Were you listening to the conversation that took place when I asked him if Fingon would hear about Maedhros' capture off-screen? Because he seemed more than willing to be moved off of this point.
I never heard him say this, sorry. It is not at all easy for me to hear them clearly on the webcast, and I have to take bathroom breaks sometimes during the session. I also have to eat and get ready for work
while listening and responding to the session, which is very difficult and requires dividing my attention. The podcast starts when I'm barely awake and I have to get up early just to participate. That does
not mean that I was refusing to listen. Please do not accuse me.
We also were not told to have Maedhros recover instantly.
We were told he must be recovered already at the beginning of the second episode. If as you say the rescue can finish at the end of the episode (which it needs to), then after being rescued he is recovered in the very next scene, which is instantly in screen time. Pretending that time passed "off screen" (how?) will not do anything to remove the appearance that he recovered instantly. As far as I know we're not allowed to show even one scene of him in bed or with a healer or Besan.
As was his statements about being ok with Galadriel meeting Celeborn before the Mereth Aderthad, and thus not telling him her deepest darkest secret the first time she meets him.
I didn't hear this statement, either. Sorry.
You didn't say that your concern was about the flow of time over the entire episode, you said that Maedhros is rescued in the very first scene. This was pretty clearly untrue, and so I addressed that point. That isn't me not understanding your concern, that is you communicating the wrong concern, and in fact, one that was easily falsifiable.
Nick, please be aware that like you I am a very busy person and cannot devote my entire life to this project. I have a job, I have finances to take care of, I have meals to cook, I have clothes to mend, I have medical appointments for multiple medical problems, and I have several other time committments -- several of which I have neglected for a month in order to attempt to meet the deadlines of this project. I do not usually have time, in the tiny space of time between the podcast and going to work, to write a many-paragraph description of the extremely detailed things I am thinking. Sometimes I have to attempt to summarize, which is extremely difficult. At all times I try to avoid un-readable walls of text. Even when I do have time I always find it very hard to convey what I'm thinking. I do the best I can and I assure you that I am very frustrated as well that I can't convey my thoughts clearly enough to be understood. I certainly am not being hard to understand on purpose because I enjoy being constantly misunderstood. I assure you that being misunderstood is the very
last thing I want! I am sorry if my summaries aren't detailed enough, but writing out my thoughts in full often takes me 1-2 hours per post. I very seldom have that much time.
Please do not accuse me of bad faith just because I am rushed and unable to convey my thoughts as clearly as I want. I am doing my best but you can't expect perfection. I don't appreciate being accused like this. It certainly does not help my already pressed time to have to spend 45 mins that I don't have just to defend myself. The situation here is already frustrating and difficult enough for me without having to defend myself every single time I miscommunicate, or mis-hear one thing that the Hosts say.
As it is I probably can't participate much for the foreseeable future. In addition to my job, neglected finances, cooking, mending, and cleaning, I also have to do taxes, apply for several housing options, and go to the doctor.
Edit: I'd like to add that I'm not angry, just frustrated and stressed out and overwhelmed.
In addition I will add that when Corey said we have to open the episode with Fingon already in the mountains, it was never clear to me if he also required the entire rescue sequence to be at the beginning, or to put the rest at the end.
Just because I don't have an easy time understanding Corey, does
NOT mean that I'm deliberately lying about what he said.