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I mentioned Brooklyn Nine Nine in relation to 30 Rock here: and got a few responses. Apparently I might need to skip forward a bit in B99 to avoid my issues with it, but from what I saw, I agree TGP is far superior.

Upcoming park sim game Jurassic World Evolution will feature Jeff Goldblum Hopefully he'll only show up to passive-aggressively congratulate/mock the player when they win the game.

The idea of putting assets in from a few of the different franchises is pretty cool.

I found celtx pretty easy to use for screenwriting. Iirc, it's cloud-based and lets you share documents etc.

I just find the new Tick show boring, like they decided to parody ultra-serious stuff like Daredevil, but then forgot to put any actual parody or comedy in.

Thank you. The pinterest thing hasn't been bothering me so much, though knowing that general trick will be useful when a particular site is hogging all the results, but the loss of View Image has been very annoying. @Chris - I don't know if this is a gateway to Marmite or an advanced enjoyment method, but I like having it with peanut butter on toast. You have to be very sparing with the Marmite, though, otherwise it overpowers the whole thing. Just a swirl on top.

Sounds good!

Very satisfied, thank you Eliza

Sailor Jerry is a good gateway baby rum (though perhaps rum aficionados will say it's muck, I dunno).

Getting tipsy on JD and Coke while re-watch binging Impractical Jokers. Can't tell if I misjudged the humour of my reply to Rodi on the Marvel thread :S

Roderick, I'm going to be your tough-to-the-point-of-cruelty-but-gets-results mentor archetype here and push you to your full potential by demanding that you give me more than 'I didn't like it then I liked it'. How did it overcome those initial problems for you? TELL ME HOW. AND DON'T SAY IT HELD UP "BETTER" WHEN IT BY DEFINITION WASN'T HOLDING UP THE FIRST TIME YOU SAW IT. OH MY DEAR GOD, ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE SINGLE TEAR PEOPLE?

Geddit?! Anyway, for David Lynch fans, here's David Lynch Teaches Typing.

How so?

So yeah, I filmed it, then finally ended up hurriedly editing it years later and cursing young me for not even getting usable takes for all the dialogue. I haven't put it up online anywhere, mainly because it's horrendous and also because it features me doing full frontal nudity, but I could probably put it up as a private video on YouTube or something like that if you're interested in seeing it!

Have PMed you (feel free to copy paste my message on here if you like, though).

"...for some reason which isn't explained and doesn't make sense."

Though of course, everybody wants some.

I have this with "aye": I find it very irritating when someone uses it instead of "yes" when writing online even though they almost definitely never say it in real life.

Those spoilers are for the 12 Monkeys tv series, everyone! I thought Cloverfield Paradox was pretty terrible, a big nonsensical derivative mess. Guess that makes me fucking crazy, right, hungover Mington?

If your immediate aim is to make a short narrative film, I'd say find something smaller immediately. You can always work on the larger script at the same time or at some point later, even if it's just a writing exercise and you never intend to make it. But for your first narrative film start very, very small. Start with what you've already got access to. Robert Rodriguez did the same for El Mariachi - he had a pet turtle, so he wrote a scene into the movie about a turtle crawling down the road. I did the same with Body Swap - I had access to a flat, all the things in it, two actors and one camera, so I wrote (and produced, but it's horrendously amateurish) a short about two guys in a flat who body-swap and decide to stay in the flat instead of risking any hi-jinx. You don't want to be getting into crowds and vehicles and shit when you haven't got even a little narrative film-making under your belt. You'll need to be very confident in what you're doing to make sure you're covering health and safety as well as just not wasting people's time. You need to learn about basic coverage, continuity, dealing with actors, dealing with crew, scheduling, narrative editing etc. I'd suggest making, say, four extremely basic short films, one a week (or a fortnight or a month depending on your life schedule), and then think about making something bigger. Maybe by the fourth one you'll already be feeling confident enough to involve some visual effects, a small crowd, stuff like that. Speaking of Robert Rodriguez, some extra-curricular reading you might find inspiring is his Rebel Without A Crew film-making diary, which is where I remember that turtle anecdote from. There are probably a ton of books like that, maybe others can recommend some. Another one would be the early chapters of If Chins Could Kill by Bruce Campbell, where he talks about all the silly short films he and the Raimis made to screen for family, friends, then the entire school, which became more and more elaborate until they made Evil Dead.

Yeah, it does this to various degrees. I agree with you on the neighbour characters, and while the problems with them haven't really been fixed yet, they do become a little more sympathetic. I'd say give it to the end of the season and see how you feel.

Woo hoo!

I just noticed all the signatures are gone! Is this intentional, @tabacco?

Oh, it's pretty short, I'll paste it here: (Seriously, though, if it would help, I can knock something out that takes into consideration your available locations, actors, etc. Or feel free to use one of the scripts on my portfolio site which I've linked to in my sig- Body Swap would probably be the sensible choice, as I wrote it to be filmed in a flat with two actors and mostly natural lighting etc.)