[ SECRET POST #3680 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3680 ⌋

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

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[Versailles]


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[Mad Max: Fury Road]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[Shannara]


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[A Series of Unfortunate Events]


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[Spyro]








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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Well in fairness a lot of kids' books can be named sort of dramatically grim things while still keeping an upbeat, zany feeling. Even just the title "A Series of Unfortunate Events" sounds sort of tongue-in-cheek to me (haven't read the books).

[sarillia]

Honestly, the whole thing has this weird mix of "bleak" and "tongue-in-cheek" (which I love but I definitely get how it doesn't work for everyone), and I wouldn't blame anyone for not knowing what they were getting into at the start.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt - Yeah, the books are pretty dark but they are also written in a quirky, funny style (which the show imitates wonderfully but the movie didn't do the best job of). Honestly I don't think they're darker than Harry Potter. I wouldn't recommend them for little kids but maybe older middle-schoolers, early high school. I read them as a teen, and they were shelved in the older kids section in the library. I dunno. Personally I don't think the title was misleading (it literally means "A lot of bad things happen"), and while I can see the appeal of going into a movie without knowing anything about it, it's just a little silly to then act like the movie tricked them somehow. I don't know of a nicer way to put that, I think everyone's free to like or dislike something. This series has always been one of those "love it or hate it" things even before the adaptations so, eh.

[(Anonymous)]

They aren't really depressing books, more like a parody of a really depressing kid's book? I always thought they were supposed to be more funny than genuinely bleak or depressing.