Green Room - Week 18 - Day 5

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Time is running short, and I can already hear the vans arriving to get into this place to scrub it down during the off season.

I hope they brought a lot of cleaning solution. Some of these stains aren’t going to come out easily.

There is still a poll though -
http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/697433.html

and then one more that will determine who the winner will be!!

So, let’s start the final countdown celebration right now: What was your favorite parts of the Exhibits (A and B)?

Comments

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

The "bucket of topics" was a side effect of having a lot of them left and not really wanting to continue using them into Season 9! :)

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Well, there is that!

If you're going to eliminate big chunks of contestants each week (shortening the season), those two-topics-per-person can really back up!

Still, I was glad to have the options for many of them. ;)

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Most people ended up having multiple topics of theirs used. Some of them I liked better than others.

To be fair, most people say the same of mine! :D

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Yes. "Twitterpated" and "The Weak Force" come to mind... ;)

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I quite like Twitterpated.

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

God, I hated that one.

I was flummoxed by "The Weak Force" too, but I wound up writing Crack for it, and it was AWESOME! ;)

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I don't remember where I came across it, but I was reading something where it was referenced and thought "That's a neat idea".

I read some more up on it and thought that it could be applied to people's lives in interesting ways.

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

I read some more up on it and thought that it could be applied to people's lives in interesting ways.

As it turned out, it WAS.

Except for those of us who wrote Crack. Because how could you NOT write about subatomic particles in the Quarketerium, once the idea came to you?

[lrig-rorrim.livejournal.com]

I ended up loving "The weak force" as a topic. The range of responses to that were amazing, and I was pretty happy with the story I wrote that week too. *shrugs* It's totally a crapshoot, I think. We all have really wildly varying ideas on what makes a good or bad topic, and then we buckle down and just do our best with what's thrown at us anyway.

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

I hated "the weak force" at first, but the story I wrote for it is still one of my favorites, and thedaysetup's Flow Chart Awesomeness is still saved in my memories.

So, there is that-- it triggered broad variety. "Twitterpated" drove sappy love stories. Some of them were awesome and not sappy, but still...

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's been a worse topic than the zombie love story topic in Season 4 (and that came from a competitor, too).

As someone who doesn't like zombie stories, that was a very bad week.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

That was a result of someone winning a special power to "come up with the week's topic". So, thank a former fellow contestant for that one.

It happened on one of the worst days of my life - and I got home to find out *that* was the topic... and yet people loved it and it started the "Idol-Zombie" craze.

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was in the minority on that, and I hated the Idol zombie phase. But what's new. :P

And I said it was a contestant. I remember who it was. :P

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Yep. They were in yellow. :)

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

Both of them

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, the zombie love story. That's one phase of s4 I'm always going to remember, if only for sitting here trying to dream up an actual story where the main characters could only groan and/or gurgle.

I'm no zombie story lover, but I have to admit I got a chuckle out of it.

[porn-this-way.livejournal.com]

I loved Weak Force as well! We all cussed about it and shook our fists at first, sure, but I think some of THE most creative entries came out of that week, and the variety was just astounding. That topic with its delightful sciency weirdness pushed me in a direction I normally wouldn't have gone, and it is literally *the* only topic where I can, off the top of my head and without even glancing at anything, name three different contestants who completely blew me away that week. (java_fiend, the_day_setup, and alien_infinity would be the three.)

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Dissing my Quarketerium?

That hurts, man. It cuts me deep.

But if I were better at remembering how the_day_setup articulated his username, my comment higher up wouldn't have an empty user-head in it.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

I also noted that when you posted the list of topic choices, you didn't change the way it was submitted to you - some of them were sans-capital letters, others were in quotes, etc.

I'm anal enough that if it had been me, I would have made them all the same (ie: instead of "Twitterpated", preoccupied, and Reinventing the wheel, I would have typed it up as Twitterpated, Preoccupied, and Reinventing the Wheel.)

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

That's because some of them had a reason for how they submitted it, and rather than go back and check - for the most part I left them "as if" figuring that was the intent.