[ SECRET POST #5380 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5380 ⌋

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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

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01. https://i.imgur.com/gch0Fz9.png

[(Anonymous)]

I feel the same way about the show Bar Rescue because it's the same way, you hear all about the financial issues of the bar owners. In the case of particularly stubborn owners, I think its all a matter of their own foolish pride. I google a lot of the bars and am pleasantly surprised when they're still in operation because so many revert to their old ways and go under.

[meadowphoenix]

I'm so ambivalent about it because I think fundamentally a lot of these people need therapy and not to be managers, and I don't think Ramsey (or any host) is capable of providing that requirement, lmao. The debt just makes it inexplicable.

[(Anonymous)]

I think in most of these cases, if they made good financial and managerial decisions, they wouldn't end up in these straits in the first place.

[(Anonymous)]

RamsAy. With an A. Why do people keep putting a freaking E in there, his name is IN the title of half his bloody shows!

But also yes, I agree, the British version is better than the American one. I like that we see more of Gordon helping in the kitchen and doing team building activites and promotions in the streets with the staff. In the US series it's just drama with the owners or chef, then very quickly at the end he gives them a new menu and a resturant makeover.

[(Anonymous)]

I want to see retellings that take the fairytales that are already dark and sinister and make them comedic or satirical. Like, it's Bluebeard but instead of serial uxoricide, it's a Taika Waititi-esque series of wacky misunderstandings.

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02. https://i.imgur.com/BQzzspR.png

[(Anonymous)]

Like OP, I like the idea of fairy tale tellings but it rarely seems to work out in real life. I'll also be happy when the whole "darker and grittier" trend recedes a bit.

[(Anonymous)]

Aren't fairy tales already pretty... Grimm? >_>

[meadowphoenix]

I'm okay with it if it's just one of OG versions, but if it's like ~in real life this would be horrific~, but NOT in a "this is horror" way, I think they've missed the point.

[pantswarrior]

I haven't really seen much in the way of fairy tale retellings, but the artwork on this secret is *just what I love*. <3

[(Anonymous)]

I just think the idea is played out and tired. There's no fresh material to be mined with those tropes.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah. Give me all the retellings. Give me the horror. Give me the non-horror. Give me the lesbians, the gays, the non-binary, the BIPOC retellings.

I love all that tropey shit.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh I agree - but also when they do a retelling and they manage to make it more boring than the original.

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03. https://i.imgur.com/Guvs3wl.png

[(Anonymous)]

I can see this POV, but personally because of how it's written it never really bothered me. It's not like Blomkvist is framed as some kind of irresistible James Bond type whom tons of women just can't help but fall madly in lust and/or love with. It's more that he is a fairly emotionally-straightforward, reasonably successful, workaholic man who enjoys sex in a fairly uncomplicated way, enjoys the company of women, and is usually DTF if he meets a woman who, 1. Is reciprocally DTF, 2. He enjoys the company of, and 3. He respects professionally.

It also definitely helps that the narrative (and Blomkvist himself) cares a lot more about what the female characters are like professionally and as people, the challenges they're facing, how they're handling them, and what their active role in the story is, than it cares about their looks or if they're good in bed. Yes, the women Blomkvist sleeps with are all at least moderately good looking (or at least Blomkvist thinks they are), but to my recollection the narrative doesn't spend much time describing their appearances after the initial introduction (with the possible exception of Lisbeth because her appearance is such a Thing).

Personally I found the later Millenium books just fell flat for me. Stieg Larsson may not've been a great writer, but he had specific narrative sensibilities and a strong understanding of the conceptual bone structure of his story. The new writer didn't have any of that, which IMO soon made the story begin to feel bland and a bit vague and noncommittal.

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04. https://i.imgur.com/qmyhrjE.png

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, hypocritical people like that are the worst, op.

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[(Anonymous)]

Looking at this secret I feel the same feeling I feel when I read complaints about the latest episode of Riverdale.

What the FUCK have I missed?

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06. https://i.imgur.com/JZJOE1D.png

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if I like it better, but I do sincerely love this soundtrack/its covers too.

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[(Anonymous)]

BAH.

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