[ SECRET POST #2256 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2256 ⌋

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

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[The Most Popular Girls In School]


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[Rust and Bone]


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[My Mad Fat Diary]


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[Sailor Moon]


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[Harvest Moon: A New Beginning]


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[American Horror Story Asylum]


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[Homestuck]


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[DC Comics]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 021 secrets from Secret Submission Post #322.
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

[(Anonymous)]

I agree, honestly. I hated the story in general because it felt to me like Terrible Things Happen To People And Then Keep On Happening: The Musical. There comes a point at which you hit a tragedy saturation point and push things over the believable level into "this is just too melodramatic to take seriously anymore" and Les Miz went way over and beyond that for me.

Eventually I just stopped caring about the cast because it felt like the author was trying too hard to make us feel sorry for them and it backfired.

[truxillogical]

I always feel odd when people describe it like this, because objectively, I understand that it's literally titled "The Miserable." That it's about a lot of people dying or living terrible, undervalued lives. That it's about unfairness and man's inhumanity to man.

But darnit, that musical is so goshdarned uplifting. There's so much light in it. The idea of redemption, of forgiveness, of reaching out to another person in need, of sacrifice, and of the stupid bravery of teenagers and twenty-somethings who think they're invincible and can change the world for the better.

Melodramatic? Yeah. But I never really feel too sad watching it.

[(Anonymous)]

God, yes.

The book is all about terrible things happening to good people but it makes you feel so damn proud of all the characters who make the right choices, believe in their ideals and sacrifice to bring about something better. The musical does a great job of showing you both the tragedy and the glory in the story.

[(Anonymous)]

There's nothing wrong with that as a plot, it's just that there's too much of it. You can induce sympathy for your characters without being over the top with what you put them through - I probably would have found it uplifting too if they hadn't just piled so MUCH tragedy onto the characters that I found it impossible to suspend my disbelief after a certain point.

You could achieve the same overall objective without making it so overwrought.