Talk:All in the Acting/@comment-25021327-20140723011502

Okay, so this was definitely a pretty interesting read. I can tell that the author is either a fan of AitF, and other sitcoms of the time, or has done some good research. Also, it's an obscure enough topic for a "Lost Episode" pasta to make this (as far as I know) pretty unique.

The dialogue was believeable, and stuck to the show format pretty well! The acknowledgement of the abnormal things taking place in the show was good, and accurate. The style, grammar and spelling were all good for me.

I have to admit that when the twin towers attack played on Archie's TV, I groaned to myself a bit. Up to that point, I was really interested in where the episode was going, and I felt like it jumped the shark a bit, there. You mention later about the 9/11 stuff being edited in after the fact, which explains it, but also makes me want to know what was on the TV originally.

The details described in the episode do loosely reference some events in O'Connor's life, it felt like a bit of a stretch, but I like I think I like that more than if the episode predicted every single awful event this man was destined to endure.

One thing that I would maybe suggest would be the formatting. I felt at one or two points during the episode dialogue (with more than 2 characters) that I had lost track of who was speaking. I felt the same way a few times in other parts of the story. I didn't know whether I was reading parts straight from the LiveJournal post, or parts that the author/narrator was adding him/herself.

I think this was a pretty good story, and I'm glad I read it! I spologize if my critique was at all discouraging, and if it is any consolation,  I wouldn't have gone into such a long and drawn out review if I didn't feel this story had some good stuff :)