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Snap was spying on me and he was taking a video tape of me!

The one misspelling My Immortal got right. :P

The (in)famous Bakshi LotR movie referred to Saruman as Aruman about half the time. Apparently they were concerned people would confuse the two S-villains... but that doesn't explain why they only bothered to change half of the instances.

Also, to anyone who watched Doctor Who night before last: does 'Tim Shaw' count as a canon mini? >:)

hS

The Ghostbusters Master System game misspelled Gozer as Gorza. Can you think of other canonical minis?

I've spent a fair amount of effort collating all the known information on it, which I've put together here (now including a few notes from this article). It's worth a read!

Visually, it actually sounds like a really interesting script. Scenes like Gimli marring the Black Gate with his axe, or the Kabuki Circus of Elrond, could be very strong visually. They're just... not at all Tolkien.

Zimmerman, by contrast, I know less about; internet searches are too swamped by Tolkien's letter on the subject. But the idea that Sam would abandon Frodo and take the Ring to Mount Doom by himself kind of tells you all you need to know.

hS

It's worth highlighting that not only did I do a mission into Boorman canon, I found an actual badfic of Boorman canon. (I mean, 'badfic' in that it's a hilarious parody of what the Boorman script could be like.) Show me that for another unpublished work.

hS

Even if it's absolutely terrible in every way.

I mean if we could just dismiss every bad adaptation as legendary badfic there would be a lot of movies on the pile. Eragon, the Percy Jackson films, the Hobbit films (in my opinion), the Dungeons & Dragons films... the list goes on.

There was some talk at one point of missioning Fifty Shades of Grey, since it's technically fanfiction. But it got properly published so we have to regard it as its own canon. (Not that anyone is going to mission any badfic of it... although one could derive some humor from accidentally charging for problems that exist in the canon itself.)

To go in order of the points you've made, Alex and Ce'rana don't really feel like a team at this point in time because both of them have the tendency to mentally go "Alright, budge over, if I let you do this it'll take forever and be wrong anyways" - you know, that feeling I'm sure all of us got during every group project ever? If you think of missions like that, both of them are accustomed to being the one who carries the group, and since there's almost always only one carrier in a given group, they're not very used to letting anyone else do anything ever.

I hadn't thought of the possible other meaning of the twin thing, and that could genuinely be interesting if portrayed properly! But here... yeah, it's the Word World, it takes everything literally.

I'm glad you noticed those little details! Both were Mikel's idea, and I stand by my personal writing creed on "details make the dream" when other people do it at least as much as when I do. It was wonderful.

The typos have been fixed, though there are a few that weren't typos at all - specifically, the first three and the fingers thing. And to explain the third, Ce'rana fell from the tree; Alex fell to the dirt beneath his feet.

--Calliope says that no one is obligated to read or review, but it is very much appreciated if people do

Here's the department of WhatThe mission in question:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g0ydi4ik2JM3jLLkyAui9deCbNNOsWHen4_CgyRDS4c/pub

Minecraft isn't really a property I'm familiar with at all, so while I can't say for sure, I at least feel like you've done a good job of analyzing this story in terms of what is and isn't correct for Minecraft.

I'm having difficulty putting my thoughts about the agents into words. On the one hand, neither one feels like they dominate the narrative or the relationship all the way through, which is good. They both take turns being the leader from scene to scene, and keeping the other's worse impulses in check. On the other hand . . . again, I feel like I'm not phrasing my feelings properly, but it doesn't feel to me like they're quite a team? I get the impression they're working together in order to get the job done, rather than because working together is what they do? But this is all ultimately a first impression, I realize both agents need more appearances to really reveal themselves to us readers. So don't take this is a criticism so much as an observation.

One thing in your analysis I'm not really agreeing with is Herobrine and Aria being related. Unless the fic calls Herobrine and Steve brothers frequently in parts of the story you didn't quote, I really feel like that line from the beginning, when Herobrine calls Steve his "twin" was metaphorical. I think it's pointing out how Steve and Herobrine are sort of two sides of the same coin, with Steve being a creative force and Herobrine a destructive one, and with both overlaying the same character model. That said, our missions do have a long history of interpreting things literally, so I think the mission still stands fine with that detail included.

A couple of small details I really liked were:
1. The book ends of the castle being built and then destroyed in Alex's game.
2. That the removal of Herobrine's mansion is done through means available to regular Minecraft players: a combination of deconstructing parts and using explosives. Very appropriate!

Welcome to doctorlit's list of typos:

"And what is it that you have been working on?" she countered seamlessly as she stepped closer . . .
A minor quibble, but I wouldn't personally use "countered" here, since the agents aren't arguing, just catching either up on their activities.

“Beeper. Stop,” she muttered tiredly, focusing on the immediately-fixable problem.
Since "immediately" ends in "-ly" it doesn't need a hyphen connecting it to the word it's describing. "immediately fixable" is correct here.

Ce’rana, who had somehow managed to get herself a few blocks off the ground, promptly fell off the tree and Alex to the dirt beneath his feet when the world began rocking back and forth . . .
I feel like some words got cut from this sentence, because it's not quite reading clearly to me. Was it meant to be "fell off the tree and bounced off Alex to the dirt beneath his feet"?

. . . when he became loud enough to potentially attract the attention of the nearby potential canon replacements.
Paging the RDR, paging the RDR . . .

He guided her until he was sitting down, then crouched next to her.
I think that's meant to be "she" for Ce'rana?

Ce’nedra turned her face from the thick, green-glowing semi-liquid.
Where did Ce'rana go? (I'm guessing this is the name of a canon Dryad from The Belgariad? The name sounds familiar.)

“I suppose it would depend on your difference of ‘much’,” she conceded.
"Definition."

Ce’rana snorted derisively, closing her eyes and leaned back against a tree of her own . . .
"Leaned" should be "leaning" to match the verb tense of "closing." Another option would be adding a comma after "eyes" which would allow all the verbs to stay as they are now, though I think it reads just a little awkwardly that way.

When he looked down, she flattened her fingers and jabbed them straight into his side.
Aren't they in Minecraft-style disguises right now? Does Ce'rana actually have fingers? Sorry if this one is too silly to have broguht up . . .

The pair listened quietly as Aria recounted her saving of Mille . . .
I think you wanted "Millie" here, since you treated "Mille" as a mini earlier in the story. Especially since it's Aria talking about the character; a Mary Sue wouldn't have been aware of a mini within their narrative.

The Dryad smiled faintly and stuck her arm through, passing though in full when she realized he had done the portal thing right this time, probably.
That should be "through," although I just noticed that also makes "through" appear twice in three words. Maybe the first "through" could be changed to "in"?

—doctorlit apologizes for long it took to write this review; it's been a very sleepy week for him

http://www.academia.edu/940625/ThreeRingsforHollywoodScriptsforTheLordoftheRingsbyZimmermanBoormanand_Beagle

Tolkien sliced and diced Morton Grady Zimmerman's screenplay (And does anyone here attend and/or work at Marquette University? They've got the travesty in their Tolkien collection).

Non-spoilery opener: loved it. We managed to get the kids to sit through almost all of it (one never looked away, the other had to climb up next to me 15 minutes in), which bodes very well.

More spoilery thoughts:

-Mad inventor Doctor! I am so on board for mad inventor Doctor. In fact... come to think of it, my own female incarnation, the Fifth Alchemist, was the mad scientist one. Is there something about Time Ladies that predisposes them to mad science?

-No TARDIS! I've been muttering since midway through Ten's run that we need a new version of the UNIT years - the Doctor stranded on Earth without her TARDIS - and this episode validates my opinion. ^^ This blends really well with the mad inventor aspect; come on, wouldn't you love to watch Thirteen roaming around Britain in semi-official capacity, commandeering workshops wherever she goes?

-I loved the Sontaran-Rutan bait-and-switch, because yes, 'armoured angry alien versus glowing amorphous ball thing' is not a new concept in Doctor Who. The fact that they highlighted that, and then discarded it as an incorrect conclusion, was excellent.

-I feel like they paced it really well, with the new format. What I said to Kaitlyn was that it felt like they'd written a 50-minute episode, then gone back and allowed themselves to linger on the emotional, not-plot-relevant moments in a way that worked really well. Hopefully they can keep that up; my worry is that writers who previously worked on the 40 minute format might end up stretching their scripts to fit.

~

And now, a quick game of Let's Be Offended, the game where you find reasons to take offence that look reasonable at a glance, but are actually ludicrous:

-Too much Northern representation. How am I supposed to empathise with the characters if none of them are from London?!

-Far too many Baby Boomers; pandering much, Auntie Beeb? I counted four oldies with speaking parts, and two of the most emotional deaths were given to them. Simply not on!

-Does the Beeb have a vendetta against nurses? First they killed Rita back in <a href="https://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/TheGodComplex">The God Complex, now Grace in this story, not to mention an entire hospital full of them on the Moon back in the alternate timeline of <a href="https://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/TurnLeft(TVstory)">Turn Left. Note that when Ten ran into Doctor Martha Jones, she was allowed to stick around for a full season.

-Finally, who are we to judge Tim Shaw's society like that? Okay, yes, he was breaking the rules - but his hunt isn't supposed to kill anyone. In fact, it keeps the human participants alive much longer than their natural lifespans! What's with all the condemnation of something that could really be considered an act of kindness?

hS

This one is less comedy and more good original work. Currently following this animated series on Newgrounds, about a starship pilot who has no idea what he's doing but makes up for it with overconfidence, a robot who serves as his entire crew and the sane one, and a girl who's stuck in a large spaceship alone with an AI that wants to keep her by herself. There's not much so far, but it's pretty great and I think you guys would like it.

https://starshipgoldfish.newgrounds.com/movies
(Warning: There is some cussing, both from the account and in the series.)

-Twistey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPkz_ippXfw

SFW, and entirely wholesome. This is a real drummer from a real J-Pop (I think) band, and I'll leave the rest a surprise. 1:00 onwards is the best part, but seriously, watch the whole thing.

-Twistey
(That's one derpy costume...)

With permission of the Discord channel, I have un-rot13'd the spoiler-heavy conversation we had in a separate channel and posted our reactions to the simulcast of Jodie Whittaker's first episode in a Google Drive.

Enjoy.

Discovering your abilities is always a good thing :-)

Speaking of my abilities, I spotted an error:

... Gremlin said wearily, as she starting combing blackened corn kernels from out of her hair.
Should be "started".

HG

EAIUO said something about the Three Rings being in the party, and that got me thinking, even if it's just Galadriel with Nenya, would Sauron notice if it leaves Lothlórien? The Elven-rings are hidden from him, but Nenya's power is part of what makes Lórien the refuge it is, right? If the ring isn't there, suddenly it's more exposed, more vulnerable.

Gandalf potentially giving Narya to Éowyn is an interesting idea, because its power to inspire and put heart in people is very useful when you need people to keep fighting against overwhelmingly bad odds. On the other hand, if it stays with the Other Fellowship and joins the fight of Mirkwood and Erebor against Dol Guldur, does it help them win that fight more decisively? Could those factions then proceed south to come to Rohan's and Gondor's aid?

Meanwhile, what does Nenya's influence mean for the main Fellowship? Does it let them move with greater secrecy, perhaps? Can they slip through the Gap of Rohan unnoticed by Saruman and reach Meduseld in good time to bring Th&eacuteoden around and get the Rohirrim into the fight? Or, if not Théoden, since Gandalf (with Narya) isn't there to stir his heart, perhaps they just get Éomer on board and stage a bit of a rebellion?

~Neshomeh has more questions than answers.

This was another one of those things that I overplan and jump into without any notice beforehand. Except it's not politically incorrect this time, leading everyone to ignore it instead of freaking out.
-Twistey

To clear things up, I have learned that Huinesoron is pronounced "HWEEN-ay-SORE-on."

And about me...

1. My username is made up of English words, so I’m pretty sure you’d know how to pronounce it. And “Twistey” is pronounced how it’s spelled, or at least how the misspelling “Twisty” is spelled.
2. I’m a pasty, skinny white girl, 5’7” and a half, with brown hair about chin length and green eyes with glasses. This time of year, you can usually find me wearing a T-shirt and jeans or comfy pants, with a watch on my left wrist, a bracelet on my right, and a navy blue hooded jacket over it all, but my “official” outfit with regards to how I draw myself consists of a black shirt with a minimalist-style luna moth on it, jeans, tennis shoes, and a grey jacket over it all. You can also put me in a black floor-length robe with thin red and gold trim on the sleeves (in that order from the ends), coupled with a long red preacher-scarf-thing (with some occult symbol on the ends) and a talisman with a large red jewel in the center. This odd, cultist-y ensemble is for reasons I shall explain further in point 3.
3. I’m the PPC’s resident wild card, and I always have been. I found the PPC by chance, I joined on an impulse without any prior research whatsoever, and I’ve been off-and-on falling down the metaphorical stairs and having to deal with the consequences ever since. As such, a lot of the jokes I make about myself on the Board involve me doing things that either are outright stupid or leave everyone scratching their heads. Also, with regards to the virtual persona I’ve created on the Board, thanks to the power of badfic, I’m mostly human but partially a decoy (from Wolfenstein 3D - ask me if you want to know more about them, including their canonical name). So you can make fire jokes, you can make mannequin/puppet jokes, you can make occult jokes, and you can make "unable to open doors" jokes. Finally, I also love anything glowy and sci-fi, or that otherwise looks cool, and as I was raised on music, I love putting music in the background of things.

-Twistey