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[LOCKED] [OT] Let's have ANOTHER rage thread!
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Lithp
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Joined: 04 Mar 2012
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Gold Knight wrote:

If you need to keep arguing somewhere, then use this thread. Just quit bumping and getting some of our hopes up.

But then how will I savor your delicious rage?

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:25 pm

Stanislav
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Joined: 28 Feb 2012
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Location: Washington the State

Serum wrote:

I thought it was just 'Troseph," when did we throw Tim into the name?

After it became apparent that Tim was a permanent fixture in their video. Do they have a legit, official production company yet that they've just kept hidden or something? It would be a lot easier to refer to them in that way.

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:25 pm

Magyk
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Location: A Loop of Unhappiness

sigh...

WHERE THE FUCK IS ENTRY 64!?

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:28 am

Gold Knight
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Posts: 355

Magyk wrote:

sigh...

WHERE THE FUCK IS ENTRY 64!?

This. They shouldn't have said it would be within a week in the last entry if they couldn't make it happen.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:48 am

pravado
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Joined: 22 Apr 2011
Posts: 1833

Gold Knight wrote:

Magyk wrote:

sigh...

WHERE THE FUCK IS ENTRY 64!?

This. They shouldn't have said it would be within a week in the last entry if they couldn't make it happen.

Wait when did they say that wtf

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:33 am

Gold Knight
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pravado wrote:

Gold Knight wrote:

Magyk wrote:

sigh...

WHERE THE FUCK IS ENTRY 64!?

This. They shouldn't have said it would be within a week in the last entry if they couldn't make it happen.

Wait when did they say that wtf

Tim said he should be able to get off work to explore Rosswood "sometime this week" during Entry #63.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:02 am

pravado
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Joined: 22 Apr 2011
Posts: 1833

If they mess up another gap, I'd advise that they film two entries and post one, then they have a backup in case they have time restraints, and can work on the next one shortly before the second one goes up

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:08 am

Geneaux486
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Joined: 17 Mar 2011
Posts: 2423

pravado wrote:

Problem is that widens the gap between entries anyway, just like if they had changed 63 to compensate for the gap then.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:15 am

Jingleman
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Joined: 29 Aug 2012
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Location: Texas

Geneaux486 wrote:

pravado wrote:

Problem is that widens the gap between entries anyway, just like if they had changed 63 to compensate for the gap then.

The wider gap doesn't matter if you plan for it and write the story that way. You could control the gaps by writing them into the script and producing enough entries at once to control the release schedule yourself. They really should have been doing the production in bunches all along if the story is supposed to take place in real time.

Most real TV shows (in the U.S.) film something like half of the season before the episodes begin to air. It allows the networks to be flexible with the schedule. A lot of shows that are supposed to roughly align with the actual calendar (for the sake of Christmas specials and the like) will write in an explanation for the off-season gap. That would have been a good plan for a show like MH, where unplanned hiatuses would be construed as plot points.

But that's fine; I don't care if they want to do it on the fly. Whatever. The only thing that really bugs is when they put a timetable into the entries themselves, and then don't live up to it. 61 said Jay was going after Tim RIGHT NOW. 63 had Jay and Tim planning some action within the week. Instead, we got significant gaps that left us wondering what was going on in the story (verdict's out on 64, obviously). But if they had taken an extra few weeks before either of those entries, and filmed them together with their time-sensitive sequels, then they could have posted them on whatever schedule suited the story, regardless of OOG holdups like the car wreck. And nobody would have noticed.

Sure, there would have been the usual angst, but the expectations wouldn't have been there, and the inevitable plot holes would have been minimized. The only people who would have been complaining about the wait would be the ones who always complain about stuff like that, justified or not. I'm just saying, if certain entries are supposed to go together, I wish they would film them together, or else not set up an unreasonable time frame for themselves in the story.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:24 am

fezstudios
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Joined: 22 Jul 2012
Posts: 348

Guys. It's only been a week.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:30 am

Geneaux486
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Joined: 17 Mar 2011
Posts: 2423

Quote:

They really should have been doing the production in bunches all along if the story is supposed to take place in real time.

I'd argue that it doesn't matter either way. It taking place in real time and being based on an investigation for which Jay, more often than not, has no solid leads means that, no matter what, it makes sense for there to be gaps in the action. From the OOG perspective, we already know that this isn't their day job, that things can come up in anyone's personal life, etc.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:48 am

KTsteve
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Joined: 12 Sep 2011
Posts: 437

pravado wrote:

steve

STEVE

how dare you

OH GOD BRUCE HOW DID I MESS YOUR NAME UP!

I feel like a failure... Anyway I decided to come back to hang at unfiction. There's just been nothing to discuss from the last entries...

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:59 pm

Serum
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pravado wrote:

While you're waiting, why don't you have a nice, savory lamb chop?

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:27 pm

paladin181
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Posts: 502

Serum wrote:

pravado wrote:

While you're waiting, why don't you have a nice, savory lamb chop?

[img]http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll193/sleekhunter/misterclear/lamb-chop-at-paparazzi.jpg[img]

Mmm... Gap Lambchops.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 8:35 pm

Tharol
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee

Joined: 02 Oct 2011
Posts: 4805
Location: Muncie, Indiana

Remember they have GMX this month so more slowing for there.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 8:42 pm

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