[ SECRET POST #1726 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1726 ⌋


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 10 pages, 240 secrets from Secret Submission Post #247.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - hit/ship/spiration ], [ 0 - omgiknowthem ], [ 0 - take it to comments ], [ 1 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

30. http://i51.tinypic.com/2ibjdxd.jpg

[mistaria.livejournal.com]

You could try making up crazy backstories for them or something that would get you more interested in the characters?

[fictionalbf.livejournal.com]

I do this whenever my sisters force me to watch romantic comedies. As a result, I watched a movie in which Sandra Bullock was a Canadian spy/bounty hunter/sexy catsuited thief undercover as an American CEO, forcing Ryan Reynolds to marry her by blackmailing him with the fact that he hadn't ratted her out to the government because of their torrid affair once upon a time in Mexico when he helped her steal a diamond the size of her head and smuggle it out of the country, all the while boinking like bunnies.

My sisters watched The Proposal.

I like my version better.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Wow, from the trailer I thought it was just another movie about how a tough woman Really Needs a Man.

Your version sounds awesome.

[fictionalbf.livejournal.com]

...IS THAT A COURTNEY CRUMRIN ICON because if so you are my new favourite person.

It actually wasn't such an awful movie, mostly because it focused less on the 'she just needs a MAN' and more on how she could keep her job, and her goals, and still be a tough woman, without being a complete and utter bitch and alienating everyone who might be a friend or lover if she wasn't so totally unbearably awful to them. Or at least, that's how I read it. It was partly because it wasn't just falling for the guy who softened her up a bit, but also hanging out with his family, who were amazing and awesome (and mostly female). I would totally watch an entire movie about them just having adventures in Alaska.

/terribly off topic

[(Anonymous)]

I like yours too. I'd totally read/watch that if it were a fic/movie.

[megalomaniageek.livejournal.com]

I keep wanting to watch this show because NPH but...yeah, I think I'd be in your shoes too, OP.

[philstar22.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way because of Allison Hannigan. But I'm smart enough to know I wouldn't like it, so I resist the urge.

[(Anonymous)]

Secrets like this confuse the hell out of me. Is it really THAT big a deal to not be into something that your friends are? Or, from another perspective, do your friends really care THAT much that you're not into this one thing that they are? I mean, for example, a lot of my friends are very into Bones. I'm very not. I can't get myself interested in any major aspect of the show, and I've tried. The solution, bizarre as it may sound, is that I don't hang out with them when Bones is on the agenda, and they don't watch it when I am there. I mean, do they know that you don't like it? It just seems like the sort of thing that shouldn't be a big deal, let alone a secret.

tl;dr: It's okay to not like things.

[fictionalbf.livejournal.com]

It gets to be a big deal when your friends turn 'watching x thing' into 'watching x thing WITH MY FRIENDS'. I have a group of friends who love The Vampire Diaries and refuse to miss an episode. One of them suggested that watching the new episodes every week be a 'friend thing' that we all do together. I have no investment in TVD, and would rather get some sleep (it airs really late where I live). I've told my friends this. However, they still invite me every week, and insist I should come watch it.

It's not so much about the show to them as it is about spending time together. I do spend time with them outside of TVD nights, and I just don't want to spend an hour in a darkened room watching a show I don't particularly like, and not being able to actually talk to the people I'm supposed to be hanging out with, because everyone else in the room does actually care about what's going on on the screen. But they feel that I'm rejecting spending time with them as friends when I refuse a TVD night, rather than rejecting the show. I totally agree that it's okay not to like things, but some people find it hard to seperate x thing and themselves, so it looks like you don't like y person if you don't like x thing, and that's why it becomes such a big deal.

...if that made any sense and wasn't just a rambly csb, that is.

Same anon

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I totally get what you're saying. I probably should have been more clear- if her friends are doing what yours are, then they should probably chill the hell out about it and just accept that the OP doesn't want in on HIMYM night- and that the OP's opinion on HIMYM has no reflection on their opinion on their friends. It just kind of sounded in the secret (which I could totally be reading too much into) kind of like there was a communication issue on both sides- if the OP doesn't want to watch the show, they should tell their friends that, and if the friends take offense to it, maybe they need to re-examine their priorities and remember that, as we have both said, it really is okay to not like things.

Re: Same anon

[fictionalbf.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay, that makes sense. Sorry, I thought you were confused as to how anyone could invest that much in their friends liking the same things they do, and I wanted to clarify that. It looks like we're actually on the same page, though. :)

It does kind of sound like OP hasn't come out and told their friends they don't like HIMYM yet, which is too bad. OP, if you're reading this, definitely do tell them, and maybe suggest something else you guys could do together instead of watching HIMYM? If there's another option presented, it should be clear to your friends that you're really interested in spending time with them, just not interested in the show. And you might find something new and fun to do together.

[nomorenoodles.livejournal.com]

It's the best show ever, but OP, if you were my friend, I really wouldn't mind if you didn't want to watch it (unless you kept going on about how much you hated it in front of me... I would lose respect for you then). If your friends are really your friends, they won't mind if you don't like it and don't want to watch it with them.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't like watching the stuff I like with people I know don't like it. It really ruins my enjoyment of it to have to try to see it through their eyes. I'd rather laugh at something dumb and not have to censor myself, than put up with eye-rolling or - worse - that condescending, well-meaning smile and nod-along.

[popkin16]

I don't like the show either, anon. I don't care for any of the characters and the show rarely makes me laugh.

[rivulet027.livejournal.com]

Feel your pain. Am doing the Twilight thing with one of my friends and through liking a handful of background chars she thinks I'm as obsessed as she is. I don't enjoy it as much as she does, but I enjoy spending time with her doing something she enjoys so much.

Though if you hate it that much, they should respect that and still be your friends.

[(Anonymous)]

I understand what you're saying. I tried watching it to see what all the hype was about and realized I didn't like it the first time I saw it. Back when it was called Friends.

Also, if networks are going to rehash the same-old, same-old 20/30-something-pals scenario, can't they at least set it somewhere other than New York? There are other cities in the US. Lots of them. I promise. I'm past hoping for a NEW idea on TV, so at least set your old, tired idea somewhere new.

[marshwiggledyke.livejournal.com]

I don't mind seeing more New York City (more Boston would be even better), but god, yes, do something different. Make it, idk, about a conductor on the transportation system, or a bunch of students at Columbia who cause a wormhole in the fabric of space/time or god, ANYTHING. ANYTHING. I'd be happy with a whole show which ripped off the premise of Run Lola Run with a different character every week.

I also hated the blandness of Friends and this clone I like even less. (My sister loves both. idgi)

[(Anonymous)]

They did. You might have heard of it. A group of friends work at a university as scientists (one engineer). They talk about geeky things and get into crazy situations. They also don't live in New York, but in L.A.

[marshwiggledyke.livejournal.com]

L.A. is not a good alternative to New York. In fact, that's a step down from New York. Everything is set in L.A.

Is this Big Bang Theory you're talking about here? Because, uh, I couldn't get into that either. I did appreciate that at least it wasn't as bland as Friends, and was TRYING to cater to a different sort of audience than usual.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I wasn't catering to your tastes, just pointing out that there are other shows that aren't set in New York who have tried to take the formula of sitcom-pals (because why get rid of something that works?) and change it up.

[tabaqui]

Yeah, but, sine most of it is set in Leonard and Sheldon's apt., or Penny's apt., or where they work, i honestly didn't have a *clue* what city it was set in. There are no 'stereotypical L.A.' things going on, you know?

[(Anonymous)]

Did you watch it from the beginning or are you just watching the recent episodes with them?

Honestly, I love HIMYM, but even I can recognize that the last 2 seasons have been sub par. The first 3 seasons I lmao'd constantly, but damn, those past couple sometimes I can barely get out a giggle. There were some glimmers at the end of the last season, but I fear the show has already peaked and it's only going downhill now.

I would suggest that you watch the earlier episodes if you haven't already. And if you have, well, humor is subjective and not everyone likes the same things. I mean, I never found Two and a Half Men funny...

[angary.livejournal.com]

IA so much with Season 6 (the fifth one had some good, funny eps IMO) and I'm with you with the first three seasons. They were gold.