Well, okay, I guess the person the show shits on the *most* is King George III, who did suck But come on
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I mean like whatever evidence you assemble for the idea that Aaron Burr was a morally empty power-hungry manipulator... George Washington was that but moreso He was just better at it, partly because his strategy included being a slaveowning millionaire
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Hot take but George Washington sucked -- he was a massively corrupt billionaire plutocrat who cared about nothing but securing his own name in history, the Jeff Bezos of his time His godlike stature is because of intentional mythmaking
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And HAMILTON dives right into the Washington mythmaking with glee
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@TheFuggle He was a deeply shitty person and I think the musical does a good job of showing that. Deeply shitty people are more fun as characters, anyhow
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Oh yeah, it was really clear that essentially Hamilton was not great and only seems good in comparison to his enemies (George III, Jefferson, and himself).
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Considering how bitter the relationship between Jefferson and Hamilton was IRL (and how much of a monster Jefferson was) I wish they had played that up.
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Does it really shit on Adams all that much beyond saying that he didn't like Hamilton (and, unforgettably, vice versa)?
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Possibly the best song-cut-down-to-its-one-best-line in Broadway history
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Oh yeah, I'm just marveling at how that was supposed to be THE line (or felt like that was the intent) to cut Burr, but it just doesn't hit as much of a criticism. I dunno if it did more back in 2015 compared to now.
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Yeah I mean we could argue about WHY exactly Burr strongly supported the right of women to vote, and if that lines up with the way he treated women in his own personal life, but... with everyone long dead anyway, who the fuck cares
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