[ SECRET POST #3310 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3310 ⌋

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

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02.
[Burn Notice]


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03.
[Devil’s Rejects]


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04.
(Jennifer Lawrence)


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05.
[David Bowie]


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06.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wesley Crusher]


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07.
[Mushishi - Shrine in the sea]


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08.
[William Daniels and Alan Rickman]


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09.
[Doctor Who]


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10.
[Rocky Horror Picture Show]


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11.
[Psych]


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12.
[Star Wars prequels, Twilight saga]
















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I understand some of the backlash about people grieving celebrity deaths, but honestly, anyone who'd say "but you didn't even know them!" is an ass. The implication that you can only feel sad about people you know personally is lacking in empathy as well as common sense.

[(Anonymous)]

Agree wholeheartedly with this.

[elaminator]

The implication that you can only feel sad about people you know personally is lacking in empathy as well as common sense.

100% agree with this.

It kind of confuses me too because people feel sad about characters all the time, and obviously there's no way to 'know them personally' (seeing as they aren't real), but it's still perfectly acceptable to be sad about a character death. (Which I agree with! I'm sad over character death all the time.)

So even if you only know a person's work (and how it affected you and your life), or their 'public persona', that's still enough to grow attached to. You can still mourn their loss because of what you know and saw, even if it isn't exactly the whole picture and their death isn't going to make a huge impact on your daily life.

[ketita]

I would argue that for some of those people, the difference is that you "truly" know the character, because of how you saw them in the series. The story allows you to get into their head and see the "real" them.
With an actor, however, you only know their persona.

Then again, I think that there are plenty of people are actually more understanding towards being sad that an actor died, because they're a real person, than feeling sad over a fictional character.

[elaminator]

the difference is that you "truly" know the character, because of how you saw them in the series. The story allows you to get into their head and see the "real" them

On some level I understand that, but at the same time some people make it sound like if you haven't met someone IRL that somehow your feelings about them aren't real. Since most of us feel very passionately about characters and we can't meet those characters, I find that argument silly.

Like, yes, I get that you might not know a celebrity in the same way as you know a character because with a lot of characters you know every thought that's going through their head, or at least you have a clearer picture of who they are 'deep down', but I also don't understand the line of thought that "You don't know this person to the depths of their soul, so you can't feel sad about them'.

I think that there are plenty of people are actually more understanding towards being sad that an actor died, because they're a real person, than feeling sad over a fictional character

Maybe! I see more people in fandom/online comment about the actor death thing, which again, confuses me seeing as so much of fandom idolizes celebrities, or at least grows fond of them over time.