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Mar 07, 2006
Point of Order: Rules Clarification posted by kza
Well, after spending several days on it, I’ve found that I simply can’t come through on my end of the tie-breaker round. Here’s how my Round 7.9 post began:
So, my big problem with Rachel was that, despite the interesting premise and all the notes and discussion on it, I still didn’t feel like I knew what happened in it. What were the Cool Scenes, that you might see in a trailer? How exactly was Rachel confined to the house? Does the house have some freaky supernatural powers, or is it simply constructed in a strange, but logical, manner? Why doesn’t she just break a damn window? There were still so many variables that hadn’t even been penciled in, that it felt like it was in a kind of holding pattern, and it really needs to move forward.
Yet, every attempt I made to come up with some kind of structure, some kind of skeleton that gave me an idea as to what actually happened in the story (i.e. the second act), was met with defeat. While I could’ve simply went with one of my lesser attempts, anyone who knows me knows I’m loathe to put up anything I consider shoddy or uninspired work — especially when the whole point was to give a version of the story that I could get behind. If I put up a version that, ultimately, I think is crap, then that’s a kind of cheating, I think.
The only way to resolve this, as I see it, is to simply move Rachel, My Dear forward, since I failed to adhere to the rules of the game. What say you?
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