So got into the parks yesterday on my brother's maingate and finished off watching this show. I don't know if its always been like this or no, but it seems like every other person was either recording the show on their phone or facetiming with someone (with the sound on full blast no less). Oh, and many of those people who were recording crap ass quality versions of the show on their phone were using FLASH the whole show.
This severely dampened my enjoyment of the show as HEA is an experience that you can only truly replicate from being there in the middle of main street and watching and yet there I was distracted by all these flash lights being on in what's supposed to be a dark crowd for the show. It got so bad I took some photos so i'll see if I can find some of those.
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Not a high quality photo, but you can get a sense of all the people recording/facetiming - which is fine, I just don't personally get it because it's gonna be a crappy video anyway and Disney literally has a 4K version up on their Youtube channel. I get memories and such, but for a lot of people, they get so caught up in recording that they aren't actually experiencing the show around them.
And as you can see also, there's a woman directly in front of me with flashlight on and recording and to the left there was flashlight on too (and that's just what you can see in this photo). They did eventually turn their flashlights off, but only seemingly because their phone batteries were about to die. It was extremely distracting and took a lot away from my enjoyment of seeing HEA again from in the park since it's return.