[ 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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[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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[Horatio Hornblower]


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[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 ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(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.