Gwen the Trans Balrog on Nostr: It's an odd experience being exposed to so much Rocky Horror Show at this time of ...
It's an odd experience being exposed to so much Rocky Horror Show at this time of year. I don't really get the show or the movie. And yet for various reasons I've seen the damn thing about a million times this year. Ok, hyperbole, but I've seen it more often than I'd choose to.
I wish I had a character I could root for. Brad and Janet are inane, Frankenfurter is evil, Riffraff and Magenta are too, just slightly differently, Columbia and Eddie are boring and frankly who cares, Rocky is a non-entity, Dr. Scott is an agent of conformity, and the whole mess makes very little sense. Less sense than the movies it's supposed to be an homage to.
I feel like I should turn in my queer card for saying that, but there it is. Rocky Horror is mildly amusing trash and there's no reason why it should be a cult classic. The time has come for a different transgressive take on bad cinema to become a queer icon. Someone needs to write it. Get on that.
I wish I had a character I could root for. Brad and Janet are inane, Frankenfurter is evil, Riffraff and Magenta are too, just slightly differently, Columbia and Eddie are boring and frankly who cares, Rocky is a non-entity, Dr. Scott is an agent of conformity, and the whole mess makes very little sense. Less sense than the movies it's supposed to be an homage to.
I feel like I should turn in my queer card for saying that, but there it is. Rocky Horror is mildly amusing trash and there's no reason why it should be a cult classic. The time has come for a different transgressive take on bad cinema to become a queer icon. Someone needs to write it. Get on that.