waxing misunderstood and > lamenting that he failed in the Good Fight (which I guess > most people would perceive as the Bad Fight? I mean, > really, what Paradise does Hook perceive that he fought > for, only to come up an inch shy of the G-spot?) > > Can any of you Neverland historians shed some light on > potential motivation for Hook here? > > "No matter > How heavy the cost > To this very day > I can stand tall and say: > I fought for Paradise > But Paradise lost > I fought for Paradise > And Paradise lost. > It wasn’t your fault or mine > Wasn’t this it wasn’t that > But Paradise lost > In the final at bat > Paradise lost > In the last at bat." > | |
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