Hey all. With the announcement of a possible movie reboot, Adam and I came to decision to take the CB blog down.
It's been years since we finished CB and years since I stopped writing for the fandom. I had a lot of fun, but there's so much that Adam and I look back on and cringe at. I mean yeah we were stupid college kids, but still! We've joked about doing a review of the review series but couldn't come up with anything further than "it sucked."
That might be a little harsh, though. I think it definitely had bits that were funny. I regret that I fell into the "angry reviewer" persona so often. I do recall that it was pretty fun to be the over the top one, and Adam plays a great straight man. Still, now I see that kind of persona as cringey and immature (and rightfully so). I also regret that we forced ourselves to go through the series so quickly. We were seriously burned out by the end, and I think it showed in the decreasing quality of the last bunch of reviews.
A lot has changed in my life since I last checked in here. I don't want to go too much into it, because who even cares, but I don't feel like I'm the same person I was when I was working on CB or the related fanfics. I'm an adult who votes and pays taxes and has a lot more perspective than 21 year old Ifi did.
As far as my fanfics go? I don't even know, man. I can't bring myself to
reread them! I'm sure they're melodramatic and have terrible mood
whiplash and awkward scene transitions. I kinda wonder if people are just coming here to laugh at them.
I still can't believe CB got as popular as it did. I don't think Adam and I actually did anything particularly special, we just tapped into some sort of collective nostalgia that had been previously ignored. There's a lot of things I wish we had done differently and planned better, but I guess that's just a part of growing up. You learn what works, and what doesn't.
Since I know you're curious, Adam and I are still best friends (no, we didn't get married, lol, I'm still gay).
That's all, I guess.
