User blog comment:TDIwriter/Idea and Contest/@comment-1956487-20120110224400/@comment-1874924-20120111000909

Hmm, would a ruthless nonconformist like Diamond care about ratings? Or respect anyone else who did? That's as may be, it's nice to see you try your hand at writing, Lal. I figured you'd probably be pretty good at it.

As for doing her audition in black and white, I'm afraid that Diamond isn't quite as boldly unconventional as she thinks she is. Wasn't Justin's audition tape in b&w? And he's the shallowest of the entire canon cast. Something tells me that Diamond would be mortified if someone pointed out to her the company she's keeping.

This audition--especially the bit about Thursday's legs not being "abstract" enough--strongly reminded me of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, Patience, especially the scene where the cavalry officers were trying to win back their ex-girlfriends by learning the ways of the Aesthetic poets that the story satirized. The central tenet of Aestheticism was "art for its own sake", and I rather suspect that Diamond would have been attracted to it had she lived during that period.