The Empress Lilly
Well-Known Member
Your intuition is spot in. Indeed, this subject has been a bit of a slight annoyance to me too. I never really post about it for fear of sounding unsympathetic. Or, rather: being unsympathetic, for I care more about being than appearing.I nearly tagged you when this thread popped up. Yeah, the CM shoulda stayed on theme. No he wasn't offensive.
But I wouldn't want to waste this swell opportunity to wind up my dear @BuddyThomas . =D
'Unsympathetic', because I believe a lot of these CM's do have their heart in the right place, or simply get carried away. Or, more banal, simply got bored when it turned out by week three that unskilled, repetitive labour is still just that even when performed at Disney. However, such nuance would get in the way of my first world rant, so here goes:
Can we please be refrained from your amateur theater antics? You are part of a scripted show. With you being an extra. Just because the director is not present doesn't mean the extras should take center stage. All the scares and frights by overly enthusiastic CM's at ToT got old real soon, the ride and atmosphere itself not so much. And that at least tries to add to rather than replace theme and mood. Unlike those CMs at Thunder who mistook a 19th century Western mine for 'cheap beach resort' and kept trying to whip the audience into a frenzy of foot-stomping rooting and hollering. Which left me riding my fav ride with a train full of clapping and chanting guests. Which at least only lasted three minutes, twenty-seven less than the screaming, rowdy audience ruining my relaxed chill coffee moment once whipped into a frenzy by a local crowd control CM when waiting for the parade.
Disney may not be a theater, but it is also not Spring Break Cancun either.