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<blockquote data-quote="Jedi_Solo" data-source="post: 4327897" data-attributes="member: 40245"><p>Maybe it's just burn out from stuff like The Wheel of Time and waiting for the next book in The Song of Ice and Fire.</p><p></p><p>If he is saying that is going to be telling a story then TELL THE STORY ALREADY!!!! *pant* *ppant* *pant*</p><p></p><p>I feel a lot better now.</p><p></p><p>Anyway...</p><p></p><p>I'm not looking for an answer to these questions but I will ask them as food for thought:</p><p></p><p>How long has the group been fragmented? How long has Roy been dead? How long have they been trying to correct these situations and what exactly has been advanced in the plot since they have been trying to correct them?</p><p></p><p>Don't get me wrong... I don't mind the "Elan's been kidnapped by bandits" sidetreck or the "Let's stop at the inn for the night" storylines. I do mind the "We have to do X but we need to work our way through A, B, C and D each of which take a while in and of themselves and yet we have no plot advancement in the direction of X."</p><p></p><p>(Yes, The show Lost annoyed me heavily during seasons 2 and 3 - why do you ask?)</p><p></p><p>If the strip claims that the party is trying to get back together (which it does to me in that V is trying to find the other half) and that Haley is trying to get Roy raised (which it does to me in that Haley is saying she is trying to bring Roy back) then I want some advancement in that direction - not multiple failures in a row with each failure taking a month (or more) to get through.</p><p></p><p>It reminds me of one the later seasons of Farscape and later season of Buffy. I stopped watching both shows for a while because nothing ever tured out well for the main characters. Every episode (I don't think I'm exaggerating) ended on a downer. I want my heroes to be happy and have a reason to keep going. There needs to be a glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel. If everything the heores do has no effect (or worse - a negative effect) that glimmer of hope disappears for me. Having it be gone for an episode or two is fine - but it can't be gone for weeks or months on end.</p><p></p><p>The heros need to achieve something they want (and Belkar getting a kill doesn't count).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jedi_Solo, post: 4327897, member: 40245"] Maybe it's just burn out from stuff like The Wheel of Time and waiting for the next book in The Song of Ice and Fire. If he is saying that is going to be telling a story then TELL THE STORY ALREADY!!!! *pant* *ppant* *pant* I feel a lot better now. Anyway... I'm not looking for an answer to these questions but I will ask them as food for thought: How long has the group been fragmented? How long has Roy been dead? How long have they been trying to correct these situations and what exactly has been advanced in the plot since they have been trying to correct them? Don't get me wrong... I don't mind the "Elan's been kidnapped by bandits" sidetreck or the "Let's stop at the inn for the night" storylines. I do mind the "We have to do X but we need to work our way through A, B, C and D each of which take a while in and of themselves and yet we have no plot advancement in the direction of X." (Yes, The show Lost annoyed me heavily during seasons 2 and 3 - why do you ask?) If the strip claims that the party is trying to get back together (which it does to me in that V is trying to find the other half) and that Haley is trying to get Roy raised (which it does to me in that Haley is saying she is trying to bring Roy back) then I want some advancement in that direction - not multiple failures in a row with each failure taking a month (or more) to get through. It reminds me of one the later seasons of Farscape and later season of Buffy. I stopped watching both shows for a while because nothing ever tured out well for the main characters. Every episode (I don't think I'm exaggerating) ended on a downer. I want my heroes to be happy and have a reason to keep going. There needs to be a glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel. If everything the heores do has no effect (or worse - a negative effect) that glimmer of hope disappears for me. Having it be gone for an episode or two is fine - but it can't be gone for weeks or months on end. The heros need to achieve something they want (and Belkar getting a kill doesn't count). [/QUOTE]
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