Wah!

[rj_anderson]

I really, really feel like writing another scene of my Margot Snape fic (funny how I keep calling it that when Malcolm is the POV character, but, well, that's Margot for you), and I can't because the kids are keeping me too busy

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[anonymous]

I have to agree with you about the Alias episode. I'm not really too happy with the changes. I really don't like that they killed off a character we cared about somewhat, I don't like that now we have to screen each show to avoid major sex scenes, and I REALLY don't like the whole "bad-girl evilly watching said major sex scene" scenario. Now that's squicky! Oh, well, I guess I'm not in anyone's target market and in a few years there won't be a single program on TV I can watch. Don't get me started on Enterprise's episode last night!

Liz

[rj_anderson]

Don't get me started on Enterprise's episode last night!

You mean it was even stupider and had more gratuitous underwear shots than usual?

I gave up on ENT about three weeks ago. I'd given it a whole year and a half to become something more than mediocre (at best), and it never did. Too bad, because when I saw the pilot episode, I'd thought the idea had real potential... and last season's cliffhanger actually made me think the execution might eventually live up to it.

Oh, well.

[labellerose]

And of course, by the time the kids are in bed tonight, odds are I won't have the energy or the impulse left to write.

Funny how that works, happens to me all the time. However, I am hoping the Nap Fairy smiles on you as some more Margot would be very nice indeed. :)

[rj_anderson]

The Nap Fairy is capricious, alas. Today my toddler has fallen asleep in the afternoon (which is almost unheard-of these days) but the baby refused to nap more than half an hour...

[sollersuk]

Glad to see you've recovered from previous despondency. I'm a bit confused, though, because what you flushed may have started out on the subject of fanfic, but it was no more *about* fanfic than (say) the Parable of the Talents is *about* savings plans; it was dealing with some very important and thought-provoking issues such as human relationships and intellectual honesty; and this was why, IMHO, it was generating quite so many comments.

You have my admiration, though, that energy and impulse apart, you even have the desire to write; my own sprogs drained me so completely in every direction that the younger was 5 before I even wanted to write.

[rj_anderson]

I had composed a thoughtful reply to this and then my toddler came along and deleted it with one ill-timed poke at the keyboard, which may either have Meant Something or was just pure bad luck, depending on how one may be inclined.

Anyway, thanks for your remarks. I would have been in favor of continuing the discussion along the lines you mentioned, except I couldn't see a way to separate that from the confusion and misunderstandings, and in the end it seemed to me more prudent to just shut the thread down. I enjoy a lively debate, but not when it gets personal and starts to generate hurt feelings. Still, perhaps we can discuss these things more fruitfully another time, or in a different context...