"I think you are completely projecting onto what i said something you seem to want me to have said so that you can insult my intelligence."
I'm very sorry, I was not insulting YOUR intelligence. What you wrote was, "I don't think Bobby is gay necessarily in the original Company... though I do think it's very easy to make that case." This makes it clear (sort of) that you personally do not think Bobby is (necessarily) gay in the original show as written, but that you feel it's easy for other people to make that case. My point is that I don't understand how any intelligent, sensitive person can make that case, based on the the text and songs of the original show. And I think to do so does a tremendous disservice to the show and displays a total lack of understanding of the character of Bobby as written.
"BUT I think it displays another stunning lack of intelligence to think that being closeted is a one-line joke."
Being closeted in itself is certainly not a one-like joke, but to reduce the meaning of COMPANY to "Oh, well, Bobby can't commit to marriage with a woman because he's a closeted homosexual" DOES reduce the show to a one-like joke, because it's absolutely not what Sondheim and Furth wrote.
To see COMPANY and realize that Bobby is heterosexual but has a fear of commitment to any one woman for a multitude of complex reasons is to display an intelligent understanding of what the show's creators were going for. To look at COMPANY and reduce the reason for Bobby's avoidance of marriage to the simplistic idea that he's a closeted homosexual displays a complete lack of comprehension of the material as written, in my opinion. If Sondheim and Furth had wanted to write a show about a man who's avoiding marriage to a woman because he's a closeted homosexual, I'm sure they would have written COMPANY very, very differently.
I hope that clarifies my meaning and also makes it clear that I did not insult you and did not misinterpret what you wrote. |
