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I'd like to think that Erik, once the "sweet, I get to knock boots with Christine!" rush had worn off, would realize that destroying the happiness he ultimately wished for her and watching her die (and knowing it was all HIS fault for not leaving well enough alone in the first place) would be much too high a price to pay for the privilege. To say nothing of the whole "Beauty Underneath" nonsense...leave the prancing around to 80s rock with small children to his glittery roommate, thankyouverymuch.
Question: since we're on the subject of BAD sequels, did you ever see the mangled mess made of Labyrinth in a "sequel" manga series called "Return to Labyrinth"? if not, i recommend it ONLY for cannon fodder for this comic series. XD
I know I am going to get an earful, but.... really, you thought the sequel was that bad? I heard all your reasons, but still, I have to ask.
(And btw I haven't seen the sequel. Not showing anywhere near me. I caught a few youtube vids of the major songs, incl. that "under a moonless sky" whateveritwas... It's reallly not about "how bad" it is of itself, it's the principle of the damn thing.)
That whole "Erik finally wins the girl" angle. Eurgh. I don't care how pretty the sequel songs were, Erik won nothing more than Christine's first night (yay reducing the chick to a sexual prize) and one messed-up kid. He didn't win her, she DIED. And if you have to make Raoul an emasculated, alcoholic, physically abusive womanizer to validate Christine preferring her esrtwhile psychologically-manipulative, 30-years-older, freakishly-deformed, sociopathic murderer - whom in original canon she DOES admit she will always love, regardless, but knows is a toxic life choice - then I personally feel that bashing the "competition" into the dirt so thoroughly is a very cheap and contrived way to make Erik "win" by default rather than by his own merits or any valid, freely-made choice of Christine's, and that is disrespectful to *him* - let alone to the female character. Who IS, beeteedubs, the main character of the novel, incidentally. And who deserves to live, make her choices, and not have her judgement so utterly shat upon ("silly bint, we phangirls all knew Raoul was no good from the start...") by a money-grubbing subpar sequel.
I have all manner of sympathies and soft feelings for the lovelorn Phantom, in despite of his very reprehensible actions, but at the end of the day this is Christine's story too/first; and pity - even the of purest, warmest, non-condescending strain - is not love, nor a reason to throw away her own life.
The bottom line remains, this fancomic supports Christine/Free Will, and her canon *choice* is sanity and life with Raoul.