[ SECRET POST #3948 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3948 ⌋

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

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02.
[Spyro: Ripto's Rage! & Spyro: Year of the Dragon]


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03.
[The Shape of Water]


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04.
[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]


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05.
[Brooklyn 99]


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06.
[Community]


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07.
[The Exorcist on Fox]


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08.
[silent/early sound film]


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09.
(Panda and Rintaro, Polar Bear Cafe)







Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 page, 20 secrets from Secret Submission Post #565.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: Things you can't bring yourself to watch/read.

[ketita]

I have a similar problem with it. It's a *good* show, I want to like it, but the unending march of bleak worst-case scenarios really gets me down.
Part of me even feels like there's something almost lazy about it, because I think pushing ideas to the maximum dystopic side is not actually the most challenging type of sci-fi storytelling.

Re: Things you can't bring yourself to watch/read.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a great point, and I totally agree. I've only watched five or six episodes, but there've been at least two of them where, as I was watching it, the episode reached a point where I felt like it should end, but then it just kept going and I ended up feeling it was too obviously bleak and dystopic. Whereas if they'd stopped sooner, it would've left a lot more ambiguity and complexity there.

Overall I usually end up feeling like there's something a little lazy about Black Mirror (despite it being pretty decent overall), specifically because the writing is too pessimistic and doomsay-ish, which ends up feeling simplistic and accusatory rather than complex and genuine.

Re: Things you can't bring yourself to watch/read.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly! I come out feeling "well THAT's awful", but it lacks the ambiguity, like you said. Some episodes are better than others, but it's mostly a show that leaves me kind of dry, and whenever I go watch more (if I watch more) it feels like more of a morbid "what will it be now" sort of way than any real enjoyment.

Re: Things you can't bring yourself to watch/read.

[ketita]

^dangit that was me, I didn't notice I got signed out

Re: Things you can't bring yourself to watch/read.

[(Anonymous)]

it feels like more of a morbid "what will it be now" sort of way than any real enjoyment.

Hahaha, yup, this is totally me, too.