[ SECRET POST #3807 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3807 ⌋

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

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[Ballerina (Leap!)]


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[Archer, season 8: Dreamland]


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(Gillian Anderson as New God Media, American Gods)


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05.
[8 Out of 10 Cats, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown]


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(Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.)


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[Pokémon]











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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't hate it, but yeah, it was a bit uncanny valley. Not just because Gillian Anderson looked the part, but because she was deliberately mimicking Bowie's voice, accent and manner of speaking as well. I can also understand why they're calling it Ziggy Stardust... it's his most famous persona, after all.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, hate isn't the right world, really. It just ... really chaps my ass?

The clip I saw also was lifting bits of lyrics wholesale; the one that jumped out at me was "beating up the wrong guy".

(I don't know if there were others because we don't get that channel.)

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[(Anonymous)]

I understand. I'm a Bowie fan and seeing so many references and homages after his death is bittersweet. This scene had quite a few lyrical references. I didn't like that quite as much and thought it maybe took away from the impact of the scene as a whole, tbh.

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[(Anonymous)]

Also ... the more I think about it, I think Bowie was the wrong choice "thematically." Is Media supposed to be people who were 'consumed' by their fame? If so, while Judy Garland and Marilyn fit that well, I don't think Bowie does as well, as, say, Elvis. Or Kurt Kobain. Or Michael Jackson, but then portraying Elvis or Michael opens the door to too many other issues.

(So I do understand that aesthetics probably influened the choice of Bowie a lot.)

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[(Anonymous)]

Media has also been Lucille Ball, so definitely not just people who were consumed by fame. She's not being David Bowie or Lucille Ball or Marilyn Monroe the actual people, she's being an iconic image of them.

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[arcadiaego]

Just pop culture icons, I think. e.g. she appears as the classic dream ideal of Marilyn Monroe, and even parrots conspiracy theories. She also talks in the voices of the people she's imitating. It seems she can't appear as 'herself' like, say, Mr World does.

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[(Anonymous)]

I'm sort of with you. I thought it was hamfisted, and the lyrics just shoehorned in, they didn't flow. Bowie has so many lyrics, they could have done better. And I feel bad for Iman, and even more for Alexandra. Done as an homage they should have put in more effort given how recently he passed away, and I love the show, most of it.

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[arcadiaego]

The intention was to have her speaking via Bowie lyrics. My favourite was 'there's a terror of knowing what Mr World is about'.

[(Anonymous)]

...You mean an actress was trying to act the part of a pre-established persona and represent them accurately?
Okay...
You must hate biopics.