[ SECRET POST #2632 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2632 ⌋

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

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02.
[Game of Thrones]


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03.
[Patrick Stump / Fall Out Boy]


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04.
[Men in Black, Agent Coulson]


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05.
[Twin Peaks]


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06.
[Defenders of Berk/How To Train Your Dragon 2]


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07.
[Lily Allen]


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08.
[Attack on Titan]


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09.
[The Brittas Empire]


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10.
[Panic! at the Disco]


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11.
[Frozen]













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Comments

[greenvelvetcake]

It's like how a dying character whose wounds shouldn't allow more than a pained gargle to have a three-minute good-bye ballad. Just repeat to yourself, it's just a musical!

[caecilia]

My suspension of disbelief just has slightly higher standards.

[(Anonymous)]

I bet that snowman wasn't even made of real snow.

[(Anonymous)]

Why, oh why, is there now this trend of people taking "suspension of disbelief" to mean "MUST BE TOTALLY 100% TRUE-TO-LIFE AND REAL?"

[caecilia]

omg what

[(Anonymous)]

"Though I die, the resistance lives... on." *gasp*
"...Shit!"

[(Anonymous)]

Don't you fret...Monsieur Kristoff...

Nah, seriously though, my rage-filled loathing of the song aside, I think there's a bit of a difference between this and a goodbye ballad. Singing in a musical is totally a free-action, but I'm kind of inclined to agree with upthread--it's a poorly placed song because it grinds the action right to a halt (but not for dramatic farwelling purposes like "Little Fall of Rain"), which isn't always a bad thing in a musical, but in the last third of your movie/play/what-have-you, it's generally a good idea to pick up the pace to increase the sense of urgency.

I mean, I don't see anywhere else they could put that song, but it's just...THERE. Like running into a wall. They pick it up alright-ish after it's over, but for those three minutes, it just threw me straight out. And I think even if I liked the song, if it was still the same vibe (a romance and/or comedy number right there) it would've felt just as jarring. A dramatic or tension-filled song right there would work better, since they've introduced the ticking clock and want to keep their audience aware of it.


Then again, I kind of like "A Guy Like You" from Hunchback, which has the exact same problem (goofy about-romance song toward the back-end of the movie, just as things get dire. No ticking clock there, though). But it's pretty out-of-place too.

[othellia]

Totally agree with you re: "A Guy Like You". I mean, I sort get the need to lighten things up again because, you know, Disney, and I do love how it's immediately followed by Quasimodo getting his heart crushed... but yeah. Not the greatest song to insert when the scene preceded it is this one.