[ SECRET POST #6183 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6183 ⌋

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


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Disappointments and Surprises

[(Anonymous)]

What media that you were excited for disappointed you? What media ended up being far better than your expectations?

Re: Disappointments and Surprises

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much everything Transformers related post-Bumblebee movie and post Lost Light comics has been a crushing disappointment for me. I think I'm actually done with the franchise now.

Godzilla Minus One surprised me though, went to see it just out of a ADD sense of completionistism, and didn't expect to enjoy it since it is basically everything I dislike in Godzilladom. It is a villain-zilla, a short-zilla, and a human story-zilla, all it was missing was a Kenny, but I really enjoyed it. The Legendary team could stand to take notes on how to shoot a Godzilla movie, without clouding the view with darkness or murky cg weather (although, I'd like them to continue with the mega-kaiju monster smackdown movies and a defender-Godzilla, just with better Godzilla shots).

Re: Disappointments and Surprises

[philstar22]

Disappointed: Cap 3. Ugh. I actually believed the lies that they were going to make it better than the comic storyline (which I hate). No, they didn't. It was different but equally bad.

Rise of Skywalker.

Surprises: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3. Not my kind of movie, but I went with my mom so she had company. Turns out I actually enjoyed it. It was just fun.

Honor Among Thieves: It looked fun, yes. But I wasn't expecting it to be really, really good and to give me a new fandom.

Re: Disappointments and Surprises

[(Anonymous)]

I can't say I was disappointed by Rise of Skywalker, The Last Jedi had already pretty much set my expectations to zero by that point. Just a sense of weary confirmed skepticism for it.

Re: Disappointments and Surprises

[(Anonymous)]

I'll be bitter about Cap 3 for the rest of my life tbh, it should have been a smaller scale story focused on team Cap, but instead they attempted to retell one of the worst comic book stories that exists and it was every bit as bad.

Re: Disappointments and Surprises

[(Anonymous)]

+2 for Cap. I will never not be bitter about how dirty they did his character after they showed us how well they could do in Winter Soldier.

Re: Disappointments and Surprises

[(Anonymous)]

I finally watched The Nightmare Before Christmas (it's only been 30 years since its release). I'm sort of disappointed that I only thought it was okay. Only sort of because I almost expected it, which is why I think I've avoided watching it for so long. I was hoping I'd really like it, though (my friend loves it and it would have been nice to share that love with her).

I was pleasantly surprised by how watchable Snakes on a Plane was, I think it's exactly the film it wanted to be and am not sure why some people think it should be anything more. I also liked The Hunt more than I thought I would, but I can understand why there was a big to do about it (it was probably misunderstood on all sides, but that is always a risk with social satire). I only gave it a chance because of Betty Gilpin, and she did not disappoint.

Re: Disappointments and Surprises

[(Anonymous)]

Negative:

Star Wars TLJ killed any interest I ever had in anything Star Wars related.
The Hobbit movies were pretty damn terrible and a huge disappointment, especially since I actually liked the LotR movies and had a certain confidence that Peter Jackson wouldn't fuck it up. He did.

Positive:
Any fleeting contact in had with anything LoL related ranged from "can't be bothered to be interested in this overhyped ugly game that I don't understand" to "get that batshit crazy fandom with its batshit crazy people away from me" so Arcane didn't seem like something I would be interested in but I really liked it a lot. And now I really dig the Heart Steel music video and connected short animations. Still zero interest in the actual game though.

When I first tried reading MDZS I thought I would never get into any of it, I couldn't remember the names (especially since people had SEVERAL) and things were kind of rocky. Fast forward a few years and I'm absolutely hooked on danmei novels.

Re: Disappointments and Surprises

[(Anonymous)]

After years of my friends and partner raving about the Fallout games, I've spent the past week trying to get into Fallout 3 as a starting point. I'm a massive fan of the Elder Scrolls series, and everyone said "it's basically that but post-apocalyptic." Also I thought the TV trailer looked neat, so hey, why not get into the fandom?

I am so not having a good time. I'm really, really trying to like it, and I do really enjoy the whole lore/backstory, but in actual gameplay it just feels like it's fighting me every step of the way. Everything feels like a slog, I can appreciate the work that's gone into crafting a realistically "bombed out" world but I just don't feel motivated to actually explore any of it because it all looks like a big pile of garbage and that just doesn't excite me. I just keep running into little mechanics and snags that irritate me (I can't rest outside like in ES and have to shell out for a room, I get negative karma for stealing even though NOBODY WITNESSED ME STEALING)

Maybe it's time for me to accept that it's just not my bag, but I'm currently studying game dev and get bombarded with Fallout love and how well-made it is and I just don't get it.

I just feel really left out and like I'm missing something.

Re: Disappointments and Surprises

[greghousesgf]

Tomorrowland. I went thinking, oh god, a Disney kids' movie, I'm just watching because Hugh, I wound up liking it a lot.

Re: Disappointments and Surprises

[(Anonymous)]

Fellow Travelers is kinda meh.

Re: Disappointments and Surprises

[(Anonymous)]

The first two Baldur's Gate games. My DM kept hyping them up as the pinnacle of western rpg. So when BG3 was announced I decided to check them out. I just could not get into the gameplay and gave up about an hour into the game for both of them.

Then, Pillars of Eternity was free on Epic, so I checked it out. My first thought was "oh, this looks like Baldur's Gate, I'm not gonna like this". But I ended up liking it so much I finished the game, bought the sequel on Steam and finished that too.

Re: Disappointments and Surprises

[(Anonymous)]

I wanted to like Tears of the Kingdom so much more than I did. I was so! Excited! for it, because I'd absolutely loved Breath of the Wild, and it looked like more of the same, but with extra bits added on! We got to roam Hyrule again, but with the sky was well this time!

And then I liked it, but just didn't love it. It's not a bad game, I just didn't think it was as good as BotW. They made a lot of baffling decisions with it that I either didn't like, or didn't care about, and it ended up being a rather tedious and disappointing experience.

Best episodic/ best serial

[philstar22]

What are the best episodic-style tv shows? What are the best shows that are plot-arc focused? How about best shows that mix both

Re: Best episodic/ best serial

[philstar22]

Episodic: Voyager, Next Generation, Strange New Worlds, Buffy, Criminal Minds, 911 and 911 Lone Star, Stargate: SG1, Sanctuary, Grey's Anatomy, Bones, House, Chicago Med, Call the Midwife

Arc: Babylon 5 is a mix, but overall is about an arc. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Picard, Obi-Wan.

Mix: Doctor Who, Deep Space Nine, Supernatural, Legend of the Seeker, Galavant, 12 Monkeys, Andor


Overall, I do tend to prefer episodic. But B5 is my top favorite, and that's more of an arc show.

Re: Best episodic/ best serial

[(Anonymous)]

One of my episodic faves is Star Trek:TNG. Earlier seasons of Criminal Minds was also pretty damn good, as was Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Oh, and X-Files, though I guess it's arguably a mix of monster of the week episodes and the mythology. I always liked the motw ones better.

Fanfiction tags

[(Anonymous)]

Have you come across any noticeable tags that have been either hilarious or baffling or simply lives in your mind?

I was tagging a fic as PWP and 'PWP without porn' came up - making me wonder if PWP still means Porn without plot.
Also, the variations of 'No beta we die like-' never fails to humor me.

Re: Fanfiction tags

[philstar22]

These are fandom specific, but any tags that let readers know dark content will be involved simply by naming the characters involved. Never fails to crack me up. Because yes, with certain villains, things are probably going to get dark, and readers should be aware.

Re: Fanfiction tags

[(Anonymous)]

In Game of Thrones fandom, I don't understand the Dark Cersei or Angsty-or-Drunk Tyrion tags. Friends, those are just regular Tyrion and Cersei.Ya don't need to tag special for just regular character portrayals.

Re: Fanfiction tags

[(Anonymous)]

I love those tags that say "Character X is their own warning." It's three warnings rolled into one - Character X is in this; I understood Character X's manifold issues in the source material; I wrote Character X in-character. I've read way too many fic that fail on one or more of those.

Re: Fanfiction tags

[(Anonymous)]

While I do like the "no beta ..." jokes, I've come across too many versions that spoil fairly recent character deaths in several series so I don't like them as much as I used to.

Re: Fanfiction tags

[(Anonymous)]

But doesn't PWP also mean 'Plot? What Plot?'?

The variations of 'No beta we die like-' from some Stranger Things ficcers are especially funny to me, given how many liked characters have died.

Any tag where the next tag is a version of 'I can't believe that's an official tag'.

PWP or PWP?

[(Anonymous)]

It will always crack me up (and slightly annoy me) that PWP has come to mean Porn With Plot, Porn Without Plot, and Plot? What Plot? all simultaneously. Peak fandom ridiculousness.

Re: Fanfiction tags

[kaijinscendre]

"No Beta We Die Like ______". ________'s A+ parenting (said sarcastically).