[ SECRET POST #2937 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2937 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 056 secrets from Secret Submission Post #420.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Inspired by Secret #2

[(Anonymous)]

Are you ever annoyed by a show that keeps telling you how awesome some character is, but doesn’t show it in that character’s actions?

For instance, I like Lady Mary Crawley, but many other characters around seem to think she can do no wrong. Part of the reason I like her is because she’s not flawless, she’s sometimes mean and very petty, she’s often aloof and distant, even cold at times. Yes, she is smart and pretty and pretty forthright and she can be very bold and brave, but that’s not all there is to her.

Also, I watched a few episodes of Red Band Society, and they kept saying how wonderful Leo was. And, by his actions, he was sometimes sweet, sometimes a complete jerk, and other than the leg and being in the hospital, he seemed like a pretty typical teenager to me.

Re: Inspired by Secret #2

[(Anonymous)]

Booth from Bones.

I used to think he could be a interesting flawed character (before the show went downhill) if the narrative and the other characters acknowledged many of his flaws.

Instead he was always right when it matters and Bones had to learn from him and he never from her and let's even put him as the victim when he goes against other people wishes (yes, even after I dropped the show I'm still bitter about Hannah).

Re: Inspired by Secret #2

[(Anonymous)]

Cosima Niehaus. Frickin' Cosima. Half of the interest/"awesomeness" surrounding Cosima is "this clone is the one who's into ladies." Her studies are always exactly whatever's most convenient for the Clone Club. At that, with Delphine in the picture to do exactly the same thing, Cosima is absolutely the most expendable main clone and I'm kind of disappointed they didn't go that route (yet).

Cosima was at her most interesting when she was conflicted about the monitor situation, or when treading the line with manipulating Sarah for Kira's dna/marrow. I wanted to see more of that Cosima, not the ~perfect perky bi stoner super-duper-scientist~ straight out of tumblr.

Re: Inspired by Secret #2

[(Anonymous)]

Oliver Queen from Arrow. Obviously he's supposed to be a hero but all I see is a grown man who is prone to tantrums and abusive behavior, treats the women in his life like the dirt on the bottom of his shoe, and has a controlling nature that is downright alarming and red flag worthy.

Re: Inspired by Secret #2

[(Anonymous)]

BBC Sherlock. If every single character is going to be talking about how amazingly smart your hero is, he'd better be able to live up to it. He definitely shouldn't painfully stupid about obvious things and factually wrong about simple matters, and he certainly shouldn't do it EVERY EPISODE.

Re: Inspired by Secret #2

[(Anonymous)]

I chalk this one up to Steven Moffat not being nearly as smart as he thinks he is, and Sherlock being written as his own personal Mary Sue.

Re: Inspired by Secret #2

[(Anonymous)]

Okay. Okay, nostalgia time! So there is this (terrible) German fantasy author called Wolfgang Hohlbein. And he basically wrote a whole series of books that are terrible Lovecraft fanfiction. (Like, stupidly, obviously terrible fanficion - Lovecraft is an actual character in those books and bestie of the main character and the main character is a Canon-Stu, white, lightning shaped streak in black hair and all.) I read them when I was 13, and thought they were so cool. Oh God.

So this main character, he's a wizard. Or a warlock. Or whatever. And the book keeps telling the reader that he is the most powerful warlock to ever have warlocked. Like "Old Gods beware of this warlock" kind of powerful. Wow. So powerful.
Yet over the course of the whole series (what, 7, 8 thick books? More?), the most warlocky thing he ever does is calling down a bit of lightning to roast some enemies and then immediately fainting. He spends his whole time tripping, falling down, fainting and hearing "the blood roar in his ears" (he uses this description every ten pages, I swear). He also magically knows when somebody is lying to him (which is not even half as useful as it may sound at first).

And it's amazing. I mean if he is the most speshul, powerful warlock ever, how terribly untalented are the wizards in that universe.

So yeah, this is the tale of Robert Craven (Yes, that name's for real), most uselessly all-powerful wizard in literary history (Hagrid would beat him in a wizarding duel).

Re: Inspired by Secret #2

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Your description made me laugh and made me think of Presto the Magician from Dungeons & Dragons, an 80s cartoon (which, like those books, I thought was awesome as a child - it turns out, it really isn't). Of course, Presto, bumbling magician that he was, did know he was really bad at it.

Re: Inspired by Secret #2

[(Anonymous)]

I think we should call that Gandalf Syndrome.