dammit-daroga:

i’ve got a number of Opinions regarding the ALW musical as an adaptation of the novel but tbh for me like 85% of raoul’s charm in the book comes from the fact that he’s so unabashedly Caring and earnest in trying to help christine *despite the fact* that honestly he’s completely incompetent.
like homeboy’s kind of a hot mess, emotions all over the place. never really knows what he’s doing/what’s going on but that never detracts from the fact that he’s always putting in 100% effort to help the people he cares about
and i mean i could write a dissertation on the oversimplification and character flattening from book to stage, but yeah i’m eternally pissed that SOMEONE made the executive decision to reduce this wonderful, loving, emotional, complex, inept, lovable dork into Generic Love Interest Man Who Mostly Exists as a Plot Device and is Heroic Despite Never Actually Doing Anything