Picking up from yesterday –
[And again, noting: spoiler alert both on The Good Place, and on our presentation. If you wanna just watch the video without all the spoilers, you can see it here.]
At this point, we had 2 definite yeses – “What is Ethical,” and “I Wanted To Stay.” And we had a semi-strong maybe in “Don’t Kill Me,” because the class liked it… and it is definitely a big moment in the show, so it could be worth musicalizing.
But before we could take a second try at that one, we needed to get a 4th song in there.
We each went back and watched season 1 to spot various moments we thought might work. I made a looooong list haha.
Ben’s favorite of the list was Eleanor making fun of Chidi, only to realize she was in love with him. That was sort of one of my least favorites, as it feels a little cliche, like “hardened girl realizes she loves boy,” but people love love. And Ben was into it. And if I didn’t want to at least try that song, I shouldn’t have put it on my list of ideas.
So, we wrote “What a Dweeb, right?” which went over really well! People gravitated to it. They liked it. So, good for us. We had a 3rd definite yes.
And we had one presentation class remaining. This was it. One last chance to try something.
Now, I loved our final performance. And obviously, we got in. So, there’s no harm, no foul really on any decision we made.
But because I love our performance SO much, and because I love the Good Place, and I love BMI, and whatever, and I reeeeeally grew to love our other 3 songs, I wish we could’ve found another ‘perfect’ song.
So, this is the one thing I would’ve done differently if we got to do it again. But again, oh well.
And we’ll get into how we landed on our last song tomorrow!