Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-10502460-20190514105310/@comment-10502460-20190514175956

Thanks for the feedback. I actually thought of this story more than a year ago, before I ever thought of and started working on Lost Episodes Can Be Found Again. You also have to keep in mind that LECBFA was the product of 9 months of laborious effort on my part, whereas this was written in a single night.

The idea of it turning the narrator off gore films is supposed to be that due to the candid and vaguely supernatural nature of the documentary, it returned to him a proper appreciation for the reality of death even though it was relatively tame from a purely visual standpoint. A resensitization effect, if you will.

As for being classed under lost episodes, that did cross my mind. It wasn't my intention or desire to have to make another spin appeal so close on the heels of LECBFA. I've actually been meaning to ask the admins if it's time to reconsider how lost episodes are defined on this wiki, because the line seems to be too blurry. Could Better Films be classed as a lost episode story, for example?

If you want to see the kind of feel I was going for in this story, look up "Real Cop Drama With Officer Glad" by Slimebeast. This story isn't directly inspired by that story, but reading it did give me the inspiration to finally write it out after letting the idea marinate for over a year.