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You did an excellent job working on that episode; I feel that your guide is continuing to become one of the most informative guides on the site, though I would encourage you to later return to the episodes you’ve completed to get a recap written for them. I know they’re time consuming to write, though most guides don’t have recaps and contributing recaps to a guide really helps it stand apart from the rest of the guides on the site. Also, since recaps are usually the most informative contribution one can make, they help those who do want to read them to fully grasp the episode’s information.
None-the-less, as I've said, you’ve done an excellent job with that episode. I don’t believe I’ve managed to contribute at least one type of each contribution to a single episode in such a fashion that you have. I suppose such is due to the fact that my guide is a comedy series while yours is more of an action series, so only a small number of 101 Dalmatians episodes actually have Episode References, which prevents me from contributing that said type of contribution too often.
I’ve rambled on longer than I needed to. Keep up the excellent work and please continue to do your best for the good of the site and the community. |
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| Message Posted On Thursday, August 3rd 2006 At 6:31 pm |
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Thank you, Huntsman, and I've decided to begin writing recaps for episodes. Once I finish the last episode of Season two, I plan to go back and add recaps for all twenty-seven episodes of the two seasons. |
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| Message Posted On Thursday, August 3rd 2006 At 7:05 pm |
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This has nothing to do with the progress of the episode guide, though I just finished rewriting every summary on the Show Summary, which look barbaric due to me having written them around six months ago. I feel I've grown as a writer, which is why I've been rewriting my previous episode summaries as well. I encourage you all to read the new ones, as they are much more detailed and are written in a better fashion. |
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| Message Posted On Thursday, August 3rd 2006 At 11:29 pm |
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I enjoy starring at you guide dude. I think it emphasises what every guide on the site should be like. I'm not much of a reader and to tell the truth the only recaps that I read are my own. Your summaries on the other hand were excellent before you changed them IMO. So i'm assubming after you change them they will be perfect. So anyway keep up the good work dude! |
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| Message Posted On Thursday, August 3rd 2006 At 11:35 pm |
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Thank you, Nyall, though I must disagree, as I feel that many of my summaries, if not all of them, are terrible on this guide, which is why I've rewritten all of the ones for episodes I've completed. I haven't come across one of my original summaries that I've considered good enough that it doesn't need a rewrite. It's a sad fact, though it's also a true one. |
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| Message Posted On Thursday, August 3rd 2006 At 11:37 pm |
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| On Thursday, August 3rd 2006 11:37 pm, Systemax wrote: | | Thank you, Nyall, though I must disagree, as I feel that many of my summaries, if not all of them, are terrible on this guide, which is why I've rewritten all of the ones for episodes I've completed. I haven't come across one of my original summaries that I've considered good enough that it doesn't need a rewrite. It's a sad fact, though it's also a true one. |
I wish I was so dedicated as you. Most of the summaries on my gudie are a mere 1 or 2 lines that just give a preview of the episode. But in season 1 of my Jimmy Neutron gudie I totally made upf for that with the addition of extras. If only reaps were less time consuming and attention consuming. Unlike a quote all I do is Open; Wndows Media Player; Play the video and listen for good quotes. And for notes and other extras, I send Windows Media Player to my taskbar and watch it while and look for goofs, notes, CR, etc. It seems That have stressed too far off the point but I think you got what I was saying or atleast trying to say. |
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| Message Posted On Thursday, August 3rd 2006 At 11:42 pm |
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On another note, I'm but a mere eight points away from reaching the milestone of contributing to a guide that is four hundred points. I'm aware that many users have contributed far more than this to a guide, though I've seen a selected few members who've reached this merely by submitting episodes to guides that have been airing for over ten years with episodes that air daily. To reach a milestone such as this due to hard, informative work such as this means a great deal to me, so I'm very excited to reach that point. I'm not insulting users who add episodes, as someone has to do it, though I'm also aware that many do this solely for the points, which doensn't justify it, in my opinion. |
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| Message Posted On Thursday, August 3rd 2006 At 11:43 pm |
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| On Thursday, August 3rd 2006 11:42 pm, Nyall wrote: | | On Thursday, August 3rd 2006 11:37 pm, Systemax wrote: | | Thank you, Nyall, though I must disagree, as I feel that many of my summaries, if not all of them, are terrible on this guide, which is why I've rewritten all of the ones for episodes I've completed. I haven't come across one of my original summaries that I've considered good enough that it doesn't need a rewrite. It's a sad fact, though it's also a true one. |
I wish I was so dedicated as you. Most of the summaries on my gudie are a mere 1 or 2 lines that just give a preview of the episode. But in season 1 of my Jimmy Neutron gudie I totally made upf for that with the addition of extras. If only reaps were less time consuming and attention consuming. Unlike a quote all I do is Open; Wndows Media Player; Play the video and listen for good quotes. And for notes and other extras, I send Windows Media Player to my taskbar and watch it while and look for goofs, notes, CR, etc. It seems That have stressed too far off the point but I think you got what I was saying or atleast trying to say. |
I believe that your recaps make up for your small summaries, though I still encourage you to go back and rewrite your summaries once everything's all said and done. It will improve the overall quality of your guide.
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| Message Posted On Thursday, August 3rd 2006 At 11:44 pm |
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| On Thursday, August 3rd 2006 11:44 pm, Systemax wrote: | | On Thursday, August 3rd 2006 11:42 pm, Nyall wrote: | | On Thursday, August 3rd 2006 11:37 pm, Systemax wrote: | | Thank you, Nyall, though I must disagree, as I feel that many of my summaries, if not all of them, are terrible on this guide, which is why I've rewritten all of the ones for episodes I've completed. I haven't come across one of my original summaries that I've considered good enough that it doesn't need a rewrite. It's a sad fact, though it's also a true one. |
I wish I was so dedicated as you. Most of the summaries on my gudie are a mere 1 or 2 lines that just give a preview of the episode. But in season 1 of my Jimmy Neutron gudie I totally made upf for that with the addition of extras. If only reaps were less time consuming and attention consuming. Unlike a quote all I do is Open; Wndows Media Player; Play the video and listen for good quotes. And for notes and other extras, I send Windows Media Player to my taskbar and watch it while and look for goofs, notes, CR, etc. It seems That have stressed too far off the point but I think you got what I was saying or atleast trying to say. |
I believe that your recaps make up for your small summaries, though I still encourage you to go back and rewrite your summaries once everything's all said and done. It will improve the overall quality of your guide.
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I guess I will re-write but probably when I finish competed the other season of my Jimmy Neutron guide. One of the things I enjoy about Jimmy Neutron is the easy plot in the episode. The title usually says it all and that's how I end up having such short sumamries for even 1 hour episodes.
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| Message Posted On Thursday, August 3rd 2006 At 11:50 pm |
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◄► I've finished my recap for the first episode of the series. Unfortunately, I was unable to complete the final episode of season two, as I was too lazy to sit through the entire twenty minutes of it. I'll definitely watch it today, though I just couldn't do it without some sleep. Regardless, I encourage everyone to check it out. Even with my attempts to make it not too boring to read, I feel I've still made it too long to be of interest to some people. Although, I don't want to dumb them down any further, as I want them to be distinguished from summaries. |
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| Message Posted On Sunday, August 6th 2006 At 3:16 am |
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Nice recap, very nice. Keep up the good work; I wish I could write recaps in your style, as I’m sure English teachers would detest my work. I have solid chunks of text without much paragraph transition, though your recaps are written in a much more human fashion. |
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| Message Posted On Sunday, August 6th 2006 At 3:20 am |
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I can't take credit for my fashion in which I write recaps, as I've merely been writing a new summary every time a scene change occurs. |
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| Message Posted On Sunday, August 6th 2006 At 3:21 am |
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Well, keep doing it that way because it works. Easy to read and good scene transition from one paragraph to the next. |
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| Message Posted On Sunday, August 6th 2006 At 3:26 am |
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Thanks, Huntsman.
As of now, I'm going to officially re-begin my work on Spider-Man, which I believe has been on hold for around a week. I feel really stupid for taking a break when there was only one episode left in season two that needed to be completed, though I was really stressed out. Hopefully, I'll be able to reach 400 contribution points after finishing the episode I'm going to start on. |
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| Message Posted On Friday, August 11th 2006 At 8:16 pm |
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I wish you the best of luck; I’m also starting to resume my work on my guide, despite the fact that I’m disheartened due to the fact that my extras are being stolen. Grailwolf said that there may not be anything he can do about it, though he’ll look into it and see if enough was copied verbatim to warrant any action. I’ll just have to keep putting quality in my recaps, since I know they’re exclusive to this site and that they’re a big help. |
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| Message Posted On Friday, August 11th 2006 At 8:48 pm |
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