[ SECRET POST #1906 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1906 ⌋

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

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[Green Wing]


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03.
[*NSYNC]


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04.
[Supernatural]


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05.
[2 Broke Girls]


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06. [repeat]


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07.
[How I Met Your Mother]


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08.
[GCB]


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09.
[Scrubs]


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10.
[Brows Held High]


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[Dracula (1992)]


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[Game of Thrones]


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13.
[His Dark Materials]


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[Game of Thrones]


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15.
[Bored to Death]


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[Elder Scrolls: Skyrim]


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[Legend of Korra]


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[Psycho]


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[Third Star]


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[Stargate: Atlantis]


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21.
[Parks and Recreation]


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[The Hunger Games, America's Next Top Model]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 025 secrets from Secret Submission Post #272.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I have an issue with the development. Come on, I'm supposed to believe that societies went from what we saw in The Last Airbender (pretty much all Asian aesthetics, to... what appears to be something analogous to the 1920s-ish (suits, I believe I saw pinstriped suits in the trailer, skyscrapers, some kind of motorized car-like vehicle at some point) in roughly a century? Without all of our cultural contributions? Suits are descended from 17th century French (and later British) royal court dress. Skyscrapers are tentatively descended from early Roman apartment buildings (I don't know that much about architectural history, please forgive if I am wrong). In fact, a lot looks heavily European.

Where the hell did it come from in Korra? I do not see the lines of descent.

If the animation really is bad, that's just a nail in the coffin.

[(Anonymous)]

(not the previous anon)

I get your point, but that is not the same. More or less, the Avatar world was set in the Tang Dinasty mainly (though the Fire Nation was a bit more "steampunk" than the rest of the nations, and the EK capital was more early Qing to me) or at least their aesthetics were. That corresponds to European Middle-Modern ages.

Making a world shaped like that change with that insane technology jump in just 70 years is like making Queen Victoria succeed King Henry VIII speaking in european terms. I could buy that insane change made in 200 years, but I believe 70 years is not enough for people who rode ostrich-horses one day to be driving Rolls Royces the next.

Speaking in asian terms something "similar" happened in Japan in 1868. I think they tried to play the Meiji Revolution card but failed. Japan at the 1800s and the end of the Bakumatsu have a whole different context than what societies and nations had in the previous Avatar world. The whole crazy change that ravaged Japan at the end of the 19th century was induced by Europe and America. In Korra I fail to see which nation or nations could influence such a change.

[(Anonymous)]

Simple answer: it was an artistic choice. Different series, different setting. They thought it would be fun. That's all.

If it bothers you, that's fine, you don't have to watch it. But as a secret said before, there's not a lot of point in debating the historical or scientific realism of a show headlining the reincarnated spirit of the earth, with magic nature karate and nonsensically spliced animals. It's Princess Mononoke, not Ghost in the Shell.

[(Anonymous)]

But they had tanks and Zeppelins and trains. that is not middle ages level of technology (late anon is late)