[ SECRET POST #3217 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3217 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 064 secrets from Secret Submission Post #460.
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: One cross-fandom announcement you'd like to make

[skeletal_history]

This is my announcement:

Characters aren't real people, they do not have a subconscious mind, and as such, they do not have secret motives that explain their OOC behavior. Unless it's explicitly addressed in the text of the show, if a character is behaving OOC, then it's a problem with show's production team (writers, actors, directors, etc.), not some deliberate choice the character made in-text.

So, there's no need to spend hours and hours fighting fellow fans on why Character M did this or that. 99.9999% of the time, it was a behind-the-scenes mistake of some kind. It's not at all unheard of for two consecutive episodes to be written at the same time by different writers, who (by error or by design) do not communicate what they are writing to each other. It's not at all unheard of for writers, who are writing to a strict deadline, to cut some character corners in order to make the main plot of the episode come together.

FOR EXAMPLE (spoilers for late season 4 Battlestar Galactica ahead)....... The Chief. Everything we have ever known about the Chief has taught us that he bleeds his heart and soul into the ship. We see an episode toward the end of season 4 that is All About the Chief and his connection to the ship. And then a few episodes later, he votes to abandon the ship.

If you were on TWOP at the time, you might remember the essays people churned out to explain what secret reasons the Chief could have had for doing this. But there were no secret reasons!! The reason the Chief voted to abandon the ship was because the writers wrote that in the script, because they needed there to be a tie between the Final Five's decision to abandon or stay with the ship, and the big drama of the episode was in which way Tigh was going to vote--with Ellen or against Ellen. The Chief, as a man in-text, didn't factor into this at all--he only mattered out-of-text as a means for the writers to set up the episode's tie for Tigh to break (ugh puns).

But, sure, by all means, spend weeks arguing about why the Chief would abandon his ship like he was a real live boy!

Re: One cross-fandom announcement you'd like to make

[kitelovesyou]

I think people want to stretch that suspension of disbelief out as part of their fannish investment, and death of the author and all, but sometimes it's stretched so thin it just can't be all that much fun, especially when there's wankorama.

tl;dr Watsonian-ism in moderation