Hamilton React PART 9
Added 2024-10-30 15:00:09 +0000 UTCWe're getting to the close. Wow. This one was a roller coaster.
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I love this, I actually never thought about this. Especially with travel being not common, reputation would be so important to people.
Nicholas Filippides
2024-10-31 17:29:07 +0000 UTCOkay, weirdest thing ever. At 14:45, if you look at her approaching behind Hamilton, you somehow managed to pause it where her eyes are somehow glowing in the dark? (I think maybe something is reflecting off the top of her cheeks, maybe because her eyes are wet?)
Singing Wordwright
2024-10-30 23:51:58 +0000 UTCA thing a lot of people don't get these days is how important a person's reputation was back then. It affected people's willingness to do business with you, to marry someone in their family to someone in yours... There were no credit scores, you credit was your good word. So disparaging someone's reputation COULD be a literal matter of life and death, it could be the difference between prosperity and poverty (also, people hadn't forgotten the commandment about bearing false witness against thy neighbor, unlike certain modern-day politicians and commentators.) It wasn't to be done lightly, and if you did it, you had better be ready to back it up with your life. And if it was done to you, you had to think long and hard over whether the potential injury was severe enough to risk killing or dying over it. Sometimes I think bringing back the code duello in some form isn't a half-bad notion. Make people accountable for what they say about other people. The irony here is, assuming the way this duel is handled is historically legitimate, Eaker may have destroyed his own reputation or possibly gotten himself in legal trouble. He fires on 7, which is illegal. I've heard the various things about the consequences of firing prematurely in a duel: 1) The other person's second was authorized to shoot you without legal consequence 2) Sometime, in times and places where dueling was actually legal, there would an officiant or adjudicator who would shoot someone who cheated immediately 3) Sometimes, while killing someone in a fair duel wasn't illegal, killing someone by means of cheating in a duel was considered murder and punishable by death 4) Even if none of the above happened, word that you cheated would get around and all those consequences of having a irreparably bad reputation would be in effect
Singing Wordwright
2024-10-30 23:31:58 +0000 UTCMany believe the music is really Eliza's story, or at least that she's the hero of the play. You'll see more of that towards the end.
SherLoki
2024-10-30 23:10:15 +0000 UTCI slept off the pain of the ending and you do this to meโฆ. ๐ฅฒ
Nicholas Filippides
2024-10-30 22:08:58 +0000 UTCYes, Philip was killed in a duel but it actually gets even worse. Their daughter had a mental breakdown after Philip died which left her unstable for the rest of her life.
KysmetScribbles
2024-10-30 21:58:29 +0000 UTC
