[ SECRET POST #3443 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #3443 ⌋

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

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02.
(Thunderbirds Are Go! 2004 Movie)


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03.
[Top Gear]


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04.
[Chris Hardwick]


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05.
[Dylan O’Brien]


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06.
[A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett]


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07.
[Orphan Black]


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08.
[Captain America Civil War]


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09.
[Drakengard 3]


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10.
[Kiznaiver]


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11.
[Doogie Howser, MD]









Notes:

Early because it's going to be a late day. :c

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Comments

[fscom]

07. http://i.imgur.com/9sb0OI3.jpg
[Orphan Black]

[herpymcderp]

I have never even watched this show, but I understand it's about a bunch of clones.

Seems to me like the writers were just searching for another character type and looking for ways to make her realistic. That description fits about six different fandom friends of mine that I can think of right now.

[(Anonymous)]

... you have six friends who each have their own secret laboratory and pot farm in a secret lair beneath a comic book store?

[herpymcderp]

No, obviously. One must draw correlations between actual reality and magical TVland where anyone actually has the resources for that.

I do have six friends who a) work in labs or are science majors who are b)obsessed with comic books or who have worked in comic shops and c) also grow their own. I'm pretty sure they would all leap at the chance to have a secret lab/grow OP beneath their own comic book stores if they could, too.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt, but if your point was that this character is realistic and hold up your six STEM major geek friends as proof that the portrayal is realistic, then your argument falls apart if you ignore the aspects of the character that make her unrealistic.

[herpymcderp]

I think I had a discussion that was similar to this just a while back, but imo there is almost no television show out there that actually writes realistic characters. My argument isn't that she is realistic, rather that the writers were searching for traits to make her seem realistic.

Nobody has a god damn comic book lab grow OP etc. Nobody. That doesn't mean that combination of interests isn't one that exists IRL.

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, you can grow comic books in labs now?!

[(Anonymous)]

....I meeeean...she hits all those, sure. But I don't think she comes off as too idealized. For one thing, she's nowhere near as badass or good in a crisis as most of the other clones are, and given their lives and the stuff they're regularly digging into, that's a drawback (and has gotten her and the others into trouble). She's also a very very smart girl but she has made some duuumb decisions by completely abandoning the logic and following her heart, and that's a flaw - especially for a scientist.

This stuff isn't a problem for me, but it makes her very human, in my opinion.

[(Anonymous)]

That particular character was one of the reasons I stopped watching. She just annoyed me.

[sabotabby]

I fully know real people like that. A lot of these things (career in STEM with liking comic books and gaming, being sick with growing your own pot) tend to group together, so I don't think it's an unrealistic combination of character traits. She has her strengths, which involve sciencey things, and weaknesses, which are physical and tactical.

[juliamon]

I find it odd to use "secret lab underneath a comic book store" as a metric when that's very specifically a season 4 thing. (I personally find it just as improbable as Alison's mom conveniently owning a shop that would make an ideal front for a drug-peddling operation...)

Honestly, I'm more put off by her being essentially the token lesbian/romantic, with most of her plots being so heavily focused on her and Delphine's relationship (to the point where the fanbase on tumblr was RABIDLY upset that this season broke the 'trend' of the 8th episode having a romantic scene between them, rather than paying attention to anything else that happened in the episode). And at the same time, that kind of makes her feel more realistic to me, since when I get annoyed at her for doing something incredibly stupid because of Delphine it's because I know real people who have done incredibly stupid things out of love, it's coming from a real place even if I can't personally relate to it. I'd actually consider her the most realistic of the living clones we know (I think Beth might have an edge, but with her story closed she can't really develop and learn from anything).

[(Anonymous)]

Cosima is my least favorite of the main clones... and I'd even rank her below some of minor ones (Love Krystal), I just don't find her that interesting.

(Even though I'm a lesbian and she's suppose to be the one I relate too... nope, it's Sarah.)

I guess there are real people like her, we'd probably get along in real life, but it's just not fun to watch on TV for me.

[caerbannog]

She might be s few stereotypes rolled in one buts it's a bit refreshing in that its present in her. Usually this stereotype, in my viewing, has always been the sympathetic or comedical teen white boy.