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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-04-20 06:48 pm

[ SECRET POST #3029 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3029 ⌋

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

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02.
[Peep Show]


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03.
[Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]


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04.
[Alexis Denisof]


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05.
[Guardians of the Galaxy]



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08.
[John Green]


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09.
[Outlander]


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10.
[Selfie]


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11.
[Emilio Estevez]


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12.
[His Dark Materials]


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13.
[Star Wars, Twilight]


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14.
[Faux Pas]


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15.
[Mass Effect]


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16.
[The Black Lillies]










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 067 secrets from Secret Submission Post #433.
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.
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[personal profile] othellia 2015-04-20 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
But they might be a draw in the sense that they're poorly written and not very well acted, either.

Yeah, that's where I always thought people's complaints mostly lied.

(Anonymous) 2015-04-21 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
No there's a quiet a bit of complaint about how unhealthy the relationship is. Bella's attitude change when she starts liking Edward, Bella doing all those crazy stunts to see the image of Edward, how Edward's a stalker and crazy over protective of her (also useless Wolf boy on this too), the whole baby stuff at the end and eating her cervix.

(Anonymous) 2015-04-21 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
To be fair, the unhealthy relationship and the bad writing are one and the same. SMeyer thought she was writing about the deepest and truest love evar111!!! and about how Edward and Bella were the perfect couple and Bella was destined to be a vampire and have house-breaking statue sex with Edward foreverz... but as we all know, Edward and Bella are terrible for each other. She thought she was writing Edward as a tortured but otherwise perfect dream man, but she ended up with an abuser/unrepentant serial murderer. She thought she was writing Bella as a perfectly selfless, modest, and brainy beauty, but she ended up writing a shallow airhead whose sole vapid thoughts are about how Edward is so hot and rich and everyone sucks except the Cullens and herself. SMeyer has a maaaaajor show vs tell problem, and it ended up making the unhealthy relationship look even worse, because the author and all the characters were in complete denial about it.

In the hands of a different author, Edward/Bella could have been a flawed but ultimately loving couple whose love was so deep and true because of all the issues they had to work through to get there. Instead we got tens of thousands of words of purple prose about Edward's alabaster brow and inexplicably sweet breath and Bella's translucent ivory ~cream and roses~ complexion and naturally freesia-scented skin, and not an ounce of awareness of how catastrophically terrible their relationship is.
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[personal profile] othellia 2015-04-21 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Whoops, slightly misread your original post. Was referring to the Star Wars more than the Twilight.

Like I don't think most people's complaint about Anakin and Padme was that Anakin was evil. I mean, everyone knows going in that it's a Darth Vader origin story.

(I am well-versed in the messed up Twilight stuff.)