[ SECRET POST #4132 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4132 ⌋

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

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02.
[Jay and Silent Bob]


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[Louisa May Alcott, An Old Fashioned Girl]


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04.
[The Maze Runner, Thomas/Minho]


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06.
[First Wave (Scifi Channel)]


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07. [SPOILERS for Black Panther]



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08. [WARNING for sexual abuse]

[The Fall Part 2: Unbound]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #591.
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)]

Is it really useful to point out that the Magical Hidden Kingdom has a non-rational, mystical, pre-modern method for determining legitimacy of rule?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I kind of saw that as one of those modern ceremonial monarchy things that governments use to maintain the pretense that they're a constitutional monarchy, only as long everyone stays on script for the ceremony. IE, laws require the assent of the Queen, but if the Queen becomes too troublesome, remember that parliament created the current dynasty and forced the last troublesome King to abdicate, so just have your staff sign everything and play with your dogs.

Granted in a modern monarchy invoking that legal loophole that shall never be invoked would probably trigger at least a month of red tape and news media outrage, so BP wasn't that realistic.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, sure, yes, that's certainly true.

But my other point is that Wakanda is a flagrantly unrealistic setting in basically every way anyway. So what's worse about this one aspect of it?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Yeah, everything in Marvel Movies operates according to the mechanics of "what plot device would look cool on the screen."

[(Anonymous)]

"What plot device would look cool on screen, and also reinforce the character themes that we're dealing with in this movie"

Which is a fine, and good, and correct approach imo, to be clear

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I think it works for BP because it was exceptionally well written. Most other Marvel movies are not.

[(Anonymous)]

Most Marvel movies do it functionally enough, which is all they really need.

Black Panther definitely takes it to another level, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Marvel to me are a mixed bag. I thought Civil War and Winter Soldier were well done as they focused on the characters.BP to me was great but not the masterpiece people thought it was.
What I thought was bitterly disappointing? Infinity War. T'Challa is barely in it (Ditto Bucky, Steve Rogers and Black Widow). I grew bored in a fair few of the fighting scenes.
I think the new film shows the flaws of the Marvel series and yet people are raving about it!

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Civil War only works if you assume that Bucky is a mutant whose unidentified superpower involves minimizing the IQ of everyone around him. Or, if you recognize that the writers were bound by a ridiculous mandate to support the marketing of lunchboxes with all the characters.

[(Anonymous)]

...he's not‽

[cbrachyrhynchos]

It's a joke around the fact that the script for CW involves everyone doing stupid shit like two trans-Atlantic flights to get a Spiderman or Steve letting the bad guy get a head start on commercial transportation because he wants a shield and a quinjet.