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By the way, don't "you guise" feel that threads like this one that consist entirely of "hissing at passing camwhores" - I DO admire that phrase by the way (no sarcasm) - are SO much more interesting than threads about Cracky.
That's not entirely a spitting in the face of the whole purpose of the board.
I'm a huge admirer of Wagner, and of "The Ring" in particular, and it would never occur to me to suggest that the tetralogy would have been better, or could even have got by, without the lengthy scenes set among the gods in Valhalla.
But I also concur in the sentiments of many opera fans that one tends to heave a sigh of relief when the tip of Wotan's spear or the last of the rams that draw Fricka's chariot finally vanish off-stage and one knows that one is going to be permitted to spend an hour or two in the company of Siegmund and Sieglinde, Hunding and Hagen, mortal beings with flaws and shortcomings whom one can love and hate in ways that one cannot love or hate the inhabitants of the skies above.