[ SECRET POST #2319 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2319 ⌋

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

01.


__________________________________________________



02.
[The Slum Cat - Ernest Seton Thompson]


__________________________________________________



03.
[Mass Effect]


__________________________________________________



04.
[The Hunger Games]


__________________________________________________



05.
[Ib]


__________________________________________________



06.
[Family Guy]


__________________________________________________



07.
[The West Wing]


__________________________________________________



08.
[Labyrinth]


__________________________________________________



09.


__________________________________________________



10.


__________________________________________________



11.


__________________________________________________



12.


__________________________________________________



13.


__________________________________________________



14.


__________________________________________________



15.


__________________________________________________




















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 016 secrets from Secret Submission Post #331.
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

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know. If I'm remembering correctly, Johnny knew the kid was innocent in his case, by way of psychic vision. There's a fairly big difference between a story that's about a man who doesn't know for sure someone is innocent, but is determined to argue their case anyway because the evidence doesn't add up and everyone deserves a fair trial, and a story that's about a man who knows for a fact that the accused is innocent and is trying to highlight the evidence that proves it.

12 Angry Men was about reasonable doubt and the quest for fairness in a world of human fallibility and the inability to know things for sure. Dead Zone removes the element of doubt, and is about the quest for justice when you know things that no-one else knows and struggle to prove them in time to save a life. Different struggles, different forms of courage.

Both are pretty powerful, but personally I'll give 12 Angry Men the edge for trying to find justice in a world where you don't know the truth and being wrong runs the risk of letting a genuine murderer go free. The struggle to be fair when you know you might be wrong is more powerful to me than the struggle to be fair when you know for a fact that you're right.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Well, Johnny didn't know from the start. His first vision was just about the kid getting shanked in prison, so he was like "IDK if he's innocent or guilty, but this could end his life so let's slow it down."

Your comment is great and I agree with it tho!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's been ages since I've seen it, so I'd forgotten that. The psychic element still changes the name of the game, though.

I love Johnny, although his life depresses me so much. He's such a good guy, and he keeps getting crapped on.

[(Anonymous)]

For me personally, I really like the way the psychic element changes things. ^^ Maybe I'm just a fantasy snob, but things with fantastic elements just appeal to me more and speak to me more than something with a more mundane setting.

And poor Johnny. I think some of my first prepubescent fanfic was written because I wanted to poor bastard to catch a break.

[(Anonymous)]

I'll have both, for preference. It's just in this specific incidence, dealing with this set of themes, it's the mundane take that appeals to me more on a thematic level. Fairness despite uncertainty is a major thing for me, having someone stand up for others even without knowledge or proof that he's right. I like that. Ah. A lot.

I didn't see Dead Zone until a couple of years ago, but yeah, wow, Johnny needed to catch a damn break. The universe seems to have just woken him up out of his coma so it could play with him for funsies. Sheesh.