[merylsilverburg]

I had the same thoughts you did that it wasn't right to go off killing innocent people just because you were wronged. The only person he should really get is the Judge and Beadle. But he wasn't going to kill every person until he

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missed his chance with the Judge. That's when he sang 'Epiphany' representing how his insanity finally emerged. And it wasn't his idea to go baking people into pies, it was Lovett's. She's actually quite evil but Burton's version humanized her by having her show compassion towards Toby while Todd came off as a full blown maniac. Either way, Todd was rightly punished in the end when Toby slit Todd's throat. It comes full circle: Todd was wronged at first but because he killed innocent people in his quest for revenge, he deserves to die at the end and that's what happened. It still ends up tragic because of Toby though. Burton's version leaves Toby's future a mystery; it seems that Toby will be the next Sweeney Todd. In the original version, Toby goes insane and continues to bake the pies when the authorities arrive. The latter is a bit more tragic because the authorities might assume that Toby is responsible for all the deaths and sentence him.

I think that Depp botched up the job of making people feel sorry for Todd while at the same time detesting him for killing innocent people. Depp made Todd insane all the way through which I think is very stupid of him.

Also, it's true that

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no one in his family died but because at the beginning Lovett said that Lucy poisoned herself, Todd thinks she's dead even though Lovett never said she died. Lovett was cunning because at the end of the story, she sings "No, no not lied at all...no I never lied, said she took poison, she did, but never said she died."

So this makes it seem like he has nothing else to live for even though Johanna is still there...but Anthony is going to whisk her away so, again, he has nothing left.

It's okay if you decide not to watch the original versions. I just suggested it in case you were curious how the original story/feel went compared to the new one.