[ SECRET POST #2954 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2954 ⌋

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

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[Phineas & Ferb]


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[Roger Delgado]


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(Dangan Ronpa)


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[All Time Low]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The dog was the first thing that go to me, first time I heard the soundtrack.

Then later on it occurred to me that it's a little rich for Maureen to be exulting about starting a riot when she isn't the one, I don't know, facing any consequences for rioting.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought that was sort of the point of Maureen. She's a self-indulgent, self-absorbed, charismatic woman that fancies herself a bohemian hero when she has almost zero repercussions to face for doing anything that she's doing.

They're all self-absorbed, really. I don't find any of them particularly likable, but that's what makes it interesting to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this.

And even the main two guys, they complain about how they are starving and can't pay rent, but they are too good to actually look for jobs that aren't artists. At least, I don't remember it being mentioned that they, say, have a job at a local restaurant to help get by a little.

I guess I liked the show in my teens, though never obsessively, but now I don't even care for it at all. I'm just not sure what the point is, and most of the characters aren't very likeable. There are a few good songs though.

[(Anonymous)]

Also, when ACTUALLY OFFERED JOBS AS ARTISTS they angrily refuse. Benny says outright that he's going to build them a top-notch studio where they can live for free and have access to the tools they need to make their art, and they're like "You asshole!"

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah and didn't they hate Benny for um... selling out or something? Didn't that mean taking a job? And they got mad that he locked them out of the apartment that they consistently have not paid rent for?

I mean, I don't know the writer's intent, maybe we're supposed to be critical of these people. I can't even remember if they grow up at all at the end. I vaguely remember the main guy taking a job at a company, which was "selling out" (for reasons I do not recall) but I don't know if he kept it.

[lb_lee]

Yeah, I always thought that Maureen was supposed to be pretty terrible. She cheats her way through her lovers, is way more invested in her damn poetry than the people around her, and she treats her exes and her currents as free labor. She has always struck me as the kind of person who might be fun at a party, but who you NEVER want as a close friend.

I liked Angel okay (especially since the whole dog thing was so bizarre and out of left field that my brain just kinda ignored it) but I think I liked Collins or Joanne most. Joanne's doing her best and obviously hugely overworked, and she reminds me a LOT of a lot of punks and activists I know who run on endorphins and coffee. And Collins at least gave day jobs a shot until caving under the crappy conditions. (I've known artists who worked day jobs as TAs/adjuncts. The conditions were pretty shitty, even if you DON'T have AIDS.)

I always figured a lot of the characters' motivations made sense, considering they had AIDS, which was basically a death sentence. They're trying to enjoy and infuse as much meaning into the years they have as possible, and they're all really young, so it tends to come off as self-absorbed and pretentious and dramatic. Like, sure it might be ANNOYING, but it always made sense to me.

--Rogan