Comments by "0x777" (@0x777) on "TED" channel.

  1. What bothers me most about this is that someone might consider a career in writing, watch this talk, hoping they could learn something and become a hack like this one.
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  2. That sums it up quite nicely. Don't get me wrong, mystery is great, but there are 2 crucial things to keep in mind when writing a mystery: First, you, the writer, should know what is really going on and second, you do eventually reveal it to your audience. The first is crucial to stay coherent. The second is crucial so they stay invested. An audience that finds out that there isn't anything behind your mystery will invariably go "pfft, why bother?"
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  3. A mystery box is a promise. Saying that you plan to never open them basically means you already plan to break your promise before you make it.
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  4. The law of the Mary Sue would suggest he wrote himself into Rey.
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  5.  @raywilliams6717  I've both written and read better fanfic than that dreg. Seriously, the stories lacked inspiration and suspense. I just couldn't get invested in the characters, at no point any of them really mattered to me. With some of them I even didn't find a reason for their existence whatsoever.
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  6. It's worse than that. Clickbait videos still have some kind of revelation. It's a bait-and-switch, yes, there is a promise of a great revelation and in the end what you get is some insignificant bullshit story that you probably already knew. Abrams mystery box is worse than this. He promises you a great revelation but doesn't deliver anything, because that would require him to actually open his box and offer a conclusion, which he refuses to do. You go home empty handed.
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  7.  @ansel8780  The word you're looking for is spelled "farce".
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  8. He's as much withholding vital info as I was refusing to answer my teacher's questions: We just both had no fucking clue what the info was.
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  9.  @adamlong1196  handwave There is no sequel trilogy.
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  10. JJ? That you?
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  11. I remember that some test like this was handed to CEOs and to inmates. The amount of antisocial assholes was higher among CEOs.
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  12. You're way, way more forgiving than me.
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  13.  @brendanw8136  well, to be honest, it didn't take a great prophet to foretell that Ep9 would be train wreck, no later than when Ep8 hit the screens.
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