[ SECRET POST #4148 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4148 ⌋

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

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02.
[Will and Grace season 9]


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03.
[Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Elizabeth Olsen]


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04.
[Stranger Things, Billy/Mrs. Wheeler]


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05.
(Grimm)


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06.
[Antoni Porowski, Queer Eye 2018]


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07.
[The Crown]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 39 secrets from Secret Submission Post #594.
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

Re: Can't get into it

[(Anonymous)]

I don't understand how someone could love P3 but think P5 was "too tropey."

Re: Can't get into it

[(Anonymous)]

It's mostly the characters, honestly? Persona 3 characters always came across to me as incredibly well-rounded for a video game? They actually had depth, the writers prioritized them acting realistically over being desperate to maintain their likeability or fanservice/comic relief status.

Whereas P5 characters are basically just your average, run-of-the-mill waifu stereotypes. And/or (for the dudes in the party) they're walking jokes. Every single one of them is flat as hell and I can't find myself genuinely liking any of them.

Like, Ann having this serious storyline about being sexually harassed, but once that's finished? The entire rest of the game has every main male character in the game consistently sexually harass her, only this time it's somehow played for humour, because she's the Sexy Fanservice Character and everyone needs to know it.

Re: Can't get into it

[hange_zoe]

I don't know how I came away with the exact opposite impression than you of this game and its characters, but somehow I did. I'm sorry it came across to you that way. :(

Re: Can't get into it

[(Anonymous)]

Junpei is literally a trope walking. Mitsuru is the quiet, stoic Ice Queen trope. You have the stereotypical tsundere, Akihiko is pretty tyical...

The "too tropey" thing is an excuse tbh.

Re: Can't get into it

[(Anonymous)]

The plot is also as poorly written & childish as the characters are, so idk! I really don't think so.

Yeah, tropes apply to them, but they still have actual depth alongside those tropes, instead of everything being written like some kind of shitty harem anime. Junpei is comic relief, but in many scenes, like anything with Chidori, he's allowed to be serious. The plot moves forward based on the characters' actions, rather than the characters changing for whatever the plot requires at any given moment.

Like, Makoto has no personality whatsoever other than "token waifu". Ann is (also) nothing but a fanservice character. Yusuke is nothing but a walking joke. One of the links is about banging your homeroom teacher slash prostitute maid, which speaks for itself. The only link I could tolerate in the entire game was that politician guy.

Then there's Akechi. Like, man, I still can't even tell if it was meant to be a twist that he was the bad guy? Not to mention how terribly the whole "deliberately omitting parts of scenes from the audience as an attempt to make the 'this was the plan all along' shocking" thing was executed. Talk about unnecessary.

Re: Can't get into it

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I agree. I like both games but P3 went way harder on the tropes than P5 did.