it’s almost embarrassing how many male fantasies come down to “what if this woman acted like a man?” and how many female fantasies come down to “what if this man acted like a woman?” like when the subtext is so blatant I almost have to look away
this is the plot of revolutionary girl utena
with occasional “upper-class sibling incest: fucked up but psychologically fascinating”
The “LEGO (X)” games are the most prominent use of pantomime in popular culture since movies got sound
It helps for pantomime and puppetry to use stories and idioms people know already, or at least some well of meaning lying outside the performance itself
Jolly Ship the Whiz-Bang had music and plus even if the plots were novel pirates are a familiar idiom
Or you can take the alienation effect and just run with it
