[ 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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04.
[Joss Whedon and ex-wife Kai Cole]


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05.
[Alyson Hannigan, "Fool Us"]


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06.
[Wolfenstein: The New Order]


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













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Comments

[(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.