Mighty Orbots wrote:BTW, the thumbs up might make them think we were done in this thread.
OK, having my hydra partner apparently be as unaware as zwetschenwasser about what the thumbs up is supposed to signal is irritating. It's right there in both this thread and the on camera thread. It gives a specific signal in this case that we think that we can trust what Locke is saying. The woman driver that I came up with was supposed to reinforce that.
Thok wrote:I'm wondering if we'd be better off sending the KY Krew in to explain the off-camera thought processes (as opposed to the zwet thumbs up picture.) It seems like we need to communicate three things to the on camera thread:
1. That we want Panzer to drive
2. That we're still trying to decide a lynch, so even if we want Panzer to drive, they should wait a while before voting
3. Maybe that the off-camera people want to see a discussion of why a significant portion of the on camera people are suspicious of what seems to be an obvious choice
Sending in the KY Krew would be a more efficient way to handle that (plus it would allow us to send in specific questions that other people may have.)
The first point there should be made clear with the picture. The second should be clear anyhow; we've got a very specific signal for when their discussion should end and hopefully it was reinforced by the "Slow the Flow" soundtrack. The third one is perhaps trickier. I'd like it if that conversation were to result from the picture being put in the thread but I suppose that's probably too much to hope.
It seems to me that the communication with those in the on camera thread via either the soundtrack or the pictures is much more effective if it can be done quickly in reaction to what's being said. We've taken long enough now that the thumbs up reaction isn't going to be as strong as it would have been had it been sent shortly after Talilan asked for our opinion. While it would be nice to make sure that we're sending the message we want to send with the picture I think that it's probably more important that zwetschenwasser be willing to use his judgment and try to keep the turn around down to a much shorter time than this in the future. Of course that means that I want zwetschenwasser to be paying closer attention to what's going on and that might be too much to ask for but it really shouldn't be.
I like using the pictures to answer specific questions as there's more flexibility in them than there is songs I think. The pictures can focus on one particular thing clearly while the songs will almost certainly contain multiple ideas. If we've got songs set up for predictable issues that might come up (like we do now) and have the pictures as a means of answering fairly simple unexpected questions that come up we can use the stuntman to handle anything that gets more complicated. It gets slightly trickier when one or more of our communication jobs is on camera (like next scene) but we can deal with that as we get to it.
GoofballsAndBaloons wrote:We would need to dictate what exactly he's going to say. Any deviation should be under penalty of death.
As long as KY Krew gets the three points that Thok listed across (and whatever else we add before they get sent if we choose to send them) I don't really care how they say it. Stopping the vote from happening, making sure that Val drives and getting those on camera looking at why things have been such a mess there should be easy to do without us having to choose words for KY Krew to say. Sure, we lynch them if they don't do that but if they go in and get the job done in a straightforward way we should be fine so far as what we want to happen.
-Zorblag R`Lyeh
