Where no one has gone before...

Today I am watching Star Trek: TNG in large quantities... Do I really have anything to say other than that? Nope. I hope I can find the season that had the totally amazing de-evolution thing going on. You know the one I'm talking about...

The day the ass-kick died...

We've all seen it happen before --- eventually, gravity happens, the mighty must fall, and death comes to all those who conquer. I shed a tear when this happened to amazing anime Naruto (and I am still in denial about the show making a comeback).

The problem: SHIPPUUDEN had all these amazing plots lined up from its predecessor, regular Naruto (which they could have exploited until the end of time, or in anime-time at LEAST another 500 episodes!):

• Naruto's mysterious past
• Naruto's dream of one day becomming hokage
• Naruto's need to someday pass his Chunin exam
• Naruto's struggle with Akatsuki
• Naruto's relationship with SASUKE!!! (tantalizing HINTS of character appearance are what keeps the audience glued to the TV screen, but when the character stops showing up altogether (presumably because he's become far too cool) it defeats the purpose of trying to make people anticpate his return! The audience just forgets about him and stops caring! GAH!)

(Ok, back on topic)

But INSTEAD? Naruto is running around doing useless filler episodes about ninja who are (as far as I can tell) only powerful because of Kyuubi fart gas, or about characters who crawled out of some hole in the ground and then subsequently crawled back into it and died (a.k.a. Asuma Sarutobi).

The "most anticipated fight of the series" (the one between Sasuke and Naruto at Orochimaru's underground weird palace thingy) was VERY anticipated, but by no means did it live up to the hype. In fact, I wouldn't even call it a fight as much as I would call it a "witty" exchange of words that only confirmed things that we already knew (Sasuke's time to be possessed by Orochimaru is nearing, he is way more bad-ass than Naruto, etc.).

In closing, I give to you the exact episode where the magic left the series. #42, a.k.a "Seriously, are They for Real About Those ****ing Snakes?"

Why "www.writingforums.org" is full of Nazis

HOLY SHIT, BATMAN!!!

I do not recommend this site for anyone who is *seriously* trying to become a published author. The site is extremely limiting in terms of things you can express on it (example: I posted something in the LOUNGE with an external link and it was completely deleted because they don't believe in incorporating off-sight content into their site, unless the author can write a summary of it so that people aren't forced to leave the site to be included in the thread).

• Swearing is a "no-no" (using the terminology of one of the mods)
• Scandalous conversation is also a no-no
• Any kind of interesting, thought-provoking topic of conversation is a (you guessed it) no-no (Although, that being said you could probably write an 'artistic' piece on the rape of a woman and they would eat it up, so long as she didn't say "get the *no-no* off of me!!!!" at any point in the story.)

Also, the mods seem to be more numerous than the posters and even LESS creative. Amazing; you'd think a group of writers would be all for promoting new and interesting thoughts instead of being bogged down by idiotic rules and regs (that I am sure only serve to make the mods feel like they are the Big Wolves on Campus).

I won't be going back to the blitzkrieg, that's for sure. Can anyone recommend any BETTER forums? I tried looking, but www.writingforums.org was all I found! WTF?