Defanging the Obscene

[sewagelag00n]

It makes me upset how much they neutered Heathers the Musical. After last night i keep getting Veronica's "I think that's what they call third base!" stuck in my head. In the original movie, that scene takes place at a college frat party where older men creep on Veronica and Chandler, fully aware of and drawing attention to how they're underage. But in the musical it's a goofy high school house party where everyone is goofing off and having fun and nothing predatory is happening. This is the first of many examples of how much they butchered the movie.

Other things that piss me off:

• Veronica getting changed to be a better person, shown as an idealist seduced by the promise of the Heathers' protection, instead of someone who made choices to get where she is. 
• Veronica being changed to be poor instead of affluent. This is also because they need Veronica and JD to be black-and-white morality, so Veronica has to be a Sympathetic Person all around. 
• Martha Dunnstock and Betty Finn are conflated, undermining Veronica's character development. Yes, reconnecting with an old friend is a good thing to show, but the whole point of Veronica making friends with Martha is to show that she's now willing to make an effort to get to know the bottom rung of high school society. True kindness showed to a stranger who you're not biased towards. 
• "Fight For Me" is just a really bad song in general, and in this song, JD beats up Kurt and Ram instead of shooting at them. 
• For some reason JD's comments about convenience stores and buying a Slurpee for Veronica gets expanded to an entire fucking song where he says Slurpees are better than cocaine??? It's like the fandomization favorite food curse but 10x worse because it's an official adaptation.