Talk:Human Again/@comment-1672596-20171224075335

Reading up on the demo version and especially the initial draft for Woolverton's take on the film, I actually fail to see how it wouldn't have worked in the storyline. In the draft containing this song, at least, we actually DID get some glimpses of what had transpired during those months regarding Maurice and Gaston/LeFou, so it definitely can't have been due to that.

In particular, after the song, we see Beast look via the mirror to find Maurice studying maps in an attempt to find the castle, and clearly struggling with an illness, having overall had a fruitless search, and the farm had seen better days as well, strongly implying his obsession with trying to find Beast's Castle outweighed even maintaining the farm. And there would have been plenty of scenes afterward showing Maurice, despite further ailments, still trying to find the castle.

And as far as Gaston and LeFou, shortly after that sequence with Beast and the mirror, we see Gaston and LeFou arrive at the Maison des Lunes to recruit the warden into their blackmail plan, with the script even specifically citing the location as being in Northern France. That likewise would have implied that Gaston and LeFou spent all that time travelling from the village all the way to the asylum and then back (which would make sense, given that it definitely would have been far enough away to require travel). There was literally nothing against them keeping it in story-wise, and if anything them keeping it in would have massively improved on the story.