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You got to remember that not every possible thing can be elaborated on, not with the hundreds of characters that exist in this universe. If Mark accounted for every single character in every single scene, we'd have much, much longer chapters. You also have to remember that Will's only really been more than a background character since we got to Millenium in 1999. That means the years of 1986 to 1998 aren't really covered much in Will's life. 1987 to 1990; 1992 to 1994, and '96-'97 aren't covered, period. So there's ton of grandfather/grandson bonding that presumedly happened when Will wasn't a focus or in years that weren't covered. 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, and 1997....lots of things could have happened in these years that we never saw. That is what is a bonus about when Mark has multiple year skips- we get to try and figure out what's changed in the family, and why things are different. I imagine Stefan and JP having a crazy experience in Studio 54 in 1977. God, '77 was such a crazy year.

Here's a parody of the Pure Michigan ads that have been running. Michiganers, is there a grain of truth to this? Detroit. God. That places makes me wanna cry looking at it. I feel so sorry for the people who come there and have to see their home city disappearing into a ghost town like that.

I desperately want to watch Derek and Jackson have sex with each other. I'm slashing these guys hard.

I really, really want to see Tyler Hoechlin and Colton Haynes from Teen Wolf make out. They'd be one hot-as-hell couple.

I really, really wouldn't expect Zach to get enlightened anytime soon. If he gets to go to college on a football scholarship he'll just get worse. The kids are lucky that their parents aren't going to be extending out any invitations for Zach to visit California anytime soon. I like that for now, Will seems totally over John. That's pretty realistic. I liked seeing Cole again, and I like seeing Gen 4 just enjoying themselves in the car, teenagers on a road trip. Darius probably has the most freedom out of all of his siblings, not just him being 18 but because he doesn't have the target on his back that Will has as a consequence of being Brad's favorite child. There's something awesome about being a freshman in college- the amount of boundless freedom and possibility you have. There are some times I would give anything to be 19 years old again...

Okay. That's fine. Still, the point remains. I wonder if Stefan's going to invest in the 2000's Orange County real estate boom. That probably would have seemed like a no-brainer at the time. I like that you're getting someone who cares more about the environment. We haven't really had that much in terms of environmental concerns brought up yet, and given the kind of early 90's politically correct TV shows that these kids grew up with, it makes sense that they'd start bringing that kind of thing up. Kids develop their social schema according to the culture they grow up in, and stuff like Captain Planet, Pocohantas, and Fern Gully was a part of it. I mean this is seriously what we grew up with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiEf2W8RwO0&feature=related "Never Talk To Strangers", Ruff McGruff Taking A Bite out Crime, D.A.R.E., and "Don't Litter" were big slogans/campaigns for the child of the early 90's. We were also told that we needed to have Higher Self-Esteem and Celebrate Diversity.

The irony to Will's speech is that the Schluters wouldn't have nearly been so rich if they HADN'T profited off the surburban sprawl of Alameda County in the 1970's. Suburban sprawl is of course a contributing factor to gas use, which contributes to why we have to drill in increasingly dangerous areas. It really is connected in a circle, a loop that never ends.

Chapter 34 -When the family waits around in the E.R. for J.P.'s surgery. Goran Visjnic and Erik Pallendino. Goddamn. - When Will goes on his "Save The Environment" youthful idealism speech. and Opening Theme from Captain Planet / A '90's childhood definitely included a lot of t.v. about how we needed to save the whales and such. I loved that Will absorbed all of that. It sounded straight out of the Fox Kids Saturday morning lineup. Time for an admission: In 2nd grade, inspired by Captain Planet, I took a pair of toy handcuffs and cuffed myself to the Jungle Gym to protest whaling. My teachers could barely keep a straight face. I was one incredibly precocious child who wanted desperately to be Wheeler. - When the kids ride through the West, and pick up Cole, Matt's best friend.

Logan should have done the Fat Reveal while Tori was on-stage recieving her crown. That would have been so much more humiliating- like the end of Jawbreaker.

I was thinking about this statement. I remember Mark saying once that the reason why he did the kidnapping story was to shake the Will character up a bit and give him some emotional baggage to make him a deeper character because someone sailing easily through life is pretty boring to follow there. In JJ's case- the drama and emotional baggage are all there. There's no need to really create any traumatic events for him because the tensions are just bubbling beneath the surface. There's so many places you can explore with this character, from having a crackwhore mother and a dad that pretends he doesn't exist, to being the unpopular Schluter brother no one really paid attention to at Malibu Middle, to being in a drama-filled and pressure-filled sport that compells him to spend hours in his room practicing a single stance. He's essentially traded in his childhood for a shot at Olympic Gold, and knowing the way in which Mark won't change history means that it won't happen for him. God. I got chills thinking about how angry, hurt, and lost this guy will be when he's 20 after Torino fails to yield any Olympic medals. And if/when the tabloids get wind of Bitty and Jim Crampton. I cannot picture the skating community being understanding about someone having a crackwhore mother who screwed her uncle for cash. I can just hear the insanely bitchy comments from Johnny Weir calling JJ the "Incest Crackwhore Baby". (You KNOW that Johnny Weir would be that evilly bitchy to someone.)

Remember when CAP was going to be a stand-alone story? Here we are, three years and ten sequels later. LOL. Of course, it helps that Mark had 38 years and hundreds of characters to work with. I'm not sure Stefan and JP as characters by themselves could have warranted 10 sequels. It does keep things fresh having new characters and new situations and generations to work on.

You decided to cram two stories within the year 2000, that's how it worked out. LOL. (That's for another thread, though.) As for a conclusion on the horizon, I do think the 2000's are going to provide a helluva of a lot of fodder for CAP. I can see Mark going for at least another four stories before a conclusion is reached. (9/11, Iraq, The '06 Olympics, and the general craziness of 2008 seem like a given.) In any event, we're now on three years of CAP! Mark officially started posting the story this week over at his Yahoo group. Three years. Man. I was but a wee lad of 22 when I got involved with your writing team. It's been a blast all the way through.

Actually, John had his 13th birthday on July 21st. See, my mind is already in 2003, so I think of John as being sixteen. In any event, both he and Will are supposed to look older than they are anyway. It's been repeatedly said that Will looks like a seventeen-year old. The only one who still looks like a little kid is JJ: What Mark's been getting right is the way in which the younger-looking guys tend to get ignored while the guys who got hit by puberty and look hot at 13/14 get hit on pretty hard.

Coincidentally, that happened at University of Delaware in 1996, with Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson. Keep in mind that it's only early August in the story so far. Are we really expecting a massive amount of growth and maturity from Gathan when only a month has passed from the start of the story?

Arby's isn't that bad in terms of fast food, but I'd ditch the White Castle burgers. Switch to Panera. High in carbs but generally pretty healthy.

Will moping around about another love interest. Again. Not that I fault him. God, being in 9th grade sucked. I remember I used to sit around and moon over this online friend I had a crush on from Utah. LMAO. Thank god JJ isn't moony over love interests- he's nicely focused with his eyes on the prize and little interest in the wonders of dating. I like that a lot. The contrast works well.

You're forgotting that Gathan's going to be hockey teamates with a guy who lives and breathes politics. I think Wade will be a good mentor for Gathan as he learns about political science.

Eh, my favorite scene is the one where JJ goes on a 3-day bender in New York City for his 25th birthday, still haunted by the disapointments of Torino and Vancouver. Then gets picked up by the cops when he's found wandering around Battery Park completely incoherent while hopped up on painkillers and vodka. This basically scores it.

And Ace, in the scene where he's naked with Bianca in bed with him while Brad teases him, in Man In Motion. Brandon Stoughton is freaking hot as hell. Stefan's pre-AIDS Hollywood orgy parties. God, I wish I had been around in the late 70's. Just seemed like one very hedonistic time where anything went.

Since Blue, Matt, Tommmy, and Tim seem to be really interested in posting music picks, I thought I'd bring this one back up for them to post more picks in. So, come on guys! I fully expect you guys to post in this fan thread instead of the official one for fun! The rule that the music must be from the era is redacted. More fun this way. For Brad and Robbie during "Millenium". LOL. God, I had a crush on Eric Lively back around 1999-2000. Such a cute guy back then. For Will and John. God, it'll be fun when we get to 2003 and I can use that one. I'm sure, given the way these people bedhop, it'll be appropriate.

Matt, I see what you're saying, and believe that I will use some oldies, but this is mainly about re-creating the mindset and feel of a given era. Music is a big part of that. The era is now the late 90's/beginning of the 2000's, and I do what I can to try and reflect what was the popular music at the time, and also what some of the more obscure stuff was at the time. I'm trying to use my music picks to reflect the popular culture of pre-9/11 America, when Britney Spears was in her prime and boybands dancing in synch got people really going, and the outsider kids rebelled by listening to poppy punk like Blink 182 or real punk like NoFx. This was a United States that almost feels foreign today- a United States still riding off the high of the 90's economic boom fostered by an administration that actually created a governmental surplus, and had no idea the horrible decade that was awaiting it. The feel of the music picks often ties into the story itself. When I did picks for A Summer Love, set in 1991, I used a LOT of happy tail-end 80's pop tunes at the beginning of Marcel and JP's relationship, then switched over into bummer alternative rock like the Pixies and eventually Nirvana as Marcel broke up with JP and he(and us) moved into the 1990's. That said, I have been using a lot of older stuff because of the fact that 1.) Mark doing four stories set from 1998 to 2000 means I can't just focus on music from one area because I've basically exhausted late '90's music, and 2.) 70's nostalgia was still around in 2000, and 80's nostalgia was beginning at this point, and 3.) There have been a lot of call-backs to Man In Motion, which I've reflected in using some circa 1985 tunes. Was the scene with Berto and Will walking down the beach in Malibu something I missed? Also have you somehow forgotten that I've used Beach Boys before?

I have to agree with you on this one, Hermectically Seal. No amount of manners was going to change the Hendrickson's mind. I like Kristin a whole lot. She's one of the more interesting female characters we've had in awhile. I never really warmed up all that much to Tiffany or Ella, honestly. It helps a lot that I keep picturing Kristin as Ashley Benson/Hannah from Pretty Little Liars, who I enjoy very much as an actress/character. I just have Kristin pictured as the Rich Bitch with a heart of Gold, and I'm generally always enjoyed Poor Little Rich Girls, going all the way back to Kelly Taylor on the original 90210.

Chapter 33 -When Gathan and Kristin talk on the cliff. Naked. "Meet Virgina" by Train - When Will goes into a teenage angst mope session. "Misery" by The Moffats -When Gathan and Kristin have an incredibly awkward family dinner. "Anthem Part 1" by Blink 182

You had a friend who killed hiimself at 25? I think the issues must have been deeper.

Blue and gold. Nice. That should set off John's blue-green eyes perfectly. Canuck, I do agree the uniforms could be sexier, but I think lacrosse players have bangin' bodies. Mixes the best of soccer players and football players, I think.