I have not kept up with my flist! I am sad, especially re: yours.
Anyway, the idea re: the dominatrix thing is awesome. And I think it points to what this really needed, which was a journey. I don't even really care what it is. Alice, here, doesn't seem to learn anything. She behaves as though she is learning, but nothing changes (I guess one could interpret the shadow-Alice becoming blond, and the mirror-self breaking free of her at the end, but whatever). The routines here were held together by costumes suggesting the characters, and a few puns, rather than anything that really thematically related to Alice at all.
In short, it could have been SO much better. I think I would have been turned on by the increasing intensity of the scenarios, even if they weren't particularly things I was interest in. However, I wonder if that exits the realm of burlesque (with the emphasis on comedy) and enters porn or erotica or something like that.
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Anyway, the idea re: the dominatrix thing is awesome. And I think it points to what this really needed, which was a journey. I don't even really care what it is. Alice, here, doesn't seem to learn anything. She behaves as though she is learning, but nothing changes (I guess one could interpret the shadow-Alice becoming blond, and the mirror-self breaking free of her at the end, but whatever). The routines here were held together by costumes suggesting the characters, and a few puns, rather than anything that really thematically related to Alice at all.
In short, it could have been SO much better. I think I would have been turned on by the increasing intensity of the scenarios, even if they weren't particularly things I was interest in. However, I wonder if that exits the realm of burlesque (with the emphasis on comedy) and enters porn or erotica or something like that.