[ SECRET POST #2429 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2429 ⌋

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

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02.
[Arrested Development]


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03.
[George R.R. Martin]


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04.
[Bee and PuppyCat]


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05.
[Harry Potter]


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06.
[Resident Evil 6]


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07.
[The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings]


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08.
[Naruto]


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09.
[Jin, Hanzawa Naoki]


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10.
[Neverwinter Nights]


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11.
[Shina Dark]


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12.
[Thomas Gibson from the series Criminal Minds]












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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

...am I the only one who watched Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood constantly when I was a toddler, and thought nothing of it, but on rewatch, found it to be creepy, condescending to the extreme, and totally hypnotic in a I-am-planting-Manchurian-Candidate-signals-in-your-head-RIGHT-NOW kind of way?

...just me then?

[abrasax]

is that you captain kangeroo???

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

LOL nope but I seriously don't get the same creep factor from rewatching The Friendly Giant. IDEK what it is, wish I knew.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't watch it as a child, but when I ended up seeing some of it as a teenager it gave me a creepy feeling. However, as an adult, I no longer get that weird feeling from it, and knowing what I know about him as a person makes the whole thing really sweet.

[(Anonymous)]

tbh honest he does speak in a very unsettling way

[insanenoodlyguy]

[(Anonymous)]

tbh, I got that feeling when I was young--I couldn't really stand Mr. Rogers as a kid. But all the things I've heard about him as a teenager/adult are pretty sweet. The show just didn't work for me. (I haven't rewatched to see if my opinion would change at all, though I did listen to a video of him out of the show, and I think it's something about how he talks.)

[(Anonymous)]

While I can't speak for creepy, I think the "condescending to the extreme" and "extremely hypnotic" come from the fact that you are looking back as a (young?) adult with all the experiences of your life, and the ability to look at things from a nuanced, complicated way.

Yes, sometimes we treat children like, well, children, and protect them more than they need. But they also can't understand Tolstoy and talk of microeconomics (even if some people think so. Look at all the idiots who were convinced that Sesame Street told children jail was totally ok rather than saying "hey, just because your mom/dad is in jail doesn't mean YOU are a bad person" or were equally angry on the other side that the show didn't go into a long diatribe about how everyone in jail didn't do terrible things). Shows like Sesame Street and MRN, etc, were written for children in language they understand.

Tl;dr: when you hear things in simplified speech as an adult, you hear condescending and hypnotic, but as a child it was just the language you needed to understand what was going on.

[(Anonymous)]

OP
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I can see where you might get that, but I was actually referring to how he was outside of the show. As far as how he talked, I'm fairly certain it was just how he talked. If you look up the video where he's addressing congress, he talks the same way there and I seriously doubt he's condescending to them, particularly since he's asking them to support something.