[ SECRET POST #2624 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2624 ⌋

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

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02.
[Outlander]


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03.
[The Walking Dead]


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04.
[How I Met Your Mother]


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05.
[Twitch Plays Pokemon]


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06.
[Batman, Kill La Kill, Borderlands]


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07.
[Overlord]


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08.
[Red Dwarf]


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09.
[Paranatural]


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10.
[Pitch Perfect]


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11.
[Insidious: Chapter 2]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 053 secrets from Secret Submission Post #375.
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

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this. I see a lot of people cite death of the author to mean all interpretations of a story are equally valid, which I disagree with.People can read whatever message they want into it or look at it how they want, but their interpretation isn't suddenly on the same level of the author's. Especially with what someone mentioned upthread about Lord of the Rings. Yes, it can be read as a metaphor for WWII and Tolkien was probably influenced by it, but stop saying that he's wrong when he says he didn't write it as a metaphor.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Yeah, let's just ignore all the textural problems involved in the metaphor theory to push authorial intent. Brilliant!

[(Anonymous)]

What?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

The WWII metaphor is a stupid interpretation. You don't need to go trawling through Christopher's edits of JRR's notes to drop a bomb on it. You just need a High School level of understanding about WWII, and Lord of the Rings itself. Death of the Author doesn't justify Missing the Fucking Point Printed on the Page, which is what the WWII metaphor demands.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, okay. I thought a first you were disagreeing with me and I couldn't figure out what you were saying.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

You don't even need to trawl through HoME to find it, it's right in the preface of FotR, where JRR's most famous piece of "This is not a WW2 metaphor!" goes on to say that if it had bee, Saruman would have invented a One Ring of his own and Hobbits would have been universally reviled and exterminated.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I think it's a crappy interpretation even without the preface.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

So do I.