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Originally Posted by eltmatt
Yes^^^! Someone's trolling Jim on Facebook saying it's worse than we will rock you, idiots!
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Not everything is how it appears at face value. The person in question apparently has a history with Jim that didn't go so well; he's hardly the first person to have such a history, and by the looks of recent events (with Jim's people publicly badmouthing tribute albums as if they somehow interfere with the success of a musical currently too early in its growth to have had significant success that could be at all impeded), he's certainly not going to be the last. As I understand it, this person's particular grievances of a business nature may yet be aired in a courtroom. Further, Jim has been profoundly unkind (unprovoked, mind you) in public on Facebook to this person and his business associates in the past; my reading of the thread suggests Jim started with a jab at them and they responded in kind. But others may, of course, disagree.
Speaking for myself, I dunno. I've tried really hard to grok the
Neverland thing, but it's always escaped my grasp. I think the person in that thread could hardly be faulted for saying that the show reads to them, at least on the surface, as "
We Will Rock You with a Meat Loaf score." (Those, I believe, are their exact words; nobody said, or even implied, it was worse, though I admit it seems they didn't feel an approach like the one they described was particularly creative.) There are a lot of basic plot and character similarities (again, on a surface level). Others have made the same comparison, some even on
Jim's forum (read the full thread for effect). I wouldn't necessarily say that's an insulting comparison either; say what you will about its quality, but WWRY has been a massive commercial success. One would hope
Bat aspires to climb to similar heights.