Thread:TJlive800/@comment-4952704-20150224023342/@comment-16747922-20150316224445

ZeVikingSif wrote: Before i get to the second half of Alpha, i have some questions.

This is gonna get deep shit right here, but first off, are you okay with my wreckless personality? Where i call you names *jokingly*, or when i'm unintentionally stubborn sometimes? Would you prefer if i didn't, and just stayed serious and cool *and calm*?

Second, do you think of Alpha as my series that you're working on or our series together? Like your second series that you're working with me instead of you working for me? I think of this as ours together despite the no character named TJ and the central character named "Sif". Is this ours together or is this just mine that you're working on with. Actually, do you enjoy working on this? Reply seriously please.

Third, this isn't really a question, but i've decided that you have complete control over Bradly and his story. The whole reason i extended Bradly's story is to make you more interested in Alpha, i want you to make the Bradly story your own with what i've got, hell you can even dismiss some characters. Just make it completely your own, make it like Person of Interest or whatever the fuck you watch these days.

Reply to all of these seriously, and i'll get on with the episode guide. ANSWER #1: Dude, I'm completely fine with your personality, but remember that everything you say goes on some kind of record. I'd prefer it if you didn't spam me with a thousand different variations of "fucker" as a greeting, and sometimes your over-the-top insults and bashing on my schedule changes get a bit irritating (it's not hurtful but it sounds idiotic and I don't want mummy and/or daddy to walk in at the wrong time lmao), but I like your sense of humor and I like that you and I have a lot in common.

ANSWER #2: I think of it as both. Do know that I never, NEVER, EVER think of Alpha as "that goddamn nuisance that's subpar to my great award winning series". Never. Oftentimes nowadays I find myself more invested in Alpha than HoE, and I don't know if it's because of my prolonged writer's block with episode 8 or just the sheer creative streaks we've been on. But Alpha's world is something I can admit is more fleshed-out and refined than the rather linear HoE, which started off as an abstract high concept that I developed further, made it a hobby, then used my TV knowledge to craft a fun story. Season 2 will be a lot less experimental and will have a more lasting focus. I'll admit that I literally made the first four episodes up as I went along and somehow managed to tie loose ends.

ANSWER #3: Do I, now? Well, for the most part I've been really invested in the details and execution but leaving the conceptual stuff up to you. Now I can hop into Notepad and construct another grand story web for it all :D Yeah, about Person of Interest: its first two seasons did an excellent job of interweaving the crime-based plots with the technology-based story arc, which they took to a more serialized level in the third and fourth seasons. I liked the sense of mystery they maintained and how they kept the world humming with all these details and recurring elements that were fun to spot out. I binge-watched the first two seasons out of order over summer 2013 and started following the show in season 3, so the two halves feel rather different. Nonetheless, I'll use those tactics as inspiration to balance out the streetside story with the less grounded and more sci-fi-ish stuff. The better the balance and the smoother we juggle everything together, the more multifaceted the world will feel. And hell, we haven't released even one episode and the world already feels huge. '''But really, I highly, HIGHLY FREAKING RECOMMEND that you see POI, once you're done with Breaking Bad. You can even quit Blacklist if you want - the show's gone way downhill, and "The Major", which was supposed to be a big character-driven affair tying all sorts of ends together, was honestly extremely cheesy and felt like a very "premature" time to pull such a card on us.'''

I think I replied to these more seriously than I should have.