[ SECRET POST #2037 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2037 ⌋

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

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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - personal attack ].
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Comments

[truxillogical]

Yeah, I kind of feel this way too.

I mean, I do want to finish the rest of A2A one day; I only saw the first episode on a plane once. But it's just...I really like the color schemes and the clothes and the playlist of the 70's. I like the warm browns and earth tones. I love the 80's too, but, I dunno, not really where I like seeing the Gov.

Besides which, while I know it's a lot of fun and that lots of my friends like her, and I probably will too, I can't get over exactly how much like a self-insert the new main character feels. (Plus, the first episode of LoM is painful enough for me to watch--that whole "character not believing where/when they are, and thus acting like a complete loon" thing is a squick for me. So watching it happen again was even less pleasant.)

[sai_salamander]

I'm having trouble seeing Alex as being a self-insert o.o What do you mean?

[truxillogical]

Well--and bear in mind, this is just what I remember from the show advert and watching the first episode about four years back--but as I recall, she's a woman who read about a strange and mystical world, who suffers a strange accident and suddenly winds up in that strange and mystical world, with all the same characters, except for the original main characters, because that's her spot now. Oh, and also, she gets to banter and flirt with (and possibly become a love interest of--I don't know, didn't see that far) the fan-favorite character that everybody loves.

You'll find similar plots in the fanfic of a hundred fandoms.

I know it was handled with a bit more depth and nuance than all that, but it still felt just a little bit cheap.

[(Anonymous)]

OP

That was pretty much my vibe too. I didn't see so much of a self-inserty thing going on as just her behavior being a bit daft, especially as she knows how much hassle Sam Tyler went through dealing with his apparent time travel adventure.

The Audi is really symbolic of the excesses of the '80s that I intensely dislike. The Granada - now that's a working man's car in a working man's city. None of this fake aspire to be a Donald Trumpish fellow kind of thing.

The guv doesn't feel right being in that Audi. He just doesn't.

[loz]

Except it isn't a Granada, it's a Ford Cortina.

[(Anonymous)]

*bonks self* Now whyyyyyyyyy did I keep calling it a Granada!? :(

[loz]

The show was originally going to be called Ford Granada, that's why. And I think the car Sam is found near when he first arrives is a Granada. But Gene drives a Bronze Mark III Cortina.