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Where's Admiral Akbar when you need him ?
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Where's Admiral Akbar when you need him ? As I'm sure you all remember I stopped watching the Walking Dead a while ago because it had 100% fallen into "the Lost Zone" where the popularity of the show made them abandon any attempt at storytelling and their new goal is to make the show last as long as possible without anything ever happening . But I was trapped with my family this weekend so my sister and I watched a couple episodes of FEAR the Walking Dead (yeah , there's two of them now) and it was decent enough but a thing happened that annoyed me . The characters encounter what is obviously a trap and they stop for a moment and say "this could be a trap" and then they walk right into the trap for no real reason . I watched this happen 4 times in one episode . Now , I don't pretend to be a real writer , but I know a few things about writing and one of them is that it's pretty hard to move a story along if the character's don't make bad choices but come on FTWD writers if you have the character's constantly making the same dumb decisions over and over again unless there are real consequences . Which of course there wasn't . Every time these dum-dums got captured five minutes later they were rescued by some third party that let them go to fall into the same damn trap again . Boo . Boo I say . If you're going to be lazy and have this constantly happen you at least have to have terrible consequences OR at the very , very , very least have the characters get out of the jam through their own actions . Having the problem solved by someone else just makes it worse . And this is by no means an issue just with the Walking Dead , it's endemic to lots of shows - the protagonists do something stupid , they get saved through no actions of their own , and what was the point ? We didn't learn anything about the characters , nothing was accomplished , it's just shit happening . I've written one halfway decent thing and the reason it because halfway decent is because I realized that I needed to take out all the scenes where nothing happened and expand the scenes that I had in mind from the beginning . If you're thinking "I need something here" you probably don't . No filler . Again , not that I claim to be a authority on writing or anything , but I feel like I know a few things about story structure . I've said it before and I'm sure it seems silly but you could do worse than following the structure of a wrestling match when writing a certain kind of drama . Before the match you set the scene , who's involved , who's the bad guy , who's the good guy , what's the source of the conflict ? Then you have the "the shine" , where you show the good guy should win . Then you have the "cut-off" where the bad guy does something dastardly to get the upper hand . The you have the "heat" where the bad guy presses his unwarranted advantage . Then you have the "false comeback" despite the bad guy's chicanery the good guy is about to turn the tables when the bad guy does something else wicked to get the upper hand again . Cycle through heat-false comeback as necessary until it's time for the "comeback" despite all the bad guy's best efforts the good guy finally overcomes his wicked ways . Then you got the finish and the wrap-up and then it's on the next town/episode .  In other news as every male public figure in the world continues to get taken down in the creep hunt I'm starting to wonder if maybe I don't live in the rest of the world as everyone else . I just can't image rubbing all up on some lady without written permission witnessed by a notary . I'm not trying to be all holier than thou but just the other day I remember one time an old lady friend of mine was hanging out here at the house and we were talking about this and that and she says to me she says "Do you have any condoms here ?" and I said to her I said "I might , why do you need one ?" Sidenote some women at work were making fun of another lady because she still uses condoms - they were implying that was immature and that adult women should have IUDs . Is that a real opinion or was this a strange isolated thing ? Because if you're slinging it around and IUD isn't going to keep you from getting chlamydia right ? And that stuff is everywhere . Seth Rogan said so . Anyway back to grabbing ass and taking names , I was talking about this with a dude friend of mine who I thought was a reasonable normal fellow and he said sometimes you just have to take a chance and grab a woman because you don't know if she'll like it until you do it . When I told him this was insane he said "Sometimes THEY don't know if they're going to like it until you do it ." I don't think I need to be friends with this guy anymore . And yet I'm going to play tennis with a dude who went to prison for filming women without their consent so it's not like I have any moral high ground . The point is if men are from Mars and women are from Venus I think I must be from Cygnar because none of what's going on makes any sense to me . 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I love trap bih
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Hmmmm well yes, sometimes it IS fun to have a guy just spontaneously hit on you; the problem is that it's a pretty small subset of guys who you would want to have do that. And a very large subset for whom you'd go, "Ugh, you CREEP, what do you think you're doing?". There was once was a guy in a bar who grabbed my ass, and I actually did end up hooking up with him. But he looked like Mikhail Baryshnikov.   
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I would guess that the condom/IUD hazing was based on pregnancy prevention not disease prevention. Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation bangs on the door forever!
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If you are such a great writer, why does your blog suck it so hard? No filler? Please... Embrace the suck
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