[ SECRET POST #2534 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2534 ⌋

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

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02.
[Doctor Who]


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03.
[Guild Wars 2]


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04.
[Perry Mason]


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05.
[Sleepy Hollow]


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06.
[My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic; gorefic]


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07.
[Marco Mengoni/Max Pezzali (883)]


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08.
[Hetalia]


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09.
[Once Upon a Time and Uncanny X-Men]


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10.
[Borderlands 2]


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11.
[Elementary]


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12.
[Rise of the Guardians. Art by Rufftoon.]


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13.
[Mabinogi]


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14.
[minecraft/C418]


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15.
[The Big Bang Theory]








Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 038 secrets from Secret Submission Post #362.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

05. http://i.imgur.com/V0uoBoK.png
[Sleepy Hollow]

[(Anonymous)]

I liked this plotline, too. Sleepy Hollow has done a lot of surprising things that also fit into the legend, and I love it.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm starting to find the Ichabbie shippers really annoying, so I'm fine with it. More Katarina plots are fine with me!

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, heaven forbid because ship a black woman with a white man.

[(Anonymous)]

See, I know you're that troll person who tries too hard, but personally? I think those shippers use the 'You're racist against black women and white men pairings!" as an excuse to shoot down anyone who reminds them that there's more to the show than shipping.

I'm also in an inter-racial relationship with a person who is black at the moment, so, nobbyno.

[(Anonymous)]

your partner is black at the moment? what are they the rest of the time?

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone watching a show with as many black people as SH probably doesn't have an issue with interracial relationships.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yes indeed. Heaven forbid anyone ship a canon married couple. That's just crazy.

[(Anonymous)]

...isn't the wife dead?

Secret 5 - Sleepy Hollow (TV series)

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is the Headless Horseman from the TV series "Sleepy Hollow". He is a man without a head wearing a dirty, old-fashioned but expensive/high-class red and blue suit. A soldier outfit? There are chains around him?]

I actually liked the Horseman's backstory. For one, it actually ties the show more into the original short story. Two, I never liked the idea of making the Horseman a purely supernatural figure. I prefer him starting out as a normal person.

Notes

[transcriptanon]

An anon (link and link) pointed out that the uniform is that of a Hessian trooper of the late 1770s.

The Hessians were soldiers, 18th-century German auxiliaries contracted for military service by the British government, mostly associated with combat operations in the American Revolutionary War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessian_%28soldiers%29

Re: Notes

[(Anonymous)]

This.

Anyone else half-expecting the Hessian-American Defamation League to pop up and object to the show's characterization of Hessian-Americans?

Re: Notes

[transcriptanon]

??

Re: Notes

[(Anonymous)]

I have to admit. I keep laughing though everytime they have "Hessians" shop up in modern day storylines and talk horribly mangled German (seriously, Tom Mison's German is a million times better than anyone else's!). Because Hessians aren't just soldiers, they're also the people inhabiting Hessia (Hessen), a modern German federal state. So, yeah, the big Hessian conspiracy to bring about the apocalypse is something of a running joke with my Hessian friends.

[fauxkaren]

I like it too.

But then I also like Katrina and Ichabod/Katrina.

So yeah. Fandom and I don't see eye to eye, generally.

[fenm]

I think you can like her and their relationship and still not like this storyline. Heck, I even like the idea of Headless having once been human, but this...? No.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that having an origin for the beast makes it more interesting. It also makes it seem more plausible that the horsemen are destructable in some way. Without that human origin and element it just doesn't seem realistic that you could 'defeat' them. Supernatural runs into the same problem constantly.

I'd also like to see if this is applicable to the other horsemen. It would be interesting to see where their origins are. Or if its only death that needs to be born from a human form.

The only thing I wasn't feeling was the character they chose. It was pretty lazy writing. "Good chick loves our favorite hero but is engaged to someone else, so he HAS to be a terrible dirtbag. That way we can feel okay about it when she leaves him.

It's lazy writing. And worse than that, no one is particularly likable or charitable after a break-up. A lot of people get pissed off and frustrated, and start feeling hateful. It's just part of the process. To say that was enough to turn him into a horseman feels really weak.

[(Anonymous)]

I would have liked it better if that guy was someone we got to know over the course of multiple episodes so the betraysl of it all would hurt more. I love the main characters, but Sleepy Hollow has a problem getting me to care about the minor ones. "Oh, look. Another character who is both incredibly important and completely inconsequential at the same time."

[othellia]

This. Sleepy Hollow does have a tendency to go "hey look a new characterrrrr... and bam! plot important and/or dead!" at times.

[lilacsigil]

Though he didn't seem to be particularly dickish until after Katrina broke the engagement. He was fine before that and Ichabod liked and trusted him.

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much this -- My issue is more having to accept he became 'evil' because his engagement was broken off.

[(Anonymous)]

My personal headcanon is that as a person he didn't turn evil -- he was pissed off and angry and hurting and omg Ichabod you idiot what possibly possessed you to say "and oh hey she's in love with me lol" at that particular moment, but if he had lived he'd've gotten over it and gone back to being a Responsible Person -- but that he didn't live, and you add to that all sorts of fear and don't-wanna-die and actual physical pain and resentment. And so Moloch caught him in this maelstrom of negative emotion and pinned him to it, which on the one hand let him serve as a physical avatar of the Horseman of Death, and on the other hand warped him until anger and vengeance was all that was left.

[(Anonymous)]

Your equation is missing one important element, though: Pissed off, frustrated, hateful, and dying. He let himself be turned to save himself, as much if not more than for revenge.

[(Anonymous)]

I watch this show every week and I feel like I can't keep up! Every episode is like "And then...! And then...!" The developments fly so fast and thick!

[dwell_ondreams]

I thought it was awesome.