[ SECRET POST #2969 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2969 ⌋

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

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[The Sound of Music]


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[Grayson]


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[Criminal Minds (Spencer Reid)]


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["Do You Love Me?" from Fiddler on the Roof]


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[The 100]


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Comments

[intrigueing]

I never saw this vibe with them before, huh. I always thought of it as "woman makes guy's frosty heart thaw by being so joyful and awesome."

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, it's definitely that as well, but there's a subtle distinction drawn between the Baroness, who is more of equal standing with the captain in most ways (wealth, sopphistication, social status, experience, etc.) and Maria, who is not only younger but far more sheltered, naive and child-like in her emotional development, i.e. getting up to mischief at the convent. Contrast their general appearance, too. The Baroness wears elaborate dresses, hairstyles, full make up. Maria is dressed simply much like the children are, little to no obvious make-up. The differences aren't glaring, but they're not coincidental, either.

[(Anonymous)]

Sort of a tangent, but the baroness has always been one of my favorite movie characters. The way she's set up they could have easily written her as colossal bitch (she's wealthy, she's disconnected from the kids, she's the rival love interest, etc.), but instead she's kind to both Maria and the captain, and just gracefully ends things and moves on.

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nayrt

Me too! I was especially relieved that the writers didn't set up some kind of mutual-jealousy, bitch-slappy vibe between the Baroness and Maria. The lady had dignity and honour.

Maybe the Baroness wasn't quite right for Capt. Gorgeous, but she was... all right :-)

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. There was some initial scheming, perhaps, when she convinces Maria to return to the convent, but in the end she chooses to be gracious rather than vindictive.

[ceebeegee]

Well, yes and no. (And FTR I like the Baroness as well, mainly because she has two KICKASS songs in the stage musical that were cut. Sadly. They're so cynical and awesome. You dear, attractive, dewy-eyed idealist/Today you have to learn to be a realist...)

But it seems to me with her conversation with Maria at the party, she says a lot of things designed to make Maria feel self-conscious and even guilty--calculated to make Maria run away, that is, especially with the "there's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him" line.

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-regret-to-inform-you-that-my-wedding-to-captain-von-trapp-has-been-canceled

[(Anonymous)]

If you read between the lines Maria is more like the kids mother, and more like he prefers things. He doesn't really like big lavish parties and all that. Maria also has no problem challenging him and telling him he's wrong, the Baroness is pretty content to let most things stand (that is not a dig against her btw).

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yes, I love this!