[ SECRET POST #2989 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2989 ⌋

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

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02.
(Digimon Adventure/02/Tri)


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03.
['Allo 'Allo!]


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04.
[Colby Keller]


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05.
[Kokoro Kiseki - Vocaloid]


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06.
[MSPaintAdventures, Homestuck]


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07.
[David Mitchell and Robert Webb]


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08.
[Graham McTavish from Outlander]


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09.
[Game of Thrones/ A Song of Ice and Fire]


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10.
[Alfred Hitchcock's Rope]


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11.
["Darkness Falls," World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor]


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12.
[Avengers]


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13.
[Bob Bryar from My Chemical Romance]


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14.
[Criminal Minds]


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15.
[Vikings]


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16.
[Gunnerkrigg Court]










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 034 secrets from Secret Submission Post #427.
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

Re: TV/Movie/Book/Fandom Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

Characters with holding information from each other, just so the writer can have a source of conflict. Some shows seem to have dialogue that is 90% cryptic remarks just so the viewer is confused and the characters can squabble. If I want squabbling children I'll go to the office, I don't want to see that in my escapist recreational viewing.

Or slow paced for the sake of slow pacing. Now don't get me wrong, slow pacing can work if you nail everything else. The recent BBC adapatation of Wolf Hall has genuine character conflict, and is slow paced an atmospheric. It is immersive. And that means that it isn't just scene after scene of reaction shots that are not reacting to anything.

And shaky cam doing fake zoom ins for a reaction shot, now that is the worst. We'll get a medium close up, all bobbing around 'cause it is shaky cam, then someone will deliver an ominous line, and there will be a pause for a reactionless reaction shot, then the camera will all but zoom up the actors nose so they can fake raising their eyebrows in surprise/open their mouth slightly in shock.

And finally. Putting too much into the show in the hope of getting a rep for being serious and weighty. Not everything has to be serious and weighty. Sometimes less is more, and a fun light show which uses one or two great ideas well is a lot more enjoyable to watch than one that has thrown in a whole bathtubs worth of sociological meanings, twists, concepts, and just hopes something sticks and the critics lap it up. Less. Is. More. Take this rant, I've chucked in everything and it would probably get more/any replies if I broke it up into individual rants on specific subjects.