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⌈ Secret Post #6056 ⌋

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Good Omens (Spoilers for S2!)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm curious...

Re: Good Omens (Spoilers for S2!)

[(Anonymous)]

Do you genuinely believe that Gaiman planned to tell the Aziraphale/Crowley love story all along? I remember there being a time when he was very careful not to encourage the shippers too much, so it feels a little weird seeing him embracing the fandom like this. I'm not even mad about it. It's just... weird.

Thoughts?

Re: Good Omens (Spoilers for S2!)

[(Anonymous)]

We know Pratchett would have liked the love story angle, if that helps. He spoke about how A and C were sort of in love at fancons before he passed.

Re: Good Omens (Spoilers for S2!)

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think he 100% planned it, like more of a 'if we get a s2 maybe I'll go for it' kind of thing. Which I'm not faulting him for, sometimes a half-hatched plan can take full form in the event of being given more room to work with.

But I'm happy about it all the same, I don't need it to have been intended all along for it to be enjoyable because imo the vague nature of s1 allowed him to go in either direction if he wanted: keep them as friends or actually have them be in love, but given how unsubtle and sledgehammer over the head s2 was(much, much moreso than s1 imo) I am of the notion that it wasn't the original intention. But I don't care either way tbh.

Re: Good Omens (Spoilers for S2!)

[(Anonymous)]

Gabriel and beelzebub's relationship felt a little unearned. I'd have liked to see it play out a little more rather than being preserved secretly for the "twist". That is my big complaint about a lot of Amazon shows. They keep too much back so they can do a big twist reveal in a single episode.

Re: Good Omens (Spoilers for S2!)

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen it described as like a "very average fanfic" and I kinda have to agree.

Finding Media You Thought Was 'Lost'

[(Anonymous)]

Have you ever found something that you had thought or assumed was lost forever, only to have found it?

This is really specific because that's what just happened to me.
I've been thinking over a movie I was really obsessed with as a teen called 'The Children's Hour' starring Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. Then I remembered coming across this movie because of a random video I saw on youtube waaay back in the 2000s. It was a parody with Bertie and Ernie acting out a scene from The Children's Hour that lead me to looking it up and finding a fan video with clips from the movie using a Plumb song.
In any case, years later I could not find this parody anywhere since I didn't think to save the link to the video and typing up 'Children's Hour' With Bert & Ernie mostly lead to actual sesame street clips.

Today I'm in the middle of watching a long lost media ice berg video and paused it to randomly search for Bert and Ernie The Children's Hour on DuckDuckGo - And a Wikipedia article about it just pops up.
With a link to the video. I think it might actually be the video that I had watched on YT because its dated 17 years ago in 2006. I kind of feel like screaming right now.

Re: Finding Media You Thought Was 'Lost'

[(Anonymous)]

Just as a heads up in case anyone looks it up; both The Children's Hour and the parody video (Ernest and Bertram) features suicide as well as homophobia/internalized homophobia.
Also the video to the parody I was looking for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TeNdsoCIgc

Re: Finding Media You Thought Was 'Lost'

[kaijinscendre]

Ringing Bell. I found it back before YouTube was as big. Very fucked up anime. https://youtu.be/DQt8CqVPNC4

Re: Finding Media You Thought Was 'Lost'

[(Anonymous)]

I wish I could find the original version of an old Pam Grier movie, Sheba, Baby. The dvd of it has a bunch of stuff cut out and somehow that new version seems to be the master everywhere I look :(

Re: Finding Media You Thought Was 'Lost'

[greghousesgf]

I recently found an online copy of a tarot deck I hadn't seen since the 80's. Unfortunately the art wasn't anywhere near as impressive as I remembered it.

Re: Finding Media You Thought Was 'Lost'

[(Anonymous)]

I had this children's cassette tape with a weird mix of stuff on it (songs, rhymes, short stories). And one of those stories was something creepy, someone sleeping in an old castle and the ghost of a knight scaring them. And I loved scary stories as a kid and remembered this story fondly. But we spent have this tape anymore and I wasn't sure what the name of it was. And it was driving me insane.
And a few years ago, I actually went on Ebay and found a tape I thought it might have been but wasn't sure about and just bought it on a whim. And it was the right one! I digitalised it immediately and now I finally have peace lol

How Are We Doing Today?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm about to paint my nails while catching up on my Youtube watch later list, starting with a video going through the Welcome Home web site.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[(Anonymous)]

Not great. I've been having trouble managing my Depression lately. Too many life changes, particularly at work, not enough time to myself to destress and decompress. Even positive change can spark a Depressive episode, it seems.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[(Anonymous)]

Slept in until 9, read two books and a manga, just chilling which is nice. And (knock on wood) have not had any work calls (I'm on call this week).

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[kaijinscendre]

Drinking. Watching my niece parkour around the house. Trying to find a brunch place for tomorrow. Watching WWE. Life is okay right now.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm tired of being tired. Given my family history, assuming no accidents, I have at least another 50 years of this. I'll do it, but jesus fucking christ.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[(Anonymous)]

Not good depression wise. It’s been up lately due to no work or contracts. I’ve been distracting myself with Story of Seasons but if I’m not playing I feel it creeping in.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[(Anonymous)]

Sleeping mostly. Slept in and then took a nap. At one point went out briefly to get car inspected. Other than that, just sleep and playing Flight Rising and Bejeweled Blitz.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[(Anonymous)]

JUST the right amount of tipsy to get over my irrational fear of cringe and finally start the grindhouse horror script I've had plotted in my head for a hot minute lmao

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[pantswarrior]

Apparently all day on the couch playing games yesterday wasn't as refreshing and restful as I hoped, because when I went to take the usual bike ride around the neighborhood I didn't even get halfway before I was overcome by nausea, vertigo, and muscle cramps. Had to walk the bike a few blocks home. -_-

Hollywood's reluctance to admit anything (really) flops?

[(Anonymous)]

I was browsing a reddit thread of people telling war stories from expired non-disclosure agreements, and found a reply that seems relevant to activisty attempts to influence media via not buying tickets for problematic movies.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ouuxfz/comment/h76vfzi/

Quoting: while many theaters across the US reported no sales of tickets for Gigli (after the opening weekend), not a single one of them reported that it was because no one wanted to see this turkey. The theater was closed. There was roadwork closing off traffic to the theater. The theater caught on fire. There was « insert dumb reason » why the theater had sold no tickets.

Of course, the "reasons" the theater had zero revenue for a movie were limited by a list in a table in the database and when I checked that table, "no tickets sold" was not an option. Holy shit! I uncovered a major bug, so I reported it.

It wasn't a bug. It was a feature. Hollywood studios absolutely did not want "nobody wants tickets to this shit" listed as a reason for no sales.

I can't cross-check what he's saying from here, but the guy explained his allegations in some depth. And, if true, they're interesting.

Re: Hollywood's reluctance to admit anything (really) flops?

[(Anonymous)]

You have to go deeper in market analysis. No tickets sold is not a valid option, because it is self evident in the top line return. You have to deeper into the reasons why no tickets are sold to get valid data. The reason could be the movie just sucked, or there could be more to it too. That is why you need a breakdown.

Re: Hollywood's reluctance to admit anything (really) flops?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean,,,

I don't think this really means that much. Studios are still going to have someone in the company whose job it is to look at the data and figure out why nobody went to the movie. Even if it's not tracked by the theater, or publicly reported, that's a huge part of the studios' job.

Also all of this is stuff that happened in 2003, I'm sure that studios have much more robust data and analytics now.