I think I'm in love with my best friend!

[Robert Maxwell]

You've totally let me down, Trekker.

 

[sidious618]

Now that was amazing.

 

[Trekker4747]

You've totally let me down, Trekker.

In what manner? It started to recap it but then I realzied it's hard to recap something like that.



I'm going to miss this and I await the next "character" to come in and do this. Seriously, reading Squiggy's line-by-lines made me laugh so hard I could hardly breathe. It sucks that this is ending, really and I partly blame my-self for being so heavy on the recaps and the TV-show allusions.

It was fun, the stuff he came up with was brilliant -though the pacing in this thread was slow- and the resulting comments even more brilliant.

Damn. Now I need to re-read the other threads to get The Funny again. Damn! TrekBBS goes back to being mundane.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Well, sigh. It looks like a TrekBBS legend has come to an end. Without even waking up with Suzanne Pleshette.

 

[TheGodBen]

IT TURNED OUT ALICIA WAS ADOPTED AND WE GOT MARRIED

Fuck, this is just like the cop-out ending of Arrested Development! You should have made her your full cousin and end by having the two of you run off to Georgia to get married.

Seriously though, well played MB. It's a pity that I only got into this show for the final season, but it was certainly fun reading through the past threads. I bid you well with your future cousin fucking adventures on other message boards.

 

[Gepard]

Fuck it, forget BSG, this is the best series finale ever.

So who wants to lay bets on who MadBggins really is? After this last entry, my money's on Samuel T. Cogley.

 

[Trekker4747]

Ok, I'll try:

For the last week I've been acting in Alicia's play.

Wait, did I miss an episode?! When did you get a part in her play?

It has been a difficult, stressful process, but rewarding when everything came together.

That's what sex is supposed to be like. Congrats.

It has helped me take my mind off Thames and everything that happened with him. He didn't even come to see me act. I doubt I'll ever see him again.

No more Thamesmaster. Or was he just being LATE AS THAMES?!

The play is quite complicated,

Well, for you, an Smurfs cartoon is complicated, so...

which is to be expected coming from the mind of Alicia.

Oh, those wacky people with mild-spectrum autism!

My character in the play is a real loser,

A stretch for you, I'm sure.

What makes it in interesting is that my character is part of a play himself. A play within a play! Have you ever heard such a thing?

Yes. No one in the entire history of drama has every came up with such a concept. The show within a show, wow! That's so great an idea!

In the play, my character tries to make himself look interesting by inventing a more exciting life, full of all kinds of outlandish events, the kind of things that would never really happen to anyone. It's so unbelievable that the audience is supposed to know that it's all being made up. It's just supposed to be funny, really.

Hmmm this sound familiar.

The first night went great. People were shocked by the things my character said. There was some nervous laughter. Some thought he was being genuine for a while. Others suspected something was up. There were a few comments from the audience members saying things like "this can't be for real!" but, in general, they enjoyed the play and just had a laugh. A good time was had by all. My character enjoyed it a lot. He thought he'd fooled them! I enjoyed it. They were in on the joke but just having fun with it.

Ahh. Great times with the cousin-fucking!

I was a bit irritated by a couple of them though who tried to completely pick apart my character's story.

You cut me deep there, man.

They'd comment after every line. It could be kind of amusing, but, I don't know, it seemed a bit too "obvious" to me. They'd point out every intentional joke. I mean I think most of the audience picked up on them anyway, they didn't need them pointed out. Still, I was happy they were enjoying it, at least. I did wonder though if they realised the jokes were intentionally, that my character wasn't actually a real person.

I'm betting they thought it was all real. I mean the stuff happening to your character was so realistic and all, I'm sure.

That there was an actor behind it all, creating this character who in turn was creating these outrageous and comical lies. It wasn't really clear if these pick-aparters were having a go at the actor (me) or having a go at the character himself for trying to "get away with" these lies, when, of course, he wasn't trying to get away with anything, but he was just a stupid character and there was no genuine attempt at deception. But I went on.

Just to mix things up you should've thrown rotten tomatoes at your audience.

Every day my character would tell more and more outrageous stories.

So, wait, was this some-sort of free-form thing where every performance was different?

The audience still came.

Ew.

They started comparing it to a tv show, making jokes about "ratings" going up and down and the "network" ready to cancel my character if his stories weren't good enough. As absurd as it sounds, I felt under pressure to keep the quality up. I tried. I did okay. But they still made comments about "writers' strikes" and such when I gave a below par entry. It was a bit annoying, because they they just kept repeating the same lines again and again. Like beating a dead horse. Still, they were listening to my character, they were still coming every night. So why not?

They were having fun and getting involved with the story, as is the nature of plays like this.

On the fourth day

You created life and firmament?

I was busy and had other stuff on my mind, so I just tried to wing it.

Ah, free-form improvisational college back-alley drama. Well worth the $2 price tag and the floor filled with blunts.

I tried to pace things a bit,

"Pace things" by only doing a scene once every two weeks? I can see why the audience got upset.

None of them seemed to be enjoying it.

They actually were enjoying it. Just "enjoying it" in a different way. Sort of the same way people watched "Surface" and watch "Smallville." They know it sucks but the enjoy the suck.

Enterprise fits in this category too.

They seemed to have forgotten again that he was just a character trying to invent outrageous stories.

The character was inventing outrageous stories?

Yet they continued to point out that it couldn't' possibly be "real", as if that wasn't clear by now. It sucked all the humour (BUT YOU'RE AMERICAN, YOU'D SAY "HUMOR", I SPOTTED A MISTAKE!!) out of it.

Stupid people, expecting regional consistency! It's like the time Hugh Laurie mispronounced "Sebastian", I wrote so many angry letters to him...

At one point they all started flirting with a girl in the audience after she told a story about a male fiend of hers telling her he wanked over her ass. This was a bit weird.

They likely did this during one of your 10-day long intermissions. The audience has to entertain themselves during this time as the concessions suck in theaters like this.

I tried to play along with it, but they kept scoffing and saying I was getting desperate and not fooling them anymore. I definitely think they had completely lost any sense of the concept now. Still, maybe it was my fault for going on so long. I had created expectations and I wasn't living up to them.

Going on so long? Other plays with comparatively less-interesting characters had go on longer. Check out the old plays done by Major B.

But neither of us were getting anything out of it now.

I think the audience was getting much out of it.

So I decided to quit.

Quitter.

And I wasn't angry with them, in the end. It was just time to stop.

Quitter. You pulled out early, not a wholly unusual experience for you, I'm sure.

I told Alicia. She smiled. She said the audience members had been plants all along and I had been filmed by HIDDEN CAMERAS to see how I'd react and now it was going to be a tv show! I was outraged...for a few seconds. But that was just Alicia being crazy Alicia!

You can't go all meta on us like that and then try and work it into "a reality."

I wanted to come on here and tell everyone. I wrote this whole entry. Alicia asked why I bothered anymore. I said I honestly didn't know. I shut the browser. She asked if I was sure I wanted to do that.

So... wait. This doesn't make sense, unless this post really isn't here. Wha...

"I don't expect MadBaggins will ever be posting on TrekBBS again," I said. "But it was fun. I hope they remember me fondly."

You say as you gaze at a snowglobe.

(THAMES DIED IN A FIRE,

LATE AS THAMES!

IT TURNED OUT ALICIA WAS ADOPTED

Because removing the genetic component makes it less icky, and more legal.

I BECAME THE BIGGEST REALITY TV STAR IN AMERICA BUT LOST ALL MY MONEY BY STOCK IN PUMPKINS RIGHT AFTER HALLOWEEN, THE END.)

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Much better, Trekker. The snowglobe really makes it work.

 

[GeorgeKirk]

 

[Trekker4747]

 

[GeorgeKirk]

I've been saving that for just this occasion.

 

[Major Chord]

No more MB...

Oh well...it sure was fun while it lasted. T whoever is behind MB, good job making people laugh. The character and his extremely odd life were funny, but it was the commentary by Squiggy and Trekker that kept me coming back.

Some day, another shall come to take his place...

 

[Mallory]

Well, sigh. It looks like a TrekBBS legend has come to an end. Without even waking up with Suzanne Pleshette.

It's truly the end of a era, although I still think MB should have walked off into the sunset after the last installment.

 

[DonIago]

Didn't I call this?

Big shock, turns out the wizard is just a humbug after all...

 

[kimc]

Wow, it truly is the end of an era...

 

[archeryguy1701]

Wow. So that's it then. I think I would liken this to SGA... it started off great. Then it kinda faltered. Then it was hit and miss. Then it ended. And while you stopped being excited for the new episode each week, you couldn't help but feel disappointed when there were no more episodes to be had. MB, or whoever you really are, while it wasn't one of your masterpiece posts, it certainly wasn't a bad ending. Definately had a chuckle reading it.

Now I just gotta sit back and hope this stays open until Squiggy arrives...

 

[sidious618]

I don't see any reason why it shouldn't stay open.

 

[archeryguy1701]

^Well, the previous 3 got closed pretty quickly after the finale.

 

[sidious618]

^Well, the previous 3 got closed pretty quickly after the finale.

Yeah and I don't know why but those did hit 1000 and this one isn't close to that yet. Since this is the end of MB forever we should get to discuss just how awesome his run was.

 

[Squiggy]

I've lost the will to live.

No final commentary unless I get hundreds of good PMS.