[ SECRET POST #4467

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #4467 ⌋

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

01.
[Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (Amazon)]



__________________________________________________



02.
[Zeal & Ardor]


__________________________________________________



03.
[The Umbrella Academy, The Haunting of Hill House]


__________________________________________________



04.
[Abu from Aladdin]


__________________________________________________



05.
[The Umbrella Academy]


__________________________________________________



06.
[Vanya Hargreeves, The Umbrella Academy]


__________________________________________________



07.
[The Breakfast Club, Note from OP: that one scene where Allison draws a picture on black paper and then shakes dandruff "snow" all over it]


__________________________________________________



08.
[American Gods, season 2]


__________________________________________________



09.
[The Enemy Within, Kate Ryan/Erica Shepherd]











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 60 secrets from Secret Submission Post #640.
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

[(Anonymous)]

Having not read the book, I would say that S1 was...alriiight? I felt like it was three quarters of the way to a good show, but it definitely needed some heavy tuning up to actually get there.

Mainly, I felt that it suffered from a weak main character (Shadow), and I was never entirely sure whether it was due to the acting, the writing, or both. I remember thinking that Shadow is one of those main characters that basically just gets sucked into a calamity due to circumstances completely outside themselves, and then just keeps being tumbled from one calamitous situation to the next without him being particularly active in any of it. Which, IMO, is not a very compelling way to build a main character (it can work for movies, but rarely for TV shows, imo).

Plus the plot progression just felt kind of scattered and non-directional to me.

But YMMV. *shrugs*

[(Anonymous)]

I think that's mostly the book, to be honest. Shadow reacts to his situation rather than acts. He's a fairly passive character that stands in contrast to all the weirdness that's happening around him. I'm fairly sure that's a deliberate choice on Gaiman's part, but it can easily come off as rather boring.