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Stuck in line at the store.

Looking at 5:50-6 PM.

"Redeem all of your points and get $20 for Lyft!"

Oh my god. That wouldn't even get me to the fucking airport.

I fucking hate capitalism.

"Earn points towards vacations!" are always in the advertising, but I've never seen anything offered in that regard and I don't know realistically what point value that'd take if a $15 coupon for fucking Uber Eats is 1k points.

This isn't to diminish that I'm sure this is useful for someone out there- get your needs.

But stop dressing it up like it's more than it is and we should be so thankful for the pittance it is. If you're monthly rent is worth 100~ pts. and it's in the thousands to get a shit reward, fuck off.

"EXPLORE YOU'RE NEIGHBORHOOD WITH YOUR GOOD BOY RENT POINTS" and the place to explore is a Wal-greens.

Really getting me excited about my neighborhood there...

I feel bad for “liking” and ruining the number of 69. :P

I struggle to follow who’s who in the decline of our country into fascism.

I look at names from the start of the first administration and go “I forgot that fuck existed”. It’s like looking back at S1 of a tv show where the cast is all different 5 years later.

“But Patrick- have grace and be kind to yourself. You’re beating yourself up and need to pick yourself up and carry on with the day.”

You can have grace and kindness with yourself. But only so much when the world around you does not.

It needs more spark. More energy. More vision in creatively adapting these numbers. But Pt. 1 had those issues too…

I think I’ll summarize it this way-

I was already going into Part 2 knowing Act 2 is a mess. And, in many ways, it is a much better go at Act 2 than the show.

But the stage show is more *consistent*. Act 2 is better but extremely inconsistent and wears its flaws more obviously.

But when it’s good… when it feels like it has energy and it’s Oz, it feels so good.

Oh, and at least we didn’t get more Baby Elphaba.

But we replaced her with Baby Galinda.

Trash it. We didn’t need it. Doesn’t matter. It’s overbaking it again.

Like, even showing Dillamond at the university was way too far. He’s a character basically dead by Act 2 and it undermines NGD a bit if, nah, he’ll be fine eventually.

It screams of a reshoot addition though. I think a lot of that was just too tacked on.

The ending is also just way too happy. Too saccharine…

I think it misses why the show ends on such a sour note. Elphaba leaves and we end on ambiguity and hope that Glinda can eventually fix things.

Showing she ends decades of systemic racism over night…

Elphie, y u leaving? She solved the racism