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Just a general pop in thread
RokofAges75:
That's too bad the Critics Choice Awards got postponed, but understandable, given everything that's been going on in L.A. So horrific!
I'm glad you made it through Season 1 of Squid Game and enjoyed the first episode of Season 2. I think Season 2 is almost as good as Season 1, and some of the new characters I like even better than the ones I liked in the first season. I agree about the ending of Season 1; the last episode was my probably my least favorite one. Season 2 will leave you hanging on a major cliffhanger, but Season 3 is supposed to come out this year. It really feels more like a two-part season than two separate seasons.
Yes, if that's the general consensus about Yellowjackets, I agree. The first season was better than the second. It gets a lot weirder in the second season. There's a supernatural element that I could do without. The survival stuff is dark and dramatic enough for me. It's still good, though. I have one more episode to go in the second season, and then I'll cancel my Showtime trial before it charges me. Then I'll have to decide what to do about the third season. I'll probably wait until the whole season is available to binge watch and then do another Showtime trial so I don't have to pay for it. I hate that too! I also refuse to pay for AMC+, but all of the Walking Dead spinoffs eventually make their way to Netflix, so hopefully the other AMC shows will too. I never got into Interview With a Vampire and haven't tried The Mayflower Witches, so I'm not watching any other AMC shows at the moment.
I'm glad you liked The Pitt so far! I really enjoyed the first season of The Resident too, although that one got more and more ridiculous as it went on. The Pitt seems more realistic. I agree; the characters are likeable and seem like real people, not all beautiful famous people. You're right; the nurse with the ankle bracelet is Fiona Dourif, of Chucky fame. She's one of my favorites so far! I also recognized the cute male nurse, Matteo, from the movie Thanksgiving. Other than those two and Noah, I don't think I know any of the other actors, which is nice. I also think the kid is going to come back as a school shooter or something, causing a mass-casualty situation later in the season.
Thanks! I ended up having a decent writing session late last night and decided that I am going to stick with the real location and use that to add some conflict to the chapter. It's more interesting that way, and then I don't have to come up with something totally different to describe.
I hope you get inspired soon! We all have those slumps, and it's so frustrating! Do you think it's the story itself that you're stuck on, or is just all the other things going on in your life that's distracting you from being able to focus on it?
mare:
I know those fires are no joke!
I was surprised to see that Squid Games 2 only had 7 episodes so it makes sense that the third one will be coming out soon. It probably was more like a part 1 and 2. I love that we're seeing into some of the pink people's eyes this time around.
Interview with a Vampire is really surprisingly good. It's incredibly well written and even though it veers off a bit from the actual books, it stays true enough to the main characters. I never really considered myself a big vampire fan, but I guess I actually am since I loved The Vampire Diaries and all its little spin offs as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and What We Do in the Shadows. I wasn't as impressed with the Mayfair Witches series, but I'm still watching. If you have HBO/MAX as a cable channel, you get Showtime for free, but I don't even know if that applies to the new merge they just did. It's so crazy, all of it! Apparently, A Real Pain will also be streaming on Disney+ as well as Hulu because I guess they also merged, but I'm paying for both of those separately because I have no interest in ESPN.
Fiona, that was her name. Yes, I really like her too. As of right now, she's one of my favorites. I also love the little mousey blonde med student and the guy with the lovely loose curly hair. I think that's Matteo. I have never seen Thanksgiving, but he also looked pretty familiar. I haven't entered the 'it's time to google everyone on this show' stage of watching yet, but I bet he's been on some of the stuff I have watched before.
Glad you found a resolution to your chapter. Conflict is always a good thing and when it comes to stuff like that, there is always room for drama.
I did end up finishing my chapter. All I have to do is reread it one last time and edit, then I'll most likely post it today. I think my slump is a factor of a little bit of everything. I think I'm on a little decline health wise. I'm really bad at picking up on the signs until it's been happening for a while but yesterday, I think I realized it's because I just haven't been feeling well. I'm having a harder time sitting up and holding things and have had a horrible headache that won't go away. My attention span is worse when that happens, so I tend to tap out of things faster and get more irritable. For instance, I have been sitting here just on the forum for about 20 minutes which would normally be fine but now I feel like I need to get off of here instead of update. :shrug:
RokofAges75:
Yes, it definitely feels more like a Part 1 and Part 2 than two separate seasons. I'm not sure why they didn't just call it all Season 2 and release it in two parts.
I don't have HBO as a channel, so I won't have access to Showtime. I only have access to the Max app because a friend of mine shared her account info with me, but I think she just has Max too, not regular HBO. I finished Yellowjackets Season 2 last night and cancelled my free trial. I will probably wait to do another one until I know all of Season 3 is available to watch so I can just binge it. I do have Hulu and access to Disney+, so I'll be able to watch A Real Pain.
Yes, I like the blonde intern too. Matteo is the one with dark, curly hair. He's cute! I looked him up when I re-watched Thanksgiving this year because he looks familiar, and he hasn't been in anything else I've seen (prior to that movie and The Pitt). He must be a newer actor because he didn't have a lot of credits from what I remember. He must just look like someone else. But maybe you have seen him in something else.
Yeah, I'm feeling a lot better about this chapter. I can see Kevin being a martyr, like, "Don't sacrifice your vision for what could be a really cool shoot just because of me. We'll find a way to make it work" - and then struggling to find a way to make it work. But hopefully I'll have fun writing that aspect of it once I get further into the scene.
Congrats on finishing your chapter! And sorry you haven't been feeling well. That definitely makes it harder to write. Who wants to stare at a screen when they have a headache? I have a hard time focusing when I'm uncomfortable, too. I hope it gets better!
mare:
Maybe Matteo just has one of those recognizable faces or he might have been in a commercial. Sometimes that's where I find faces familiar.
The Kevin martyr angle would work really well for Kevin. I can also see him being passively aggressive mad about it too. lol
I did actually get my chapter posted yesterday. I decided to come back on in the afternoon and post it. I'm glad I did. I know me and it would've bothered me all week that I had a chapter done but didn't post it and I am too OCD to do it on just any random day during the week.
RokofAges75:
Yes, it's definitely not just you - he must have been in something else or look like someone else, but I can't place him. Here's his IMBD page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9780469/?ref_=tt_cst_t_11
What do you mean by passively aggressive mad? I know what passive aggressive means, obviously, but do you mean mad at the photographer or the guys for doing a photo shoot in an inaccessible place, or just mad at the world/frustrated by the situation? What might that look like? I'm just picking your brain for ideas here! 😊 I haven't written the actual shoot yet, but I'm in the middle of a conversation about it, so I'm wide open to input!
Yay for posting your chapter! I've been hoarding mine, trying to build up more of a buffer again. I have 3 finished chapters that I haven't posted. I'll probably post one this weekend, then the next one in two weeks. The every-other-week updating schedule seems to work better with my slothlike writing pace and keeps me from running out of chapters to post so quickly. Plus, my next two chapters take place on Valentine's Day, so closer to February is better. What's really pathetic is that last Valentine's Day, I posted a Christmas chapter, which means I've only covered about two months of time in my story in the past year, in which I wrote every day and finished 18 chapters that added up to almost 100k words. This is why my story is so long. 🤦♀️
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