CREATE the ultimate genre show...

POSTED BY: Hawk
UPDATED: Thursday, April 27, 2006 02:42
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HAWK

Sunday, March 12, 2006 12:51 AM

Compile a list of the ideal ingredients for the greatest science fiction or fantasy show that never was but may one day be!

One ingredient per post:

1. Has good dialogue! Either something that sounds like real people might say it, or something that has a bit of poetry to it; a bit of sparkle. One of the common trip-ups in the genre is that heavy concepts need to be explained and quite often unkskilled scribes will slip into expositives. Also, I don't mean to generalise, but it is something of a fringe group that is interested in genre stuff, and perhaps the witers are not terribly acquainted with the intricacies of interaction?

To see No. 1 in action, check out Firefly and New Battlestar Galactica.

CYBERSNARK

Sunday, March 12, 2006 5:31 PM

An environment (sets, costumes, props, etc) that seems like a real world, populated by real people.

Stuff gets left around, moved, dirty, broken and repaired. Any item of technology probably has an analogue made by a different company, so don't panic if our communicators/blasters/scanners/tools don't all look alike. People will tinker and customize, and paint flowers on the wall to brighten up the crew mess. Clothes are off the rack (even if the rack is a couple of planets over), food comes from the market, and spare parts are sometimes unavailable. Note that the presence of replicators on capital-sized ships of the line does not automatically dismiss these concerns for anyone not a part of the fleet.

Planets have more than one environment, species have more than one religion, more than one language, and eat more than one kind of food. Aliens have their own music, their own art, their own architecture, and their own fiction.

The universe has not been waiting for humanity to appear and save the day. They've been getting along quite well without us, thank you. Alien politics, culture, and technology are not dependent on the presence or absence of humans.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

LUPINADDAMS

Wednesday, March 15, 2006 11:09 PM

Strong but accessible story arc between episodes and seasons.

"You are what you do."
Andrew Vacchs

IKRIT

Saturday, March 18, 2006 12:59 AM

Some measure of realism:
Does not mean 2001:Space odyssey type silent flying/stuff, but something like B5:
The physics of spaceflight are correct (firefly has this too), the weapons are plausible (not death-rays, but superheated gas), and having the less-shiny parts of the station/ship/universe exist.
(Brown Sector, everything in Serenity/Firefly, NOTHING from Star Trek.)
Also: Aliens are allowed, unlike Firefly.

STAKETHELURK

Saturday, March 18, 2006 1:11 AM

Complex, compelling, and sympathetic characters. They’re the heart of all fiction and they’re what separates the real gems from the mediocre. They should be believable, understandable, and emotionally resonant. They should have intricate, multifaceted motivations, relationships, and histories. They should change and grow and learn and die, just like real people.

Villains should be as complex as protagonists and they should present a valid (if incorrect or deeply misguided) point of view--they shouldn’t “just” be evil. Conflict should occur not only between villains and protagonists, but between protagonists themselves. And conflict should inflict both physical and psychological wounds on both protagonists and antagonists. This increases our emotional investment in their struggle and adds to the realism of the universe mentioned by CyberSnark.

NEZZERUS

Monday, March 27, 2006 4:02 AM

At least try to explain the technolgy put in it.

I hate not knowing how the Death Star works, from the superlaser to the ?engines? If you can't explain it using our technology, invent stuff, and explain how it works. For example: Saturnian fuel. Made from gas mined in the rings of Saturn. Powerful enough to make traveling between planets practical (not taking years)

ROCKET333

Sunday, April 23, 2006 10:46 PM

Hey I made a tv show that I think is pretty cool. Iv'e been making it up most of my life. I wonder if anybody would be interested in reading some of the stuff I wrote. I have notebooks and computer disks full of stuff. In fact it's real funny becasue after I started watching firefly I was like there are some similarities in the. Of course not real simialr but I swear to god I have been making it up since I was alittle kid.

I would really like for people to read my stuff and be entertained. THats my goal for now...well actually I really always thought I would make a crazy tv show. I got sidetracked when I wanted to be a rockstar.

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ROCKET333

Sunday, April 23, 2006 10:56 PM

aAllright you guys I suck. I'm all excited now just talking about my tv show I hope you guys don't mind me blabbing on. Anyway I tried very hard to make it realistic yet fantastic you know. Still I am a twenty seven year old "girl" who is a town freak in a town full of drug addicts. I live in my moms basement so It might not be perfect. But I really am trying to logistic it out. I mean I need other writers I guess to devolop someof the other charecters.

So like I made a organization in the future that is called the underground and they are mostly fighter pilots. Except that alot of the stuff that happens is like here now.we always wondered why we could never get to the other side of space untill a portal opened up right next to earth. And lo and behold there were all kind of planets with portals and alot of the species of people were simialer to us...had simialr languges and diffrent things. I would explain this more in detail...anyway they drink beer and go to shows and well there ships are all customized. ITs too hard to explain there is too much.

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HAWK

Monday, April 24, 2006 9:40 PM

That's alright- we've got all the time in the world!

This show of yours; try and sum up what makes it different from the rest in one sentence, then go from there.

DAVESHAYNE

Monday, April 24, 2006 10:29 PM

Women wearing leather. The absolutely essential ingredient for visual medium speculative fiction.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

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