[ SECRET POST #3893 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3893 ⌋

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

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[Valkyrie]


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[Joss Whedon and ex-wife Kai Cole]


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[Alyson Hannigan, "Fool Us"]


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[Wolfenstein: The New Order]


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[Anne, the new Anne of Green Gables reboot miniseries]













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Comments

[ketita]

Yeah, I bailed on the show real fast because of this stuff. "Gritty Anne of Green Gables" is not something I will ever need in my life.
It's very clear in the books that she hadn't been treated well, but the Netflix show ramps that up to 11, introduces crazy bullying and all sorts of unnecessary stuff. Anne was plenty sympathetic already. That Netflix did this honestly makes it seems like they didn't trust the source material, and is a sign of just how deep we've sunk with all the gritty bullshit presented as "realism".

[(Anonymous)]

This.

[(Anonymous)]

ugh, agreed!

[(Anonymous)]

This a million times.

[(Anonymous)]

"Gritty Anne of Green Gables" is not something I will ever need in my life.

I sounds like EVERYTHING I need in mine. Maybe I should check this thing out.

[bio_obscura]

You should, it's a fantastic show. It's not """gritty,""" it's just frank, and the pain it explores make all the joyful moments that much more poignant.

[(Anonymous)]

Not gritty...? in the first twenty minutes of the first episode, Anne has a traumatic flashback where she's physically shoved to the ground and called "a miserable piece of trash", followed by another flashback later where she's bent over a tree stump being brutally beaten by a man with a leather belt, who then collapses and dies in front of her while she screams. Neither of those things happened in the books, BTW. They're bits the show added. It's not about being "frank", it is definitely about making a version of the story that is much, much darker than the books.

[(Anonymous)]

OP

"Deals with dark subject matter" does not automatically equal "gritty." Gritty tends to be about narrative outlook; do the show writers believe the worst of people and of life? To me that's gritty, and I usually find that kind of nihilistic outlook off-putting. But I have no such problems with dark subject matter. In fact, if given the option of the lighter version of a story or the darker version of the same basic story, I'll usually take the darker version. And Anne of Green Gables in particular is a story where I'd love to see it deal with the harshness and difficulty of life. For me that just makes Anne's determination to seek happiness and see beauty in things all the more poignant and heroic.

[bio_obscura]

I agree with you 100%.

[bio_obscura]

Yes, I'm aware, I've seen the entire first season and it's one of the most uplifting shows I've ever seen. I would be offended if they were just throwing this kind of stuff in to be edgy, but they're not. They're dealing with it intelligently and sensitively and it doesn't make the show sad or miserable.

[(Anonymous)]

You've sold me on it! I'll check it out asap. Though sadly, that probably won't be for a while, as I'm away from home rn, Canadian netflix doesn't have Anne (oh the irony), and my parent's internet is too shitty to torrent anything. :/

[(Anonymous)]

So very much this - I'm staying far far far away from this. :(

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, exactly. The story Netflix is telling isn't Anne of Green Gables. I'm not sure why they'd remake a classic and then choose to tell it in a way that's so out of character it might as well be a completely different series. It's like retelling the story of Winnie the Pooh, only this time Pooh bear is a starving, abused circus bear trapped in a tiny cage and Christopher Robin is his jailer.