I feel like most of these were the same story, based on the fact that the setting and characters were so limited.

Many of the entries did not adhere to the requirements. Some of the better ones totally did not adhere to them.

Quality-wise, I'd say this OWC was much like the others.  It did seem that many people got on it right away, which usually isn't the case.  I don't think that really meant that there were better scripts, on the whole, though.  Don't get me wrong, there were some good efforts for sure, but nothing that really blew me away.

IMO, the big problem occurred with all the questioning going on Friday night. The answers from Don were consistent, but didn't really address the questions, which in turn, caused more questions.

I realize I am as much to blame as anyone.  At first, I was totally messing around, as I thought the initial questions were ridiculous and completely uncalled for.  I became serious later on when Don said "No whales"...which meant, no "creatures" or animals of any kind, IMO.  I didn't think that was right, and it totally limited the what we could do with the scripts.

From there, I think people either wrote a standard script that adhered to the challenge limitations, or did everything they could to "bend" the rules as far as they could, which attributed to some far out, poor scripts.

This was not a favorite OWC for me in any way.  I don't like extreme limitations as it stymies creativity and makes for boring, been there, seen that, read that scripts.

Hi Jeff,

Apologies for not getting to this quicker - as in frickin' ages ago! I don't suppose what I'm going to add will differ much from what has been said but going into this as if a regular short and not a specific OWC entry, I honestly found it quite funny and wacky.
Not all the jokes were laugh out loud funny, the dialogue and non stop sex talk got old quick, but most of the action lines kept me amused even if I didn't get the triple beat gag.

As a quirky parody, with intentionally so bad it's funny characters, I found it well worth checking out.

The downside is if everyone else decided to adopt a similar attitude, one of " I don't like this idea so I'll just take the piss", wouldn't that damage the whole point of the exercise beyond repair and render the whole thing a waste of time?

All the best,

Malc

Thanks for the look, Malc.  I appreciate it.

Yeah, this didn't go over well, but I'm cool with that.  Glad you got a few laughs.

As I said earlier, I didn't totally take the piss.  I actually wanted to come up with something on Friday, but nothing was working, and I was determined to use my whale, and this is what came out of me.

Take care.

Haha, yeah to be fair it was an entertaining read and made me laugh a few times, especially having read some of the posts in the build up so I did chuckle when the skeletal whale was revealed.

Maybe I was being a little harsh with my last comment so I'll take that back.

Wrong or right, the idea is to entertain and this story did that for me so well done

"Don't you, you big, bad, bald, goofy stud, you?" The seriousness here just makes the script golden.

This wasn't laugh out loud funny on every sentence like Of Cannibals and Cabins but some of the dialogue still made me chuckle. "Climb over me like the dog that you are.  RUFF!  RUFF!  RUFF!"  

Sorry, Jeff! I was expecting more!

One question though, did you actually send in the wrong draft?

Yeah, I did, Mo.  Thanks for checking it out.  If you want to see the script that was supposed to be posted, I can E-Mail it to you.  Let me know.

Sorry this didn't quite work for you. It seems like no one is familiar with the source material here and that's a big problem.  These 2 characters are real life people on a SyFy TV show.  For me, at least, it makes it quite humorous, but then again, my sense of humor doesn't seem to be in line with most peeps ideas.

I appreciate the read and feedback, MO.  Thanks, man.