Didn't It Blow Your Mind, Claude Frollo? [REVIEWS], Well, It Blew Our Minds!

Story is here.

Ah, the title is witty...but couldn't you change something to separate MST and review thread? Pretty please?

Interesting...

Well, some parents take issue with their children pursuing career in arts rather than, say, law...

Non-American readers: YAWN.
(And I suspect a number of under-30 American readers joins them. But then again, her main audience are middle-aged horny fanwomen who crave some French lovin'...)
Like you said, this could have been summarised in "he was a rebel with leftist tendencies".

Let's feel lucky there aren't any Elvises...yet.

And why do I get this feeling Iggy was inspired by Iggy Pop?

Oh, now he is Sherlock Holmes.

Sorry to defend the author here but one, not recalling a character from "Hunchback" doesn't really mean that a person doesn't read. Two, even if he read it, would your first association when you read a name on the note be that a literary character that lived in France hundreds of years ago wrote it to your sister, in English?
I actually kind of like this Iggy - he seems removed from stereotypical protagonists so far.

Flashy, probably.

*cackles freely, away from the reach of Mac*
Besides, actual Glee Clubs, particularly in the time he went to school, aren't like the show, right?

Never met an "intelectual" gone wild, did you?

I don't think there is any way to put that gently.

You mean, what could go wronger.

Good job, as always.

Oops, forgot to add the reviews tag. My bad, I apologize.

Yeah, except he didn't pursue a career in music...You'll see later on.

True, I realize that as well. And it is a valid way to set up a character, except one has to consider the audience.

It would've been the broader way to do so.

True, I'll admit it wasn't the best joke.

Key word being "so far."

No. And actually, the "Glee club" in Glee is more accurately a show choir. Glee Clubs are generally another name for regular choirs.

Oh, I have. Freshman year of college, my Classics of Western Lit course. Told us to have sex in the rain at least once in our life, loved to torture me because I was a devout practicing Catholic, got the jump on him when I was able to explain all the sources for the Old Testament when he thought he had shaken my faith ("Two people wrote the first five books of the Bible. How about that?" "Umm, actually it was four. She forgot the Priestly source and the Deuteronomist source"). Still think he was a crazy man and practically ran out of the final once I turned it in.

But I think the pot definitely did something to Iggy's brains.

Thanks for the review!

Well, so far it hasn't blown my mind, but it's still blown...hard.

I'm starting to think CrazedWriter is a second Angey to your sporkers. I don't blame them.

Sometimes the simplest comments are the funniest.

Naming your band after your high school mascot? That's the lamest move anyone starting a band could make. How can anyone take that band seriously?

Brilliant, Mac. CrazedWriter could have just SAID that instead of dropping a lot of obscure '60s references!

I get the feeling not even CrazedWriter knows!

Who cares: I'd still rather read a story about him than about the sexcapades of Frollo and Danisha the Walking Stereotype.

Mac: Oh, so you’ve moved on from Danisha?

Point Mac! A thousand points!

Either way, it's not really attractive. If I saw Disney!Frollo smile in a toothpaste ad, I'd resolve then and there to never buy that toothpaste.

I have some memories of "stylish" 1990s clothes. They're a bit hard to describe, except for the fact that they were hideous.

Jareth: Joe Jonas, we wish.

Me too! Then the whole trip to medieval Paris and romance with Frollo would be nothing more than a drug-induced hallucination, and Danisha and Fern would have to go to rehab and maybe a mental hospital...that would actually make a good story!

Doesn't ANYONE go to college in these badfics? Do NONE of these fanbrats and fanwomen realize there's life after high school? I'm starting to see why Iggy can't find a job.

I was wondering that too. Honestly, this Iggy defies logic and common sense so much I'm surprised he's still alive.

Well, he's got a high-school education...probably at the same school where Danisha teaches...

I loved this exchange. I have no idea why.

Erik: I don’t know, but we’re going to have to read it, aren’t we?

You'll probably be safe if only CrazedWriter focuses on Iggy the Ultra-Leftist Hippie Manchild and leaves Frollo and Danisha and Bitchy!Esmeralda and Toddler!Quasimodo out of the story. Unfortunately, I don't think that's going to happen.

Great start, Mac. I can't wait to read more.

She is, in a way.

It was what was going around my mind when I saw it.

I know we're always on CrazedWriter for telling, not showing. But when she tries, it ends up being a trip down her own memory lane that anyone who doesn't know American counter-culture isn't going to understand it. Saying he was a rebel and then maybe adding a few of those references would've been better.

I think it's a problem with what all writers are told at some point in their writing careers: "Write what you know." And sometimes, this works--former cops or lawyers who end up writing the best mysteries, for example. But they are taking their knowledge of something broad and already interesting to apply it to a book. A lot of writers take it to write their past, their hometown, etc. And I think CrazedWriter does that to the extreme, alienating anyone who isn't just checking in for sexy Frollo.

Especially as the styles of the early 90s were different from the late 90s.

It would. Too bad we won't get it.

Wait, wait. Iggy did go to college, but that's for later chapters.

Well, I've seen no sign of Bitchy!Esmeralda yet.

Thanks for the review!

Regarding Iggy's use of his middle name, I can accept it. I know people who use their middle names. However, they have a reason for doing so. For example, my grandfather worked with several men who shared his first name. To make things easier for his coworkers, he started to go by his middle name. My grandmother, who worked with him, didn't know it wasn't his first name until he brought her home to meet his family. But so far, from what I've MSTed, one is never given. And it could be solved easily. Frollo later on prefers to call him Daniel. We could have an exchange like this:

"Thank you, Daniel," Frollo said.

Iggy smiled. "Iggy, please. Everytime I hear 'Daniel,' I keep looking for my father!" He laughed.

Just something.

CrazedWriter: But "Daniel" isn't cool! "Iggy" is way cooler and it's stage name of this cool and edgy and wild rocker! My Iggy's just like him, a rebel, except that he does not do that many drugs, 'cause that's just gross, and he didn't go to make international career 'cause then I couldn't bring him into plot!

Okay, I might be reading into it too much, but the age does fit, and so do a couple of details.

The only thing prevented me from agreeing that Iggy is based on Iggy Pop is the fact that we learn that music is not Iggy's first love. In fact, it gets forgotten entirely when we learn what Iggy was really studying in college.

I'm suddenly feeling very afraid...

Nostalgia Chick's Top Ten List of Hottest Animated Guys

Please note number 10. And Lindsay's facial expressions throughout.

And Nella's explanation.


(PS: I voted in this poll for Twitter. I said Prince Derek from "The Swan Princess." What? The guy may put his foot in his mouth, but who doesn't do that every now and then? At least he tried to make up for it.)


(That and I LOVE Howard McGillan's voice. He was the Phantom when I saw Phantom of the Opera on Broadway)

I shouldn't be surprised, with how many FSMs again? 14-15?

The rest was decent though.

Wait, wait. Her mother agrees?
But then again...as long as she is ignorant of his cruelty, and existence of other FSMs, I can see why...He might not be pretty, but he has position.

It's hardly American-only. I bet even French have it now. (Gah! Adelaide flashbacks!)

Unless she was standing close to the window...

Wait, her father approves?
(Sorry, could never find patience to listen to audio MST. Do you knwo if anyone did the text-form?)

Actually, that's kind of fitting...

I wonder if she ever actually made any cake. Unless she used store-bought base, no way she could do it fast - to say nothing of cooling it or preparing strawberries. And Frollo was waiting, so it's not like she had hours to spare.

He is still in highschool mentally.

Hey, he's with the Guard. You usually direct lost people to police anyway.

Good job!

Twenty-one. You'll meet a few of them in this story.

In another century. Yes, Mommy and Daddy know that Frollo is from the 15th century.

Do you mean if anyone did a text MST of the first story? Not that I know of. I'd do it, but I'm afraid I'd copy some of the Fanfiction Critic's jokes. Maybe someone else will want to do it...

But I seriously think FrolloFreak thinks these stories acutally happened.

Or she made it earlier. I mean, yes, FrolloFreak wasn't clear, but it's easily explained that she made it another day.

Though with how often she goes back in time, I'm surprised she holds a job and the house hasn't been foreclosed.

Actually, I'm not sure she HOLDS a job.

Nope. Phoebus resigned from the guard after Esmeralda up and left him after he married her because she's an evil, slutty gypsy. And Phoebus himself is portrayed as a bumbling idiot.

Thanks for the review.

Almost tempted to, when I'm done with Angey...but not sure I'm the right person, since I'm not familiar with a lot of cultural references. Of course, there is internet and it could be a good point about writing stuff anyone can understand, but...

I can't remember if there were many cultural references in the story, but the Fanfiction Critic doesn't have her computer read the entire story. If you don't feel comfortable MST-ing it, you don't have to.

Meh, it doesn't seem as bad or as long as I thought. Just not sure - is she completely using Disneyverse, or are there parts from the book? I'm sure Jehan wasn't in the movie...