[ SECRET POST #3304 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3304 ⌋

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

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02.
[Law & Order SVU]


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03.
[Leonardo DiCaprio]


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04.
(Penny Dreadful: Caliban/John Clare)


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[Star Wars]


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06.
[Kumail Nanjiani, The X-Files]


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07.
[Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem]


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08.
[Love Live!]


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09.
[Severus Snape and the Marauders]


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10.
[Sherlock Holmes]


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11.
[Making a Murderer, Dean Strang and Jerry Buting]


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12.
[Colony]















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 027 secrets from Secret Submission Post #472.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

So, they've been playing the trailer to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies pretty much nonstop on youtube. I'm curious about the movie but the fact that the trailer is never a "skip now" and it's EVERYWHERE is taking away the shine.

However, my pet peeve is that during the trailer, Mr. Bennet (presumably) says that his daughters are trained for battle, not the kitchen. The thing is, no one of that social class would be trained for the kitchen. That's not what domesticated Elizabeth would've looked like. It just bugs me every time.

Re: Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

This is an excellent pet peeve, because it's true. The Bennets may not have been super wealthy, but they had enough money and high enough of a social status that one would not expect the daughters of the house to have any firsthand cooking knowledge. They know how to interact with the cook and discuss menus, but you wouldn't find them up to their elbows in bread dough or anything.

As for the trailer... the book was funny for a chapter or two but it pretty much flopped after that. I don't expect much for the movie.

Re: Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, while to Lady Catherine de Bourgh they weren't wealthy, compared to most people they were.

Re: Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

Actually it wouldn't be unreasonable for the Bennet girls to have firsthand cooking knowledge, especially considering their limited marriage prospects. But Mrs. Bennet thinks her girls too good for that and makes a point of letting Mr. Bingley know that unlike Charlotte Lucas--who has to decline an invitation to dine at Longbourn because she's "wanted about the mince pies"--her daughters are brought up differently.

Re: Pet Peeves

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Re: Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

adblock?

Re: Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

I doubt that "no one of that social class would be trained for the kitchen": Charlotte Lucas probably is. Mrs Bennet actually makes a point of letting Mr. Bingley know that her daughters are not, which suggests that it wouldn't be surprising if they were, and she's anxious to make sure he knows they've been brought up differently than the Lucases.

Re: Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

I don't necessarily agree. In the book, Mrs. Bennet is infamous for being somewhat snobbish about these matters and even if her standards are not always technically correct, she believes she's being correct. It's important to note that we don't even know that Charlotte Lucas cooks. We only have Mrs. Bennet's say-so, during a scene where she's deliberately throwing shade at the Lucas family and Charlotte in particular (as she often does in the book) and Mrs. Bennet is hardly a reliable narrator.

It's more likely that no, daughters of both her and the Lucas' social class do not cook, and she is just drawing what may an entirely false distinction between the Lucas girls and her own daughters because she's trying to impress Mr. Bingley and is being obnoxious about it.

Re: Pet Peeves

[(Anonymous)]

On the other hand, if it goes without saying that no one of the Bennets' social class would have anything to do with food preparation, I doubt Mrs. Bennet would have felt the need to mention that her daughters didn't have anything to do with food preparation. I don't really see where she's trying to throw shade at the Lucas family--she's only just said that Sir William represents her idea of graciousness and good breeding--and she doesn't have to bring up Charlotte's cooking to throw shade at poor Charlotte; she has only to bring up Charlotte's plain looks.