[ SECRET POST #4239 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4239 ⌋

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

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[2018 Chinese tv-drama Guardian]


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03.
[Amy Adams in Sharp Objects]


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04.
[Martian]


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05.
[Castle Rock]


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06.
[The Girl Next Door & Watching the Detectives]


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07.
[Criminal Minds]







Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 35 secrets from Secret Submission Post #607.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[sparklywalls]

I read the book about a year before the film came out and iirc there's more of a sense of hopelessness at times in the book, probably easier to do so when the narration is coming from inside the character's head.

There's also a few more soul-crushing disasters that happen to him in the book. I thought it was funny that my husband (who hasn't read it) said "I really thought something would happen to the rover near that crater, that was such a tease!" towards the end of the film because something DOES happen in the original story! I guess for the film they decided they didn't want too many instances of what might feel like unrelenting misery?

[(Anonymous)]

I realise they can't fit everything in and they really did a great job with the film... but DAMN the book is so much better.

[sparklywalls]

Same thought here.

Though my feelings on the ending is massively in favour of the film. The book kinda ends abruptly and I did enjoy having a full-on happy ending where you get to see Mark back on Earth living a great life after everything he went through.

[(Anonymous)]

whenever I see someone saying stuff like this about the book, or talking about the amount of cussing in it, I remember the time I saw three 11 or 12 year old girls eagerly discussing what a great book it was, during coffee-and-cookie time after church service, and had a quiet "yes good" cackle to myself about it

[(Anonymous)]

maybe i worded the secret wrong but i didn't want more hopelessness, just a recognition of how perfect isolation like that could mess the human brain up big time

[(Anonymous)]

TBH I feel like, scientist or not, there's something a little bit desperately pathological edge about Watney's constant logs, and whole friendly joking vibe he does them in. He's talking to someone, imagining that someone is going to find the logs and hear them someday, to stave off that isolation - like a digital Wilson. And he manages/needs to keep working obsessively which keeps that coping mechanism from crumbling before he gets back in touch with Earth. And there's also the number of times he does get hurt, which I don't classify as self-harm but which might qualify as some form of less-than-super-healthy recklessness. The morbid jokes when he's doing stuff like digging up the nuclear heater kind of connect to all of that.

Also, worth noting that space agencies these days test really extensively for various kinds of psychological resilience as part of astronaut selection.

All in all, I definitely would have enjoyed a hallucination or two as well, but I find the story as told not to be beyond my suspension of disbelief in terms of Watney weathering the effects of isolation.

[(Anonymous)]

It didn't. The book had the exact same problem as the movie in this aspect of it.