I didn't find any of it boring or confusing.

That whole TV writing thing? Not as easy as it looks. Making my rookie attempt, I salute the people who do it well, and sadly? It'll even be a little harder to say "Dude, I could do better than that!" in future. Which is too bad; I *loved* doing that. But, you know, omelette, eggs, yada, yada, yada.

Pfah. I'm a horribly sluggish beta, but IMO when your rookie effort is done, you'll still be able to say "Dude, I could do better than that!" Only by that time you'll have tangible proof of doing it better.

Maybe not better than the shiniest gods of the doing-that pantheon, but better than a lot of the writers on what Hec and I call the low channels (you know, the places where the universally beloved Raymond and the King of Queens and their ilk hang out). Which is still not one bit shabby for a rookie.

And now I'm all curious to see Joss and Tim and Jane et al's rookie efforts. Were they all that right from the start, even as infant screenwriters, or did they have to work at it like the rest of us mortals?

erika, what's this about your ROOKIE TV WRITING EFFORT? I'm so woefully behind, I can only be called "Buffista" because I still remember my password.

That whole TV writing thing? Not as easy as it looks. Making my rookie attempt, I salute the people who do it well, and sadly? It'll even be a little harder to say "Dude, I could do better than that!" in future. Which is too bad; I *loved* doing that. But, you know, omelette, eggs, yada, yada, yada.

Recapping cured me of a lot of that, right quick. I mean, if I can't make it interesting when the story is already there for me, then I should shut the hell up. I don't, but that's because they pay me to be wordy, but in the lands of should, I would.

If I get my way, I won't have to do that anymore(But when have I ever got my way? The twelfth of never, mostly.) Cindy, I'm writing a spec. But I'm a total newb, so it may never come to anything. But TV-writing? Not easy. But it does work my freakish knack for mimicry.

Oh, I'm not saying I could do better. I judge TV purely on if I'm being entertained; that's what I'm paying people in adverts and DVD to do for me.

Joss wrote a screenplay called Afterlife back in the early 90s, it's about a secret illegal underground (literally) mind wiping and personality transfer operation. Ping me if anybody wants a copy, it's fun comparing early Joss.

That whole TV writing thing? Not as easy as it looks.

If it makes you feel any better, it does eventually get easier in some ways.

Oh, I'm sure. I'm just at square one, for one.

We got the extra ep on regular tv over here (not that I knew it was an extra ep until I'd watched it and felt safe to come in here).

That was a damn fine episode. It seems like the start of the season and the end of the season are two completely different shows. And where do they go from there?

I was pretty much ready to stop watching after the first two episodes, and I only really kept with it 'cause I'd already set my tivo and I'm hell of lazy. Glad I did though...

I saved all four discs from Netflix because D said he might want to watch the whole series after he'd seen the unaired pilot. Well he watched it and said the show was crap. I tried to suck him in with Alan Tudyk but he walked out of the room before the big reveal. I told him what the big reveal was and he still wasn't interested.

So I sent all four discs back and completely forgot to watch the bonus episode. sigh. I think I'm going to go through the rigamarole of adding all the discs back on and deleting the first three just so I can watch that damn episode.