[ SECRET POST #4239 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4239 ⌋

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

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02.
[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

[(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.