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After fighting through 50 different story ideas, the boys have picked Time to Die as the script to write. They are now starting the writing process.

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Re:[3] Round Two: Rise to Vote, Sir

January 31, 2006 · by The Urban Shockah · Permalink · comment on this post in the forum · Category: Original Version, the screenplay

I know -- y'all thought I was gonna post Round Three. Sorry, not yet. Definitely tomorrow.

But a few notes about that last round:

I have no idea how well emotions translate from this blog to the people reading it, but I think there's a small chance that some of you might've been surprised by my vote for La Commune Planet.

If so, your surprise was justified. If we're talking about which idea I genuinely liked more, than yes, I really liked Robots in Love more than La Commune Planet.

Fortunately for those communards, mere "like" wasn't going to cut it.

The thing is, my real problem with La Commune Planet, as of this writing, is one of passion. I mean, I named it #3 in my list, and here I was crapping all over it. What happened? I'm not entirely sure, but once in the cold light of day, my previous passion for the idea kinda died out, and as Burley (and gdd, in the forum) expressed their enthusiasm, I began to get a sense of what the problem was.

I'll save that for its next battle, however.

So why the flip-flop? Well, I thought about it, and came to a couple conclusions:

A) Although I have a problem with it, I realized that it's not nearly as big a problem that Burley and I face with Rasputin the Translator. As I mentioned to him a few days ago, with that one, we're either going to find common ground for our differing interpretations (and it'll probably cruise to the finals), or we won't and it'll die in its next battle. Commune, however, as I said before, was a problem of passion, and if in a matter of a week it can go from #3 to #20, then there's always the possibility of that it could reverse course by the time it has to fight again. In that time, I could stumble upon the way "into" this idea that really gets me excited. This was, in a sense, a "benefit of the doubt" vote.

B) And all of the above wouldn't have mattered at all if Robots in Love was airtight, but clearly it wasn't. I asked myself a question: if Robots in Love were all mine to create, if I had total control over every aspect of it, would I do it? The hard, honest truth was that I would table it and move onto something else. It wasn't ready, and it was going to take a lot of energy to get it to that point. It wouldn't have been fair to try and vote it through, I don't think.

Okay, 'nuff navel gazing. Round Three, coming up!