woke up and for some reason remembered that Rent exists people are trying to memory hole it. i wont let them
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everyone in Rent is the bad guy. every character. no exceptions i used to think benny was ok. he was just trying to get these idiots to grow up and get their shit together while they were cruel to him then I remembered he was cheating on his wife with an AIDS patient
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the play is somehow completely unaware that everyone is a thoughtless unreflective asshole and invites the audience to be honorary assholes tens of millions took them up on it
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i will say one thing in its defense though maybe it was the times but none of the characters running around inconveniencing the non-sociopaths onstage had any expectation of being praised or elevated by broader society for their behavior they all expected to die outsiders
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by contrast in the present day they could reasonably expect to become Commissars
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but many of these plays at least have non-villains!
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