[ SECRET POST #261 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #261 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 09 pages, 201 secrets from Secret Submission Post #038.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 ] not!secrets, 0 not!fandom, [ 1 ] repeat.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Monday, September 24th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

18 26 35 36

[avenginglyyours.livejournal.com]

18. Keep fighting the good fight, Anon! Seriously, the last anime I watched was Planetes - I have no idea what half the posted secrets are about.

26. I'm always sad when someone tells me they're in the fandom but have only seen the movies (not only for LOTR but also HP, etc). If you love it enough to read/write fic, why can't you take the time to read the books? They're canon! And good! And it doesn't take ten thousand years to read them!

35. Don't we all?

36. The Metatron is ten times hotter than Snape but Colonel Brandon from Sense and Sensibility will always be ten times hotter than the Metatron (for me, at least - it's the clothes and the woobiness, I think ♥)

Re: 18 26 35 36

[(Anonymous)]

18. Will do.

Re: 26

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly my feelings. The books reveal so much more, too, you don't even get the best parts if you lack background knowledge. It's not just a lack of love for the material itself that makes me want to scream, it's people who don't touch books since it would require some brain activity. I like the movies, Peter Jackson did an very decent job (and I've only seen GoF from the HP series, but read all the books - that one positively blew me away. For a movie.) but I like the books a thousand times better. What about imagination?

The movies are like... mashed potatoes. The books are the roast beef to go with it. (Eh, waxing failily poetic here, off to bed.)

Re: 18 26 35 36

[(Anonymous)]

26. what if we don't want to take the time to read 7 books (as in the case of HP)? what if we don't have the time? the movies are just as 'canon' in their own 'verse. why is so bad to write/read fic based on the one canon we do know and enjoyed?

Re: 18 26 35 36

[avenginglyyours.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying movieverses are bad (also, you misinterpreted my "canon" comment - I meant that the books are just as canon as the movies which is why people might want to read them and not that the movies aren't canon).
To me, it's better to read the books and watch the movies because, although the movies are sometimes very good, the books give better insight into the characters and are just richer - it's a question of format. For example, the last HP movie is very good, but half the plot from the book is missing because if everything had been in, it would have lasted over five hours. To me, it's sad that someone who loves the HP movies won't take the time to read the books because they're missing a lot of details on the HPverse. Same thing for the LotR movies.

Then there's the matter of re-imagination of canon (when a director/scenarist decides to change the original story in order to make a point that's somewhat different from that of the writer, like in The Prestige) - in that case, I'm sad when people don't read the book because it's different from the movie and there's something you can learn from it. Basically, I'm just pro-books.

Re:fanfics: never said movieverse fics were bad. Believe me, Anon: I'll read any verse if the fic is good.
I am sort of annoyed by people who refuse to specify their fics are based on the movies "because the movieverse is just like the bookverse", though. Or people who insist the movies are better than the books when they haven't even opened the first one.
... but I guess that's another discussion altogether. (/TLDR)