{"id":435,"date":"2008-06-01T17:26:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T04:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=435"},"modified":"2008-07-13T22:00:31","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T09:00:31","slug":"fast-return-may-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Fast Return – May 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Greetings! It’s the 7th of Eurovision and we’re not long for the remainder of the mid-series pause. You can view our analysis of the trail elsewhere on the blog, but for now, let’s look at the month in review…<\/strong><\/p>\n

THERE’S A BOX SET OUT THERE WITH YOUR NAME ON IT
\n<\/strong>You realise that fandom has taken an almight leap back into its own innocent youth when, in the midst of a spoiler thread about the reappearance of certain OS icons, someone pipes up the sort of comment that’s only a few crucial details away from being an opinion:<\/p>\n

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Still, at least they’ll freely admit to being wrong. But honestly, what are we teaching the kids, eh? Etc.<\/p>\n

OH, AND HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY…<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>The Official Site’s tribute to last weekend’s musical
\ninterlude. We’re thinking the heading probably sounded better said aloud.<\/p>\n

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FAME IS WHEN THEY SPELL YOUR NAME RIGHT.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ugh. You know how it is when your fannish enthusiasm overtakes the niceties of Net life. News rolls in as you wake to it and, bleary-eyed, medicated and in a back brace<\/a> compose a feverish epistle to the apostles. Tired and emotional, before you know it you’ve forgotten to check a nearby DWM<\/em> for spelling, and you hit Publish. Then someone like Love and Garbage<\/a> alerts everyone<\/em> to the oversight. Excellent pwnage, dude. No really – we’re just happy to have been Googled.
\nADD IT UP
\n<\/strong>\"\"<\/a>It wasn’t so long ago that the Editor of Her Majesty’s Fanzine called for reviewers for series four for TSV 76, sure to come out some time after Journey’s End<\/em> you would think. Here at ZeusBlog<\/em> Terraces we think the job has been half done already, with the TSV<\/em> Message Board already filling with regular viewers clamouring to be the early bird for each individual episode. Surely all that remains is some prudent editing of those comments (a vertitable round robin) and a sorting of who’s to be up for the job. We did the maths already in a handy Olympic-themed chart, running from Gold (first review per story) through to Silver and then Bronze of course. Here’s how it looked halfway through series four, including the mid-series trail. As you can see there’s a clear advantage to Darrell P and Jon P, but the game’s being joined more recently by the likes of Wade C (currently in the UK), and there are a few others unnamed bobbing along under the vital top three. At the top though, it’s pretty bloody and it could go to the wire. There’ll be tears before bedtime, we’re sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greetings! It’s the 7th of Eurovision and we’re not long for the remainder of the mid-series pause. You can view our analysis of the trail elsewhere on the blog, but for now, let’s look at the month in review… THERE’S … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fast-return"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}