Talk:Everybody Loves Raymond: Dad/@comment-25021327-20151118184447

I wasn't sure what this one was going to be like, but I ended up enjoying it more than I thought I would. I started out a little worried that this one would simply go down the typical lost episode route, especially when the episode started off with all the the family members crying and not exchanging dialogue. But from there, the episode went in a more realistic direction.

That's where I think this one stands out a little more, the fact that it feels almost like something that could have happened ina real episode. The writing displays a pretty good knowledge of the source material, which is nice too, and it also, I think, explains things to readers who aren't familiar with the TV show without sounding too dry.

A few things felt a little odd or unnecesary to me in this. I know that part of the fun of lost episode pastas is imagining that they could have existed, but it's tough to pull off nowadays, especially with a show as popular as ELR was. In that respect the part about all the actors and show runners denying the episode's existence and crying when pressed about it felt kind of unrealistic and silly to me, but hey... We're all here for the same reason, we all know that these stories are fiction, so It's not a huge deal.

As far as the creepiness goes, this one wasn;t really scary, but I don;t think it was meant to be. I'm pretty lenient on stories around here, and I think that creepypastas can be regular stories that have a dark tone, which this one has, in addition to a sober one.

A few minor issues I had while reading were a few uncapitalized "I" pronouns, which I think only tok me out of this because it felt competantly written, and the heavy use of the word overbearing in the beginning, maybe switch one of those out with nosy, or meddlesome or something.

In all I thought this one was a pretty good read. Not too creepy, but still better than a lot of lost episode pastas I've read :)