they will crucify me for this but I think Joyce Messier might be my favorite character. she’s so fucking funny. her political identity is The Bad Guy (Neener Neener). she is intellectually sympathetic to communism but she gets paid too much to give a shit. she’s got formal yearly Go Insane clearance. she waxes poetic about the universe but acts like naming a boat is some absurd romantic rubbish.
you walk up to her and tell her she’s evil and actively making the world worse and she’s like “oh yeah I think you’re probably right” and then mainlines caviar about it
Not sure abour her being the villain and evil. Sure, she might make the world worse by doing her job, but that's because of the nature of her job, of corporations and capitalism, not the nature of her.
Or maybe you are right and she is evil and we have to talk about Hannah Arendt and the banality of evil again.
What is “nature”? By what arcane algebra may we measure the quality of someone’s character if not by the things they do?
I think the concept of “evil” as something to be is a load of rat-shit. Joyce is not unlike Harry in that, whatever her stated values, she is still defined by her actions—and her actions are defined by her job. For Harry it is easy to feel sympathy, as he may be played as someone deeply misguided and disillusioned with policing but tragically dependent upon a job that’s slowly destroying him body and soul—Joyce’s job is slowly destroying her, too, but she sticks with it out of a hunger for wealth and power, not out of the threat of real hunger. Whatever she may say she believes, her first and only principle is Joyce Messier.
Anyway I’d fuck her.
one of the funniest things about Sweeney Todd is how absolutely out of the loop Anthony is with what’s going on in the rest of the play. from his point of view, Sweeney (his new bestie since Anthony saved his life) is now running a successful barber shop and is also very invested in Anthony’s love life (because, again, besties). like Sweeney is helping him sneak into the asylum and rescue Johanna just because his only motivation is Anthony’s happiness. no other reason.
Please enjoy a goofy little comic I made last year that became something I'm quite proud of! A combination of Wallace and Gromit and the hit webcomic Kill Six Billion Demons- Kill Six Billion Gromits!
Cast of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street performs at the 2023 Tony Awards
Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 official art “Troubled Summer has come!“
