Hungover [01.21.2007]

[milowent]

www.lonelygirl15.com/?p=156

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwTaWzrWAYM

Summary
Hey everyone. I filmed this early the other morning but was too out of it to edit and upload the footage. Thanks Jonas, real nice.

YT Tags: lonely lonelygirl15 jonastko beast jonas lg15 girl danielbeast grossman manning [Grossman and Manning? A bit of scamming there to reel in some NFL fans looking for highlights?]

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milowent comments: short vlog, daniel pats himself on back for somehow getting the mcphee to come home with him (which is a good point, she certainly didn't have to ...)

[Imparfaite]

Is my youtube messing up? Or did they remove the video about 22 minutes after posting it?


Edit: then again, my internet is being very, very lagish and weird.... so maybe it's me.

[hyemew]

Oh Lord, I was wondering if they were actually gonna write on Yousef and film a video...... so they did...
And we all know the real reason they took so long to upload it is not because Daniel was out of it but because they needed to give the McPhee video a few days to get views. Unfortunately, it appears to have gotten the exact same number of views as the previous one, 12000 Revver ones that is. Not sure how youtube compares but I don't think the numbers were extraordinary either.

Reference to the fake ID, since we were all wondering how Daniel was able to get drunk in the first place.

At the end of that video I'm just left with a "so?" kind of feeling, like what was the point of that video? That wasn't LG-calibur. Though it was fun seeing Yousef drawn on so creatively, enjoyed the mustache.

Someone named stagegirl left a pretty funny main page comment:

"what a completely un-fascinating video.
um…creators?
wasn’t there like a secret witch cult and a murder or something to deal with?"

Seriously, I mean a murder like the one of Bree's dad happened on the other side of the world, and the entire country shut down: groong.usc.edu/news/msg174959.html
A murder occurs in the Lonelygirl world and... Daniel gets written on and hungover. It just seems like the series has no focus what-so-ever and is totally inconsistent.

Another plot hole-ish thing I thought of yesterday is recall the whole "Owen was attacked" and the speculation that a tracking device was put in him? Well was it? Because if so, the Order would have hunted these kids down long ago. They KNOW murderers are after them, but instead of actually being, you know, scared, or upset, they're hanging around buddy-buddy and worrying about whether they like each other or not. It's just so utterly absurd. I wish the whole murder thing had never happened, because sure we could suspend belief enough to reason ok they're not that worried even though their parents were kidnapped. But now that we have to throw in "oh yeah, and the Order is out to assassinate you" to the mix, there's just no way to imagine these kids would be so calm and filming their lives for the world to see.

[Smashing]

They should have just tacked this on to the end of the last video.

[milowent]

hyemew said:

And we all know the real reason they took so long to upload it is not because Daniel was out of it but because they needed to give the McPhee video a few days to get views. Unfortunately, it appears to have gotten the exact same number of views as the previous one, 12000 Revver ones that is. Not sure how youtube compares but I don't think the numbers were extraordinary either.

Truth or Dare has 316,000 views on youtube right now. that's pretty good, not incredible though. Too bad it didn't help Revver views!

Recent bree videos:
Daniel's A Liar (4 days old) has 229,000
Hiding in the Bathroom (1 week old) has 441,000
My Dad Said (2 weeks old) has 489,000
Unthinkable Happened (2 weeks old) has 712,000

[stantheman]

milowent said:

Recent bree videos:
Daniel's A Liar (4 days old) has 229,000
Hiding in the Bathroom (1 week old) has 441,000
My Dad Said (2 weeks old) has 489,000
Unthinkable Happened (2 weeks old) has 712,000

It helps to have a provocative title. "Unthinkable Happened" hit a homerun in that dept.

[Terryfic]

smashing said:

They should have just tacked this on to the end of the last video.

QFT

[starlet]

Haven't watched the video, after seeing all the reviews on here, there really wasn't a need too, apparently.

So The creators are now holding off on releasing new vids until the previous ones reach a certain point? And the vids are not getting any betters, so it also seems that they are resorting to spicing up the titles to lure people in to their (mediocre) videos?

interesting...

I do hope they get on with it and even if they are to abandon all previous story-lines, at least produce something interesting.

[gemma]

This video was so irritating and pointless, even Yousef annoyed me, and that never happens!

I feel like the storyline is going into the sort of lull that we experienced just before the whole Bree taking off and her dad being shot thing, so I hope that means something good is going to come out of nowhere and shock us all.

The whole LG experience seems to be a series of troughs and peaks. We almost lose hope in the troughs and when we are about to give up a high point comes along and reassures us that we should keep watching. If it keeps going this way there needs to be an amazing ending that ties up all the loose ends to compensate, but even an eternal optimist would have trouble keeping faith in that.

[thiller]

I wish I could look on the bright side like alot of you.

I think I am close to done with this story. It’s too farfetched now. I think I would be understanding and happy if they pulled a Dallas move and Bree woke up and it was all a dream.

I think this post from the forum tells it all about what the creators want from fans:

…I'd rather have plot holes and a vid every other day or so than really good ones that we have to wait a week for, hehe.

*

With forum fans so easy to please, it’s no wonder that the story is such a mess. They’re really not using the talents of one of the writers that we saw from the short film Pond. Sheesh!

*I didn’t put the person’s name from the post because I wasn’t sure if I should. Nothing against that person or anything. just trying to show my point.

[curiousgeorge]

thiller said:

I wish I could look on the bright side like alot of you

…I'd rather have plot holes and a vid every other day or so than really good ones that we have to wait a week for, hehe.

*

With forum fans so easy to please, it’s no wonder that the story is such a mess. They’re really not using the talents of one of the writers that we saw from the short film Pond. Sheesh!

The most inane of the phorumites are driving the series in this direction (not Mesh or even Miles, I think, anymore) and the creators are just giving them what they want. These phans don't give a crap if it is crap, as long as it has a bountiful dose of "clues" to investigate, like some kind of moronic Sherlock Holmesian masturbation . The most absurd thing is they don't even care that the clues rarely lead to anything.

Pink Herrings indeed. Bring on the Galiens. What. Ever.

[curiousgeorge]

A phorum post regarding the results of the ARG pholks finding the Fake ID (I think) mentioned in this video:

"Daniel's fake id had Wyatt from wierd science who played a character named "Daniel" in a movie. Specifically the movie was entitled "Daniel"

The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted."

More "clues" that probably will lead nowhere...

[hyemew]

The guy that found the ID apparently drove an hour and a half to get it.
And now this is the payoff, a bunch of psuedo-clues that seriously don't and won't lead anywhere.
I mean think about the premise, OPAphid is trying to find Daniel's fake ID to see what fake name he used? Well it makes sense for them because it helps them zero in on their location (BUT AS WE ALL KNOW THE TRACKING DEVICE IS IN OWEN, SO WHY WEREN'T THEY ABLE TO TRACK THEM MONTHS AGO?), but what good does it do the fans? In the real world, Daniel would have used a fake name, maybe not even picked by him. It would have no bearing on Bree's life, the Order, or anything else with this ridiculous.
Sigh it's so tiring, I couldn't follow this crap if I wanted to.

[skiba]

A message from Op was posted earlier today that clarified it pretty well, as to why OpAphid wanted the fake ID.

They had Jonas' location narrowed down to a few hundred square miles in Northern CA. There were 8 bowling allies in that large of an area. But by finding the fake ID they now are much closer to finding Jonas' house (or at least they are looking in the right area).

And we all speculate the tracking device is in Owen, but it's never been proven

[Terryfic]

Skiba, you sound like you are into the ARG, perhaps you can answer a question for me. Since, I assume, most people think OpAphid (a.k.a the Order… right?) has bad things in mind for Bree how come people are helping them? Do they all role play characters that think Bree should get her comeuppance? I have hard time seeing the motivation to help the bad guys win.