potential for recent episode spoilers?

[coolcubed]

No. I'm not here to talk to you about canon events. I have to deal with things in my reality, but this is completely removed from Greendale and I'm keeping it that way. As far as I'm concerned, we're still back at the third season finale. Anyway, there are other things we need to discuss.

First I'd like to propose that you bring me here to air out my meta concerns more often. They don't go away with time. I'll still have them on the list even if you wait three months to think about what they might be. I kind of figured we had an agreement about that when you made the account and started actively roleplaying? Maybe I misread something.

Second: you didn't bring me through to the reboot of my game. I was in the middle of a documentary project with a City Hall internship. You turned me into a monstrosity made out of Lucas Luthor and Chuck Cunningham's spare parts. I'm a Frankenstein's Monster of showing up and then being put on a bus. Hello apocalypse, goodbye Abed. Last seen ascending the metaphorical staircase with a basketball.

Objectively speaking, I can respect holding out for the apocalypse. As far as dropping points go, it's pretty hard to come by natural conditions that give you a convenient excuse for disappearing. But I didn't get to say goodbye. That's more important than objectivity in this context. We should always be able to say goodbye.

Third: you should keep Evil Abed off the table. I understand wanting to explore a darker dimension, but some dimensions should be left unexplored. And so should some timelines. Evil Abed is a force of chaotic darkness and neatly-groomed facial hair that no man or woman was created to control. Which is kind of what happens when you switch alignments to follow natural plot progression. Casual villains are dangerous villains. In the oceanic depths of wrongdoing, Evil Abed is the equivalent of Jaws.

Fourth: please stop rewatching The Wicker Man. That's enough.

... I think that's everything I can cover in spoiler-free territory. You can probably get rid of the subject line warning.

Comments

[crownless]

But Wicker Man's amazing.

[Yeah, that's all he got out of that.]

[coolcubed]

[ it was the most important point anyway lbr ]

It's cult-classic amazing, which is kind of fitting considering the movie. But those standards aren't always enough for a rewatch marathon. Nicholas Cage is an enigma-- when does it go from an enjoyable smorgasboard to being the grandma in Dante's Peak, pushing through to a goal while the rest of you boils in a lake? How many licks does it take to get to the center of that Tootsie Pop?

[crownless]

Dunno about your candy metaphor, dude, but I say that that kind of perseverance is a freakin' virtue.

Though maybe switching over to Vampire's Kiss might be a good idea.

[coolcubed]

Ooh. I'd take that trade. [ Like if he had a broom, he'd thunk it on the metaphorical ceiling of this brain to encourage that trade further. ] I mean, by this point I'd even go for Ghost Rider, but I don't think I visit Vampire's Kiss enough.

[crownless]

C'mon. Ghost Rider's great too, but it's way too easy. Y'know? You expect that to be shitty. Like I said-- your best bet's Vampire's Kiss.

[coolcubed]

It really encompasses the Nic Cage conundrum. Good? Bad? Lizard-like alien in a humanoid body like the Visitors in "V"?

I learned to make peace with the unknown eventually, but some people like the thrill of chasing the impossible.

[crownless]

Or the thrill of shoving people into jamjars, but I think that's more on the side of the folks sitting behind their keyboards and laughing here.