[ SECRET POST #3284 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3284 ⌋

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

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[Daredevil (2015)]


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(Karl Urban as Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy in Star Trek)


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[Ash vs. the Evil Dead]


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[Love Actually]















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Comments

[elaminator]

I only got around to watching this last year, and I must say... Most the romances didn't do much for me. I liked the movie itself, but the Rick Grimes thing seemed skeevy and completely pointless (she's married to your BFF, why are you confessing your love to her?!), and although I almost swooned at Colin Firth's last scene, that relationship didn't get enough attention (And seemed to be progressing too fast for me) for me to be completely convinced or invested. I thought Neeson and his son had the best storyline, and I really enjoyed the conclusion to this one too. It was the sweetest one.

[otakugal15]

He confessed in order to move on.

Why does everyone always miss that part...

It's not favorite romance cause he was miserable and pining and trying to live vicariously in many ways, but he finally realized he needed to move on. It wasn't healthy. He finally got that when she finally realized he was in love with her.

[elaminator]

See, that I can understand. IRL you'd often come to a realization like that and just decide it isn't healthy and come to terms with it yourself, but since this is a film... Yea, share it and try to move on.

I don't know why, but I never grasped that. (Granted, I only saw the film once, but I somehow got it in my head that he was trying to change her mind, which made him a totally shitty friend.)

[otakugal15]

Yeah, but he wasn't. He was content to pine quietly and keep her at a distance, even if it made things super awkward between them and his bff.

It's why, after she finds out, and he finally decides to confess, one of the note cards he wrote, said something along the lines of basically not expecting anything from her. At all. And it's why when he finally walked away after that (though i will say her kissing him was stupid. i hated that part), he looks off, away from her house, and says "Enough" and leaves.

That was the end to his arc and, hopefully, a new beginning in which he can find someone else, who CAN love him back.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that excuses it, tbh. The obsession over his best friend's fiancee/wife was in his head and "confessing" it would make things super awkward for her because you're asking this woman you barely know to keep what is a rather big secret from her brand new husband/your BFF.

You don't get to demand that other people give you closure so you can move on. If I develop a huge stalkery obsession over Tom Hiddleston, I don't get to show up at his house and declare my love because I think it'll be good for me, that's pretty selfish.

[otakugal15]

It was already awkward. She found out because she was pushing him to cough up stuff he didn't particularly wanna cough up. Not that that makes it her fault, but when he was clearly trying to say "no" she should have left it.

Instead, she finds out that he has feelings for her and that makes it super awkward.

So, he decides to confront it head on and go ahead and tell her, with NO EXPECTATIONS AT ALL, to just go ahead and let it out so he could finally move on. And he does just that when he says "Enough" at the end.

And he didn't expect closure from her. He was expecting to just go on and not ever think about that again.

And besides, it was obvious he was trying to keep all of that secret to keep it from being super awkward between them all. We dunno how his friend would have reacted since the writers didn't focus on the friend's end of everything. Apparently, the guy cared enough about his best friend to make their wedding memorable, but to also keep such a secret from them so as not to complicate matters.

And it would have stayed that way had she not pushed him over a rather small thing.

Sorry. I just believe that if it's out, you should just go ahead and be truthful. Sure, he could have told them both, and maybe he eventually tells his bff, but not doing anything would have made it worse for them both. Now he has the opportunity to move on and maybe find someone else who CAN share his heart.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think you can really compare a crush on a celebrity you've never met to a crush on someone you have to see and interact with regularly. Things were already pretty awkward between them - she said earlier on that she thought he hated her. The confession meant that at least she understood where the strangeness between them was coming from, and presumably didn't feel like she needed to keep trying to improve their relationship.

Sure, if you're in unrequited love with someone, ideally you conceal it well enough that the other person has no inkling that you think of them as anything other than a casual friend/acquaintance/whatever is appropriate. But that isn't always possible.