Thread:Stryzzar/@comment-1037137-20150613022102/@comment-1037137-20150905013414

Exactly mate, exactly. And for me that's a pretty small number right now. I know appearances aren't everything, but very few of them give me any sort of vibe that says "Yeah, that's a new favorite for me". Just not feeling it very strongly with them. Also, I do wanna call bull on those who keep telling me that the character designs are "better" than TD's. They're not.

I'm pretty convinced that that is the only crowd they were focused on and failed to realize that even if they were more popular than they actually are, no amount of them could somehow reduce everybody else to an afterthought in the eyes of the fandom or undermine the strong following and personal attachment fans felt to them when they decided only Zoke would reap any rewards from this season. To screw over or smear the image of everyone else is a serious offense no matter what your intentions were. Even more inexcusable in an All-Stars season but that's the thing; It should NEVER be acceptable, period. And yeah, drama should never ever come to the point where it undermines development and story, something we've seen allowed to happen too often. I suppose most of these guys do have a clean slate but anything could happen along the way, and you hope the characters are not complete duds either. Yeah the finale......That's a few weeks off still, but I sure as hell don't trust the man behind it.

That's lazy and downright stupid writing, what they did. That's another thing, the humor and slapstick sucked. The abuse of the characters was far beyond what counts as slapstick. And everything else in between? Groanworthy. This balloon gag being the most "WTF" thing next to that bloody button. I actually must respectfully disagree, no way the contestants, willingly or forced would step into those things. That episode's got to be the most crass thing they ever put together. And never revealing if they were okay is so obviously a bad move that they should not be surprised at the reaction they got. Christine did say she regretted that no clip was made of them surviving the event; what they all should regret was putting it in at all. Not featuring the cast entirely in the last two seasons was apparently a tradeoff for their helper concept; that was never an issue in any other finale where helpers were picked. So that's a bad excuse either way. It's enormously unpleasant and rather distressing, and for the episode to carry on like it's no big deal just adds to the insult. I don't intend to let them forget it.

They did give me a fairly full response. I have to read it again though, but their defenses for it just do not hold.

Totally. There simply is not an excuse for the reset button. Something that's sure to be repeated to them for a long time coming.

It is unnerving. As is the fact that they actually are impressed by his character. He barely did anything, he's such a superficial villain, how can they miss it? Of course those who were enamored by him rarely do look more deeply into why he's despised and how he failed as a character. Yeah, most of his fans are probably younger viewers, but I've seen them, talked to some of them, and they should be able to see where this guy utterly blew. Maybe the idea at the surface seems cool, but the execution was abysmal.

Yes, but we didn't really go deeper into that before she left. But now that we have a producer talking to us, I want to send my bit to her directly soon. It may seem really silly, but the episode still bugs me badly as does the fact that it actually got by. It just accentuated some of the worst aspects of the show in its determined effort to quash a single character. I have several things I've been meaning to say about it. Apparently they do not view it as character abuse; That's a stance that definitely seems misplaced to me. It certainly counts as such when you're actively trying to dismantle a character I would say. Oh they've had to acknowledge the outrage surrounding that episode several times already if Tumblr is anything to go by, but I need to know firsthand whether they, someone like Christine, gets it. Know what I'm saying?

Fair enough, but if you ever do rip it apart later I shall thoroughly enjoy seeing that.

That's what I fear too, and that base that eats up the kind of showmanship Trump's putting on is apparently a very big crowd still. Scary that people like that are the ones energizing the voter base in this country. They are a highly narrow-minded and toxic element that casts the rest of us in a poor light when they win. Democrats aren't off the hook either, they have get serious about voting or else we just shoot ourselves in the foot. Yeah, hope your pal Abbott gets kicked to the curb someday soon. I mean if they can arrest the now former President of Guatemala.... Yep, apparently an affair with your intern is more impeachment worthy than say..........War crimes. Yep, just rename the GOP the Lout Party because they all insist on behaving as such as they try to force their ways onto everyone else, thinking more about themselves than about who will be affected by their choices to basically undo everything not of their design.

Loudest voice, that's what these crazies love most and consider first before anything else. Laugh at them as much as you like.

Thanks man, I appreciate that vote of confidence. This one didn't work out, but I got other strong possibilities lining up.

P.S. I know about the TDRR leak, but am not willing to discuss it ATM.