Quitting the Sauce [04.24.07]

[curiousgeorge]

LonelyWorld:
www.lonelygirl15.com/?p=235

Summary:
After my "stunning" performance on camera last Thursday, and logging into the chat room... well, I decided to clean up my act. It's not easy, and Jonas is also making me do an exercise routine. - Daniel

Credits:
"The Vegas Psycho" by Kevin Schlanser

CG Adds:
Overall, not bad. Black Socks Rule!

I liked the fact that they are checking the phorum for answers. I think this is a good way to help rebuild the phan base. Not sure how that will play out with the dwindling YT numbers. It can't hurt at this point...

[milowent]

eh, not much to say. daniel was an alcoholic. nows he's cured. let's go do some hypnosis.

where is bree in all this!

at 4:41, 2nd longest video ever (Uncle Dan being the longest).

[annam]

does anyone notice jonas acting weird after the hypnosis? he doesn't actually show us what beast said when he was "hypnotized," and he's acting kind of awkward, not laughing like he was-- i just got this weird feeling that he was lying to daniel. dunno. if so, that would mean he has something to hide, and at this point i'm so invested in his character i really don't want him to be a double agent. but i just caught something funny in his expression, a change of mood, looking away from daniel.
any input?

[Joss]

Yep.. I saw that too.. It seems they are doing it again: They are using my ideas to script the following episodes! ;D

Jona's is saying "I dont want to say what you spoke while under hypnosis".. Guess what: Sure it isnt anything good.

You think it is a coincidence these two are so close to each other lately? DB decided to "put his life on Jona's hands".. His life? Yeah right!

[elixir]

milowent said:

eh, not much to say. daniel was an alcoholic. nows he's cured. let's go do some hypnosis.

where is bree in all this!

at 4:41, 2nd longest video ever (Uncle Dan being the longest).

Second longest, but not the second best, unfortunately. I think it's pretty obvious now that the "bunker series" has been shot in two different days/times or whatever. Once with Daniel and Jonas, and once with Bree. Obviously they couldn't get them all together on the same day.

Apart from this, I hate the way they have portrayed alcoholism like so many Disney-type movies and soap operas. It is a lot harder to "cure" an alcoholic (or any addiction) than this, and I wish LG15 had more credibility than to delve in and give one their characters a pseudo-addiction with a lame-arse cure, when there are millions of people out there whose lives are shattered by the real effects of such things. My two cents, anyway.

I like that they are referring to the fan contributions on the phorum. It's a nice touch. "Black socks" was funny. But too little too late in my opinion.

[slainte]

I saw Joan sitting on Daniels bed whispering to him and I got all kinda oogy feeling.

[Imparfaite]

It's strange that Jonas mentions the hippocampus and stuff as we study these kinds of things a lot in my psychology class. Basically, if your hippocampus is damaged, you can't retain new memories. (Think the movie "50 First Dates"). He sounded so unnatural though, when he was talking about the anatomy of the brain.


And... I couldn't tell, but were they actually using that ancient computer or was that their laptop? Lol, I just couldn't tell.


ETA: I loved Yousef's "Virginia is for Lovers" shirt. He's originally from Virginia I believe. I just had to chuckle when I saw that though, since they're in California or Mexico or wherever.

[hyemew]

imparfaite said:

Jonas sounded so unnatural though, when he was talking about the anatomy of the brain.

Yeah, he certainly was no Bree. Imagine Jessica stumbling through one of her early factoid sharings or big-word sayings? She would have been pegged as a definite fake from the beginning. Her naturality with everything is what made her so believable- even though we still thought it had to be fake :-) (though for other reasons!)

[oweniscool]

hyemew said:

imparfaite said:

Jonas sounded so unnatural though, when he was talking about the anatomy of the brain.

Yeah, he certainly was no Bree. Imagine Jessica stumbling through one of her early factoid sharings or big-word sayings? She would have been pegged as a definite fake from the beginning. Her naturality with everything is what made her so believable- even though we still thought it had to be fake :-) (though for other reasons!)

I started watching the series after it was outed, so maybe that colors my observation, but in the original "Proving Science Wrong", I thought Bree sounded like she was reading off the screen when she introduced the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Or maybe it was a different episode... hmm. Anyway, I thought Jonas's reading of "hippocampus" and "sodium thiopental" was actually more convincing. Well anyway, either one of them beats Jules mumbling through the word "vulnerable".

[hyemew]

Yeah Heisenberg is from the original- which was certainly not their best work. I am not able to check it out now but I usually ignore that episode. Think some of the others with Feynman and Diamond!

[elixir]

oweniscool said:

Well anyway, either one of them beats Jules mumbling through the word "vulnerable".

Hahaha! I agree.

[milowent]

this video just showed up on the danielbeast account on youtube.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACO-Ap9t2VA

it appears the creators have gone back to posting daniel and jonas' personal vlogs on their own channels (jonastko recently hosted Running for Life and Intervention). my theory is that the Creators learned that if they post videos too fast on bree's account she gets nowhere near the number of views she can possibly get. it is important for the Creators to be able to say that their videos get as many as "900,000" (or whatever the number is) views on their videos, for advertising deals and the like. The Creators also seem to be trying to close the gap a bit between revver and youtube? They are six days behind now.