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⌈ Secret Post #2388 ⌋

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[Val and Matt]

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[My Chemical Romance]

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[Little House on the Prairie/GoT]

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[The Venture Bros.]

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[Once Upon a Time in Odessa]

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[Gabriel Knight]

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[Dangan Ronpa]

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[America's Cup]

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[Legion]

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[Trailer Park Boys]

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[Warehouse 13]

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[Sugar Bits]

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[Touhou Project, Assassins Creed, Madoka Magica, Rise of the Guardians]

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[Once Upon a Time in Odessa]

A lot of the time it isn't by choice, though! I'd definitely be interested in watching this -- but without subtitles in a language I do understand, it'd just be frustrating (this I know firsthand).

Quite true. Some things just don't get enough publicity. This secret's made me quite interested in this show too, but I wouldn't know the first thing about Russian!

I'd love it! I speak/understand a bit of Russian (not even intermediate yet), but I would love to find something fun out there for me to enjoy. (Anon types after doing kanji reviews all day. *headdesk*)

It's all on youtube ... but only in Russian under the title "Odnajdyi v Odesse Jizn Mishki YAponchika"

Can't say i've ever come across people who have decided to learn Russian on their own ... kudos! Way to be awesome :)

First "Wah! (fill in the country's) media is getting too much attention. And mine is not" secret that doesn't involve the US being said country. I am...perplexed. This is something new here.

What's this about OP? I love a show with men in suits and bowlers. Any place to watch it with english subs?

The show is about Russian gangsters in the 1919s. Cabaret dancers, firefights, invading politics and of course romance.

There aren't any subtitled episodes yet (just a trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2VRE7LfUhA) ... but give me time ... and a crayon.

Re: OP

sootyowl - 2013-07-18 05:27 (UTC) - Expand

none of those dudes is even vaguely attractive so it'd never work for fandom

Liar McLiarface.

Russians are generally ugly. There is a reason people don't care about their media.

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(Anonymous) - 2013-07-18 00:06 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2013-07-18 07:26 (UTC) - Expand

stop playing the martyr op.

I don't care about this show not because it is Russian but because A, without subs, I couldn't understand it thus missing out on all those things you say makes it wonderful, and b, I have never heard of it.

If you want people to share in a canon you are going to have to be proactive about it, and even more so if it is a canon that is untranslated. So do that and stop whining because like this you are not scoring any points.

please do shut up.

[Picture is the characters from the TV show "Once Upon a Time in Odessa". They are three men wearing suits and bowler hats. They have pale skin and short dark hair.]

I am at times jealous of the attention East Asian media gets in fandom. For example, this... EPIC male friendships, brilliant characters, stunning set/scenery, fantastic writing. (It has some problematic things, sure, but what show doesn't?) It's Russian so no one cares.

Bonus secret: I've even considered subtitling it myself if I knew there would be interest. ...don't get me wrong, East Asian media is awesome, but other non-English speaking countries produce amazing things too.

I totally get that, OP. it's not about blaming anyone, but it's just sad when you see no one online knows that show you love! I've been in this position quite a bit, even when there were subbed versions available but still no one seemed to watch, haha. (DAG IS A PERFECT SHOW, SOMEONE OTHER THAN ME WATCH IT ALREADY!!)

that said, I'd definitely be interested in checking this out, the synopsis I found sounded pretty cool! :)

Yeah, i've been in this position before too ... quite a few times too ... guess this was the first one that was all WHY NO ONE CARES?! Followed by collapsing into a pathetic ball of tears moment.

DAG sounds like a fun show ... i''ll add it to my To Watch list :D

urania - 2013-07-18 06:30 (UTC) - Expand

...Not gonna lie, my first thought when I saw 'Odessa' in the title was 'Oh god, not media trying to use that town again. [For the record, the last time it...didn't go well. And ended being shifted to a new town entirely.]

...Also, I thought of the 'Odessa' near where I live which I kinda doubt it the one in that show. But I'd be interested in giving it a go if it has english subs anywhere?

have you ever considered the fact that there's no subs being WHY there's no fandom? like how am I going to follow and get emotionally invested in something I can't understand and, as far as I know, will never have a hope of understanding? if you build it, they will come

OP

(Anonymous) - 2013-07-18 03:58 (UTC) - Expand

Does anyone else think the guy on the left looks a little like JGL?

(Anonymous) - 2013-07-18 02:53 (UTC) - Expand

Oh man, I know there's tons of good stuff in Russian (I wish there was a fandom for Seventeen Moments of Spring, although it's a million years old) but so little of it is subbed. The bowler hats alone would make me want to watch this.

Holy crap and it's about gangsters and anarchists? This totally needs to be in my life now.

Edited 2013-07-18 02:16 (UTC)

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azdak - 2013-07-22 10:42 (UTC) - Expand

sabotabby - 2013-07-22 14:09 (UTC) - Expand

My god I hate how over represented the East Asians are. Like they are taking over our media or something.

Awww, that's too bad. Some of my favourite games and movies are Russian. If it was subbed it'd probably have a big audience too.

This does seem great (from the 10 minutes or so I've watched). But yeah, I really need subtitles too, sadly. I can't see myself getting invested in something where I only understand about a third of it :(

"epic male friendships"

Because we don't have enough of that already.
I believe you when you say the show would be a big hit, but please... there's so much "hetero bromance" everywhere nowadays. Pretty sure it's hardly unique to this show.

Yes, I feel you. But at least people sometimes acknowledge stuff from Russia (like Nightwatch, etc). My country gets overlooked so often even in the fields the professionals acknowledge us being one of the most interesting and influential.

And don't get me started on history. Discussing WWII is always pain in the ass.