Darn. We need to keep pestering him about the fanfic. I thought the weekend would be a good opportunity to finally finish it.

I like the vast majority of the episodes as well. There aren't any that I hate, and at worse the ones I don't like much still had good points.

i honestly can't think of an FIM episode that i genuinely didn't like. granted, some weren't as engaging as others, but they were all fairly solid to me.

Agreed. I don't get it when people get all upset at a "bad" episode. I've yet to see one that I didn't think was at least alright.

Evening folks. Anything been going on lately?

.......... (Sighs)

Well I wasted the evening reading tvtropes. I haven't really gotten much done.

Apparently Ginger composed of 80 percent of this thread's critical capacity.

@Crow: Just got done getting my daily dose of pony from Tumblr, and I think some people are accosting you to finish your fic segment? (Unless it's another user, then in which case, forgive me.)

Kinda glad you guys wouldn't mind me if I discussed favorite episodes, but to be honest, I don't have one.

-goes to cradle his non-existent Fluttershy plushie-

By hit or miss, I mean the miss ones are still OK.

Finally got PS working again...shame I'm falling asleep.

Night folks,

What do you mean by that?

Well, about to start on chapter 2 of Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons.

First chapter was okay. I liked that it really painted a picture of the stable and what Blackjack's life is like. I like the two main characters introduced so far (Blackjack and P-21). Though fuuuuuuck it's a lot of words.

Just a comment about how most of the people on the thread are pretty none critical about the show.

Somber does have a verbose style to be sure.

Hey guys, what's going on?

I think it's just a fanfiction thing in general. It's very different from books. With books, they generally trim things down to the most important details so you know what's happening.

With a lot of fanfictions, they detail everything that happens.

For example, in the first Harry Potter book it details what generally happens in a class, and it will have scenes of classes where things happen that are significant to the plot, but apart from that it just says how the classes go and then proceeds with the passage of time, assuring the reader that nothing outrageous happens in the meantime. If it were a fanfic it'd feel the need to go into every day's routine and we'd get a detailed look at every class session, pretty much.

Concision is not a strong point with fanfiction. Or maybe it's just that fanfictions simply tend to cover shorter, denser periods of time.

@Mio: Oh, I can be critical; pretty much every episode has a flaw I can identify. It's just that most of the time the good parts outweigh the flaws by enough that the episode as a whole is still enjoyable.

I think it's less inherent to fanfiction and more a byproduct of the editing process. Professional editors are more likely to cut out anything unnecessary, whereas fanfic editors will generally leave it alone as long as it's well written. I'm working on something original now, and I can tell you that the initial bits are probably more detailed than any fanfic I've written because I can't expect the reader to be familiar with the setting.

edited 24th Aug '13 6:11:07 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Nope, I'm talking about Crowlover, not Crowfall. Keep your crows straight. We also used to have a Crowwind here.

Speaking of which...

Yeah, I'm a completely different crow. Though I think I'm on the list for that fic at some point. How many people have written a segment so far?

That's explain why fanfics are always easy to beat real books with words number.

Probably also worth mentioning that fanfiction is an episodic medium - and when you have irregular releases, well, you gotta make sure you deliver something substantial to your readers. Whereas books are sorta one-shot affairs. Your write the book, and it's published in one block.

edited 24th Aug '13 6:16:52 PM by Pannic

Well, that and they lack deadlines and the physical limitations of physical publishing. I think once you hit around the 800 page mark your publisher just goes, "Dude, STOP!"

Interesting, might explain why Victorian serial novels are similarly verbose.

Unless you're Stephen King.