I am your agent of peace and liberty Christopher Smith the Peacemaker here for this 3rd edition of Peacemaker Reviews but this isn't really a review. I realised that this is my blog and so if I want to do something else for an entry then nothing will stop me. I will keep the name of the blog for branding but if anyone thinks that this makes the title misleading then I have something for you.

You obviously can't see but I am giving the laptop screen both middle fingers.

I have been called for a meeting about my screenplay and I am so excited, I will be sure to give you the good news next time.

Anyway I am planning on doing a review of the first episode of the HBO show based on and a sequel to my favourite comic novel of all time Watchmen! However the first episode partly has the musical Oklahoma involved in it with even the title It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice coming from a line from a song in the musical. I had something to say about that and instead of putting it in the review I have decided to dedicate this entry to talk about some details of how I am a theatre aficionado.

Yes, theatre kids have a role model in the all-American badass whose muscles has muscles and is the mostly manly man ever!

Now let's talk about Oklahoma somewhat and it involves the song the title comes from and spoilers for the Watchmen show.

The song the title comes from is called Pore Jud is Daid and got have typed out this Scottish slang piece of rubbish makes me feel dirty and slightly less American. Translated to Poor Jud is Dead.

One of the characters we are introduced to in this first episode is Chief Judd Crawford and I don't think I need to clarify his fate.

Anyway the song in the musical is being sang by a man trying to convince his love rival for a woman's affection to kill himself so the other people in the town will mourn him and talk about how good and misunderstood he was.

Pretty messed up isn't it; this must be one despicable SOB of a bad guy.

About that.

The singer of the song? He is the good guy we are meant to root for and the Jud in question is the bad guy of the musical.

I am dead serious.

Plus the musical ends with the Jud being killed in a final fight during the lead's wedding to the woman and the wedding guests then hold a short mock trial where they quickly declare him not guilty and this musical is meant to be a comedy and from the Rodger and Hammerstein people who also made that live action Cinderella musical that I once saw on Disney Channel.

If you have something to say about me having watched Disney Channel then the bullet in my gun will have a date with whatever you have between your legs.

Plus another musical I find pretty messed up is Hamilton the popular rap musical that decides to blackwash our founding fathers (I know parts including the lead were played by non-white actors who weren't black but it's the best name that I could come up with)! The nerve of them! I ended up staging a protest in front of the theatre about this but people laughed and joked about it thinking that it was a joke and I couldn't get them to realise that I was kidding!

I stopped my protest when I realised I maybe actually leading more people to see this abomination. When it was announced that a filmed production would be coming to Disney Plus I knew better than to try it again. Besides I needed the Mandalorian and there is an animated Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie coming.

Plus during one of my protests during the first year of the musical's production I was jokingly saying that why not next they do a pop musical about Henry VIII's six wives to a group of travelling English people.

I wished that I didn't do that because about two years later I heard about a musical with that premise in London and I wish I knew which idiot stole the idea so I could hunt them down.

Now here is a story I want to tell about another musical that kind of got me into trouble due to a misunderstanding.

In 2018 they debuted this musical called the Prom and you might know of the Netflix film that had Bertram from Jessie and James Corden the man who people are getting sick of appearing in just about every musical movie. It's about a girl in a conservative town who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom but the PTA just cancels the prom and the girlfriend in question is secretly the daughter of the PTA's head.

At this high school in this city I was staying at the time, I was at the samaritan superhero that I am had volunteered to be a wrestling coach. I learned this girl with conservative parents was scared of them finding out that she had a girlfriend. I had an idea on how to help the poor girl thinking that if she saw the musical then it could help her.

I didn't exactly think my plan through. Well... The muscular school wrestling coach asking a student if she would like to go to the Prom and well... You could probably guess what happened...

It was a total misunderstanding as I tried to explain and I had to skip town and it was a good thing that I was using a fake name there. They tried to hunt me down but all they had to go on was Mike Rotch and looked like John Cena.

I was kind of flattered.

The best thing that came out of it was I later learned that in the aftermath the girl's parents ended up taking her coming out well. At least this story had a happy ending.

You know this just occurred to me that if the town finds this blog then they will now be able to track me down but in this case I have set the story straight.

Anyway I am Christopher Smith saying...

Peace Out!

Think sometimes I will have to point out when my views will be different from Peacemaker's and in this case I don't think that I have to tell you that Peacemaker complaining about 'blackwashing' in Hamilton is one of the cases where you are not supposed to take him seriously not that you are meant to for most of the chapters.

I also hope that I don't have to clarify that I do agree with Peacemaker about how messed up the bit from Oklahoma is.

Plus I am a proud Scot and the line mocking the slang in the song title is from Peacemaker and not me.