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Post by Rook on Mar 29, 2012 11:04:12 GMT -5
Catch all.
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Post by Rook on Mar 30, 2012 11:18:16 GMT -5
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Post by Rook on Mar 30, 2012 11:23:48 GMT -5
Why shouldn't a simple lesser restoration cure baldness?
I guess we have different ideas on what would suspend disbelief. The College Humor channel put out a short film about guys who have secret communicators down their pants. It was stupid, and completely shattered SoD, but it was funny and got hundreds of thousands of views just like all the other absurd stuff that comes out on that channel. Personally, I don’t understand what it is about turning a room of people into frogs that shatters the whole thing for you. All it does it make me chuckle. As I said before the mood of this show is typical situational comedies style such as the Office. No one really expects consequences for actions to take place unless it sets up another joke down the line. I don’t think that makes it dull, because the story and cause and effect are not the purpose, the jokes are. Shows like this play to the laugh track. Memory wipes and narrative logic are just a distraction from putting tiny little doll ties on a bunch of frogs and watching them hop about the conference room as the boss pull his hair out shouting “Turn the back! For the love of god turn them back!”
You’re spot on with the rogue though and I like where you’re going with that. It was not necessarily randomness for randomness’s sake. Keeping the same elements, but adding what you have, helps bring it together without having to remove any of his hilarious antics.
I must have described her poorly, because you don’t seem to see the same character as I do in the Elf. She’s not really autonomous at all, as no matter how smart she acts, or capable she proves herself to be she’s treated like the damsel in distress. She’s plagued with the bimbo treatment, without being a bimbo. Her character needs work more than any of them I think, to avoid insulting women while keeping it funny.
Though I realize that there’s a finite number of DnD in real life jokes possible, I don’t want to focus on an ending arc until we’ve really exhausted all other options and need to table the project gracefully. Though I do like the idea of them, after having assimilated into modern life enough that the show could become stale, finding their way back to DnD world and realizing just how ridiculous it is. Not as an ending arc, but as a ‘change of pace to keep things interesting’ after having exhausted all the modern day jokes. That particular story arc requires more budget than we have now. It would be a long distance project for when the show is so popular that it pays for itself.
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