[ SECRET POST #791 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #791 ⌋

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

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102.
[Ze Frank, Ze Fronk]


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105.
(The Chuckle Brothers)


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106.
[Ace Attorney opera]


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110.
[Law & Order: SVU]


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111.
[How I Met Your Mother; Barney Stinson(Neil Patrick Harris) & Robin Scherbatsky]


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115.
[Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory]


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116.
[Pineapple Express: Dale/Saul]


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117.
[Hand of Mercy]


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118.
[Juno, Mark/Juno]


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120.
[Yu Yu Hakusho]


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121.
[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]


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[TMNT]


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[Code Lyoko/Detective Conan]


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130.
[Adrian Pasdar/Jesse Spencer]


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[FLCL; Evangelion; ChaosHead; Serial Experiments Lain; Fate/Stay Night]


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[One Tree Hill]


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138.
[Cheers/Frasier]


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[BSG]


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[Skins]


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[Mega Man Star Force/Ryuusei no Rockman]


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[Supernatural]


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[Armored Trooper Votoms/Neon Genesis Evangelion]


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[Bounen no XamD]


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158.
[The Office/Summer Heights High]


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160.
[Sarah Silverman/Liam Lynch]


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161.
[Tales From The Crypt - 'Let The Punishment Fit The Crime']


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[The Adventures of Shirley Holmes]



Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #113.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 2 3 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

136--

[dizzy-whore.livejournal.com]

Psst. So do I. Only I'd add Walt into the mix, too.

[snoozy.livejournal.com]

139 -- I cried like the worst crybaby. Dude, friend me now, i will be the first person on your f-list, that loves those two. <3

146 OP

[(Anonymous)]

Indeed. That's pretty much how I felt about it until I got more into comics and the movie hype started and suddenly I was constantly surrounded by people more or less telling me that I had to like it, and gradually my indifference was transformed into loathing. :(

Re. 133

[lacommunarde.livejournal.com]

Agreed. It was so damn dismal. Actually, no wait. Only the sound was dismal, and then only when Gerard Butler (a wonderful rock singer and a pretty cool actor - particularly in Dracula 2000, which is a surprisingly decent movie) is singing with alto (okay, maybe second soprano, but either way she couldn't hit the higher notes) Emmy Rossum. Now, don't get me wrong, it was visually stunning. It's just Gerard Butler's voice cannot do Erik, and also has some major problems staying in key. I mean, when my dad can sing "Music of the Night" better than a portrayal of Erik can, we have problems... big problems. Now, this could be because I dislike ALW in general, but at least, given the right actors, his stuff sounds okay normally. Do you have to ruin what already lacks? Could you just have found a voice actor like Minnie Driver did for her music numbers?
Still, if you mute the movie during some sections, it is a visually stunning movie. Also, Miranda Richardson and Minnie Driver and whoever plays Andre and Firmin could have carried the movie. Why not give them their full number of songs? ("Notes/Twisted Every Way" just vanished, also, I can't help it, I love the original mad laugh at the end of "All I Ask of You (Reprise)" - it's so much more Erik, than anything in the second half of that entire musical).

Now, as for why I dislike ALW so much. Listen to any of the newer, amazing musicals - from the Secret Garden, to Notre Dame de Paris, to Lord of the Rings, to Jekyll and Hyde, to the concept casts of Tale of Two Cities or Count of Monte Cristo. They have something musically that ALW musicals don't. Also, they sound more like operas, which correct me if I'm wrong, but it should sound even the slightest bit like an opera; it is after all called Phantom of the Opera.
And don't even get me started on author/musical-writers who let themselves become so arrogant it gets in the way of enjoying their stuff.

Other than that... How do you turn a character as amazing as Erik into a whiny bitch?! Also, the Persian is there for a reason. This reason is to remind us that Erik is a man, that he has a history, and that his life was so far from normal that he's making one last bid for a normal life. Also, leave in the actual way it ended, thank you very much. Torture chamber with gunpowder at the bottom with Raoul drowning inside and ventriloquist, talking in third person Erik going quite mad outside it in his little house with what he wants to be his little wife is infinitely cooler than emo!Erik with no apparent abilities (the movie deleted the few abilities ALW left to him. In the book, Erik is just more of an awesome and much more sympathetic character.

Also, the movie made my history obsessed self go wtf, wouldn't that be in the middle of the Commune or the Seige of Paris? Couldn't that not work? Just do a minute of research and you will realize why that date wouldn't work.

So, yes, if you don't mind muting the movie during some sections and some glaring historical inaccuracies, it is a rather spectacular movie, if designed to disappoint fans.

[biocaam.livejournal.com]

I...think I love you for writing this.

[nezbit.livejournal.com]

125. HAHAHA I don't blame you, they're adorable. I'll take RDJ while you're with Susan though, kthnx.

133. I saw that movie first, and I loved it, but then I saw it on Broadway, and it was... epically better. I still like the movie, but it's nothing compared to a stage production, I agree. I hated Raoul in the movie, but the actor on Broadway was so excellent, I stopped loathing the character so much.

133

[resounding-echo.livejournal.com]

Yes! Thank you!

It's odd, because I adore Patrick Wilson in other things, but he does *nothing* for me in Phantom. His singing was oddly emotionless--it's like he wasn't even there.

♥ stage!Raoul.

133

[nom-anor.livejournal.com]

I can't agree more. The original Canadian cast will always be my favorite, particularly Colm Wilkinson.

Re: 133

[lacommunarde.livejournal.com]

That version just makes me twitch a little every time I hear it. He's got this amazing voice and he's real age. Still, I always think of him as Valjean from Les Miserables. Also, his voice kind of shows his age. Regardless, he's got to be the best casting for Erik.

153

[pixie-a-la-mode.livejournal.com]

Whoa hang on is that Michael Shanks? Now I need to watch Burn Notice...

Re: 153

[boosette.livejournal.com]

Yep! And it's Michael Shanks in full on evil mode a la "Absolute Power"! (all that's missing is the existential sweater.)

[(Anonymous)]

146. But don't you know dark and gritty are the only 'real comics' these days.. [/sarcasm]
I love Watchmen, but I can't stand, for example, the current Earth-616 canon, Skrulls, registration, killing the Cap etc.
While Watchmen is considered by a large amount of people to be the greatest graphic novel of all time, and it is good, it doesn't mean everyone has to like it.

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

While Watchmen is considered by a large amount of people to be the greatest graphic novel of all time,

WHY?

[latte-vanilla.livejournal.com]

153. That pairing does work, I've been kind of contemplating it since last weeks episode.

[anthraxpretzels.livejournal.com]

...Holy 'I ship it', Batman

108, 136, 163

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

108-The creepiness is what makes him awesome! Only no, he's not a pedophile, he HATES children and enjoys it when they die in horrible accidents!

136-I'm surprised people aren't writing that already.

163-That's why sex pollen was invented as far as I'm concerned.

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[aratama.livejournal.com]

I read it up to "Shura is in love with Yoko Kurama" and thought "oh man, I'd read that," but then it had to continue with "...'s prostitute son", didn't it. Yeah, that's a Do Not Want. I've had a soft spot for Shura developing a conflicted crush on Kurama since forever, though! It only seems natural, since he's his father's son, and all.

P.S. You forgot those awful fics about Yoko Kurama's childhood and his abusive father who whored him out.

Re: 120

[akai_senshi.livejournal.com]

...are you serious?

Youko being a prostitute? I don't think his past is that flawed. I blame the desire for fanservice...

101

[(Anonymous)]

Would that be the Merlin fandom, merlinxarthur, by any chance?

127

[thene]

Eh. I'd be interested to know why you felt it was a 'joke'...it certainly seemed sudden to the point of absurdity (though it's foreshadowed in MGS1, at one point when she's talking about her research...still a completely inadequate setup imo). And that whole scene is teetering on the edge of ridiculous (thanks Otacon), but it's saved for me by the location. Because. I mean. ICON. *siiiigh*

There are a lot of possible reasons to hate her, but that's why I love her. I appreciate that this makes me weird, though. :)

130

[giventofly37.livejournal.com]

...so you saw the epic eyesex that happened on Leno, too?

130 OP

[gossy16.livejournal.com]

Um, duh? Of course I did! XD

Also: hai! Luuulz! *highfives*

[biocaam.livejournal.com]

108. There are so many things wrong with this secret that I don’t know where to start.

113. …That Draco Malfoy comment? Thanks. Now I can’t ever unsee it.

115. Two original Willy Wonka secrets? Wut? This can’t be a coincidence.

146. I respect your opinion wholeheartedly but I still don’t understand how anyone could hate Watchmen. It's alright though, OP /suicides.

149. I totally agree with this secret. 100%.

[biocaam.livejournal.com]

Actually, 146 OP, reading your comment above, I'd like to say sorry. The fandom can get incredibly embarrassing, yes, and I'm sorry that they pushed you to hating it. D8 Seriously, it's kind of stupid how they say that people must WORSHIP IT AS THE HOLY GRAIL OF GRAPHIC NOVELS when clearly, that varies from person to person.

A+, OP, A+.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

101: ROFL! I believe it. (Doesn't even matter which fandom. I think all of them of a certain size do that.)

138: Bebe Neuwirth FTW.

135, 153, 163

[fruitsgrow.livejournal.com]

135. I hope you find your Simon, OP. ): Those things are hard to cope with, especially when no one cares or believes you.

153. Fuck, I know. ): They're more believable than Mike/Fi.

163. AU that bitch?

#133

[nemo-de-la-meer.livejournal.com]

I AGREE WITH THIS.

I don't care if the musical is nothing close to the book -

THE MOVIE takes the MUSICAL and RIPS IT A NEW ONE. It makes the Phantom look TOO good.

I'm sorry. I think the fandom behind the movie musical is stupid and if anybody says that they 'like it' and don't give a legit answer, I will ignore them. Because half the time its about Phantom x Christine or Gerard and Emmy. Which both were unqualified singers.

I support the stage production and I always will. Why? Cause Raoul is not a wife beater. :)

Re: #133

[negiramenofdoom.livejournal.com]

Raoul is not a wife beater.

AGREED. YOUR SEQUEL BE DAMNED, ALW.

[childings.livejournal.com]

108 The original is amazing just for Gene Wilder alone. And he doesn't look like a pedophile, what the fuck. Johnny Depp is so much creepier. (Also, I like the new version just as much as the original one, but for different reasons.)

109 What about the Koreans?

114 Yeah, my friend does that. Most of the time they aren't huge spoilers, though, since the clips of scenes make little sense on their own.

141 "Leland" is such a Southern name. It sounds like the name of a plantation owner or something.

154 Holy shit I never thought I'd see an AT VOTOMS secret on here O_o

[scrawled.livejournal.com]

101. that font is one of my favorites
122. The vagina hate ...... makes me rage.

120

[super-nuku-nuku.livejournal.com]

Is referring to the fic Broken by Hikari

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Ginza/3089/fromtheheart/broken.html

Re: 120

[super-nuku-nuku.livejournal.com]

I think anyway >.>

[yui-hime.livejournal.com]

106) OMG WUT is that a chorus line of edgeworth?

108) Then don't watch it any more?

155) They would make beautiful music together.

165) ... *investigates series*

108 op

[(Anonymous)]

haha Trust me, I haven't watched it since 1998.

Only three bottom posts today?

[ayeayes.livejournal.com]

TB2. Ack...sounds like your friend let all the fame go to their head...I've seen that happen quite a bit -_-

108 and 109 both made me giggle, but maybe that's just because I'm a bit tired.

115. Uh oh, I don't wanna imagine the poster of 108 seeing this.....

108, 133

[trinity-destler.livejournal.com]

108: Wow. That's really odd and a little disturbing, I have to say.

133: I have my favourite version that I consider canon above all other versions, but otherwise: I agree so very, very hard. I just don't understand how anyone could possibly defend the film as being up to par with any of the musical recordings.

Heck, the slasher movie > the ALW movie.

Re: 108, 133

[lacommunarde.livejournal.com]

Ha! I love the Robert Englund version (in that what his name is, I forget?). He's actually kind of cute in that one in a strange sort of way. Also, after originally watching that, I had that song stuck in my head for weeks! But yes, much better.