Originally posted by Bloodraven:[..]
A couple of weeks ago, there was this interview (now I don't remember where), when they talked about the i-stage as "home" and the e-stage as "the world", the catwalk being the journey from home to the world.
The Wanderer (I went out there in search of experience, to taste and to touch and to feel as much as a man can before he repents) + Invisible (there is no them, there's only us) right after the end of innocence and right before they reach "the world", makes a lot of sense.
And the whole sequence of Wave-Bullet-Hands-Pride and even #19-WOWY makes total sense in the narrative.
The only part that seems forced -but still makes sense to me- is the part where they are experiencing and enjoying "the world" (aka the e-stage), that's #12 - #15.
But again, I think it all makes sense as a concept show.
In the first half, Bono talks to the crowd. "Let me take you back to where we grew up, to the North Side of Dublin". The sequence of songs even from before he says that basically takes you through their earliest stuff and then later stuff but dealing with earlier problems (Raised by Wolves, SBS). To me, if the Wanderer is meant to separate the Innocence and Experience thing, they would mention something about wandering out into the world the way they did. They should play Bad every single night, because it directly related to Wolves, and it was also the song that brought them fame. They should talk about reinvention and all that sort of stuff, and that should all be the "in between" of Innocence and Experience. The Experience part should be songs like Still Haven't Found, When I Look at the World, etc. Instead they're just playing the Wanderer and hit after hit. Bullet the Blue Sky is PERFECT for that Experience thing, but it's surrounded by songs that don't compliment that theme at all.
And one of the most important things? They're not using the screen at ALL in the second half. All of the cool stuff they use it for early on seems wasted in the second half. They should continue to use it to tell a story throughout the entire show. Instead it's just close-ups of the band and the live stream thing (which I do like).
P.S - apart from the obvious Achtung Baby connection, why the hell are they using the Berlin Wall as a piece of imagery? I fully expected them to come out after that went up playing One and talking about the struggles they had in Berlin. That would make a lot more sense.
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