[ SECRET POST #2812 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2812 ⌋

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

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Comments

Re: Not a whine, just curious

[(Anonymous)]

stories about adults with jobs doing adult things in the real world (god that sounds patronizing but I don't know how else to put it).

AYRT - I think I know what you're trying to say, and that's how I am. Even the sci fi/fantasy stuff I do like tends to be based in reality - Buffy and Harry Potter take place at a school (initially anyway) and are set in our world, just a different... part of it, Firefly takes place on a spaceship but is so much more about the characters, stuff like that. I like to read/watch things that are about the world I live in, or how the world used to be (i.e. historical fiction), not other worlds.

Re: Not a whine, just curious

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's my only issue with real-world based stuff too, although I actually think Harry Potter is a tad more believable in that respect than, say, Doctor Who (which I also really like) where aliens always seem to be taking over London. People would have figured it out centuries ago at this point, unless DW is supposed to be a total AU where people do know. I've lost track. But yeah, even in Harry Potter, you'd think people would have figured it out. And how many muggleborn families would manage to keep it a secret within their own households? Surely someone with a close extended family and/or network of friends isn't going to keep their child's identity a secret from everyone.

Re: Not a whine, just curious

[(Anonymous)]

Doctor Who was supposed to be an AU where everyone had figured it out during the RTD years, although it was very imperfectly executed. Then Moffat retconned it so no one knows about aliens anymore, through the power of cracks in space.

And in Harry Potter I think the justification is that, if any of the muggleborn families spread the secret too far, the Ministry swoops in and memory-modifies some shit. Which is more than a little dystopian, but the world of Harry Potter not making sense is the expected outcome.

Re: Not a whine, just curious

[(Anonymous)]

Doctor Who has always gone back and forth on whether the public knows about aliens. In the early Pertwee years UNIT was explicitly an out and publicly alien fighting organization, but by the end they were a hush-hush organization that hardly anyone knew about, just as one example. Take off the Moffat hateboner glasses, he's done nothing new.

Re: Not a whine, just curious

[(Anonymous)]

I promise, I don't have a Moffat hateboner. That was supposed to be a value-neutral description of what the canon has been on the public knowing about aliens in new who. They used to know about them, and now they don't.

Re: Not a whine, just curious

[(Anonymous)]

Except in Power of Three, for example, people are openly talking about the cubes being alien. The only Moffat episode where Aliens were explicitly not public knowledge was Big Bang and that was a symptom of the end world. After it was reset aliens became public knowledge again. The only Moffat era stories that have a covert UNIT and no knowledge of aliens, are the historical set ones. Contemporary they are out of the saucer.

You are factually incorrect.