[ SECRET POST #2227 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2227 ⌋

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

01.
[Roswell]


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02.
[Gyakuten Saiban/Ace Attorney]


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03.
[Pokemon]


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04.
[The Vampire Diaries]


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05.
[Teen Wolf]


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06.
[Les Miserables: Shojo Cosette]


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07.
[The Hobbit]


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08.
[Neil Gaiman, Mark Gatiss, Dan Handler]


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09.
[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)]


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10.
[Power Rangers]


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11.
[Star Wars: The Old Republic]


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12.
[Big Bang Theory]


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13.
[Breaking Bad]

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14.
[Troy Baker]


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15.
[Magi; Final Fantasy IX]


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16.
[Skyrim]


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17.
[Supernatural]


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18.
[Penn & Teller]


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19.
[Flight Facilities - With You]


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20.
[Neil Gaiman]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 043 secrets from Secret Submission Post #318.
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.

Comments

[velvet_mace]

I really love not being a purist. I get two wonderful canons to mix and match, ponder and play with in my head. Not the same, not a substitute, simply more of what I like.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes!! Me too!! I love all the LotR movies and books and the Hobbit book + movie (so far). They've all got kind of fantastically different flaws, too, so it's like the flaws in one are made up for in the other.

For instance, both the first Hobbit movie and the Hobbit book have really bizarre pacing. But the book I felt rushed past important stuff (sometimes not showing it at all) whereas the movie lingered on absolutely everything whether or not it affected the larger plot. xD So I'm really psyched to see the movie handling things that the book sped past, and I can go back and read the book if I want to have the whole story contained in a relatively brief experience.

[velvet_mace]

Yes, exactly! The movie spent a bit too long on a few things which weren't really in my mind necessary (the whole scene with Frodo could have been completely cut, and while I loved the fact that they explained Erebor and the Arkenstone, I thought they could have done that in about half the number of minutes that they actually took). On the other hand, with the book -- they build up to a war for like three chapters and then two paragraphs later it's over with a fortuitous rock to the head. When Frodo wakes up two of his traveling companions are dead.

On the other hand, I loved how each dwarf was given a personality and sense of uniqueness in the movie. I can care and sympathize with them and get to know them. They aren't just a bunch of rhyming names. And yet in the book I didn't mind that they were completely interchangeable -- because it was purely Bilbo's story, he's the only one I really cared about, and the rest were just props helping him along his journey.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Pretty much what I think too.

I will say, I didn't read the book until adulthood - actually not until after the LotR movies. I totally understand the POV of people who could only get into the story through the movies. There were huge tracts of LotR I never read until after the movies, the movie imagery made that a lot more accessible.

The Hobbit was a book I only ever read once and have never returned to, so in a similar way, the movie has made it accessible. The movie has certainly made the dwarves into characters I can truly like, and has also made Bilbo into someone I can think more of than just "Frodo's eccentric old uncle".

It also made the idea of shipping hobbits serious for me, since it gave us appealing characters of a similar height scale to ship them with (seriously, I am rethinking my thoughts on LotR hobbit ships like Merry/Pippin and Sam/Frodo because of The Hobbit).