h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Hell and Back Again: A Matrix Tale - A2181142
Author: ATwentyMinuter - U554469

My first posting for review. I think it mets all the guidlines, if it doesn't or if I've submitted it to the wrong section please let me know. Hope you enjoy it any in case, it's from that rarest of things a film buff who loves to be entertained, not impressed.

Hello ATwentyMinuter

I don't have time to read this in detail just now - I'll do that later - but as a starter...

An entry for the EG should be written in the third person, so all the s need to come out I'm afraid

Also, some paragraph breaks would be good, to split up the text and make it more readable.

Headers and subheaders would help even more.

Recommend you check out the guide to writing for the EG and also the one on GuideML. I'll get back to you with links - have lost my handy link paper....


F/b

Hello again

Here's the links

A53209 - Writing for the Edited Guide

A264520 - GuideML for the Edited Guide


Frenchbean

A few options for you to consider

1) The edited guide does have entries on films, but not on personal responses to films. You'd have to make this a lot more neutral if you wanted to go down that route.
2) The Post takes personal pieces including current film reviews and other film related stuff - see the link off the front page for some examples.
3) H2G2's sister site, collective has loads of film buffs. You could certainly submit your piece to them. See the BBC communicate page to get to collective.

sprout

I agree that the collective may be a good place to place this. The link is:
<./>/dna/collective</.>
The collective is not part of H2G2, but it is part of a whole branch of the BBC which works in the same kind of way. A full list is at <./>/dna/hub/communities</.>

The collective editorial's page for matrix reloaded is A1979517.


In h2g2, look at A195635 (matrix 1) for an example of what is selected for the edited guide.

You can search for other Matrix pages at <./>Search?searchstring=matrix</.>

If you want to remove this entry from peer review (which will mean it won't go into the edited guide, but will still appear if someone searches for it) click on the X next to it on the PeerReview page.

I agree about the Smith vs Neo fight in Reloaded but you haven't mention the silliest part of it. If he couldn't kill all those Smiths why didn't he fly off in the first place! As a spoof writer however I see this scene as a perfect base for a spoof such as the one I wrote into one of my Pantomimes (for full details see my article on the secrets of pantomime!)

Well, it's been a little over two months since the author last poked their head around the door... move back to entry? Flea Market? AWW?


Scout
Back in the saddle again

Well, not FM I think. I could see it in the AWW, though.


Geggs

AWW rings the right note for me

Sort of - not really sure where it would go from there though - UG isn't really focused on film reviews, although I suppose it could include them.

Not really CAC either.

Still, I guess in the AWW, people will be able to comment on it as a piece of creative writing.

sprout

<./>Collective</.>?

Myself, I'd just as soon see this one go back to the entry, given the author's absence. But if there are those who really want to see it in the AWW, I'd be okay with that.

It says AWW on the list sent to the Towers. I'm happy for it to stay that way, not least because changing it now I reckon would cause more delay and anguish

That's fine. for all the amazing and tireless work, GD!

Aww shucks...