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In a world where a new species of human suffers discrimination and containment, a young and erratic Control Officer for the Registry meets a sadistic yet charming bi-species man and builds a partnership that threatens to expose the lies at the foundation of the organization?s operations.
So now the agent is a nothos, too? One homo sapien sapiens opinion: I like it better where it's a meet-cute partnership of initially clashing personalities -- and species -- who, like each other or not, come to depend on each other to stay alive. And, horror of horrors!, it develops into a winning pRead more
So now the agent is a nothos, too?
One homo sapien sapiens opinion:
I like it better where it’s a meet-cute partnership of initially clashing personalities — and species — who, like each other or not, come to depend on each other to stay alive.
And, horror of horrors!, it develops into a winning partnership. And even worse for her ulterior motive –but better for the story line–she wins his respect.
If she is not the designated “romantic interest” then who is? You gotta have one for a series. If you can think of one hit TV series in any genre where the protagonist never has a romantic interest on the side — a “B” story that is not as counterpoint to the “A” story as a Bach fugue– I’d like to know what it is.
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Your villain "distinguishes" the logline, hence, overwhelms the writer. Ergo, like it or not, you've cast him as the main character in the mind of us who have read your logline. That seems to be the consensus impression. It's not what you intend, but there it is. You are certainly right that villainRead more
Your villain “distinguishes” the logline, hence, overwhelms the writer. Ergo, like it or not, you’ve cast him as the main character in the mind of us who have read your logline. That seems to be the consensus impression. It’s not what you intend, but there it is.
You are certainly right that villains can be more interesting than the hero. Darth Vader is more interesting than Luke Skywalker. But how does the logline for the first film of the franchise read?
After a spirited farm boy saves a princess from an the evil henchman of a despotic Galactic Empire, he joins forces to destroy the Empire’s planet-annihilating Death Star.
The focal point of the logline is Luke, not Darth Vader.
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What's your "B" Story? Why not make the shrink a woman? Are all the women nothing more than sex objects, whores? Way to go to attract the female demographic -- NOT!
What’s your “B” Story? Why not make the shrink a woman?
Are all the women nothing more than sex objects, whores? Way to go to attract the female demographic — NOT!
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