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Comment on Dollplay ARG Stumbles From The Start by craterlabs

craterlabs — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:32:26 +0000

But that’s my point: it’s NOT an Arg. It’s spreading to the culture, yes. And it’s implying that it’s an Arg. But it gets two of the primary details of what an Arg is wrong. It’s just an Ovaltine commercial (and if they’d called it that, I would’ve been happy.)

Comment on Dollplay ARG Stumbles From The Start by H2O hexagon

H2O hexagon — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:54:47 +0000

People that have never played in an ARG before participated, and more will come when the game continues (as I hope and have reason to believe it will). I don’t know how else 2 go about it. We did some things that seemed pretty crazy on that R prime lab site, and I 4 one is happy ppl had an explanation when they entered the site. (Still I was scoulded by new arrivals that didn’t get what we tried to do… )
This ARG is spreading the culture 2 lots of new players! Yay!
I’m sorry your experiance was 4 spoiled a bit…

Comment on Pushing Daisies: What TV Needs by craterlabs

craterlabs — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:38:56 +0000

Err, actually, potential bad news on that front, as well. See, the show has three finished, but as yet unaired, episodes (they wanted to air Lost in the timeslot…grrrrrrr…) And they were planning on airing those during the Summer.

And I don’t know if they’d release the second season’s DVD without the episodes having been aired. And it’s a real bummer for me, because there was such a massive cliffhanger at the end of the last episode that they put on TV.

The series creator has, however, said that he’d like to finish the story, either through a movie or through a series of comic books. I really hope he can do that (or have the show brought back.)

Comment on Pushing Daisies: What TV Needs by Garius

Garius — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:25:47 +0000

Cancelled? Damn! It is such an amazing show and so well done. The look of the show, with its saturated colours, the flawless casting, the excellent writing and … the narrator! As close to perfect as you can get, in my opinion.

So, I guess I won’t have to wait too long, then, for the second season on dvd.

Comment on Pushing Daisies: What TV Needs by craterlabs

craterlabs — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:55:42 +0000

Well, I’m glad you liked it. It was, in my mind, the most well written show on TV. The writers knew what they were doing, and did it even more well than the writers of the (also amazing, though for different reasons) show Lost. Heck, Pushing Daisies managed to surpass Scrubs in my view as Best Modern Comedy on TV.

However, I’m sad to report that Scrubs is at the top again. Shortly after I wrote this review, I learned that, sadly, Pushing Daisies had been cancelled. I’d love it if this show got picked back up again, although that kind of thing tends to be rare (and when it does happen, it’s rarely for a show I really, really want to see back. Scrubs came back, yeah. But Family Guy? Ugh…please, just let that show die…)

Comment on Pushing Daisies: What TV Needs by Garius

Garius — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:52:17 +0000

Well, based on your review, I went out and bought the first season. It was awesome. I love this show! My daughter loved it too – we had to ration the episodes so that we didn’t gobble them all up in one sitting. Can’t wait for season 2 to come out on dvd.

Comment on Dollplay ARG Stumbles From The Start by craterlabs

craterlabs — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:43:01 +0000

The bright, cheerful explanatory note when I first went to the website indicated that I should think of it in terms of an ARG while simultaneously giving me reasons not to think that. Like I said, the game could wind up being good, and fun could be had by all. My complaint is that it set up a certain expectation, but that the follow through (if a beginning can be said to be follow through) left said expectations unfilfilled.

It’s sort of the opposite of what Ralphie went through. He went through the mystery and intrigue and discovered an Ovaltine commercial. I, meanwhile, have to go through an Ovaltine commercial to find the mystery and intrigue.

(As opposed to The Beast and I Love Bees where the Ovaltine Commercial just happened to exist alongside the mystery and intrigue. …and opposed to Perplex City where the Ovaltine WAS the mystery and intrigue.)

Comment on Dollplay ARG Stumbles From The Start by John

John — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:58:30 +0000

Who said it was going to be an ARG?

Comment on Dr. Horrible on DVD: Putting your Commentary to Music by Welfie

Welfie — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:16:13 +0000

Hehe we all like completeness and we are all nerds. ;P

Comment on Hugo Awards: Best Graphic Story by craterlabs

craterlabs — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:48:28 +0000

Interesting, I’ll have to check out Nawlz.

Is there a certain segment of the story that you think would best meet the criteria for the Hugo?