Discussion -- March 2015 75-word Writing Challenge

[Dan Jones]

Peep, you are too cool. Quality reviews, all of them

And re: nacelles, how did you know I used to work in aerospace?

 

[Bowler1]

Be-de-be-de, Buck.

Was that the little robot, it was, wasn't it?

Thank you DG. Pay your Sky subscription and who knows, you could stream the next episode and see what happens next.

 

[Tywin]

Thanks for the review Perp.

 

[Boneman]

@DG Jones many thanks for the excellent review, muchly appreciated.

 

[Dan Jones]

You're welcome Boney

And Perp, sorry, the blasted autocorrect on my phone meant I called you Peep in my post above.

Although given your great reviews this thread can sometimes feel like the Peep Show...

Sorry, sorry!

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Thank you, Victoria, and Perp, and DG for the kind-kind words! What a bounty of reviewing we're enjoying! I wonder if Starbeast will have time to join in??

ps--Perp, I hadn't seen The Neighbors, but it sounds (potentially) cool...I'll see if Netflix Finland carries it!
pps--DG, the British show Peep Show is one of my favorite...shows!
ppps-Telford! Thank you too for the kind words about my story...they are greatly appreciated! (Distasteful can be very fun, I see now!)

 

[Perpetual Man]

And Perp, sorry, the blasted autocorrect on my phone meant I called you Peep in my post above.

Although given your great reviews this thread can sometimes feel like the Peep Show...

Sorry, sorry!

No problems I've quite a few versions of the Perp name around here, Peep works just as well (I've been Pep, Perp, Perp Man and PM...)

Thank you, Victoria, and Perp, and DG for the kind-kind words! What a bounty of reviewing we're enjoying! I wonder if Starbeast will have time to join in??

ps--Perp, I hadn't seen The Neighbors, but it sounds (potentially) cool...I'll see if Netflix Finland carries it!

It's a hit and miss show - which is down to the writers more than anything else - The cast is good and the main idea is good but they are almost too wary of letting loose. Simon Templeman who plays lead alien Larry Bird is brilliant and steals the show. But it is when they push the boundaries and break the fourth wall that the show really shines. (Toward the end of each season they joke about cancellation) and the argument about the two alien leaders at the end of the first season is priceless - they're played by George Takei and Mark Hamill.

But the second season episode that see them all breaking from the standard structure of the show, is pure genius. Going to a traditional Indian Wedding with a full Bollywood number and a payoff that is spot on perfect. (Well it was for me...)

Uhh, back to writing the comments...

 

[Remedy]

5th of March and 21 entries! Wow! Busy Chronners

Many absolute corkers in there too. I shall have to get my thinking cap on.

pps--DG, the British show Peep Show is one of my favorite...shows!

Yes. Anything with David Mitchell and Robert Webb is gold

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

Aargh! Zero inspiration for either this or the anonymous 100 worder. Hopefully something will happen in the next couple of weeks.

 

[Luiglin]

Aargh! Zero inspiration for either this or the anonymous 100 worder. Hopefully something will happen in the next couple of weeks.

Have a look on YouTube for any old Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon episodes.

 

[WinterLight]

Love how everyone has just blasted out a story before the end of the first week! And what a great response the theme has prompted.
Think I got a clearer picture of your theme interpretation @telford after reading yours!

 

[Anne Martin]

Alright, mines up. I was going to try to post late, but it just came to me.

 

[Perpetual Man]

StilLearning – Oh, there are reasons people choose their careers. Because it is what they have always wanted to do, because it is what their parents did, because it is something they are good at, but hell, why not do it be at the centre of the melodrama? To utter those lines that everybody REALLY wants to utter. Just don’t let anyone else get in before you. That is just wrong!

telford – Rather than make a comment at this point I feel a public announcement is more in order. It would seem that a member of our esteemed community has decided to make themselves heard as the voice of potty humour. Of course this is their choice, and it can be really funny on occasion. But do they really want to by typecast in such a fashion? Umm, did I write this in telford’s section? Must be a bizarre coincidence.

Mr Orange – Groan!!! It’s alright to groan at a stroke of genius like this honest. Very amusing voices, complete with accents given to the crew, a dramatic situation and a payoff that really is groan inducing in its brilliance.

Bowler – No! No! You don’t get to end it there like that! What happens next? I hate these cliffhanger serials, they even change the following week so the end is not quite what it was the week before! A cracking tale all the same, but I guess the writer doesn’t care one way or another as he legitimately got to squeeze RAYGUNS into a story. And it fit!!! It’s a blast.

BM – Someone receives a surprise as we get the merging of two genre classics, and part of that surprise has to go to the reader who thinks he is firmly in a slapstick Star Trek episode with a wisecracking Kirk, to the grim reality of facing down a murderous AI. But it is clever enough to be seen in two ways. Is it the crew of the Enterprise getting one over on their beloved Captain or is the suffocating Bowman beginning to believe that he is on the crew. Probably wearing a red jersey.

Glen – Talk about a sneaky way of getting a bigger story in. Decreasing sentence size to demonstrate the reduction of ever repeating time, means that we get quite a few more sentences than one might believe. At the same time there are those we can’t see eh? Infinite regression, smaller and smaller lines with microscopic values. They’re all there apparently. You just have to look.

WinterLight – Oh those men, how we are constantly caught short, at the mercy of our… uh hormones… yes hormones that is the word I was looking for. It’s probably better that our good captain fell for the wiles (and the randy gas) of the titular Green Girl, for a second I though the fish man might have been in trouble. Or then again maybe not.

Anne Martin – See, this is where carrying a towel with you would be useful. Sticking it in one’s ears would save you from hearing a cyborg sing. Of course if one was tied down you’ve had it. Unless you actually like cyborg singing. I mean, someone has to, right? Every bad song has its supporter right? Not that would ever effect your commentator. “Star Trekkin’ across the universe….”

 

[alchemist]

I was going to call mine "I'll have another consonant, Rachel." But sense prevailed.


And I haven't read the rest yet, so apologies if any are similar.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

@alchemist Biggerstaff? Really?

I have a stomach ache from laughing at this month's entries. How on earth can a mere mortal expect to compete with you lot?

 

[Mr Orange]

Thanks for the groans, I mean reviews Perp, and DG, and the nice words Hex.

Appreciative groans are what I'm going for this month.

 

[Glen]

Infinite regression, smaller and smaller lines with microscopic values. They’re all there apparently. You just have to look.

Hssst! Don't tell the word counters! Oh...you just did.

 

[Droflet]

Oh Telford, Telford.
*shakes head sadly*

What?

 

[Bowler1]

I guess the writer doesn’t care one way or another as he legitimately got to squeeze RAYGUNS into a story.

I don't know what you mean Perp, I really don't - (hee hee).

 

[Boneman]

Thanks Perp, brilliant review and way more than 75 words...