Is the masquerade necessary?

[The Minsky Moment]

I think that staging a costume ball is a sub-optimal response to the threat of fictional monsters.
So which way should I vote?

[grumbler]

I guess, g, has different standards for evaluating books.

Of course I do; my standards include that the writer has considered the needs of his plot.  Your standards are different from that, I guess.  To each his own.

[Razgovory]

I think that staging a costume ball is a sub-optimal response to the threat of fictional monsters.
So which way should I vote?

How do you respond to fictional threats?  Hold Congressional hearings?

[grumbler]

Well, we've got 50 pages on tea party tax evasion and nearly 200 on Canadian politics, obviously just about anything is "thread worthy".   

I don't mind threads that have controversies in them.  This one doesn't.  There is no need for the aliens to engage in The Masquerade in Independence Day; there was absolutely a need for them to engage in it in V.  In either movie the plot wouldn't work with the opposite choice made.

So the answer to "is the masquerade necessary" is "yes, where it is necessary, and no, where it isn't."

[Eddie Teach]

Well, we've got 50 pages on tea party tax evasion and nearly 200 on Canadian politics, obviously just about anything is "thread worthy".   

I don't mind threads that have controversies in them.  This one doesn't.  There is no need for the aliens to engage in The Masquerade in Independence Day; there was absolutely a need for them to engage in it in V.  In either movie the plot wouldn't work with the opposite choice made.

So the answer to "is the masquerade necessary" is "yes, where it is necessary, and no, where it isn't."

I don't mind threads that don't have controversies, they tend to be less repetitive and over quicker.

However, it hasn't been universally agreed upon in this thread whether Tim should flush his head in a toilet or not. 

[11B4V]

However, it hasn't been universally agreed upon in this thread whether Tim should flush his head in a toilet or not. 

Yes, but a public one from an AM/PM

[The Minsky Moment]

I think that staging a costume ball is a sub-optimal response to the threat of fictional monsters.
So which way should I vote?

How do you respond to fictional threats? 

Throw the book at 'em.

[mongers]

This thread is really stupid.

[Caliga]

Are Jews a secret?

I suspect they created the Laws of Attraction.

[Barrister]

Are Jews a secret?

I suspect they created the Laws of Attraction.

I thought they created the Rules of Acquisition...

[fhdz]

So the answer to "is the masquerade necessary" is "yes, where it is necessary, and no, where it isn't."

Right. It's utterly dependent on the kind of story the author's trying to tell.

[CountDeMoney]

I don't mind threads that have controversies in them.  This one doesn't.  There is no need for the aliens to engage in The Masquerade in Independence Day; there was absolutely a need for them to engage in it in V.  In either movie the plot wouldn't work with the opposite choice made.

If they were changed, the movie name would be V Day. NYUK GET IT

[garbon]

I guess, g, has different standards for evaluating books.

Of course I do; my standards include that the writer has considered the needs of his plot.  Your standards are different from that, I guess.  To each his own.

The writer could have considered it and chosen the ill-advised path.

[katmai]

This thread is really stupid.

Damn if mongers is calling a thread stupid...

[Eddie Teach]

Depends if you think he has a high threshold or faulty judgment.