Ahh, perhaps a difference in GM/DMing style; I don’t run the narrative, the group does (me included). The GM is a key element, and does set the scene, but without the players, they might as well be writing on their own. I, personally, don’t like it when players trend more towards audience members than active…

Very much disagree. Ignoring the dice only works in the short term and ignoring kills makes the party invincible. Systems are there to lend structure to the story being told by the group. Removing them, even temporarily, creates a false environment and removes the sense of threat/danger/excitement. If the players know…

The first play test of the PNP I wrote back in the 90s was eye opening. Led to one of the hardest months of my life, creatively speaking. Learnt a lot from it.

Tick... Tick...

I guess it helps that we’re in the Summer season and, generally, televisual storytelling is at a low ebb, so this just might be damning with faint praise.

Went back and watched the Constantine movie recently. It stands up very well against the show, even Keanu’s performance. Ryan’s Constantine was a hairdo and as the feel of the Constantine show doesn’t match with Arrow, this is just fan service when they should be servicing a story.

The source material doesn’t match a gritty retelling... or more accurately much more changes will need to take place to get the source material to such a form which will make it gritty. The original F4 was the first of Marvel’s teams and essentially the first family of the Silver Age. How does one make that gritty…

I couldn’t get into this movie. There was so many flaws, faults and fobles, that it didn’t hang together.

Old Griff? Jon Connington.

I have had a tough time with criticism until I realized... for the most part, it doesn’t actually matter. Source matters, of course, but it’s the vested interests of the source which is most important. The only (harsh) criticism you should listen to is from those who have a vested interest in the SUCCESS of your…

I accept this in the spirit in which it is given.

“I fought an Avenger and survived” - yeah, Falcon. That’s not saying much.

‘Cause it is better than 90% of the content out there. I’m not saying it’s good; I’m saying the standard is bad.

But, the problem was that, last year, when (better performers and performances got nominated and) Maslany did not, there was a backlash against the Emmys calling it pointless and worthless and a waste of time. In an of itself, is a perfectly fine position.

If the process is limited to three episodes, analytically speaking, it is to the favor of the procedural shows (such as the CSIs, Blue Bloods, Scorpion) because you get a better sense of the process out of those three “bottle” episodes then you would out of a serialized narrative which (as you say) builds as it goes…

I’m not aware of the process behind the scenes. The results, however, are there for everyone to see (was it intentional you compared Orphan Black to comedies like Modern Family and Big Bang?).

It’s nice their bias is flexible like that.

The saying it a broken clock is right twice a day; unless you coincide a bias, how do you know this is not one of those wrong times?

How are all those who called the Emmys worthless gonna work that back now?

Jumper? Push?