[ SECRET POST #3332 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3332 ⌋

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

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02.
(David Bowie)


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03.
(Great British Bake Off for Sports Relief, Ed Balls)


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04.
[Pokemon]


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05.
[Star Wars: TFA]


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06.
[Damian Lewis, Dick Winters, Band Of Brothers]


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07.
[Daughter of the Lilies]


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08.
[David Eddings]


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09.
[Sengoku Basara]


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10.
[JJBA]


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11.
[Men In Black I, II, III]
















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 022 secrets from Secret Submission Post #476.
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

[a_potato]

Why do you believe both Death Stars having one? The same limitation would apply.

I somewhat agree about Finn's fencing abilities, although his fight with that one guy demonstrates that others are similarly versed, if not quite as capable (and that can be put down to luck). I can also buy Rey's attachment to Han because she's heard of him, and appears to view him as the Ultimate Pilot.

I completely agree when it comes to First Order conditioning, though. If Finn was really raised in the fold from birth, then it should have been more difficult for him to go astray. Man, they could really have set up and leveraged Rey's treatment of him in a powerful way if they'd been willing to go for it.

[esteefee]

But I don't believe in both Death Stars having one. I just meant that was more believable than the other stuff, because designing shit is hard. But one critical flaw that blows this gigundo structure apart? And targeting across galaxies w/o error and like, three weeks of computation time? I guess I'm thinking Deep Thought is needed. :)

Also, why hadn't any of the X-wing technology advanced in all those years? It was like the Rebels were stuck in time.

[(Anonymous)]

Finn's story makes sense to me. The very first time he was supposed to kill anyone he balked--I don't find this preposterous in any situation--and it was something that wasn't thought out enough to be a consciously rebellious thing but put him at an immediate crossroads. He mostly ran from the FO at first because he knew he was in trouble (they confiscated his blaster for examination because witnesses said he wasn't firing it) and was prepared to keep acting out of fear rather than defiance until the big attack. Personally I think his reflexive goodness is refreshing when you can throw at a wall of genre movies and land on "I've done so many awful things but I'll help people while grunting about it and having angsty cries in the shower."

[(Anonymous)]

I thought the idea with the fencing is actually that nobody was particularly good at it.

Like, Kylo Ren was supposed to be in the middle of his training, and would have never used a lightsaber in a fight with another lightsaber before. So actually, all three of them were basically running off instinct, reflex and guesswork. It's not that they were all experts. It's that they all sucked roughly equally.

[fishnchips]

From the choreography of that fight at the end, it's actually implied that Kylo Ren is pretty skilled with the lightsaber. He also definitely has previous experience against a lightsaber from his time when he was still training with Luke.
He had, however, also taken a bowcaster blast to the stomach, some psychological troubles from killing his father mere minutes before and a general lack of control. He also had instructions to not kill Rey (he had the chance during that fight several times).