[ SECRET POST #4558 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4558 ⌋

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

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02.
[El Orfanato]


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03.
[Stephen Merchant, English writer, director, radio presenter, comedian and actor but NOT the guy who did A Room With a View and Howard's End]


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04.
[Horatio Hornblower]


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05.
[Good Omens]


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06.
[Queer Eye]


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07.
[Gotham]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #653.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I am just. so tired. of people bitching about Good Omens on here.

Might have to take a holiday from fs.

But you do you, nonnie.

[(Anonymous)]

SA It just feels so performative? Like they went in determined to be annoyed by this show and won't be satisfied until they have found something.

"Oh no! These characters people like got extra screentime. How dare!"

Wtf?

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT—I’m not the OP of this secret, but I’ve made similar comments and thought similar things. The bits of the show I loved (mostly Aziraphale and Crowley with bonus Agnes and Dog) were amazing, and I’m sad that after so many years of waiting for a film adaptation the other characters seemed so uneven or flat by comparison.

I didn’t hate it at all, and considering some of the other options (say, Robin Williams and Johnny Depp) it could’ve been unwatchable. I just wish the rest of the show was as awesome as Crowley and Aziraphale’s relationship.

Just because I didn’t unequivocally love every single thing about the adaptation doesn’t mean I (or other FSers) went looking for stuff to dislike.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT


I guess I've just seen too many complaints that it's Ruined Forever because of some tiny thing to take any criticism in good faith anymore.

I'm just very tired.

That holiday seems an increasingly good idea.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

Don't sweat it. Good Omens is a popular fandom, there's bound to be lots of opinions about it and sometimes people get fandom fatigue and start griping about every minor criticism like it's an attack on them personally. The solution is to take a break, not snap at people for expressing their opinions or accuse them of ridiculously paranoid things.

[(Anonymous)]

No, this is Fandom Secrets. Paranoia, grumpiness, and personal attacks are very much in keeping with the community. Keep up.

[(Anonymous)]

My comment was the one this secret is based off of and frankly, I'm sorry you're tired of hearing about it but other people are allowed to dislike things. No it's not performative-- I was super looking forward to this adaptation in fact, I bought an Amazon Prime free trial and a Roku just so I could watch it in my living room on the big TV instead of my computer. I loved Aziraphale and Crowley and thought their stuff was great. But the adaptation could have been so much better and I disagree with several of the decisions made, particularly with the characters who weren't Aziraphale and Crowley (who may be the most memorable characters in the book but they are not the *only* leads. They were the leads of the adaptation, and I think it weakened the story as a whole for me). I didn't hate the adaptation -- this wasn't like Netflix's Watership Down adaptation which I hated so much I couldn't finish -- but it wasn't what I was hoping for, and I'm allowed to be bummed that the thing I was waiting eagerly for didn't live up to my favorite book.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean this kindly - please do take that holiday. The fuss will die down fairly soon once the novelty wears off the show, and stepping away is a far better idea than snapping at people because you're seeing fandom haters under every rock and behind every tree.

[(Anonymous)]

Between the people saying that Gaiman is a homophobe for... publicly endorsing slash headcanons and stating that Aziraphale and Crowly are in love*, the people explaining that the ethnically diverse cast isn't ethnically diverse *in the right way*, and now, that popular characters have too much screen time... they aren't hiding behind trees, they are in my airspace dropping bombs.

Y'all complaining about Good Omens should just... I'm not going to finish that sentence. But you should do it.

* No, I don't understand that either.

[(Anonymous)]

Criticism isn't fandom hate and I'm sorry you're so thin skinned that you're unable to tell the two apart.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, and people are also allowed to say "bullshit" to "criticism" that's really just an unhinged hot-take ungrounded by either the work or common sense.

[(Anonymous)]

And still it would be criticism, justified or not, and not boogeyman fandom hate (and let's not pretend that rabid stans of a show will often disregard criticism as wrong or ~against common sense~ despite being neither just because they're so blinded by their love for a show. This shit goes both ways.).

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, this. When I saw the commercials for the show I knew that 1) fandom would eat it up and 2) that I really didn't care to watch it. I still don't care to watch it. But I guess that's me just hating on it and its fans. *eyeroll*