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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2019-02-22 06:48 pm

[ SECRET POST #4432 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4432 ⌋

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

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[Happy Death Day 2 U]


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[Smallville]


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[Cary Elwes as Westley in The Princess Bride]


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06. [SPOILERS for Kingdom]



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07. [SPOILERS for Criminal Minds]



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08. [SPOILERS for What Men Want]



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09. [SPOILERS for Isn't It Romantic]



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10. [SPOILERS for A Million Little Things, episode "Someday"]
[WARNING for childhood sexual abuse]

[A Million Little Things]


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11. [WARNING for childhood sexual abuse]

[Martin Starr in Intruders]
































Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #634.
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.

Transcript by OP

[personal profile] fscom 2019-02-22 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
So Kingdom got a lot of hype, and tbh it deserved most of it. It’s genre-mixing in a way that isn’t particularly common, and for the most part it does it really, really well.

Characters are solid, plot and story story structure are fairly solid, sets and costumes looked great, it was basically a lot of fun.

No part of that is a secret. (why would it be)

No, I’m pissed off at the twist at the end, ok. The narrative spent so much energy actively associating sunrise and sunset specifically - not the presence or lack thereof of ambient light, ok, which would have been much
less significant inside the king’s quarters inside a goddamn building, but to the moment the sun cleared the horizon - that to have it suddenly be related to temperature instead of light in the last episode felt cheap.

Changes in temperature would have had even less of an effect inside a building, even if environmental control was less rigid in the Joseon period. It takes time for temperature to change and yet the zombies became active or inactive at sunrise/sunset to the minute, every time, until the last time. The plot twist was poorly set up, it was poorly executed, it was deliberately done that way (or so I assume, because every other detail was fairly well done) and it is interfering with my ability go to back and enjoy something I really liked up until literally the last minute.
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Re: Transcript by OP

[personal profile] tabaqui 2019-02-23 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
I really don't agree at all that it felt 'cheap' - I didn't have any issues with it as a plot twist or whatever, myself.