[ SECRET POST #2343 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2343 ⌋

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

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[not a repeat, was too big before]


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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[elaminator]

I can see wanting to be ~shocked~ and ~amazed~ but being right about fictional plots always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. Even when it's obvious as hell, I still enjoy it.

Recs?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't usually turn to mysteries for my shock and awe quotient. Sci-fi and horror are my go-tos there. I get the desire, yeah, but mysteries it's more about the slow burn towards a satisfactory conclusion, at least for me.

Can you think of any books/shows/movies then that have that 'shock and amazement' factor? Plots that you didn't see coming but still made sense in hindsight? (Because I often find that the other problem with the crime shows: that they're trying so hard to be impenetrable that the solutions end up seeming random and WTF).

Re: Recs?

[(Anonymous)]

I knew so many people who were "shocked" and "amazed" by the plots in Donnie Darko, Fight Club, and The Prestige. I figured all of them out pretty quickly on.

Re: Recs?

[(Anonymous)]

I've only seen two of those (and Fight Club wouldn't do me much good as a mystery now, I'm spoilered to hell and back). Donnie Darko I was half-convinced for years that I'd dreamed.

The Prestige, though, I thought working it out was most of the point? That was the whole theme: the amount of hard work that went into one effect, and how the thrill of magic was mostly in trying to figure out how it was done. The central debate around Angier's 'using real marvels to create fake ones' vs Borden's use of more mundane trickery, what the methods cost and how the audience reacted to them ...

Actually, on a thematic level, the film is pretty much perfectly suited to this comment thread, now that I look at it.

Re: Recs?

[(Anonymous)]

fingersmith by sarah waters is the only one that come to mind for "shock" value.

Personally I find any mystery that manages to unobtrusively plant all the necessary clues really satisfying, but those are't usually shocking or amazing. It's more like "OH RIGHT... oopsy...". I read a J2 fic like that recently and was really impressed.

Re: Recs?

[elaminator]

Uhhhhhhhh...I'm coming up blank. I know I've experienced some but...yea. Sorry.

Most of the shock and awe experiences I've had have been with video games. Most recently BioShock Infinite, which in hindsight I should've saw coming...

Metal Gear Solid is good with shock imo (though some of those moments are so WTF that I'm not sure they fit with your 'on hindsight' bit).

I was going to say Mass Effect but...that still came out of nowhere to me, so I can't recommend that either.

Hopefully you get lots of responses on the books/shows/movies front!

Re: Recs?

[(Anonymous)]

joanne harris' gentlemen and players

Re: Recs?

[(Anonymous)]

the murder of roger ackroyd by agatha christie
and then there were none also by ac
the big sleep by raymond chandler

Re: Recs?

[croik]

How about the first Saw? Every movie after it you know the twist is coming, but the first one, man.

[elephantinegrace]

Oh, thank goodness, I'm not alone!

[elaminator]

This is the internet, you're never alone!

[elephantinegrace]

Unless you're this guy.

[elaminator]

I walked right into that.

[nightscale]

Me and my bf often high-five each other when we correctly guess a plot point in a TV show/movie/book, it's silly but the enjoyment of getting that kind of thing right is nice.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, I agree. I don't mind figuring out the "twist" early. I love it because I love that moment of being right.

[elaminator]

Not silly to me at all, it's a satisfying feeling!

I'm sure I'm wrong about many things so being right is a nice change of pace.