Mixed feelings on Speaker. I like the idea of a source for canonicity (did I just make that word up?), but I also kind of miss the fuzzy is-it-or-isn't-it hardcore ARGing experience. This Inside Lost metacommentary smacks to me of being forced to color between the lines. Oh, well. I've had my say. --User:RazorInTheApple 11:22, 10 May 2006 (PDT)
- Am I really all that anonymous?
- Also - Razor, would you rather the commentary be OUT of the story or just not have it at all? (And that's not to be read confrontationally - I'm just curious as to your opinion.) --S 10:27, 11 May 2006
Valid question. Thanks for asking! :-) I actually love the idea of a metacommentary, but I fear that having a "character" (no offense) who straddles in-game and out-of-game interferes with the ARGs' verisimilitude. I think you probably have the coolest job in the world right now and you serve a valuable purpose in keeping Disney's investment in its hit TV series and its spin-off ARG on the rails. But that's also the problem, I'm sorry to say. If I can't believe in the reality of this "alternate reality" -- if there's always a source for nudging me off the wrong track -- then that makes the game less interesting to me. It does make the game easier for the fat part of the bell curve, so I suppose economics dictates that this is the way to go. Personally, I don't like having the answers in the back of my textbook. It tempts me to cheat. And even if I don't, the kids around me will be chatting about the right answers because they cheated. "This is just part of the evolution of these things," the old Cloudmaker said as he took his dentures out and went to bed early. --RazorInTheApple 14:57, 11 May 2006 (PDT)
- No prob! :D I totally understand, but as you said about the curve, half of the people I get commenting have no idea there's a game and ask if "Bad Twin" is a real book or wonder why there was a strange commercial on their TV. :)
- I don't actually expect a lot of hard core Lost Fans, they all go to the fan sites (I know, cuz I'm one of'em!) which, actually give away MORE than I do (and sometimes QUICKER!)
- Besides, who says i'm nudging people OFF the wrong track instead of ONto it?
- Kidding.
- I think . . .
- --S 18:50, 11 May 2006