Five Bad Ideas (252 hits)
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Submitted by Apathecan (View user info) at 2007-10-01 05:39:55 EDT
First, a little background. I've got a rather rudimentary job, and I kinda drift off while doing said job. So, ideas for shit to write about pop into my head. Webcomic scripts, television pilots, etc. I haven't actually furthered any of these ideas (they suck, hence the title), but I'm bored, and new here, so I thought I'd throw them your way.
And now, the list sorted oldest to latest. (Also, please remember that the "why it sucked" reasoning is combined with the fact that I was on the job, and frequently distracted, and I never wrote much down.)
Idea #5: TECH_noir
- Media: Webcomic.
- Concept: A robot. A ninja. A flat in East London. Odd-Couple hilarity ensues.
- Why it sucked: It's Cow And Chicken crossed with Ctrl-Alt-Del, drawn in the style of Diesel Sweeties. Pure plagarism, plus my demo of Photoshop died the day I thought of it. After five minutes of Hadoukens and Tekken scenes, I threw the whole load in a zipfile and put it in my "shit won't die" folder.
Idea #4: Sauer Grapes
Media: Webcomic (again)
- Concept: Three video game avatars set off on a mystical journey to do... something. The story changed wildly, first being about three artificial intelligences fighting their way through a video game to escape an d be uploaded into a robot of some kind, but eventually it turned into something like the Counter-Strike storylines from Concerned.
- Why it sucked: Technical difficulties. The whole comic was going to be made in Sauerbraten, an open-source FPS. But the difficulty of creating, posing, or doing ANYTHING with the avatars in the game, combined with my complete lack of technical knowledge on the game, meant that it was doomed from the start.
Idea #3: Happily Clever After
Media: Semi-erotic Buffy fanfiction.
Concept: The Scooby Gang struggle with their lives, after they defeat the Big Bad, and then... NOTHING happens. No vamps, demons, and Giles keeps hearing that evil everywhere is dissapating.
Why it sucked: Continuity. i started writing lesbian sex scenes about Willow, Tara, and any other character i could think of, before it turned into a family-friendly hack about Buffy keeping her friends together, when the only thing that united them in the first place is the evil that's gone. Also, Xander is not sexy.
Idea #2: White Rabbit / Drugella / The Red Queen
Media: TV show, potential printed comic book.
Concept: A superhero only has superpowers when she's high. With her utility belt full of ecstasy and weed, she selectively fights crime, eliminating the violence and theiving, but somehow retaining a network of drug dealers working hard in the city. Also, she gets pregnant, and the hormones send her ballistic.
Why it sucked: Are you kidding? Besides promoting drugs, slums and trick babies, this show was hell to write simply because I had no idea what the effects of her drugs were. How can i write about crack when I had no crack to begin with?
Idea #1: Box / Aerate
Media: B-Movie
Concept: Two breeds of human beings, one breathing oxygen, the other breathing carbon dioxide. What one exhales, the other inhales. Some dramatic shit about racism, culling of populations, etc follows. Basically an East-meets-West type show, with Firefly-esque set design.
Why it sucked: All kinds of scientific bullshit about the two species' compatibility, having to have at least one of each kind in every situation, crappy love-scenes, it almost turned into a one of those barren rom-coms you see middle-class actresses take just for the paycheck.
Well, that's my post. I'm guessing I'll get a negative score, but your comments would be pretty fun to read, I'm thinking.
User Reviews
Submitted by 8track (user info) at 2007-10-03 05:18:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
should i know any of these things?
Submitted by DirtyHarry (user info) at 2007-10-01 12:12:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
No Comment
Submitted by ShapeShifter (user info) at 2007-10-01 06:47:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
you alters don't try anymore.
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-10-01 06:25:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
6th Bad Idea: This Post.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-10-01 06:21:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Yeah these sucked. Hard.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-10-01 06:20:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Does what it says on the box.
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-10-01 06:19:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Why it sucked: Are you kidding? Besides promoting drugs, slums and trick babies, this show was hell to write simply because I had no idea what the effects of her drugs were. How can i write about crack when I had no crack to begin with?"
I like self-depracating humour. Don't get me wrong, the rest of it sucked, but this bit was funny.
Submitted by FistSoup (user info) at 2007-10-01 06:18:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Yep, that's five bad ideas alright.
I only gave a -1 because you delivered exactly what you promissed.
Submitted by hour_man (user info) at 2007-10-01 06:11:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
wow. Sorry, but that was just really really boring for me.
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-10-01 06:00:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Some of this made me smile.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-01 05:53:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Who the fuck am I, Stan Lee??