[ SECRET POST #3953 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3953 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 42 secrets from Secret Submission Post #566.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Why?

[(Anonymous)]

This is a show based off a book series. In the book series the main character has no interest in a long term relationship. In the show there's a lot of sex-with-random-men, but also a slow burn with her police counterpart. A lot of book fans *hate* this.

[(Anonymous)]

(Same anon) In the books she does actually have one long-term but non-monogamous relationship with a married man. There's some... rather unfortunate implications of her being a concubine to a Civilised Chinaman stereotype, which sucks because the author does some AMAZING historical worldbuilding outside of this. So there are also book fans who want to see THAT relationship, which was never going to happen in the series because of medium differences. (With 50 minutes per episode and 8-13 episodes a season, any recurring love interest has to serve other purposes in the narrative for time reasons, hence hooking her up with the police officer who is also investigating the cases)

[(Anonymous)]

(Me again) I'm not the secret maker, btw. Just an idiot who managed to post accidentally TWICE while trying to reply. The bit quoted about the extra scene is why I'm presuming this is about the ships/non-ships. The Phryne/Jack shippers were instrumental to getting teh third series made and teh production company knew they'd have to tap into that enthusiasm, but for the non-shippers I can imagine that "We doubled our goal in about two days! Here's something you feel will ruin the series" was rather off-putting.

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"In the book series the main character has no interest in a long term relationship."

Well, no. She has relationship with Lin Chung that stretches over several books, though I've lost count how many. Phryne is definitely very interested in maintaining it, and they came to an unusual arrangement after he got married where she was also friends with his wife.

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Which I clarifed after hitting post. (When my cat jumped on my lap, which might be a new level of accidental posting) She has no interest in conventional long-term monogamous romantic relationships, but keeps a variety of lovers for (usually short) periods of time. Lin Chung is the exception, though given the fact that the series spans less than two years and she's *not* with him the time we see a jump into the future, I think the general point stands.