Miral9

Post AYITL Rogan fic (although everyone makes an appearance) and it's complete!!! "Inside the Monkey Habitat." Romance/humor and can be found here: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1234046...Monkey-Habitat Or here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/11...pters/25985493 What's the difference? You can download a PDF off Ao3. If anyone decides to give it a try, I hope you enjoy it!

Pimp Alert. Pimp Alert...I've got two post AYITL ROGAN fics going. One is from Logan's POV "Inside the Monkey Habitat" which looks to be ginormous. I'm a bit addicted to writing the characters. The other is from Rory's POV -"Written in the Stars" which is more episodic with intermittent updates. They are on both FANFIC and Ao3. I only recently started posting to Ao3. I think it's awesome. It's so much easier to edit. You can insert photos (at least Dollsome can; I haven't figured it out) and you can download PDFs of the stories! Never lose your faves again! I haven't been on Previously since I stopped hatewatching "The Blacklist" and gave up on TWD. A random Alert inspired this drop-in. Happy reading.

Did Scarol really put a cookie on SAMs grave? Carol gettin some!!! Sergeant Moobs walking out on Rosita!,,

Blast from the past! I caught "The Right Stuff" the other night and was going on about how one actor reminded me of Shane (it was Fred Ward by the way). I had to google the movie to see who was 1980s!Shane and was surprised to realize that Scott Wilson was actually in the movie (as was Levon Helm from The Band!). I caught Jeffrey DeMunn in this random but good movie from 1995 called "Citizen X". Wikipedia says it was made-for-tv. I can't believe they made TV movies this good. Better than today's theatrical releases

Baaahhaaaaa!!!! That makes more sense than my Days-of-our-Lives bromance interpretation. Thanks

I thought I heard Daryl say "You think I should settle?" LMAO. I didn't understand so I shrugged and just refilled my wine glass

There was a little heavy handed - how to describe it? The tv writing equivalent of "social engineering" that was kind of uncharacteristic but intended on getting us to think a certain way that would never have occurred to us absent the cues. First was Sam hearing Carols voiceover. Second was Rick and the visuals of Jesse. Just odd. The Jesse thing reminded me of JD on Scrubs. I mean they couldn't have been that attached. They barely spent any time together. Meh

Yeah, it's like they're not writing a story or trying to develop characters as much as they are looking for fake-out opportunities and ways to fill time between fake-out opportunities. It makes me sad when I think of the final episodes of Season 4 and "A" and the early episodes of Season 5. It's like it was a different show. This is tedious. It's "Days of our Lives" with zombies.

Anvil meet ground. Was "Tiptoe through the Tulips" playing all episode so that it would ear worm us while they try to get out? This is actually smarter logically than in the comics. In the comics, Rick just panics and is like "we have to get out of here"

Spencer's got to earn that Deanna.

Good line from Carl!

That is totally infected. We're guessing sepsis too. Gross. Please! No more speechifying!

That was a half-eaten cookie not steak right? Sam's a little weirdo. Carol. Lol. "Some more than others but you're dead last?"

Agreed. The only way to watch this show is to not pay too much attention.

Cracker Dick does have a good ring to it.

Yeah I was bored too. Did Ressler kick a garden gnome? I turned away for a second and that's what my sister told me.

My sister's opinion is that the writers are trolling us.

My opinion has always been that it was a mistake to hire such a young actress to play Liz. If you read the pilot script - http://www.zen134237.zen.co.uk/The_Blacklist_1x01_-_Pilot.pdf- you seen Bokencamps original idea had Liz being 36, not 26. That's why so little of Pilot!Liz backstory makes sense contextually. I wish they had just hired someone older -and a more experienced actress. Someone like Robin Tunney (The Mentalist). I believe Bokencamp's kernel of inspiration was Boston gangster fugitive Whitey Bulger and his girlfriend. Their age difference is the same as the Red/Liz age difference in the pilot. Making Liz younger gave it the whole "is he/isn't he her father?" Intrigue but that's a flimsy gimmick to keep people tuning in (not to mention a little icky with the dream sequences).

At least I really believe I heard /read/saw reference to her saying this. I guess I could've imagined it. Sometimes I wonder that I spend a wee bit too much time on this show.

Didn't Danai Gurira describe Michonne as Rick's "work wife"? I totally got that and haven't given them another shipping thought. Sometimes the chemistry is there for another reason.

And I think they're keeping Carl's hair in that sloppy pageboy 'do is because if they cut it, it will be SCREAMINGLY apparent he's older than he's supposed to be. As for why poor Judith still doesn't walk, I've fanwanked giving her the slow-growth condition Carrie & Cory had in "Flowers in the Attic." I mean her dad was feeding her mushed acorns. While on the road, they barely had water, much less milk or baby formula.

The glory of winning the Internet is that everyone quotes your post bc you so got it perfect. At the core of any story are its characters. They are the lifeblood of the story. It's pretty clear in comedy that the true bellyache laughs come from the characters. LOLs from manufactured hi-jinx? Or LOLs from Larry David's neuroses? (I know it's subjective but I've taken enough writing classes to feel validated in asserting it as fact.) Anyway, these writers need to get it together. They created *these* characters and there is a story to be told about how *these* characters navigate the ZA. Having scenes in mind that you want to have happen and then bending and folding and shoehorning the characters to accommodate those scenes - losing sight of the established characterizations- does not work. Take "True Blood." I tolerated that nonsense for years. Finally they made Sam Merlotte a homicidal maniac. I didn't even care for Sam as a character, but it finally hit me that the writers didn't give a sh*t about the characters, or story continuity, and they underestimated viewers intelligence/ability for remembering details. That rankled. Fonzie, get those bathing trunks on.

LOL. It was a little OTT heavy-handed with the lecture-y speechifying, wasn't it? Reminded me of a cartoon I'd seen as a kid, "If Woody had gone straight to the police, this would never have happened." "If we'd only had this horny nut job in charge from the beginning, this would never have happened."