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To overthrow the manipulative authorities of year 2086, a man genetically designed to teach the values of the regime decides to fight his mental programming, team up with outlaws and free a people brainwashed by a corrupt government
He decides to fight his mental programming because he gets a glimpse of the cruelty going on beyond the polished surface of the regime and thereby sees the actual effects of that which he teaches as "the right way of life". He does certainly not win for good over his mental programming, but fights wRead more
He decides to fight his mental programming because he gets a glimpse of the cruelty going on beyond the polished surface of the regime and thereby sees the actual effects of that which he teaches as “the right way of life”.
He does certainly not win for good over his mental programming, but fights with it throughout entire season 1 (at least).
Haha I’m going to choose to take the Firefly-reference as a complimang 😉 It does have certain similarities, especially in the “taking on the authorities”-part, but the world and the structure will be uite different.
See lessFinding a dazzling world outside the enclosed home of the feared and hated pooka-people, a young pooka learns to cooperate with other species and takes it upon himself to defeat the oppressive leader of his own people and unite the world.
I guess "finding a dazzling world" is more of an opportunity (can't it be that though? Some teachers even call the Inciting Incident the Opportunity). I do, however, agree that the opportunity in itself doesn't Force him to act. He ignores it at first due to fear of what's unknown, but when his lifeRead more
I guess “finding a dazzling world” is more of an opportunity (can’t it be that though? Some teachers even call the Inciting Incident the Opportunity).
I do, however, agree that the opportunity in itself doesn’t Force him to act. He ignores it at first due to fear of what’s unknown, but when his life in the mountain (where he doesn’t fit in; doesn’t get the crude sense of humour of the pookas, doesn’t have the physical build to be good at any of their tasks etc.) gets worse and the teasing of him goes to new extremes, he decides it’s worth the risk to leave. But I would say that is more the Break into two than the Inciting incident. Would you say that part should be included in the logline?
The issue I had when I wrote the first draft of Pooka was that he doesn’t find out until midpoint that the leader of his own kind, who has been a kind of mentor to him, is actually the bad guy, so up until then the goal is rather the “uniting the people” and “gaining the respect of those who hate and fear him”. The “Defeat the leader”-goal is however, what he must do to be able to do the two other things.
(I have a synopsis written in Swedish. I’ll see if I have time to translate it before Sunday, so you can see the structure and story more clearly)
See lessHating the world and basically everyone in it, the cynical college-student Charlie and her four somewhat peculiar classmates turn their classroom into a lair and start a business to, with varying results, alter what sucks about the world. (sit-com)
Thank you Karel! Yes, I did have to really think it through. It being a sitcom I had no idea how to phrase it, since it, like you said, has no clear goal except for the very broad "changing the world"-one. I agree that adding the word Cynical might be unnecessary, I have a tendency to overuse adjectRead more
Thank you Karel!
Yes, I did have to really think it through. It being a sitcom I had no idea how to phrase it, since it, like you said, has no clear goal except for the very broad “changing the world”-one.
I agree that adding the word Cynical might be unnecessary, I have a tendency to overuse adjectives 😛 Maybe that’s the same issue I have with “somewhat peculiar”, but I feel like I want some sort of description of the characters, so they don’t seem dull?
I’ll try to think of a more comedic way of phrasing the “with varying results”-part 🙂
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