[ SECRET POST #3104 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3104 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 071 secrets from Secret Submission Post #444.
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

[(Anonymous)]

Do they really not hang out anymore? I never shipped any of the actors but, ngl, the idea of Bradley and Colin not being friends is bumming me out

[(Anonymous)]

i remember seeing a secret a while back lamenting how they didn't seem to be friends anymore, how they drifted apart, and ngl i'm not in the fandom but it still made me sad.

[(Anonymous)]

Tinhatters like to go on about the "PR machine" and such in terms of keeping their faves from coming out and admitting they're dating or something along that lines, but the truth is almost exactly the opposite: appealing friendships are heavily "encouraged", and made very public, for the purpose of drawing more attention to the show.

You'll notice the pattern in tons of popular shows, where cast members will seem like the absolute best friends of all time, but the second the show ends, they basically vanish from each other's lives entirely since there's no reason to keep up appearances anymore. Glee is another good example of this, and another good example of tinhatters getting it totally backwards (i.e. Crisscolfer or Achele, assumed to be ~secretly in love~ as opposed to forced into a audience-friendly "friendship").

[(Anonymous)]

I've mentioned this only once before on these boards, but about a year after the show ended I went to a dinner party which included someone who worked on the show's crew. According to him the cast all got along fine, but they (specifically Bradley and Colin) were no where NEAR as close as the fandom liked to believe they were. A lot of their buddy-buddy interaction at the beginning of the show was organized by the promotional team; once the show became a hit they could dial it down a notch.

And this is just me, but I suspect the two of them got a bit self-conscious about how in-your-face the fandom could be about the slash/RPS. Bradley in particular got a lot of leading questions at cons and weird passive-aggressive threats on his Twitter, and it just seemed too much of a coincidence that in the last two seasons of the show there was barely ANY Bradley/Colin publicity (no DVD commentaries, no interviews together).