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Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull? Awesome! It almost makes me want to track down those old Indiana Jones adventure games and play them. (I kind of want to find the old Star Trek adventure games too. One of our local stations has been playing classic Trek, and I'm finding myself enjoying it immensely.)

I've also been putting my nose to the grindstone, Big Bang-wise, and currently am at:

Of course, I keep forgetting plot threads I'm trying to start/weave, so I have to go back and slip in a few details every now and then after writing a later scene. I have yet to figure out how to work my big villain into the action at the beginning more (I guess that's what editing is for). Right now it's like one giant snarkfest between John and Rodney with several long bits of introspection scattered throughout. I swear, this is the most boring story ever... but I still like it.

Still mulling over

gateverse_remix, but I think I might already know which one I'm doing. Just hard to go from one 'verse to the next. They're totally different types of stories.

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We must agree to disagree, because I thoroughly enjoyed Die Hard 4. (Then again, I'm just kinda meh on the first three Die Hards). Sure, some parts I was rolling my eyes at ("Let us kidnap the main character's daughter! Because every action hero has a kidnappable teenage daughter!"), but I still left the theatre grinning like a goof.

~~Probably because my favorite character wasn't cursed to be the Ferryman of the Dead for eternity. Lamest. Destiny. Evah.~~

You might be star struck, I might be hard on myself, maybe a mixture of both ;)

Yeah, besides, all stories have their moments. I mean, if it failed to captivate attention and keep it throughout those thirty pages, then you might have to deep six them, but it didn't. It holds the interest and reads quite fluently. So I wouldn't really mess with it, but its your call. You know how set up is, and besides, at least you didn't spend 10,000 words doing set up. Yeow!

As for D4, the cliches would have driving me mad. And I so hated the whole, "I hate my Dad, but since he came to rescue me all is forgotten, I love you Daddy and now I am a McClain" part. Somebody just shoot me!!!

I just start to get concerned when the internal dialogue is almost as abundant as the external (although I guess that's part of the nature of the characters at the moment; pretty isolated/stuck in their heads). I'm just sort of doing this mad dash writing. I have a feeling a lot is going to be marked up in red during the editing stages. Did I mention that my bad guy hasn't actually made an appearance yet? Of course, there haven't been any scenes to require him, but at the moment it seems like he's just going to jump out at the end and scream boo, start shooting at people and taking hostages into helicopters.

And it still seems like setup in my mind, so we'll see ;) Yours sounds very interesing, and you've got a lot more you have to do since it's original fiction. Come August we shall see what you have wrought!

Lucy McLastNameChange was my least favorite part of the movie -- but she didn't have a huge part so I was able to gloss over it. I think my grumblings over her were drowned over by my squee of "He just killed a helicopter with a motorcycle! And a freeway! And a nuclear plant!"

<-- likes action sequences... just a teensy bit.

You are so easily amused. Give you explosions, h/c, and cool effects and you go into a catatonic state. Heh! I'll probably never see it, too much blah for me to care for it, but IJ, I might take a look since all I've heard about it are really positive things.

As for your story, it works, so don't worry now, you can always delete and rewrite anything you don't like. It might help tightened your story once you're done and know exactly what you need and don't.

And I do hope you like my original piece, hopefully I'll have it done sometime this century. And before Jul since I'm doing the Family Haven ficathon and plan to write a lot of stories for it!

July/this century, whichever comes first, right? And you realize you are insane in the membrane for taking on so many fandoms for that? Of course, I would never weigh myself down with a million fic obligations.

Yeah, there's definitely going to be some heavy rewriting at the end of this month. I think the beginning is probably going to be the most edited portion. There's just so many different things I'm trying to set up at once. It'll be interesting what winds up on the cutting floor.

Your original piece sounds really interesting. Come August I cannot wait to get my head into another universe for a while. (I say this before Season 5 airs... but it's true!)