[ SECRET POST #2980 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2980 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Lots of multiple secrets in one comment this week, throwing off the count!

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 083 secrets from Secret Submission Post #426.
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

[fscom]

15. http://i59.tinypic.com/s3hgl4.jpg

[snowcipher]

Hey, S2 had Jensen Ackles. I loved him and shipped him and Max hard.

As to your actual secret, I'm always bothered when a show is set somewhere and they obviously didn't do any research for that locale so I feel you.

[skeletal_history]

Same - he was adorable. Even nowadays, all these years later, I will occasionally think back to his "tragic past" episode and the moment at the end when Max asks him if he's all right, and he says, "I'm always all right," with a rakish grin BUT YOU KNOW HE'S LYING AND HIS HEART IS BROKEN aaaahhhhh i loved Alec so much, and that was such a great line.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but unfortunately Alec is about the only redeeming factor of season two (my opinion of course). I did love Alec. But I still think season one is far superior. :(

[kallanda_lee]

I'm mostly just worried about who'd they'd choose as actors. Frankly the whole cast really worked for me, and I'm afraid I'd always just be comparing.

[elaminator]

Yup, this is one of those shows I look back and go, "But the cast was so perfect!!"

[(Anonymous)]

I think so too, but at the same time I find it hard to even rewatch the show because, great as the cast was, it was an infamously unhappy set.

[elaminator]

I've heard that, yea, but kind of late; I haven't rewatched since. While that's terribly unfortunate, I try to separate the media from the reality of the situation, but I know in some cases that isn't possible.

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[(Anonymous)]

Image: a panoramic photo of Seattle?

Text: I've heard rumors of a Dark Angel reboot, which are intriguing. I really enjoyed the show (what season two? you're wrong -- it sadly ended after just one season), especially the setting. Bike messengers in a post-collapse Seattle? Yeah!

Fifteen years later, and I think it'd be even more interesting, especially with all the tech boom and construction. They could explore the tension of suddenly so many overseas contractors now cut off from home, the resurgance of water transportation and urban farming, and all these other neat things.

I'm torn, though, because while that'd be so awesome, I know that if they did reboot the series, they'd just film it in Vancouver or Portland and not have anyone who's actually been to Seattle vet the storylines, or even fact-change street names.

Bitter anon is sad and bitter.

[(Anonymous)]

i feel like the odd one out saying this, but i don't really mind when street names and such don't add up as much as all the other fact-checking bits that come with a real life setting

[(Anonymous)]

Season One had a "South Market Street Checkpoint" or something like that as a setting for one of the episodes. It drove me CRAZY, because there's no South Market Street in Seattle -- but there IS a Northwest Market Street, which back then was a very folky part of town that's now very yuppie, and it would have been AMAZING if the actual NW Market St had become a pseudo-military checkpoint.

Such sadness. The details can really make or break a story for me.

[(Anonymous)]

But would POST-APO seattle have had a place like that? Things work differently right?
I get what OP is saying. But since it's fiction and if the show is not carefully having the city as a character (like New York for Sex and the City), I don't really mind.

[(Anonymous)]

A reboot would be so freaking grand. But who would play Alec? I love Jensen Ackles as Alec. Other than that, I'm all about a reboot!

[(Anonymous)]

I hated Alec, but Jensen Ackles played him beautifully. I like to pretend season 2 never happened (because it was beyond redemption), but I always get sad that people forget he was Ben first. He was so perfect in that episode; it left me completely devastated.

[(Anonymous)]

If you haven't already done this, you should play Infamous: Second Son and see if they managed to do Seattle justice as a setting.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I skimmed through a youtube walkthrough and looked at the game map. Epic geography and geology fails.

The map has no bearing in modern or historic reality: it's absent the distinctive grid system and the hill pattern -- even if sea levels rose, it wouldn't look like that (this is what it will look like when the sea level rises: http://2035.seattle.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/IslandsOfSeattle20140107_150ppi.jpeg)

The shorelines are very pretty, but also very incorrect for the region. The big sea stack rock formations like that are off the pacific coast (seattle is on an inland sound, 100 miles or so from the open ocean).

The landscape around Seattle is also very glacial-runoff-silty, so rather than the rocky cliffs, we get angled landslide hills (like so: http://firestonesisters.com/oldsite/images/whidbey02.jpg). The less dramatic rocky shores in the walkthrough look more like the terrain about fifty miles north of Seattle, which are much rockier due to a variety of factors. Plus, there's a railroad along much of Seattle's saltwater coast: https://www.eskimo.com/~nanook/sky_water_carkeek/carkeek-railroad-south.jpg

The walkthrough did have something set in Salmon Bay, which is a real place, but the view in that part wasn't right.

What was most funny to me is that in the distant background, they had what the Olympic Mountains would look like from Seattle, but with the middle and foregrounds completely different.



Not that I've thought about setting a story in an overgrown Seattle and what that would look like, or anything.

Interesting fact of the night: the Space Needle rigorously guards its image, trademarks, and copyrights, which is why it tends to be either really prominent or conspicuously absent in media.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

That's really interesting to know! Thank you for answering!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm so obsessed with Seattle right now. I want to visit the city really badly.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

It's pretty awesome! I took this photo from the hillclimb up to Queen Anne along Galer Street (which is mostly pedestrian staircases; very little actual street). I recommend walking it!

[caerbannog]

DARK ANGEL SECRET

Your first line got me excited and the rest have made me bitter too :(

Although I don't care about the Seattle bit. But the rest IA

[(Anonymous)]

I...admit, I get where you're coming. The cities where I live are regularly used in place other cities - but something actually *set* here? Nope! Not good enough to be filmed as the cities they actually are for whatever reason.