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So lately I have been having burning urges to write about several different things. And I've not been like this since I wrote for the lorehammer podcast back when they were still cool people, and that podcast existed. But the things I want to write are varied, and complex. Each its own very unique thing. One is an idea for a CG cartoon. The other is an idea for a live action mini-series. The other is.. well...
The cartoon is simple enough. I enjoy Star Wars. Good, Star Wars. And the CG cartoon wasn't too bad. It had hits. It had misses. But overall, not a waste of time for a once over in my opinion. Thing is, the show, like all other kids action shows suffers from this one big problem, that, for older enjoyers never goes away, from show to show. Here comes the big badman. He do the big bad. The good guys do a gasp. And maybe a nameless background character dies. Oh no! Now the good guys have to make the badman do a stop it. They make the bad man do a stop it. The day is saved. The next day: Here comes another big badman. He has the bad thing. It do the big bad! Oh no! Now the good guys have to make him do a stop it too. And then they do. AND THEN THE NEXT DAY~ You get the idea. This is a problem I despise dearly. No mater what, its all the exact same plot over and over. There might be new set dressing. There may be different details. But nothing ever really changes... I hear an argument more and more that disney star wars wants to treat its viewers like babies when all its viewers want is for star wars to grow up. Perhaps this is true. Idk. But I feel like to some extent it is personally. To that extent, I want to write a more grown up CG star wars cartoon. And it would definitely go to some extreme places at times. As I think it should. But how, and how to make that appropriate?
My idea here is a rather simple but unique twist on the formula that we actually don't get too often in stories let alone cartoons: The good guys have the superweapon. The good guys now have the capacity for the big bad. And they have to. Or greater bad will happen. The time period would be clone wars, but this time its not venators or little baby arquitens, but a full blown republic era dreadnaught capable of glassing a planet within an hour. What happens when things get so bad something this powerful gets called to service? What happens when the good guys have to destroy a fleet so powerful they need to use actual nuclear weapons, which in star wars canon is not only very real, but has been used on, and by, the republic itself. Its very very rare, but imagine clouds of droid fighters, genuinely beyond ten thousand, Fighters and bombers and gunships. Dreadnaught with support or no, thats the death of any fleet right there. Too many. And then the admiral, grizzled old man looks to the officer at the missile command station and says some simple phrase. At first we don't quite understand, but the officer is clearly terrified. They only have about another ten minutes before contact, and its all over. The only jedi in the fleet are on the other ships, they don't have say over a ship like this, its symbocially antithetical to the order, so they can be on it, but have no say over its command. That's when the missiles launch. A massive salvo. Maybe up to 80 or more. On all the other ships in the fleet, a whole new alarm sound is heard. Most the crew doesn't know what that means, but then their own weapons officers will start telling them, "Radiological Weapons deployed! We need to cut power to everything and redirect it all to shields! Now!" Again, the jedi won't understand of course. Its been.. a long time since even one of these was last used. But the captains begin to catch on quick, and even some clones and volunteer crew (Showing that there are even volunteer republic soldiers and crew will be a massive part of the story) start to figure it out.
Imagine the high tension violin as the slowmo shot of the nightmare cloud of fighter craft begins to close in. Then a shot of the small escort ships of the fleet desperately trying to get into the cover of the larger vessels hoping that their mass will block the resulting concussive blasts. Next, a shot of the missiles, they're closing in! Next a 'top down' shot, you can see the missile's vapor trails, the fleet, and the cloud, the missiles start to make contact.... an explosion.. two.. five... another twe-BRILLIANT LIGHT!!!!! TEN GREAT SPOTS OF THEM. Everything vanishes in the brief but intense light! And then as it fades, as the various captains and jedi begin to squint out their command decks... they can visually see the massive shockwaves traveling through space towards them. Then BOOM, each one slams into every cruiser. BOOM-BOOMBOOM-BOOM-BOOMBOOMBOOM-BOOMBOOM. Ships shake, some are even forced onto new courses by the blasts. Fortunately all the republic vessels are safe, but the fighters are just gone.. now only vacant and exposed carriers await.. its been only three seconds since the shockwaves rolled through the fleet... The Dreadnaught begins firing immediately, (This is the part where the bombastic drums kick in and cut the violin tension.) not missing another beat. Every ship already receiving firing solutions before the jedi can even realize they're supposed to be pissed about what just happened. Meanwhile the dreadnaught is firing is full salvo fire mode. Each one capable of liquidating an entire portion of continent. It should be felt by the other ships, which would only add to the scary punch of it all.. that's when the fleets begin to engage in full, and its a destructive but now hilariously one sided battle that makes being the good guys feel scary.
Now tell me you wouldn't want to actually watch a season or two of CG star wars clone wars, but it hits like that. No punches pulled. Hitting hard, and with some hard hitting topics. I know people would love it. Would everyone? Maybe not. Probably not. Hell, even my dad might scoff at the idea of nukes in star wars. Probably would. I mean.. its fair. He grew up with, Star Wars. Not, Star Wars A New Hope. THEE, original, Star Wars. All the way when he was 7. So he'd probably be right in that lol. Fair's fair and all that. But come on.. If not you reading this, if you.. still are.. then you gotta admit you know that there would still be an audience for that. ;P
And that's just a taste from one episode I have envisioned. Thing is.. I've never written in a show form before. I just write stories. Writing a show is worlds different. So its a level of trying to make it good, trying to make it in a way I know how to get it out, but also in the way I want it delivered, which are not the same. Its.. confusing.
The second show, the live action one would take place on a warhammer 40k knight world. Its about a boy who lives in his medieval village. And yeah, imagine the medieval village style. The cobblestone roads, even the base walls of many buildings in the village are cobblestone, before the actual plaster wall above. You got soldiers in plate and mail, spear and sword and shield. Peasants go about their daily chores. The boy's father was sent away with the army and the Knights, he's been waiting for his father to come home. Things seem very normal medieval, but then one day a messenger arrives in town. The army has returned! And early too! Years and years early! Wow how great! Those from House (Name to be determined) Will arrive here in 10 days! Everyone cheers! But there are rumors. Why so early? When the god emperor of mankind takes his men, his knights, and his angels to 'war for the stars' the armies are gone for a looooooooong time. It could even be beyond a generation even. So for it to be so soon.. why?
Its about a day before the army returns, but an advance party arrives! And its boy's dad! And he's... different. He's been hurt, but how they fixed it is completely wrong. He has a harsh yet very functional robotic portion of his face, he still has both his eyes, but a portion of his jaw is machinery. And not like.. simple peasant stuff either. Beyond us now stuff. And his arm is also replaced with a bionic replacement. Its now clear to the viewer, that there is a great illusion here and its only going to get smashed even harder when the knights come to town. Because for the 40k fans who know, they know. And for the people who don't, well, when the army parade begins the next day, and the 9-12 meter tall knight themed giant robots with missile launchers and plasma cannons start marching through the town, yeah.. uh.. the illusion is thoroughly shattered now.
And again I have more plotted here, but that's another story I feel like I could maybe get enough people on board to actually see actually happen. But isn't that a compelling plot as it is? Medieval army but giant robot? And.. there's others among them? Who are the scary masked fuckers on the nightmare horses who aren't saying anything??? (And they look like WWI trench soldiers?) What's goin on!? Come on. You know that hits different to what we got right now.
The last one is where.. things get complicated. And I realize that I think I write basically windows. What I mean is, I write, what either I want to see, or in terms of other stories, or some of the dark traumatic plot points I might have planned for both stories, some of which may be based around my own experiences, some around other's I've been told in great detail. But I know my experiences would shape these dark plot points in ways that I'm worried would be to.... me? Like a signature, but with plot points that are just obvious flags for the various things I have endured. I am writing basically just an open window into that for people to see. But there's also desire here too.. do I make that known? Do my stories reflect what I want? Would I just be writing an elaborate shoping list of self pities, doubts, traumas, and deepest desires? Exposing myself for everyone in ways nobody wants to see and in ways I never want to be seen? And.. now I'm fucking terrified because my next story I felt compelled to write came to me suddenly and its got theme's I've never actually written about or wanted to write about before. But now suddenly I do. And if I'm exposing what is probably my inner self.. should I even write it at all? It would be furry, which I don't think I've written a pure furry story ever either? So that's also like.. huh.. weird. I gotta do a little thinkle on that. Not so bad. Some of the other major themes would be, dealing with extreme trauma in isolation, among other things I'm not sure I should even write the word of but its... probably really dark in most ways. Nothing gross, but.. nothing good. However... uh.. what is a furry story..without the sex/porn part(s)??? ........ stop looking at me stop looking at mestoplookingatmestoplookingatmeSTOPLOOKINGATMESTOPLOOKINGATME so uh... yeah.......
Uhm.. I don't know how to write this.. I mean.. I do. But... is that a good idea???? <///<
Am I just really overthinking that part? No but really tho, I don't care if you wanna get off on more prons. Is that genuinely overthinking it or am I onto something and should maybe stop before I do something magnificently stupid????
The cartoon is simple enough. I enjoy Star Wars. Good, Star Wars. And the CG cartoon wasn't too bad. It had hits. It had misses. But overall, not a waste of time for a once over in my opinion. Thing is, the show, like all other kids action shows suffers from this one big problem, that, for older enjoyers never goes away, from show to show. Here comes the big badman. He do the big bad. The good guys do a gasp. And maybe a nameless background character dies. Oh no! Now the good guys have to make the badman do a stop it. They make the bad man do a stop it. The day is saved. The next day: Here comes another big badman. He has the bad thing. It do the big bad! Oh no! Now the good guys have to make him do a stop it too. And then they do. AND THEN THE NEXT DAY~ You get the idea. This is a problem I despise dearly. No mater what, its all the exact same plot over and over. There might be new set dressing. There may be different details. But nothing ever really changes... I hear an argument more and more that disney star wars wants to treat its viewers like babies when all its viewers want is for star wars to grow up. Perhaps this is true. Idk. But I feel like to some extent it is personally. To that extent, I want to write a more grown up CG star wars cartoon. And it would definitely go to some extreme places at times. As I think it should. But how, and how to make that appropriate?
My idea here is a rather simple but unique twist on the formula that we actually don't get too often in stories let alone cartoons: The good guys have the superweapon. The good guys now have the capacity for the big bad. And they have to. Or greater bad will happen. The time period would be clone wars, but this time its not venators or little baby arquitens, but a full blown republic era dreadnaught capable of glassing a planet within an hour. What happens when things get so bad something this powerful gets called to service? What happens when the good guys have to destroy a fleet so powerful they need to use actual nuclear weapons, which in star wars canon is not only very real, but has been used on, and by, the republic itself. Its very very rare, but imagine clouds of droid fighters, genuinely beyond ten thousand, Fighters and bombers and gunships. Dreadnaught with support or no, thats the death of any fleet right there. Too many. And then the admiral, grizzled old man looks to the officer at the missile command station and says some simple phrase. At first we don't quite understand, but the officer is clearly terrified. They only have about another ten minutes before contact, and its all over. The only jedi in the fleet are on the other ships, they don't have say over a ship like this, its symbocially antithetical to the order, so they can be on it, but have no say over its command. That's when the missiles launch. A massive salvo. Maybe up to 80 or more. On all the other ships in the fleet, a whole new alarm sound is heard. Most the crew doesn't know what that means, but then their own weapons officers will start telling them, "Radiological Weapons deployed! We need to cut power to everything and redirect it all to shields! Now!" Again, the jedi won't understand of course. Its been.. a long time since even one of these was last used. But the captains begin to catch on quick, and even some clones and volunteer crew (Showing that there are even volunteer republic soldiers and crew will be a massive part of the story) start to figure it out.
Imagine the high tension violin as the slowmo shot of the nightmare cloud of fighter craft begins to close in. Then a shot of the small escort ships of the fleet desperately trying to get into the cover of the larger vessels hoping that their mass will block the resulting concussive blasts. Next, a shot of the missiles, they're closing in! Next a 'top down' shot, you can see the missile's vapor trails, the fleet, and the cloud, the missiles start to make contact.... an explosion.. two.. five... another twe-BRILLIANT LIGHT!!!!! TEN GREAT SPOTS OF THEM. Everything vanishes in the brief but intense light! And then as it fades, as the various captains and jedi begin to squint out their command decks... they can visually see the massive shockwaves traveling through space towards them. Then BOOM, each one slams into every cruiser. BOOM-BOOMBOOM-BOOM-BOOMBOOMBOOM-BOOMBOOM. Ships shake, some are even forced onto new courses by the blasts. Fortunately all the republic vessels are safe, but the fighters are just gone.. now only vacant and exposed carriers await.. its been only three seconds since the shockwaves rolled through the fleet... The Dreadnaught begins firing immediately, (This is the part where the bombastic drums kick in and cut the violin tension.) not missing another beat. Every ship already receiving firing solutions before the jedi can even realize they're supposed to be pissed about what just happened. Meanwhile the dreadnaught is firing is full salvo fire mode. Each one capable of liquidating an entire portion of continent. It should be felt by the other ships, which would only add to the scary punch of it all.. that's when the fleets begin to engage in full, and its a destructive but now hilariously one sided battle that makes being the good guys feel scary.
Now tell me you wouldn't want to actually watch a season or two of CG star wars clone wars, but it hits like that. No punches pulled. Hitting hard, and with some hard hitting topics. I know people would love it. Would everyone? Maybe not. Probably not. Hell, even my dad might scoff at the idea of nukes in star wars. Probably would. I mean.. its fair. He grew up with, Star Wars. Not, Star Wars A New Hope. THEE, original, Star Wars. All the way when he was 7. So he'd probably be right in that lol. Fair's fair and all that. But come on.. If not you reading this, if you.. still are.. then you gotta admit you know that there would still be an audience for that. ;P
And that's just a taste from one episode I have envisioned. Thing is.. I've never written in a show form before. I just write stories. Writing a show is worlds different. So its a level of trying to make it good, trying to make it in a way I know how to get it out, but also in the way I want it delivered, which are not the same. Its.. confusing.
The second show, the live action one would take place on a warhammer 40k knight world. Its about a boy who lives in his medieval village. And yeah, imagine the medieval village style. The cobblestone roads, even the base walls of many buildings in the village are cobblestone, before the actual plaster wall above. You got soldiers in plate and mail, spear and sword and shield. Peasants go about their daily chores. The boy's father was sent away with the army and the Knights, he's been waiting for his father to come home. Things seem very normal medieval, but then one day a messenger arrives in town. The army has returned! And early too! Years and years early! Wow how great! Those from House (Name to be determined) Will arrive here in 10 days! Everyone cheers! But there are rumors. Why so early? When the god emperor of mankind takes his men, his knights, and his angels to 'war for the stars' the armies are gone for a looooooooong time. It could even be beyond a generation even. So for it to be so soon.. why?
Its about a day before the army returns, but an advance party arrives! And its boy's dad! And he's... different. He's been hurt, but how they fixed it is completely wrong. He has a harsh yet very functional robotic portion of his face, he still has both his eyes, but a portion of his jaw is machinery. And not like.. simple peasant stuff either. Beyond us now stuff. And his arm is also replaced with a bionic replacement. Its now clear to the viewer, that there is a great illusion here and its only going to get smashed even harder when the knights come to town. Because for the 40k fans who know, they know. And for the people who don't, well, when the army parade begins the next day, and the 9-12 meter tall knight themed giant robots with missile launchers and plasma cannons start marching through the town, yeah.. uh.. the illusion is thoroughly shattered now.
And again I have more plotted here, but that's another story I feel like I could maybe get enough people on board to actually see actually happen. But isn't that a compelling plot as it is? Medieval army but giant robot? And.. there's others among them? Who are the scary masked fuckers on the nightmare horses who aren't saying anything??? (And they look like WWI trench soldiers?) What's goin on!? Come on. You know that hits different to what we got right now.
The last one is where.. things get complicated. And I realize that I think I write basically windows. What I mean is, I write, what either I want to see, or in terms of other stories, or some of the dark traumatic plot points I might have planned for both stories, some of which may be based around my own experiences, some around other's I've been told in great detail. But I know my experiences would shape these dark plot points in ways that I'm worried would be to.... me? Like a signature, but with plot points that are just obvious flags for the various things I have endured. I am writing basically just an open window into that for people to see. But there's also desire here too.. do I make that known? Do my stories reflect what I want? Would I just be writing an elaborate shoping list of self pities, doubts, traumas, and deepest desires? Exposing myself for everyone in ways nobody wants to see and in ways I never want to be seen? And.. now I'm fucking terrified because my next story I felt compelled to write came to me suddenly and its got theme's I've never actually written about or wanted to write about before. But now suddenly I do. And if I'm exposing what is probably my inner self.. should I even write it at all? It would be furry, which I don't think I've written a pure furry story ever either? So that's also like.. huh.. weird. I gotta do a little thinkle on that. Not so bad. Some of the other major themes would be, dealing with extreme trauma in isolation, among other things I'm not sure I should even write the word of but its... probably really dark in most ways. Nothing gross, but.. nothing good. However... uh.. what is a furry story..
Uhm.. I don't know how to write this.. I mean.. I do. But... is that a good idea???? <///<
Am I just really overthinking that part? No but really tho, I don't care if you wanna get off on more prons. Is that genuinely overthinking it or am I onto something and should maybe stop before I do something magnificently stupid????
