Help... how?

SOS by Bognil on 2024-04-19 16:50:56 UTC Writing Reply

It turns out Eiga Sentai Scanranger is way longer than I was expecting, and I need help finding the charge worthy moments in it, so any and all help will be greatly appreciated

Lemme stop you from wasting more effort on this. by Neshomeh on 2024-04-20 15:30:18 UTC Reply

This is not a missionable work. Cursory research tells me this was written in homage to Super Sentai and/or in spite for Power Rangers, but it's a completely original take on the genre. Whoever put it on the Unclaimed Badfic list shouldn't have.

Do not mission this; do not base a Permission request on this.

Furthermore, please spend more time developing your own judgement. In order to write good missions, you'll need to be able to identify what makes a fanfic bad (and whether or not it would make a good mission even if it is), explain why when asked, and demonstrate how that manifests in-universe in an entertaining way. You will also need to be willing to do research when you encounter uncertainty.

Take the advice you've already been given and slow down. Read more missions to find out how the PPC works and see how other people have interpreted badfics. By all means, also ask questions, but do so with the aim of developing your reading and writing skills, not as a shortcut to Permission. Rushing it will only end in disappointment.

~Neshomeh

'Course, in-depth research is also important... by Neshomeh on 2024-04-21 14:55:32 UTC Reply

And sometimes I'm wrong and I have to eat crow. ^_^;

So I started reading the Das Sporking MST, which is really entertaining since the sporker clearly knows the Sentai genre and how film works in general. Makes it so even someone less familiar with the genre, like me, can keep up. Many well-placed references to other pop culture stuff, too. ^_^

But my point is, having done that, I've learned that in chapter four, the main villain of Scanranger ("Blackorg," lol) claims to have wiped out the villains from the original Power Rangers, which—oops—does technically set Scanranger in the same universe.

Technically.

If you even believe Blackorg, which I don't. As the riffers point out, he's not fit to shine Rita Repulsa's shoes. {= P Plus, if he defeated the Alliance of Evil but not the Power Rangers (he says he'll be the first to eliminate a pesky five-member group when he gets the Scanrangers!), where exactly are they now? They couldn't get from California to New Jersey because...? It's one of many plotholes you could drive a giant mecha through.

But I think the connection is so tenuous it's not enough to justify calling this a Power Rangers fanfic, since it has absolutely zero other shared elements, at least as of chapter six. An experienced PPCer could maybe make a Bad Parody mission of it, but personally I wouldn't bother.

Just read the MST. That's the best sporking format for this, IMO, and it's already been done quite well. {= )

~Neshomeh

Help... how? by Linstar on 2024-04-19 18:20:14 UTC Reply

Do you want us to read through and find charges in the badfic itself, like an MST or something? Are you trying to write a mission for the fic? Because I would caution against that without Permission, and you don't even need to mission an entire badfic anyway.

I, again, am no Power Rangers expert, and probably can't help that much with going over the fic, but I would like a little clarification as to what you were trying to say.

--Ls

I could definitely use some help with reading through that inevitable wall of text. by Bognil’s other computer on 2024-04-19 20:04:25 UTC Reply

And thankfully, none of the charges involve Power Rangers itself. I’m also currently working on the supplement to go with my permission request.

Um, okay? by Linstar on 2024-04-19 20:56:42 UTC Reply

So I was able to find the badfic, and hoo boy is that long. 130k words? Yeesh. I tried to read some of it, but I just had absolutely no clue what was going on with it. No idea who any of the characters were, or what was going on, or how inaccurate it was. The SPaG wasn't bad enough for me to pick up on that, either. Sorry, dude.

You don't have to read the whole badfic to mission it (after getting Permission, of course), nor must the mission include the entire badfic. If you'd prefer, maybe choose a shorter badfic for your first mission.

--Ls

For some reason, it’s a completely a completely original work. by Bognil’s other computer on 2024-04-19 23:49:59 UTC Reply

But noted. And I am working on the permission request add-on.

Wait, if it's completely original, then how is it missionable? by Linstar on 2024-04-20 00:08:58 UTC Reply

If it's just misfiled original fiction, you can't Claim it. Unless you mean that all the characters in the canon world are OCs? That would be missionable, if the story didn't make sense in the world, or was just badly written.

Also, what do you mean by Permission request "add-on"? Is that just a Permission request? Or are you doing something more than that?

--Ls

A, I wasn't the one who put it on the list and B, The piece of writing people include in their permi by Bognil’s other computer on 2024-04-20 00:37:01 UTC Edited Reply

-ission requests (and yes what little I've can bear to read is terrible and all OCs)