Plot holes
7 September 2016 01:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI finally got round to listening to some of the relevant bits of the Australian Version of "Love Never Dies" to check out the details of my Hammerstein-plot (still unnamed), and discovered to my annoyance that there are casually mentioned background details in the arrival dialogue that blow holes in my intended plot! It's supposed to be two whole weeks before Christine's scheduled opening night at the Manhattan Opera House, for one thing, which makes a mess of my plans for one quick performance and getting her out of Mr Y's temptation range thereafter. And apparently Raoul had been promised that Oscar Hammerstein would actually turn up at the dockside to receive them in person (seems rather unlikely), which makes nonsense of my already-written explanation for why the legitimate reception party failed to turn up, allowing Squelch, Fleck and Gangle to take Hammerstein's name in vain...
Since it also raises big questions in canon about what the Phantom did to the real Hammerstein to prevent him from coming indignantly to look for his missing star (well, even bigger ones than those which already prompted this story), I'm tempted to put that particular detail down to a misunderstanding or to Raoul's elevated expectations of his family's importance to the Americans :-(
Since it also raises big questions in canon about what the Phantom did to the real Hammerstein to prevent him from coming indignantly to look for his missing star (well, even bigger ones than those which already prompted this story), I'm tempted to put that particular detail down to a misunderstanding or to Raoul's elevated expectations of his family's importance to the Americans :-(
