Roman, the actor

royallyanxious:

I’ve arrived with more angst because I like being in pain and I want people to suffer with me

Okay, so yet again, I think that there’s a moment of the Crofters- The Musical, we’re not talking much about. 

Remember that Angsty Cut Out Roman that got all of us screaming? Well, I went frame by frame through what happened later and let me tell you- I came up with a very interesting theory but let’s starts from the beginning.

I think at this point we all agree that there’s a serious angst going on in Roman’s character. He’s clearly dealing with something, and I don’t mean only the fact that he didn’t get his own jam but that’s not important here. What is important though is the way Roman says it.

At first it reminded me a little bit of The Office but then I remembered that Ro has already done The Office cut and it looked completely different. So I did some digging and searching inside my head because I just knew that the view of a character talking to himself, being turned around from the rest of the actors reminds me of something. *beep beep beeep* 

Bingo! The classical theatre. 

Now we all know that Roman is a huge geek. Theatre, musical? That’s his jam. We do know that he’s the one who stands on the stage with Thomas whenever he performs. Roman is always performing with Thomas. 

So what if, this time, Roman was the actor of his own play? What if it was a tragedy of a one man?

Look it makes sense, in both tragedy and comedy, the characters tend to do their monologues often on the side of the scene, refering to themselves so that the audience could learn their true feelings are. I think that’s exactly what Roman does it here.

Another point? Even if other actors are on the stage, the very often don’t “hear” or “get” what is the Monologuing Character says on the side. They know that he/she/they talks about something but they can’t “hear” that. And let’s see what Thomas does when Roman is in the middle of his monologue

He looks like he had no idea what was going on. As if he was bringing Roman back in the actual stage.

(let’s skip the fake smile Roman sends here, I don’t feel like crying rn)

Okay, so it looks like Thomas did notice that Roman has been talking to himself on the side, right? Yeah, but you see… his words in no way suggest that he has heard what Roman said. All that he says is:

He only refers to the issue he has been aware of before the cut out Roman did. We all know Thomas (as a character)- I don’t think he would let that just slip. The Angsty Cut Out clearly screams that Roman isn’t alright and I doubt that Thomas would ignore it so plainly. And he didn’t refer to that at all. As if he didn;t hear that quite right.

And now, let’s go back to that title. Crofters- The Musical. It doesn’t say “song” (like in A new year of lying to myself…in a song!!), it’s not just plain Crofters (like in 12 Days of Christmas). The title is Crofters- The Musical. And every musical needs a tragic character with angst monologues and feelings. In this case? In this case it’s Roman. And I think he knows about that.

(side note: I’m bad at screenshots)