[ SECRET POST #4795 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4795 ⌋

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


Spoilers and CWs ahead!



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02. [SPOILERS for The Good Place]



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03. [SPOILERS for Sanditon]



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04. [SPOILERS for Guilded Age]



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05. [SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard]



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06. [WARNING for discussion of rape]

[Graceling]


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07. [WARNING for discussion of substance abuse]



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08. [WARNING for discussion of sexual assault]



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09. [WARNING for discussion of abuse/assault]



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10. [WARNING for discussion of incest/underage/etc. Not the main topic but figured it might start discussion]
























Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #686.
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)]

It's hard to say without knowing you and the sorts of things you like, but I'm at the point where I'm basically telling everyone who hasn't seen it not to bother.

I can't stress enough how much I completely utterly fucking HATED the ending, and at this point I'm actually kind of angry that I wasted my time watching four seasons of the show knowing how it turned out, when I could've been doing something else.

So my vote is HELL NO, don't waste your time watching it, but that's just me.

[tabaqui]

There's no way i could force myself to watch it again, i just *really* did not enjoy it and was not into it. I kept waiting for it to be good, and it kept sucking.

Now i gotta know - what happened in the finale that pissed you off so much?

[(Anonymous)]

I saw in another comment you were okay with spoilers, so...

In the second to last episode they introduce this magical door that, if you walk through it, you'll completely cease to exist altogether, and in the finale most of the characters decided to walk through it. They framed it as this touching, beautiful thing, but a lot of people, me included, thought it seemed to be glorifying suicide.

They weren't technically "alive" but their afterlife was basically the same as regular life but way more awesome (they could literally do/learn/see/experience anything they could possibly imagine) and they basically decided to give it up because they were bored and chose to just not exist anymore, which I can't possibly interpret as anything other than suicide.

And a show where most of the main characters decide to commit suicide at the end just completely sucks in my opinion, when the show never gave any indication that it was going to end that way.

[tabaqui]

Yurk. Yeah, that is amazingly sucky. DNW, and i totally get why you and others would hate it. That would piss me off, too.

[(Anonymous)]

How long did they spend living in the afterlife (not counting all the time spent there in the previous seasons), before deciding they were done? Does the show give us a sense of how long they hang around for?

[akacat]

Jason was the first of the main characters to leave (mostly. Sort of). Iirc, he tried to play the perfect game of Madden over 400,000 times before he succeeded. Assuming he wasn’t playing through more than a couple times a day, he spent at least 500 years in heaven.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, okay.

To me, it doesn't sound at all like suicide then.

[(Anonymous)]

The equivalent of hundreds of thousands or billions of years, I think. Time works differently in the afterlife as opposed to Earth's, which is just straight forward. The point is that they had plenty of time to settle their affairs, meet with fellow loved ones, and enjoy the afterlife with them.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, okay. If they lived for a long time in the afterlife and only chose oblivious once they were content, then I really don't see that as being remotely like suicide, personally.

I am someone who is terrified of how brief life is and how absolute and infinite death is, but even I wouldn't want to have eternal consciousness. Eventually I know I'd get to a place where I was just...done. I think most people would?