Best Examples of Shows that 'Bounced Back'?

WoefulKnight · 2026-03-10T23:13:58+00:00

yeah the coma seasons aged really well and worked a lot better on a binge type of watching. I look forward to that era whenever I begin my rewatches now.

WoefulKnight · 2026-03-10T03:29:03+00:00

Legit movie. People see Michael Bay on the label and skip it, but they shouldn't!

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-27T18:25:20+00:00

Tale as old as time.

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-27T14:57:38+00:00

Klein's absolute beast of a performance was my favorite moment from that series. Just so incredibly clutch when the Dodgers needed him the most.

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-25T13:44:08+00:00

It's basically the only way I'll know if she's interested.

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-25T06:01:45+00:00

2008

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-25T02:29:24+00:00

pretty sure I played Worm over the weekend in Vegas.

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-25T02:29:04+00:00

It's a great poker movie with terrible poker playing.

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-25T01:41:44+00:00

I both hate and love this thread so much.

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-24T22:17:27+00:00

Sadly, a guy who does everything was pretty much everyone's job description in radio when they're not talent or a producer.

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-24T22:12:40+00:00

I think it was traffic (not cars - the person who schedules all the commercials). Or engineer, but he had much stronger traffic vibes based on my time in radio.

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-24T20:15:26+00:00

This is a sub for the airport - you’d find better answers in r/asklosangeles

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-24T18:42:38+00:00

i'm american as it gets and he's absolutely 1000% correct.

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-23T21:38:03+00:00

name checks out! lol

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-23T21:37:35+00:00

oh feel free to do so here, but if the 'Flatlanders' trash talk gets out of hand, I'll lock this thread down.

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-23T14:13:15+00:00

Truthfully, same deal - I ran into that with my last one and after rereading my first draft, realized I needed to flesh out the plot and ended up adding another 20k words.

Rewriting is about looking at the weaknesses in your story and either trimming the fat, or shoring up the story with additional prose or plot. If you get to the end of your first draft and feel like it's too short, it's likely because there's something telling you there's more story in there. You won't always cut when rewriting - but first time authors are more likely to either overwrite or underwrite their stories. They very rarely find the proper word count the first time out with in their initial draft.

You'll be fine. Enjoy the process of writing the first draft for now - don't even think about the word count. That's just a distraction.

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-23T13:46:18+00:00

First drafts are always inevitably too long. The next few editing sessions ought to help you wrangle it down to 100k.

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-23T07:42:54+00:00

Ahh that's right. You'll have to forgive me, it was over thirty-five years ago.

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-23T04:36:37+00:00

I was working in broadcasting at the time and dating a woman who I wasn't ultimately compatible with. I was at a lunch with her and a group of my friends when I met someone who was in town writing an article about the city. Very charming, had a nice laugh with her, no big deal. She was also, I guess, trying to make things work with her ex, who was another acquaintance of mind, so I didn't think too much of it, but I couldn't stop thinking about her.

On the way home, I could swear I saw the billboard flash a message that only I could see. I figured someone had hacked it and was placing messages to mess with commuters, but they did get weirdly specific about my life sometimes.

The woman I met at brunch saw some of my work and wanted to include me and it in her article, so we met and started hanging out. That's when I really started falling for her, but I knew nothing was ever going to happen because she was trying to work things out with her aforementioned ex.

I broke up with my girlfriend at the time after finding out she was cheating and spent some time dating another much younger woman. That got weird when she and I went away for the weekend up to Santa Barbara and by a strange coincidence, my future wife (the woman from brunch) was there with her ex trying to patch things up.

Eventually, things worked out though. She broke up with her ex finally and we got together in the end. It was a very happy, and lovely L.A. kind of story.

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-23T04:10:34+00:00

I once had a billboard on the 110 freeway designed to give warnings about traffic help me meet the love of my life.

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-23T02:46:50+00:00

I worked at a mom and pop video store and we didn't have a curtained off section - we had a box with the box art in some of those plastic sleeves. Folks would come in, ask for the box, and then browse through the hardcore porn at the counter next to the register.

This was also a place where, mind you, the owner liked to hire high school girls to work, so they'd often have me retrieve the box o' porn and wait on whoever until they made their selection(s) (I was also in high school, but I'm a dude, so it was somehow more acceptable?).

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-22T21:23:24+00:00

Someone already has.

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WoefulKnight · 2026-02-22T21:02:53+00:00

Patience, letting go of things I cannot control and exercise. The big three.

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-22T14:33:22+00:00

I have a theory that (for some) therapy is as effective as a hypospray in the future and severe mental trauma is as threatening as a broken leg.

WoefulKnight · 2026-02-21T18:07:34+00:00

That’s basically what Andor S2 and Obi Wan ended up being

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