First of all, check your PMs. I wrote you with a personal request. No suggestions. I tried, but could not come up with anything better than what you put out on the dvd5 that was worth your time.
I HATE FLAMERS AND JERK-MAILERS!
In my world (I am a director/producer of various and sundry awful, yet profitable crap, but I am moving into features now) the people who have ZERO creativity and drive are the ones who bitch the most about someone else's passion. EVEN WHEN IT IS GIVEN TO THEM AS A GIFT AS THIS WAS.
MOST of these types are mean spirited, frustrated little jerky children (less than 20 usually, less than pubescent sometimes) who think they know more than you, but can't back it up. A true evaluation or mature critique would go more like, "That was ok, but it could have _____. This was just off... maybe if you moved the scene X? I hate the ending... More cowbell!" That kinda thing. In other words, OFFER AN ALTERNATIVE TAKE ON IT. Anything else is just complaining, and we (speaking for the group, I hope) frankly don't care about complainers and neither should you.
I once got called a "f-ing geek virgin" (for the record, I am happily married to a real, by God, pretty woman (not that sex matters) who thinks I rock) by a skinny, shirtless, toothless dude in a Nascar hat and cutoffs on the way to a costume contest at Celebration 4. He had his "posse" of equally dirty, smelly, skinheads with him. The theme from Deliverance should have been playing in the background and that redneck had the nerve to try to pick a fight with a dude with a WHOLE GROUP (30 plus) of people in body armor. We instantly surrounded him and started in on his crappy jailhouse tattoos, while his buddies ran off a little ways. The dude actually started crying like Carrie in the shower scene after we started in on HIS appearence. When he tried to get away, he was tripped, oh, 6 times on the way out as he wailed obcsenities and his friends yucked it up. He was not too smart huh?
FYI, the line that got our skinny, half naked redneck crying:
Did you ever get tired of your mom yelling "Get off your 12 year old sister... you're crushing her smokes!"
I thought that was pretty good and have used it since. It works well in "deep south" America as well as LA.
In other words, I GUARANTEE these flame e-mailers would NOT stand up to inspection at all. They never do.
My point is, the talentless and ignorant of the world are the most negative in their reactions and attitude. These are the people who would exert CRAZY amounts of effort to tell a television station that a show offended them and they should pull it off the air rather than change a channel, ya know?
In other words, I don't sweat the people who complain like that, yet could NEVER COME CLOSE TO ANYTHING ADYWAN (or anyone else) HAS DONE! They simply can't stomach change because it hurts the brain to think of anything without judging it against the accepted standard as if the current standard cannot be improved upon.
And to the full on flame posters themselves:
Fine... Don't download it. We don't want you anyway... But please upload some of your work so we can critique it before you disappear. Anything will do, as long as it plays back in full motion.
BUT IT HAD BETTER BE GOOD AND WORTHWHILE IN OUR EYES OR YOU SHOULD BE HUNTED DOWN!
Go away, ya nasty jerks... we will just be ignoring you now on anyway.
So there. nah. :p
As for suggestions, I am saving it for Empire, and only sending it when you ask.
Feel better soon, oh talented one. I just went under the knife myself.
Start RE-teriorating soon, dangit. You have a lot of people on your side. And frankly, we need our Adywan version of Episode 12 - Balance of the Force - directed by Jett Lucas - REVISITED HD4x immersive chip implant with revised and corrected tactile smell-o-vision (the Jawas smell more Ronto-ier!)... or whatever these dang whippersnappers come up with!
Hee hee!
The 40 year old curmudgeon,
DarthSmokey