[ SECRET POST #2436 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2436 ⌋

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

01.
[The Book Thief, The Days of the Deer, Neil Gaiman's Sandman]


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02.
[Macklemore & Ryan Lewis]


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03.
[The Glades]


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04.
[Revenge]


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05.
[The Killing (AMC)]


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06.
[Star Trek]


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07.
[TRON: Uprising]


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08.
[Paul McCartney]


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09.
[Les Miserables]


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10.
[Mud by Yamashita Tomoko]


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11.
[The Beatles]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 036 secrets from Secret Submission Post #348.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I love him too, but what flaws?

[(Anonymous)]

Stealing. Okay at first it was for noble reasons but still a crime. Stealing the candlesticks of the priest who took him in was a jerkass move. And, though it's not the musical, where he steals a chimney sweeps (?) earnings.

His jealousy of Cosette and Marius. Thankfully most adaptations keep this as just a father not wanting to lose his little girl but some films and miniseries have taken it into squick territory (*cough* Gerard Depardu). Sure it's gone when he actually meets Marius but at first it just seems like he wants to keep Cosette locked up and to himself. And of course you have Liam Neeson who just made him seem like a jerk when he slapped her.

Probably a lot more but those are the two that stand out for me and that I like in Valjean for not being a perfect saint. He's still human.

[(Anonymous)]

He seemed impatient, for one. He wouldn't have been in prison for so long if he didn't keep fucking up. While I understand WHY he did, he was in there for that long because of his own actions. Understandable and relatable flaws are still flaws.

[(Anonymous)]

There is also a good argument to be made for his lack of education and failure to understand the long-term consequences of waiting. Hugo describes it best - as an animal who takes the chance to escape a trap.

[(Anonymous)]

He's not stupid, though. A lack of education doesn't mean you reach adulthood without a basic grasp of consequence. Hell he was arrested in the first place, he KNEW about consequence and how incredibly harsh they were about the slightest things. So yeah I still think it's a flaw that he did it anyway knowing it would just make things worse.