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lordyellowtail Hello.
Okay, so, apology and status update first. I am, in fact, not dead. It's been almost 4 months since I last posted, which reflects both how crazy things have been here and how poorly I manage my free time. I still owe some meme responses and other such things and I've made people wait way too long for that. Again, very sorry. I will do better. :)
As to the Flash Liveblog, it should be fairly obvious by this point that it got away from me. I tried my best, but I just couldn't keep up with it under the constraints I had. The entire experience, though, made me have even greater respect for the people who do this kind of stuff weekly for multiple shows--especially the people that prepare for podcasts, which I can only imagine takes some sort of superhuman effort I cannot begin to conceive. Turns out, this stuff is really hard. I have 3 or 4 episodes worth of notes I made that never got converted in to posts. Turns out, it's incredibly hard to watch the show and make notes about it that I can turn into a blog post at the same time. At least, if I actually want to watch the show and let myself get immersed enough in it to enjoy it.
So to do a good job with the liveblog, I needed to watch it on my Roku, so I could pause it and make notes. That meant Wednesday night, at least 90 minutes to get through an episode, then an hour to turn the notes into something presentable, probably on Thursday. I was able to do this at first, but my schedule quickly changed enough to make it impracticable. I was lucky to catch it live on Tuesday, and usually ended up watching it Wednesday and only having an hour or so, which meant no note-taking. Unfortunately, it quickly became a chore that didn't fit in my schedule.
Things are a little less hectic now, so I'm hoping to get the remaining notes I had already prepared turned in to entries and posted at some point, and will probably eventually go back and do liveblogs for the shows I don't have any notes for at some point. It won't be the same thing as doing it live, having never seen the episode, but I haven't rewatched the first season yet, so there should be plenty of "I forgot about that!" factor instead.
So, yes, if anyone anywhere was actually reading those posts and looking forward to new ones coming out, again, my apologies. In future I will do a better job of not committing to a post schedule unless I'm sure I can keep up with it.
Have a great day.
Okay, so, apology and status update first. I am, in fact, not dead. It's been almost 4 months since I last posted, which reflects both how crazy things have been here and how poorly I manage my free time. I still owe some meme responses and other such things and I've made people wait way too long for that. Again, very sorry. I will do better. :)
As to the Flash Liveblog, it should be fairly obvious by this point that it got away from me. I tried my best, but I just couldn't keep up with it under the constraints I had. The entire experience, though, made me have even greater respect for the people who do this kind of stuff weekly for multiple shows--especially the people that prepare for podcasts, which I can only imagine takes some sort of superhuman effort I cannot begin to conceive. Turns out, this stuff is really hard. I have 3 or 4 episodes worth of notes I made that never got converted in to posts. Turns out, it's incredibly hard to watch the show and make notes about it that I can turn into a blog post at the same time. At least, if I actually want to watch the show and let myself get immersed enough in it to enjoy it.
So to do a good job with the liveblog, I needed to watch it on my Roku, so I could pause it and make notes. That meant Wednesday night, at least 90 minutes to get through an episode, then an hour to turn the notes into something presentable, probably on Thursday. I was able to do this at first, but my schedule quickly changed enough to make it impracticable. I was lucky to catch it live on Tuesday, and usually ended up watching it Wednesday and only having an hour or so, which meant no note-taking. Unfortunately, it quickly became a chore that didn't fit in my schedule.
Things are a little less hectic now, so I'm hoping to get the remaining notes I had already prepared turned in to entries and posted at some point, and will probably eventually go back and do liveblogs for the shows I don't have any notes for at some point. It won't be the same thing as doing it live, having never seen the episode, but I haven't rewatched the first season yet, so there should be plenty of "I forgot about that!" factor instead.
So, yes, if anyone anywhere was actually reading those posts and looking forward to new ones coming out, again, my apologies. In future I will do a better job of not committing to a post schedule unless I'm sure I can keep up with it.
Have a great day.
