a slowdown

[milowent]

the series has been thru so many ups and downs, its hard for me to get up the energy to comment on the current apparent slowdown.

BUT we haven't seen Bree for TEN days (since What the F@#$#@!), which is a new record. the videos seem to have slowed down (last one was friday), the promise of pseudo-fan interaction seems forgotten, the phorum is especially quiet compared to past history. anyone disagree?

[slainte]

You mean like:

"Sure is quiet around here sheriff...maybe too quiet"

or like

"Listen! Bawana! The jungle drums! They have stopped"

[milowent]

slainte said:

You mean like:

"Sure is quiet around here sheriff...maybe too quiet"

or like

"Listen! Bawana! The jungle drums! They have stopped"

both of those convey some sense of future excitement, so no.

more like waiting for godot.

"We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. . .In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness!"

[elixir]

Would you like to swap hats, Milo?

*sigh*

It is a long break in the Breeniverse but to tell you the truth, this plot moves so slowly, I've barely noticed that it's been so long since we've seen Bree. Maybe this is a sign that I have done the truly absurdist thing and accepted my human responsibility. And maybe it means that, like in absurdism, time is meaningless.

I've made the Waiting for Godot comparison before. I think we -the fans - are all like Vladimir and/or Estragon. The videos are our Lucky and Pozo, the Boy is the creator's and Godot is the ultimate idea of what Lonelygirl should be.

Through this analogy - we need to accept that we will never get to see what we want. We will never find meaning in Lonelygirl, because it just doesn't exist. All of our rants, banter, and viewing of the videos is all that we really have. To pass the time some of us have considered leaving, like Vladimir and Estragon consider suicide. But we can't leave, just like Vladimir and Estragon can't kill themselves because we know that it is not really possible. We can't get everyone to leave and it is not the point anyway. It is just an attempt to get ourselves to forget that we are waiting for this vague series to resolve.

Here's part of an essay I found that I feel speaks eerily of a mixture between our situation and the situation of the story (plot, characters, themes etc.):




"...Without values, the center cannot hold; without meaning, conversations become dull. The low caliber of dialogue in the play shows empty men amidst a paralyzing sea of fear. There is utter confusion and it is seen in the characters inability to complete sentences, repetition of phrases and words, rhetorical or unanswered questions and their absurd vocabulary....

"They back out from suicide saying, “Don’t let’s do anything. It’s safer.” Together they decide to fill the emptiness and silence with cheap entertainment. “It’ll pass the time,” explains Vladimir when he offers to tell the story of the Crucifixion. “That passed the time,” he says after the first departure of Pozzo and Lucky. Life becomes a game to them, passing back ideas in order to stop themselves from thinking or contemplating too deeply and escaping the pain of waiting. “That’s the idea, let’s make a little conversation,” suggests Estragon. Beckett deliberately employs the repetition of themes, speech and action to highlight the futility and habit of life."

Though I doubt the c's put this kind of thought into it, it's somewhat funny that it's turned out this way.

[milowent]

very deep thoughts, elixir.

here are some shallow ones:

The Bree Drought: Will It Reach Biblical Proportions?

[elixir]

Oh that wasn't shallow, Milo! I enjoyed it. It summed things up well, and I like the milk carton. Nice touch!

[hyemew]

I enjoyed it too- and the description of Waiting for Godot too- which seems like one of those books that any learned person should read and that I want to, even though I'm sure I'll have a hard time getting far with it.
Milo, I think Sarah is the younger sister rather than older one as listed in the article.

[robtomorrow]

Elicir,
I think you have hit the nail on the head. The Theatre of the Absurd is the perfect context in which to view the LG15 series, if only I could believe that the Creators planned it this way I would be very impressed. Rather I believe they fell into it through ineptitude, which would make them more like the characters in an absurdist play than the auteurs.

As far as the slowing down goes, it definitely seems so, and unusually there's little ruckus on the forum about it.

Occasionally, I have been checking Alexa.com to see how LG15.com is doing in the rankings, the answer is, not very good.

www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=lonelygirl15.com

[milowent]

milowent said:

The Bree Drought: Will It Reach Biblical Proportions?

OK, Bree reappeared, albeit brainwashed on 5/25, in Sing With Me.

So, the Bree drought ended at 14 days.