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fandomsecrets2012-10-31 05:49 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-10-31 05:49 pm
[ SECRET POSTS #2128 & 2129 ]
⌈ Secret Posts #2128 & 2129 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Time Lincoln]
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[Avatar: the Last Airbender]
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[Once Upon a Time]
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[Repo the Genetic Opera]
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[The Avengers]
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[Homestuck/Touhou]
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[ElfQuest/Wendy Pini]
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[Reservoir Dogs + HBO's Oz]
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[The Walking Dead]
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[Covert Affairs]
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[Ouran Host Club]
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[Jae Joong from DBSK and JYJ]
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[Elementary]
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[The Girls Next Door]
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[Steven Moffat]
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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]
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[Alan Cumming/Son of the Mask]
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[The New Normal]
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[Mass Effect]
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[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle/xxxHolic]
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[Resident Evil 6]
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[Revenge/The Social Network]
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[Cardcaptor Sakura]
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[Glee]
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[Khimeros]
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[Once Upon a Time]
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[Gregory House/Lady Gaga]
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[Glee]
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[The Walking Dead]
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[Madonna "Die Another Day" MV, BEG "Sixth Sense" MV]
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[Doctor Who]
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 046 secrets from Secret Submission Post #304.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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1. Building suspense, which he then uses to either scare the pants off you or drive home an emotional sucker punch. He's less great at it over the course of a whole season, but within an episode, he doles out hints and snippets of information at exactly the right speed to give you a horrible half-figured-out sense of foreboding and then clutch your face in sudden realization ten seconds before the characters catch on. I will never forget that fucking cave scene in Time of Angels, because I knew his tricks by then, and I knew that "the monster has been in the room with you all along" was one of his favorites, and yet he still managed to lead me around by the nose and keep me distracted enough that the bottom fell out of my stomach when I realized "but... then why do all the statues only have one--OH JESUS FUCK NO."
2. He has his fingers poised on a certain number of psychological buttons that are incredibly potent if you're sensitive to them. The unreliability of memory and perception, and the fact that in the end they're all we've got. Being menaced by a dumb machine that can't be reasoned with because it's just following its orders to the (unintentionally gruesome) letter. A particular brand of body horror. A particular delight in taking everyday things and investing them with hidden qualities, usually terrifying but oddly appropriate ones.
3. He is generally very good at structuring his underlying themes and symbolism, and at pushing the pieces around the chessboard in a well-ordered way, such that even when he's being lazy as balls about sketching out the plot and characterization in any detail, there's a sort of coherence behind the story he's trying to tell. It still resonates to some extent even when his plot points are 100% unexplained bullshit and all his character development happens offscreen, much like a fairy tale still resonates even if its sequence of events topples at the faintest whiff of logic. See: Doctor Who Series Six And The Oddly Significant Game Of Live Chess.
4. Also, if all else fails he's quite capable of falling back on style and wit to sell a scene, even if he's a bit over-reliant on that at times and not quite as clever as he thinks he is.
(This is all talking about Doctor Who, BTW. For some reason, Point #1 doesn't hold for Sherlock at all--I found Study in Pink and Scandal in Belgravia almost offensively ill-paced, and for opposite reasons.)
Mostly, though, I think his reputation is down to his long history of trolling fans for fun on Twitter, to Who fandom's time-honored tradition of railing against the current showrunner, and to general fandom's recent shift towards being more flailingly demonstrative about their feeeeeeelings and loss of the ability to can. That, and the distinct possibility that Moffat is one of his own monsters and feeds upon us through our screens: every child hiding behind the sofa, every grown adult side-eyeing an innocent statue, just makes him stronger.