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[Ben-San]

Throwing in with the not-thrilled crowd on this one. It reads like how someone who'd heard about the characters but not really put much thought into it would write them.

[ianmalcolm2]

havin rude opinions is like havin rude titties. don't be ashamed. unless you're like bill mayer buxom.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Manic pixie dream girl alert.

Though, I sort of have mixed feelings about that. I'm happy to see something work out nicely for T for once.

[colmore]

I'm just patiently waiting for him to work this storyline out of his system.  It seems like it's Important to him.  It's still better than no Achewood at all, but Teodor has always been the normal guy foil to all the other characters, you don't make that guy your main focus.

And I appreciate that he seems to be trying a little harder to write a woman who fits into his world, but still he is awkward at it, and her presence seems to be deteriorating the other characters.

[wombat]

And I appreciate that he seems to be trying a little harder to write a woman who fits into his world,

I hadn't thought of that. Interesting possibility. As I've always said about that alleged problem, it really doesn't bother me if he sticks to what he does best.

[colmore]

Yeah, me either really.  The lack of good roles for women across all narrative media is an aggregate problem, not so much a specific problem of specific artists.  If an artist is best at writing about gangs of stoner dudes, he should stick to that.  Though if Onstad is reading this (he isn't) I'll pass along a tip I got from a writing teacher: if you want to come off as someone with a fresh idea about gender dynamics, just take a famous and well-regarded relationship story, something from a movie or book, and just switch the genders.  Make the girl Woodie Allen or Carrie Grant or whatever.  It's a cheap trick and it really works.

[theinevitable]

Right now I feel a little bit like I am in a (relationship? am I using that word?) where we are both woody allen.

(except not fuck*ng creeps, just neurotic and sensitive.)

[dejavroom]

The lack of good roles for women across all narrative media is an aggregate problem, not so much a specific problem of specific artists

An aggregate "problem", even.

[Bobby Isosceles]

Most post-GOF Achewood has been the sad tale of an artist who had it, but lost it. He fitfully tries to get it again, but every attempt just shows that he's lost it more and more. It's like Flowers for Algernon, starring Hemingway as Charlie.

I'm not concerned about this. The artist has been through a lot: a move; children; a divorce; a girlfriend; becoming a food critic; leaving that to become an artisinal soda monger, using only free-range syrup and grass-fed carbon dioxide. Looking from the outside, dude's bipolar as hell or trying to adjust to these Serious Life Changes and the art will suffer as a result. Either way the problem resolves itself eventually.

Telling a story you want to tell when you're out of practice is like taking a shit when you've been constipated forever. The first part is going to be dry, misshapen, awkward and  painful to get out. After that it's smooth sailing. Onstad is dislodging his artistic constipation-plug as his Metamucil for the Soul finally takes effect.

Here's to one more push, buddy. We're here to wipe for you.

[Doc]

Dibs not it.

[Agingbuffoon]

It took Miles Davis three years to be able to play the trumpet again after he first retired, but he eventually got it again. I'm sure Onstadt will find his groove soon.

[pmcd9]

It took Miles Davis three years to be able to play the trumpet again after he first retired, but he eventually got it again. I'm sure Onstadt will find his groove soon.

You've got to want to do it first. I can understand wanting to do something different, but craft soda company sounds like a cry for help.