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** Dylan ''really'' sells Tom as an emotional wreck who's not only deeply unhappy but compounds it by being too ashamed over his trauma to let anyone get close enough to help him with it. Even in his songs "What Tim Wants" and "If I Fail You", when he's talking only to himself, he freezes up repeatedly and cuts himself off as though if he kept going he'd burst into tears. The device of cutting off his sentences with "Flash--bang--" and trailing off into a sentence fragment is an incredibly powerful portrayal of how a PTSD {{Trigger}} works that avoids the cartoonish version of "flashbacks" seen elsewhere.
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** Dylan ''really'' sells Tom as an emotional wreck who's not only deeply unhappy but compounds it by being too ashamed over his trauma to let anyone get close enough to help him with it. Even in his songs "What Tim Wants" and "If I Fail You", when he's talking only to himself, he freezes up repeatedly and cuts himself off as though if he kept going he'd burst into tears. The device of cutting off his sentences with "Flash--bang--" and trailing off into a sentence fragment is an incredibly powerful portrayal of how a PTSD {{Trigger}} UsefulNotes/{{Trigger}} works that avoids the cartoonish version of "flashbacks" seen elsewhere.
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* ''The ending''. The song "What If Tomorrow Comes?" is so haunting, and the performances the actors give so strong, that it really feels like watching the end of the world. (Special note goes to Mr. Davidson's frantic praying, Papa Ed taking out Peanuts one last time to look at him before returning him to the comfort of his pocket, Ted and Charlotte and Hot Chocolate Boy all clutching hands together, and Paul's face at the end of the song as he watches...something streaking across the sky.)
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* ''The ending''. The song "What If Tomorrow Comes?" is so haunting, and the performances the actors give so strong, that it really feels like watching the end of the world. (Special note goes to Mr. Davidson's frantic praying, Papa Ed taking out Peanuts one last time to look at him before returning him to the comfort of his pocket, Ted and Charlotte and Hot Chocolate Boy the guy we later learn to be Ted's little brother Peter all clutching hands together, and Paul's face at the end of the song as he watches...something streaking across the sky.)
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** It's especially distressing on a meta level because the whole tragedy of Lex and Ethan's lives is no one cares about them or sees them as worth anything, and the ''show itself'' goes on to treat Ethan as a ForgottenFallenFriend, with no one even confirming his death apart from Hannah, Tom and Becky or explicitly mourning him before the end.
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** It's especially distressing on a meta level because the whole tragedy of Lex and Ethan's lives is no one cares about them or sees them as worth anything, and the ''show itself'' goes on to treat Ethan as a ForgottenFallenFriend, with no one even confirming his death or explicitly mourning him before the end.
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** It's especially distressing on a meta level because the whole tragedy of Lex and Ethan's lives is no one cares about them or sees them as worth anything, and the ''show itself'' goes on to treat Ethan as a ForgottenFallenFriend, with no one even confirming his death apart from Hannah, Tom and Becky or explicitly mourning him before the end.end.
** Hannah foresaw Ethan's death and tried to warn him, but he corrected her grammar about "badder". Then when the cultists grab him and punch him, he spends his last moments screaming at her to run. That's all Hannah can do, hiding in the children's area and ending up in a TroubledFetalPosition while crying and saying she wants Lex. With the Wiggly doll in her backpack that started the whole mess. [[FromBadToWorse Which starts to talk and tell her to succumb to its influence]]. It soon segues into a moment of awesome for Hannah when she says Ethan isn't here, because the one telling her to despair is a liar, and she'll be optimistic and defiant for the both of them.
** Hannah foresaw Ethan's death and tried to warn him, but he corrected her grammar about "badder". Then when the cultists grab him and punch him, he spends his last moments screaming at her to run. That's all Hannah can do, hiding in the children's area and ending up in a TroubledFetalPosition while crying and saying she wants Lex. With the Wiggly doll in her backpack that started the whole mess. [[FromBadToWorse Which starts to talk and tell her to succumb to its influence]]. It soon segues into a moment of awesome for Hannah when she says Ethan isn't here, because the one telling her to despair is a liar, and she'll be optimistic and defiant for the both of them.
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* Lex's reaction when the security footage shows her giving the doll to Hannah. Her DefiantToTheEnd attitude breaks when Linda orders the cultists to find the "child" with the pigtails, and she begs them not to hurt her little sister.
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-->Even now, it's a dream\\
The kind that makes you question reality\\
The fact you don't wake up is no accident\\
The kind that makes you question reality\\
The fact you don't wake up is no accident\\
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The kinda dream\\
The kind thatmakes you makes you question reality\\
The fact youdon't wake don't wake up is no accident\\
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The kind that
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* ''The ending''. The song "What If Tomorrow Comes?" is so haunting, and the performances the actors give so strong, that it really feels like watching the end of the world. (Special note goes to Mr. Davidson's frantic praying, Papa Ed taking out Peanuts one last time to look at him before returning him to the comfort of his pocket, Ted and Charlotte and Hot Chocolate Boy all clutching hands together, and Paul's face at the end of the song as he watches...something streaking across the sky.)
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* ''The ending''. The song "What If Tomorrow Comes?" is so haunting, and the performances the actors give so strong, that it really feels like watching the end of the world. (Special note goes to Mr. Davidson's frantic praying, Papa Ed taking out Peanuts one last time to look at him before returning him to the comfort of his pocket, Ted and Charlotte and Hot Chocolate Boy all clutching hands together, and Paul's face at the end of the song as he watches...something streaking across the sky.))
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-->Even now, it's a dream\\
The kinda dream\\
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* ''The ending''. The song "What If Tomorrow Comes?" is so haunting, and the performances the actors give so strong, that it really feels like watching the end of the world. (Special note goes to Mr. Davidson's frantic praying, Papa Ed taking out Peanuts one last time to look at him before returning him to the comfort of his pocket, Ted and Charlotte and Hot Chocolate Boy all clutching hands together.)
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* ''The ending''. The song "What If Tomorrow Comes?" is so haunting, and the performances the actors give so strong, that it really feels like watching the end of the world. (Special note goes to Mr. Davidson's frantic praying, Papa Ed taking out Peanuts one last time to look at him before returning him to the comfort of his pocket, Ted and Charlotte and Hot Chocolate Boy all clutching hands together.together, and Paul's face at the end of the song as he watches...something streaking across the sky.)
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'Cause there' no pain that could ever explain\\
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'Cause there' there's no pain that could ever explain\\
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* President Goodman's HeroicBSOD when he realizes he's fallen right into Wiggly's trapped and accidentally started WorldWarIII, and the impending end of the human race is all down to his weakness and inadequacy. Even if you agree with all of Uncle Wiley's criticisms of him and the kind of politician he represents, he's been humanized enough up to this point that watching him collapse into tears and hysterics isn't pretty.
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* President Goodman's HeroicBSOD when he realizes he's fallen right into Wiggly's trapped trap and accidentally started WorldWarIII, and the impending end of the human race is all down to his weakness and inadequacy. Even if you agree with all of Uncle Wiley's criticisms of him and the kind of politician he represents, he's been humanized enough up to this point that watching him collapse into tears and hysterics isn't pretty.
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** This line from "What Tim Wants", revealing that he's a miserable bastard who refuses to get help for his PTSD because -- like many RealLife people in this situation -- he believes he ''deserves to be unhappy'':
-->Even now, it's a dream\\
The kind that makes you question reality\\
The fact you don't wake up is no accident\\
It seems to me\\
Someone's gotta pay for it
** The chorus of "If I Fail You", which neatly encapsulates why he's cut himself off from his son right when his son needed him most, and is ''absolutely devastating'' for anyone who's been on either side of a parent/child relationship like his and Tim's.
-->If I fail you one more time\\
The punishment won't match the crime\\
'Cause there' no pain that could ever explain\\
How I let you down\\
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And if I fail you one more time\\
The mountain I would have to climb\\
Is so high up that I would have to die\\
Oh, I...\\
I failed you once and I will fail again
-->Even now, it's a dream\\
The kind that makes you question reality\\
The fact you don't wake up is no accident\\
It seems to me\\
Someone's gotta pay for it
** The chorus of "If I Fail You", which neatly encapsulates why he's cut himself off from his son right when his son needed him most, and is ''absolutely devastating'' for anyone who's been on either side of a parent/child relationship like his and Tim's.
-->If I fail you one more time\\
The punishment won't match the crime\\
'Cause there' no pain that could ever explain\\
How I let you down\\
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And if I fail you one more time\\
The mountain I would have to climb\\
Is so high up that I would have to die\\
Oh, I...\\
I failed you once and I will fail again
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** Dylan ''really'' sells Tom as an emotional wreck who's not only deeply unhappy but compounds it by being too ashamed over his trauma to let anyone get close enough to help him with it. Even in his songs "What Tim Wants" and "If I Fail You", when he's talking only to himself, he freezes up repeatedly and cuts himself off as though if he kept going he'd burst into tears. The device of cutting off his sentences with "Flash--bang--" and trailing off into a sentence fragment is an incredibly powerful portrayal of how a PTSD {{Trigger}} works that avoids the cartoonish version of "flashbacks" seen elsewhere.
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** Dylan ''really'' sells Tom as an emotional wreck who's not only deeply unhappy but compounds it by being too ashamed over his trauma to let anyone get close enough to help him with it. Even in his songs "What Tim Wants" and "If I Fail You", when he's talking only to himself, he freezes up repeatedly and cuts himself off as though if he kept going he'd burst into tears. The device of cutting off his sentences with "Flash--bang--" and trailing off into a sentence fragment is an incredibly powerful portrayal of how a PTSD {{Trigger}} works that avoids the cartoonish version of "flashbacks" seen elsewhere.elsewhere.
* President Goodman's HeroicBSOD when he realizes he's fallen right into Wiggly's trapped and accidentally started WorldWarIII, and the impending end of the human race is all down to his weakness and inadequacy. Even if you agree with all of Uncle Wiley's criticisms of him and the kind of politician he represents, he's been humanized enough up to this point that watching him collapse into tears and hysterics isn't pretty.
* ''The ending''. The song "What If Tomorrow Comes?" is so haunting, and the performances the actors give so strong, that it really feels like watching the end of the world. (Special note goes to Mr. Davidson's frantic praying, Papa Ed taking out Peanuts one last time to look at him before returning him to the comfort of his pocket, Ted and Charlotte and Hot Chocolate Boy all clutching hands together.)
* President Goodman's HeroicBSOD when he realizes he's fallen right into Wiggly's trapped and accidentally started WorldWarIII, and the impending end of the human race is all down to his weakness and inadequacy. Even if you agree with all of Uncle Wiley's criticisms of him and the kind of politician he represents, he's been humanized enough up to this point that watching him collapse into tears and hysterics isn't pretty.
* ''The ending''. The song "What If Tomorrow Comes?" is so haunting, and the performances the actors give so strong, that it really feels like watching the end of the world. (Special note goes to Mr. Davidson's frantic praying, Papa Ed taking out Peanuts one last time to look at him before returning him to the comfort of his pocket, Ted and Charlotte and Hot Chocolate Boy all clutching hands together.)
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* ''''Ethan's death''''. In many ways it one-ups Bill's death from ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' simply by having so little buildup, subjecting us to a MoodWhiplash where Ethan tries to give Hannah a HopeSpot and reassures her everything in her life will be better from now on only for the main plot to suddenly intrude and kill off our new favorite character.
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* ''''Ethan's death''''.'''Ethan's death'''. In many ways it one-ups Bill's death from ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' simply by having so little buildup, subjecting us to a MoodWhiplash where Ethan tries to give Hannah a HopeSpot and reassures her everything in her life will be better from now on only for the main plot to suddenly intrude and kill off our new favorite character.
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* ''''Ethan's death''''. In many ways it one-ups Bill's death from ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' simply by having so little buildup, subjecting us to a MoodWhiplash where Ethan tries to give Hannah a HopeSpot and reassures her everything in her life will be better from now on only for the main plot to suddenly intrude and kill off our new favorite character.
** What's worst is how this show makes the choice to play physical violence with a lot more seriousness than the past ones, and make it clear that he dies in terrible, agonizing pain. And rubbing in that his death is completely pointless -- the rioters even curse themselves out for "wasting time" beating him to death when they open his jacket and realize he wasn't shoplifting a Wiggly at all.
** And because we got so attached to him in [[WeHardlyKnewYe such a short period of time]], Evil Ethan's appearance as a deranged, cackling, taunting version of himself is almost as emotionally distressing for us as it was for Hannah.
** It's especially distressing on a meta level because the whole tragedy of Lex and Ethan's lives is no one cares about them or sees them as worth anything, and the ''show itself'' goes on to treat Ethan as a ForgottenFallenFriend, with no one even confirming his death or explicitly mourning him before the end.
* As crappy a person and a boss as Frank Pricely was, Lex's anguished shriek of "FRANK!" when she sees his throat slit right in front of her is a tearjerker too -- ''nobody'' deserves to die like that, for such a meaningless reason.
* The song "Black Friday" as Lex herself's DespairEventHorizon is this, with her going on at length about how her life turns out in hindsight to have really been the pointless waste everyone around her always made her feel like it was, and she not only wasn't able to save her little sister but feels like she's dying without ever letting her know how much she loved her.
* It's an obvious thing to remark on, but both Dylan Saunders as Tom and Kim Whalen as Becky ''really'' sell the pathos of their characters' DarkAndTroubledPast through their solos and monologues.
** Though her own monologue about it is very powerful, arguably the biggest TearJerker for Becky is when Linda Monroe taunts her about her abuse in front of the whole town, letting her know that everyone knew and talked about it behind her back but didn't care enough to intervene, and no one cares enough to defend her now.
** Dylan ''really'' sells Tom as an emotional wreck who's not only deeply unhappy but compounds it by being too ashamed over his trauma to let anyone get close enough to help him with it. Even in his songs "What Tim Wants" and "If I Fail You", when he's talking only to himself, he freezes up repeatedly and cuts himself off as though if he kept going he'd burst into tears. The device of cutting off his sentences with "Flash--bang--" and trailing off into a sentence fragment is an incredibly powerful portrayal of how a PTSD {{Trigger}} works that avoids the cartoonish version of "flashbacks" seen elsewhere.
* ''''Ethan's death''''. In many ways it one-ups Bill's death from ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'' simply by having so little buildup, subjecting us to a MoodWhiplash where Ethan tries to give Hannah a HopeSpot and reassures her everything in her life will be better from now on only for the main plot to suddenly intrude and kill off our new favorite character.
** What's worst is how this show makes the choice to play physical violence with a lot more seriousness than the past ones, and make it clear that he dies in terrible, agonizing pain. And rubbing in that his death is completely pointless -- the rioters even curse themselves out for "wasting time" beating him to death when they open his jacket and realize he wasn't shoplifting a Wiggly at all.
** And because we got so attached to him in [[WeHardlyKnewYe such a short period of time]], Evil Ethan's appearance as a deranged, cackling, taunting version of himself is almost as emotionally distressing for us as it was for Hannah.
** It's especially distressing on a meta level because the whole tragedy of Lex and Ethan's lives is no one cares about them or sees them as worth anything, and the ''show itself'' goes on to treat Ethan as a ForgottenFallenFriend, with no one even confirming his death or explicitly mourning him before the end.
* As crappy a person and a boss as Frank Pricely was, Lex's anguished shriek of "FRANK!" when she sees his throat slit right in front of her is a tearjerker too -- ''nobody'' deserves to die like that, for such a meaningless reason.
* The song "Black Friday" as Lex herself's DespairEventHorizon is this, with her going on at length about how her life turns out in hindsight to have really been the pointless waste everyone around her always made her feel like it was, and she not only wasn't able to save her little sister but feels like she's dying without ever letting her know how much she loved her.
* It's an obvious thing to remark on, but both Dylan Saunders as Tom and Kim Whalen as Becky ''really'' sell the pathos of their characters' DarkAndTroubledPast through their solos and monologues.
** Though her own monologue about it is very powerful, arguably the biggest TearJerker for Becky is when Linda Monroe taunts her about her abuse in front of the whole town, letting her know that everyone knew and talked about it behind her back but didn't care enough to intervene, and no one cares enough to defend her now.
** Dylan ''really'' sells Tom as an emotional wreck who's not only deeply unhappy but compounds it by being too ashamed over his trauma to let anyone get close enough to help him with it. Even in his songs "What Tim Wants" and "If I Fail You", when he's talking only to himself, he freezes up repeatedly and cuts himself off as though if he kept going he'd burst into tears. The device of cutting off his sentences with "Flash--bang--" and trailing off into a sentence fragment is an incredibly powerful portrayal of how a PTSD {{Trigger}} works that avoids the cartoonish version of "flashbacks" seen elsewhere.
