[ SECRET POST #3540 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3540 ⌋

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

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02.
[Tom Hanks & Aaron Eckhart in Sully]


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03.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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04.
[The Hobbit (film)]


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05.
[Keeping Up Appearances]


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06.
[Endeavour]


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07.
[Legend, Lily/Darkness]


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08.
[Anne of Green Gables remake]


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09.
[Macross Delta]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 38 secrets from Secret Submission Post #506.
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

Re: Characters who are too good at being awful

[feotakahari]

A lot of people made this complaint about Miko from The Order of the Stick, a self-righteous holy warrior so obsessed with the letter of the law that she failed to consider whether she was really helping anyone. Quoth the author:

"Miko Miyazaki may be the single most controversial character I have yet created for TOotS. Within days of her introduction, fans were beginning to chose sides as being pro-Miko, anti-Miko, anti-anti-Miko, or what have you. I can't take credit for all of this; the paladin is perhaps the most controversial character class in the game. People feel strongly about paladins -- they either love them or hate them, with few occupying the middle ground. Personally, while there is always a place for the shining knight in fantasy roleplaying, I believe that the class as written actually encourages a type of dysfunction within roleplaying groups. I think of it as the Police Syndrome, wherein one player feels entitled by the rules to actively police the other members of his or her group. [...] In many ways, Miko Miyazaki is the incarnation of those hard feelings. [...] Miko is also the result of me asking myself: "Can a Lawful Good character be the villain -- and still be lawful good?" [...] There was a general outcry about how Miko wasn't the only possible way to portray a paladin that lasted some time, to which I say: Well, obviously. [...] Miko is not the one and only way to play a paladin; if anything, she's one of the WORST ways to play a paladin. [...] Miko is a person who has been raised in a strict military society believing that she was given the power of the gods to punish evil, with very little of her extensive training devoted to social interaction or manners. [...] The very concept that other people don't need to do as they're told is foreign to her, which is how her Lawfulness most strongly represents itself."