Love at First Sight… I Guess?

In the meantime, while Tamino is being beguiled by genius 12-year-olds, Papageno had found Pamina and had tried to get her out of Sarastro’s temple, but is later captured by Sarastro’s servant Monostatos (who Pamina hates, but who also has a huge crush on her, by the way) and is brought back to the temple. After Tamino goes through all this trouble in his quest, namely getting into Sarastro’s temple, he too eventually finds Pamina, or rather, he is captured by Monostatos and brought to Pamina by accident. Of course, Tamino, upon seeing her, freaks out and falls head over heels in love again, and after a second or two, she falls in love with him too. This very cliché scene has a few things to be said about it. For one, even though Papageno had told Pamina about Tamino, the simple fact is, Pamina has never seen this man before in her life, yet somehow feels that he must be her soul mate. Also, she was the first to speak in the score, so how could she have known that this was the man who was coming to save her? Did Papageno casually have a picture of Tamino lying around? Having glimpsed him for just a second, Pamina’s internal dialogue must have gone something like this: Oh, look, that must be the prince that the bird guy told me about. Didn’t he faint trying to slay a dragon and then went on a quest to find me by looking at a picture that my mom kept on her moon-refrigerator for forever? But I think he’s about to profess his love to me while everyone stares at him, so I guess he’s legit. Wonder if he knows I photoshopped that picture a bit…

• Foreword
• Point One:
  Tamino Casually Fights A Random Dragon
• Point Two:
  Hey Diddle Diddle, A Cat and a Fiddle, A Queen of the Night Jumped Over the Moon
• Point Three:
  Love at First Sight… or Love At First Photoshop?
• Point Four:
  Tamino Takes Advice From Twelve Year Olds
• Point Five:
  Love at First Sight… I Guess?
• Point Six:
  Tests and Queens and Confusion, Oh My!
• Point Seven:
  Random Things/People Showing Up Out Of Nowhere Cliché… Again
• Point Eight:
  Lightning. Just Lightning.

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