[ SECRET POST #2157 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2157 ⌋

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

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02.
[2 Broke Girls]


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03.
[Love Actually]


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04.
[Me and My Dick]


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05.
[Journey Into Mystery]


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06.
[cracked.com]


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07.
[Ryan Kwanten/L4D2]


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08.
[Whispering Corridors, Memento Mori, The Wishing Stairs]


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09.
[The Walking Dead (game)]


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10.
[Kuragehime]


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11.
[Thor]


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12.
[Bartimaeus]


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13.
[The Sentinel]


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14.
[The Mentalist and The Addams Family]


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15.
[Skyfall]


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16.
[Generator Rex]


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17.
[Partners]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 036 secrets from Secret Submission Post #308.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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So, which of todays shows do you think is going to age badly

[velvet_mace]

The Sentinel secret reminded me (somewhat sadly) that most shows date badly, and when you go back to watching them years later, they just seem to hit the cringe button. Of course, there's the special effects which always manages to look like they were done by community theatre volunteers, no matter how hotshit cutting edge they were when they were made. But more than that, the jokes are less funny, what's considered shocking or acceptable has shifted, the favorite tropes have gone badly out of fashion. And the hair and clothes. Dear god. Nothing is more awkward than fashionable hair and clothes a decade or three out of date.

So guys, what currently fashionable trends in tv shows do you think our kids (or in my case grandkids) will be rolling their eyes at? Which shows are going to stand up, and which are going to look hokey?

Re: So, which of todays shows do you think is going to age badly

[inkmage]

As someone who likes the show - MLP Friendship is Magic.

"What's with all these moral lessons she's 'learning'? What's wrong with her MoralChip? I mean, I know this is an old show, but come on, not even a little Enforced Social Programming as a kid so she knows all this? How does she even function!? This is just so unrealistic! And anyway, everyone knows that a purple Galmican is impossible. I could buy the handy function-dictation system - it's nice that it's automated like that, wonder how they programmed that into the gene base - and even the wired-in TK was okay, if a bit of a stretch, but purple? Do they really think they can just skip over the Galmican Refuge like that? Seriously?"

No, I didn't realize that Enforced Social Programming would spell out ESP before I typed it. And, well, you asked for a few generations down the line... FYI, the Galmicans are a species of alien from Galmica that look pretty much like G4 My Little Ponies. Considering they look nothing like the current and 14th generation, and that humanity has made contact with multiple alien species in some form or another, nobody said much of it. The reason they can't be purple is because Galmicans, due to their spectrum of vision, see purple as an offensive color, like smelling rotten eggs (yes, Galmicans smell color. They see sound and hear taste, and think we're really weird for not doing that way), so whenever a purple Galmican is born via some "genetic freakishness" it's sent out of the community to live in the wild. Eventually the community of purple Galmicans got big enough that they infiltrated the FTL space-travel unit of the Galmican government, and took refuge on Earth. The "proper" Galmicans followed and promptly slaughtered them all, so that their first contact with another sentient species would not be "polluted" by this awful smell/color. Anyway, it was a huge atrocity at the time, and it was one of the greatest factors in the rise of the MoralChip, a brain implant which instills a sense of morality (or in more practical terms, respect for sentient beings and an abhorrence of violence and violent acts) to those with them. They're government mandated by and for everyone born in the Harmonic Alliance, so named because the most technologically advanced of the races hears sizes, and they say all the planets in the Alliance arranged in a 2D starmap a certain way are in perfect symphonic harmony with each other. That starmap, or a simplified version, is the symbol of the Alliance. (Enforced Social Programming is what they were trying before the MoralChip. It was pretty much an Ethics class, taught to very young children until they internalized the message. Since it was more specific lessons (do this, don't do that), the Alliance was aware that it was a broken or potentially breakable system, and it was with relief that they turned to the MoralChip, which gives you more of a "feeling" than specific rules.

And I mean this in a completely non-religious way, but dear Lord, what in the world is my life.

Re: So, which of todays shows do you think is going to age badly

[(Anonymous)]

...I think I love you.

Re: So, which of todays shows do you think is going to age badly

[cloud_riven]

Glee. Definitely Glee. All the kids will wonder why it was so popular, although they will talk about the importance of positive queer representation during our conservative usa time.

CSI. The main series. All the corpse effects, and the TECHNICAL KNOW HOW will be made fun of even more. The csi effect will looked at with incredulity.

Chuck Lorre sitcoms.

All instances of cgi alongside live action. Although that kind of already happens within a year...

Teen Wolf, even if cgi deer and inhalers and lizards are purposefully cheesy looking.

Re: So, which of todays shows do you think is going to age badly

[(Anonymous)]

Early CSI is sometimes hilarious even now.

Re: So, which of todays shows do you think is going to age badly

[(Anonymous)]

Sex and the City has already aged horribly. I was watching an episode last night and cringing at what a couple of the characters were wearing.

I think anything too heavily based on fashion/technology- anything that develops quickly, is going to age terribly.

Also anything that uses slang. That's more of a book thing but when a character says "wicked" now it's like...flashbacks to 2002.

Re: So, which of todays shows do you think is going to age badly

[(Anonymous)]

ReBoot did not age horribly! It didn't! /in denial

Re: So, which of todays shows do you think is going to age badly

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I can't hate ReBoot's weird stiff animation, not after finding out that it was so ahead of its time in terms of computer animated cartoons. (Wasn't it the first fully animated by computer cartoon series?)

(Also, the writing and the characters were awesome; so there, haters!)

Re: So, which of todays shows do you think is going to age badly

[(Anonymous)]

Me neither and yes! <3

Re: So, which of todays shows do you think is going to age badly

[oroburos69]

Oh god, Buffy. The clothes are SO BAD.

As for today's stuff...I'm going to go with Sherlock BBC. Their reliance on today's technology is going to look very stupid and out of place in 5-10 years, and then charmingly antiquated in 30-50 years.