[ SECRET POST #2239 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2239 ⌋

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

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02.
[Elementary]


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03.
[Pokemon]


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04.
[Noah, Power Rangers MegaForce]


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05.
[Mass Effect]


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06.
[Resident Evil]


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07.
[Medaka Box]


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08.
[Shameless]


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09.
[Star Trek 2009]


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10.
[Dreamwork's Sinbad, Avengers, American Gods, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Batman, Gunnerkrigg Court, Grim Adventures, Trickster's Choice/Queen]


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11.
[American Dad]


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12.
[Laurell K. Hamilton]


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13.
[my neighbour totoro]


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14.
[Medaka Box]


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15.
[Downton Abbey]


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16.
[The Red Panda, Black Jack Justice]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 080 secrets from Secret Submission Post #320.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[truxillogical]

I do like Daisy. I don't even find her stupid. She wants respect, and sometimes she actually gets it. She makes really lousy decisions a lot of the time (and hoo boy was I uncomfortable as hell watching Cook bully her into that "romance" and marriage "for his feeling's sake. Squick.), but I think in the circumstances that she has she's trying to learn to stand up as a strong woman. She's never going to be a "modern" woman exactly, but I really do like the idea of her inheriting the farm and working it (and all of their scenes together are filled with d'awwww).

[tabaqui]

Yes!

[(Anonymous)]

Don't even get me started on how much I dislike Mrs Pattmore for the whole romance subplot.

[(Anonymous)]

i disliked both of them for it. it was daisy's fault in the first place; she should not have kissed william. she knew how much he liked her, and she was just being selfish by kissing him. 'oh, if i kiss him, he'll cheer up and i'll feel better!', without thinking about the consequences of it. and she should have told him right away that it didn't mean anything. but mrs. patmore had no right to bully her into marrying him. then again, i could understand why she was doing so. i could also understand daisy's feelings of thinking it was wrong. i don't know, the whole thing was stupid!

but i get the feeling that's what the writers wanted us to think, so it's all good.

[truxillogical]

I kinda get squicky at the idea of calling it Daisy's "fault." There's that whole "she was leading him on" mentality that's really uncomfortable. Feelings are confusing, and Daisy wouldn't be the first person to give the wrong guy a hug/kiss/date/false bit of hope at the wrong time out of pity and the vague hope that maybe it'll help things a bit. Patmore had her take it waaaaaay too far, but it seemed like every time she tried to get out, she couldn't without making a huge scene. She got herself well and truly stuck. If 100+years later, girls and women are still socialized to want to "be nice" to men, especially men who show interest in them even if they aren't interested back (seriously, that "you should just give him a chance; he's a super-nice-guy" lecture is unpleasant as hell to sit through, and it takes pretty much deciding to be stone to not cave in), how much worse would it have been back then.

You can kiss a guy, especially on an impulse, and it still doesn't have to mean anything. It's kind of creepy to say it's "her fault." It's no one's "fault" where feelings go.

[truxillogical]

But then I love her for supporting Mrs. Hughes when she had that cancer scare, even if she was super-clumsy about it.

That's most of the characters, really. They all do really stupid or awful things, but they all have wonderful human moments as well.

Except Mrs. Hughes. She's just wonderful and understanding all the time.

[abharding]

While I don't agree with Mrs. Patmore's (or the rest of the staff for that matter) actions in pushing Daisy into William's arms, I understand why she did it. She'd just lost her nephew (and not a way that any family member would be proud) of and wanted to give William something to come home to so the same thing wouldn't happen to him. And her mind given that William was going to the front and might die, his wishes and wants superseded Daisy - who was still safe and sound in Yorkshire. It was the wrong thing to do, but I don't think there was any malicious intent.

As you said, one of the things I like the characters in the show. They are not just good or bad. They do awful things - and then turn around and do something decent.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't finished the current season yet, but it seems a little bit dumb to take career advice from Thomas... or, you know, to trust that he's got anyone's best interests at heart but his own. I guess you could call it naive, but there's a point where naivete turns into stupidity and I think Daisy crossed it ages ago.

[truxillogical]

I can't remember what Thomas's situation was when he started advising Daisy, but he's always been higher above her station-wise, and for a while, she did have a bit of a crush on him. But I also thought he had a slightly good point under all that smarm (he didn't mean to, though)--she really wasn't happy with the level she was at, and once he said something, she really started to notice.

Waaaay more naive is when Thomas started to take advice from Mrs. O'Brien.

[abharding]

That is what I didn't get. Why would Thomas of all people ever trust O'Brien on something like that. He knows more most how vicious she can be.