[ SECRET POST #1892 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1892 ⌋

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

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02.
[How I Met Your Mother]


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03.
[White Collar]


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04.
[Smash]


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05.
[How I Met Your Mother]


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06.
[Revenge]


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07.
[The Hunger Games]


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08.
[Yu-Gi-Oh]


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09.
[White Collar]


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10.
[Obscurus Lupa, Subspecies]


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11.
[Castleville]


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12.
[Gintama]


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13.
[The Cat Returns]


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14.
[Mythbusters]


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15.
[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]


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16.
[Titanic]


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17.
[All Dogs go to Heaven]


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18.
[Hatoful Boyfriend]


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19.
[Pokemon]


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20.
[Phantom of the Opera]


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21.
[The Middle]


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22.
[life on mars]


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23.
[Scrubs]


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24.
[A Goofy Movie]


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25.
[Nerimon/Alex Day]


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26.
[Katie McGrath]


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27.
[Chuck]


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28.
[Top Chef Season 9]


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29.
[The Vampire Diaries]


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30.
[The Vampire Diaries]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 045 secrets from Secret Submission Post #270.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[moonsheen.livejournal.com]

Trouble is I think a lot of people do forget the original novel is. Well. Mostly a GOTHIC HORROR STORY. The Phantom was originally a figure in the tradition of Frankenstein's Monster--and no we're not talking the grr arrgh Frankenstein's Monster, we're talking the intelligent, eloquent, but but physically monstrous figure rejected by society figure we see in Mary Shelley's novel. The whole point of his character is that he's brilliant, tortured, and in many ways sympathetic but also uncontrollable and terrifying in how far he was willing to go with his obsessions. In the book I never really found any question that Christine found his actions frightening. Even in some versions of the musical I've seen actresses play her as completely horrified by all the misfortune that's befallen the opera house on her account-- especially when people START BLAMING HER FOR IT.

By contrast in the novel Raoul is...well, the person above said it best. He's basically Christian from Moulin Rouge. The starry eyed young aristrocrat who's painfully earnest in spite of his opulent background (embodied by his hedonistic brother). Basically in mind there's not really any question of the novel version of the characters being any form of love triangle, simply because the Phantom is very. much. an antagonist. A sympathetic one, but still a figure of fear and opposition.

So in the musical even though they softened the Phantom a lot, I couldn't ever take him as a romantic interest. The whole "killed several people in Christine's name and got her implicated in their murders" would basically ruin it for me. The musical also leaves out the detail that he's older than Madam Giry and Christine is like 19.

So yes, from a gothic horror romance standpoint I can see why a teenager would dig it, but as an adult? No gurl, step AWAY from the lunatic who hangs people backstage.

[(Anonymous)]

OP here. I agree with you and really i was a young girl when i first shipped E/C. Now that I'm nearing my twenties, I think that I ship R/C because really it just makes the most sense as far as romatic relationships go!