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[ SECRET POST #4309 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4309 ⌋

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People don't put nearly enough effort into episode titles anymore. I get where you're coming from, OP.

You think those titles took effort?!

Those are lovely episode titles?

Are you saying you don't like them or are you agreeing that they're lovely, I can't tell

I mean, I'm not angry at them, but they're not... striking or poetic to me, and some of them are even a little clunky/weird to me as well.

They're a little awkward but they do seem evocative.

They read like someone is trying to evoke a sort of Buddha/Confucius vibe, but they mostly come off as Bad Engrish.

Yeah I think that's what bugs me about them, and why they come across as choppy.

Remember a while back there was a discussion on FS about people who use "ethnic" as a descriptor? That type of person is probably entranced by the idea of using the names of a bunch of kung fu moves as episode titles.

But... it's a kung fu series, that's literally the genre of the series to start with

So naming the episodes after kung fu moves isn't particularly poetic or any more creative than, say, Friends' "The one with the..." motif.

that doesn't make sense at all

Ok... explain how naming episodes of a kung fu show after kung fu moves is creative, because from the outside it sounds a lot like naming your dog Woof-Woof. They didn't "create" anything with these titles - they pulled them wholesale from a list of kung-fu sequences that they thought sounded cool.

nayrt - You don't like the titles, we get it.

There's nothing wrong with them. They're just not creative or poetic. There's plenty of good cats named Fluffy, friend.

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(Anonymous) - 2018-10-22 02:23 (UTC) - Expand

I'm female and a POC and I use "ethnic" as a descriptor. I'm not sure it's the big red flag you seem to be implying it is.

Just because you're black doesn’t mean you can't be an American centric ignorant asshole. It just means you think you have a free pass to be an American centric asshole about the rest of the world.

And the same for all other American POCS.

wtf

LOL for assuming I'm black because I said "POC". I'm Chinese. And the word really, really isn't as inflammatory as you're trying desperately to make it out to be, for some reason.

I don't think it's like... "I can use the N word because it's in that song lyric!" red flag level, but the only people I've seem to use the word ethnic as a descriptor seem like the kind of people who say things like, "You know, the Oriental woman!"

You mean the kind that say "minorities" in that sort of hushed tone like maybe that Brazilian family in front of them doesn't realize they're not white?

Interesting. IME as a POC, people who use terms like "oriental" to describe people generally fail to grasp what "ethnic" even means, much less use it.

Yeah I agree entirely. It’s about as creative as Supernatural using the names of Led Zeppelin tracks as episode titles. A nice homage but hardly 'poetry'.

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