[ SECRET POST #3324 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3324 ⌋

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

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[Dishonored]


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04. [tb #3]
[One Piece]


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[Kung Fu Panda]


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[Music video: Poets of the Fall, "Daze" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di7NMssrqsE)]


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[Digimon Tri]


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(Pokémon)


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 039 secrets from Secret Submission Post #475.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Mental Casts

[shortysc22]

I started watching the show and then decided to read the book. I finished the book. But only just finished it and will definitely not be reading the second and third books in the series. The book was bad. Quentin wasn't bad at first but he only got worse as the story went on and he's a douchebag by the end of the book.

I like the direction the TV show is going and am curious how it will differ from the books, since it already significantly has. If you feel like talking about it I know NO ONE else who has either read the book or is watching the TV show.

Re: Mental Casts

[leisuretime]

God, Quentin was the worst. And you're right, he didn't start out that way. Sure, he had a bit of superiority complex going on, but so do a lot of people who feel like they've been mistreated and misunderstood for some reason or other. His treatment of Alice during and after their breakup was my breaking point.

I hung in there for a little while after they found Not Narnia and he was off looking for a quest, but then I finally just had to come here and be all "Y'all, does Quentin get better or is everything about his horrible personality justified and held up as good?"

And everyone pretty much said he was made out to be right all along, and that was that. Maybe it would have been cliche, but I would have much rather have had a story about Josh, a mediocre student who tries really hard and becomes a hero with a ragtag team of outcasts. Or Penny finding a community, or Alice solving her mystery.

And maybe a little less overt in its ripping off of Chronicles of Narnia. Excuse me, it's homage.

Re: Mental Casts

[shortysc22]

I found book!Quentin to be like any typical high school senior looking forward to going away to college but I hated how he instantly dropped Julia and James, which TV!Quentin has not done yet. I also thought it was so bizarre that Brakebills was on a different time than the rest of the world and that was Quentin's excuse for not caring about his parents, who haven't made an appearance in the TV show. By changing it from undergrad to grad school, the TV avoids the point of the parents.

Ugh book!Alice and book!Quentin's relationship! I also hate how both of them were able to skip a year and Penny just gets left behind but then vanishes and then comes back to be super important.

Honestly you missed NOTHING by bouncing after they get to Not Narnia. The book ended terribly. I think it was paced oddly and the way it was split in to "four" books, but not really.

Obviously, I have a lot of feelings on this, but I really like the TV show and will keep watching to see how bad it will get.