[ SECRET POST #5049 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5049 ⌋

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


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[this was a text secret, I just screencapped it - I'm not one of the pretty secret makers, sorry]


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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I can't rewatch any of it because I know that it's all so fundamentally MEANINGLESS. A bad ending can really fuck up a story. But I'm glad you've found something to salvage all that time and effort on the part of the creators.

On an only slightly related note, I really hope that the utter failure of GOT's ending and the fact that while we might get Winds we'll never get Dream will dampen the lust for "ANYONE CAN DIE" stories. Because, surprise, if anyone can actually die it's really hard to tell a good story. If you devote three books/seasons to a plot and then kill off the related characters it's really hard to keep going. I'm sick of it being this pinnacle achievement, maybe there's a reason most people don't do it ya know?

If you kill my favorite character in a series I'm done with the series. And I don't think they is anything wrong with me.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like there needs to be a happy medium. I absolutely support killing off popular characters in a story if there's a good narrative purpose, I feel like there are quite a few stories I've read (comics and manga come to mind here particularly) where there's such a clear unwillingness to kill off anyone permanently that the stakes slowly feel lower and lower because you know the author will never kill off one of their darlings.

On the other hand, when a story gets billed as 'ANYONE CAN DIE' I think at some point the writers start to buy into their own hype and begin killing characters less for good narrative purpose and more for sheer shock value, like ha ha I bet you thought we wouldn't kill that guy -- and yeah, we did think that because killing that character was an awful narrative choice. (To say nothing of all the copycat series that then crop up and start immediately butchering their cast to show how edgy they are while ignoring that if you start killing off all the side characters right away your viewers will very quickly start finding the number of likable sympathetic characters dwindling and will abandon ship because why get attached to anyone who's just going to die anyway.)