[ SECRET POST #2694 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2694 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[General Hospital]


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[Homestuck, The Other Woman, Pacific Rim, Naruto, X-Men]


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04.
[The Ear, the Eye and the Arm]


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[Warehouse 13]


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[Alton Brown and Anthony Bourdain]


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[YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[Magic: the Gathering]


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[Smallville]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 046 secrets from Secret Submission Post #385.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
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Comments

OP

[(Anonymous)]

No, on the contrary. I think anything is fair game to be represented in fiction, it's just that some things are harder to represent (well) than others.I think they generally made a good effort at fleshing out the characters, making it more contemporary and less caricaturist than in some of the comics - however, Hydra still sort of remained a caricature in that sense. So no, I feel that IF they wanted to touch upon fascism, they should have made it more realistic and less "muwahaha, we're evil Hail Hydra". Because that actually diminishes the impact of it.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

But...they are Muwahahaha, we're evil Hail Hydra. And really, whispering that to each other is no different from secret handshakes and other such secret "we are in the same club" signals.

Re: OP

[tenlittlebullets]

Yyyyeah. Like, the movie was linking up authoritarianism and military-industrial-intelligence complex shit in ways that were more interesting than "look, the NSA are actual literal Nazis!" And then the bottom falls out midway through when we're expected to believe that all these problems only exist because a huge subset of SHIELD has been recruited by an organization that's not even trying to hide the fact that, in-universe, they are actual literal fucking Nazis. Who go around concocting elaborate excuses to whisper "Hail Hydra" in each other's ears. That's storytelling space that could easily have been repurposed to have Hydra at least operating under some sort of cover organization preaching attractively-packaged fascism as a balm for the world's ills, instead of flat-out "Hey, remember that unit on fascism in your eighth-grade history class? THAT'S US, WANNA JOIN?"

It just kind of... undercuts any point the movie might've been trying to make about This Is How You Become The Thing You Hate.