#teleplays

[hawkinsp0st]

8flix updates !!!!

tldr;

• 8flix met their goal and nick is very appreciative of the ST fandom, he said he’s never seen a more “dedicated, loving, and 100% committed fandom”. just thought that was wholesome.

• the 8/5 and 8/31 release dates are still a go :-)

• um, he says we are getting every s4 script at some point and he will be completing the collection of s1/2 scripts as well. crazy together.

• nick appears to be discussing some industry ~rumors~ that production on s5 could begin as early as this year after the first three episodes are written

huge thank you to nick runyeard, the amazing film/tv industry connection we needed to get us thru these next 2 years. let’s all continue to support 8flix because let’s be honest, this is fucking awesome.

i love y’all little lgbts in my phone !!!!

[mjy1ht97ezjqvu]

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[troncelliti]

Did he betray the trust? He broke the bond.

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i don't know who needs to hear this (@staff) but i think maybe a percentage width value is getting misdirected through an increment function or whatever. please stop pushing updates directly to the main branch

[mrcowboytoyou]

The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay (the comic)

The City on the Edge of Forever is arguably a pretty popular episode of TOS and with good reason. It's a pretty dramatic episode and it was influential in forming Kirk's character and inspiring future ST material, both in the beta canon and in fan works.

Fun fact (though a bit off-topic): Edith Keeler is brought up in the novelization for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Bones mentions her and it results in a pretty emotional altercation with Jim. The scene isn't in the film but I think it adds an interesting level to the story especially where Gillian Taylor is concerned. Makes her parting in the end sting a little worse.

"She had a mission in her life, and she wouldn't have given it up to go with you."

A bit of foreshadowing aye? Anyway, this aside, I actually have something else entirely to talk about.

Recently, a trek artifact found its way into my lap. And that is the comic version of Harlan Ellison's original script for The City on the Edge of Forever. The comic isn't that old really, but I'd seen other people talking about it and was excited to of found it out in the wild myself.

For those unaware, the script underwent a lot of changes resulting in pretty different experiences between it and the episode that aired. I think even more than what's in this comic version, which came out in 2015. I've not actually read the original script though.

I did read some commentary from Ellison who's original script apparently ended with Kirk deciding he would save Keeler, because fuck it, he loves her, and Spock saves the day by physically holding him back from doing so.

The episode ended with Kirk stopping McCoy, and by extension himself, from saving Keeler; the comic ends with Kirk hanging back as Spock stops Beckwith (instead of McCoy) from saving Keeler. I do have my opinions on which ending I like best but I'll get to that a bit later.

Since I've not read the original script (except for one exchange which is in the comic and was wholly responsible for my excitement in finding this comic to begin with), I will avoid comparing it to this comic for the most part. While, I'm sure there are differences, at present time I don't know all of them besides what I've already said above.

Instead, I will compare this comic experience to the episode. Besides, there's going to be a lot more differences I think between this and the show rather than this and the script.

So first things first, let's actually talk about the conflict here. I mentioned that instead of McCoy we have an antagonist of the week type named Beckwith. Beckwith is a drug dealer in karkow, which is a drug that resembles comically big, colourful crystals. Seems an unfortunate thing to have to ingest, but it apparently sends you on quiet the whirlwind.

Beckwith has some larger agenda surrounding this drug and has gotten one of his shipmates hooked so that they might, in a drug induced daze, assist him. This other lieutenant references that Beckwith caused a slaughter on Harper V, but I don't know what the details of this are. Looking it up only brought up a dead ensign, may he rest in peace lol.

So, while I'm curious, I don't think that bit of info is important beyond just detailing Beckwith's track record. It's a bit of a strange setup to me in some regard. Like it feels too big of an issue all on its own to just be a component of a story. I mean there was a "slaughter" on a planet because of very expensive and illegal drugs.

Additionally, there is something else very interesting about an antagonist that we aren't attached to, like McCoy. For one, we do not care if he lives or dies. Really we only care that he sees justice, because we care about the motivations of Kirk and Spock.

But in keeping with the episode, the conundrum ultimately becomes about the life or death of Edith Keeler. Beckwith, like McCoy, saves her and now Spock and Kirk have to prevent that. That's interesting because, we are given information that paints Beckwith in no uncertain terms, as a very bad person. Additionally, his saving of Keeler is something one of our leads wants very much to do himself. So it's a interesting dichotomy.

I sorta like that aspect of it a lot. McCoy wants to save Keeler because he's a good person and a doctor. We know that his ignorance and desire to save others motivate him. With Beckwith, its a bit of a mystery, and as an audience we must now think about what it means that Kirk and him might share a want or an instinct to save.

The comic ends with Kirk and Spock discussing this very dilemma. Why might Beckwith of done that? This may be the only part of the comic you'd know at all because it is in the original script, and pictures of the text circulate ST tumblr every so often.

Following this bit of a dialogue Spock asks Kirk why Beckwith would try to save Keeler. An appropriate question given what we know. I think the answer is a bit cryptic but the long and short of it is- humans are capable of good and bad things.

Beckwith, a horrible man, was still capable of saving a woman's life. And Kirk, noble and level headed as he is, can still be selfish. At the end there they mention Keeler and a soldier whom Kirk paid for information. The soldier is homeless and legless but saves Kirk's life when Beckwith fires at him, dying in the process. When they go back to the Guardians Kirk asks if the soldier's life, just as Keeler's, might have affected reality but the answer is no, he was inconsequential.

This cruel uncertainty about the value of people weighs on Kirk. He wasn't inconsequential to him. That man saved his life, and was paramount in finding Beckwith.

I think the ending dialogue is a bit confusing and I don't know if that's just me, but at the end Spock assures Kirk that Keeler was not negligible. Kirk replies, "...but, I loved her".

I think there is a thought which remains unsaid here about the loss of these two. Part of Kirk's confusion and hurt comes from the fact that if Keeler was so important to the future, why couldn't she be saved in some manner? Why was her fate to also die like the soldier, whose loss was labeled as negligible by the Guardians?

In response to this, Spock says:

"No woman was ever loved as much, Jim. Because no woman was ever offered the universe for love."

It's very touching. The value of life isn't lost because someone dies, and your feelings for her aren't without purpose or meaning because you didn't save her. It's something he needs to hear. Shortly after, Spock leaves, and Kirk now alone in his quarters screams into the inky darkness of space as the Enterprise hurtles on to boldly go... Good ending.

There are a lot of parts of the story which hit similar beats to the episode. The plot largely is intact after all but even in the way of dialogue. There are cute moments where Spock doesn't understand the lingo of the time period in both, for instance.

Additionally, the tension that builds between them, and which has been the source of so much fanfic, is very much alive and well in this comic. Some of those scenes play out pretty similarly as they do in the episode. Even the panel designs are reminiscent of shots from the show at times. But there's also bits like this only in the comic that I couldn't stop rereading...

"Captain, fooling me is simple. Just give me the order, I will change my opinion."

WOOF WOOF. Just an absolutely great line. It's the sort of thing only Spock could and would say. There's something about it that is so rich with understated emotion, like the way a dam holds back a flood.

So would I recommend this? Oh, easily!

Is it better than the episode we got? This question is harder to answer so readily, but I think after much thought, I would say no.

So much change is taking place between these adaptions that they're different enough stories to both be fulfilling to experience. There are parts of this comic that I'd of loved to see acted out, for sure. Obviously there are some amazing bits of dialogue that did not make the final cut and that's disappointing; they'll always be in my heart, but I like the canon ending a lot more.

In the show, Kirk's choice to stop McCoy is really very significant. It's not just that he's stopping Bones, he's also stopping himself. He went back to save Bones and also the entire rest of the ship's crew after all. In my mind, Kirk was always going to make this choice no matter what. Yes, he loves Keeler, but it's not like he loves his ship, friends, or crew less. He just loves them in a different way. Ultimately though, he would always do what he needed to do when there proved to be no other option.

So I'd of hated an ending where Kirk defies the beliefs he's consistently maintained throughout the show to save Keeler. I also don't really like that Kirk hangs back in the comic's rendition and that Spock ends up stopping Beckwith. It's less significant for Spock to be the one doing it.

I don't mind Beckwith being there instead of Bones but I do think the drug dealing component to his character feels a bit out of place. As I said in the beginning, something about it feels too large to be just a mere component of an episode. It feels more deserving of its own episode entirely.

In any case, I really liked this comic. The art is beautiful and the back of the book included a bit of how J.K Woodward (the artist) went about creating panels and poses. Despite the fact that I ultimately like the episode we got, this comic is still a great story, so I think it's a nice addition to any Star Trek collection.

[tuttle-did-it]

**ATTENTION ALL PERSONNEL*

In the most recent Insider How Real Is It video, a scene in M*A*S*H (s.1, e20- 'The Army-Navy Game,' February 25, 1973) is reviewed by a Special Ops Bomb Techician.

Watch the whole video or skip ahead to the 13:00 mark for the M*A*S*H scene. Annoying that they included the scene with the American laugh-track. Guess what rating the scene got? I won't spoil it for you, but I will tell you that they rated the second highest in the whole video for realness.

[noxhawthorne]

Virago, Episode One - Revanant

[pinktwingirl]

hi um skskhhs I saw your post on the mbs rewrite have you by chance done that

I've done the first episode! Link is here: https://www.tumblr.com/pinktwingirl/709830683134164992/the-mysterious-benedict-society-teleplay-rewrite?source=share

I'm trying to work on the second episode but I've been pretty busy with school. I'll try to get it out as soon as I can

[devouras]

𝙹𝙴𝚁𝙴𝙼𝙸𝙰𝙷   𝟻𝟷:𝟹𝟺      :         the   king   of   babylon   has   𝐝̵𝐞̵𝐯̵𝐨̵𝐮̵𝐫̵𝐞̵𝐝̵   me;   he   has   c͟r͟u͟s͟h͟e͟d͟   ͟m͟e͟;   he   has   made   me   an   █████   vessel;   he   has   swallowed   me   like   a   𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧;   he   has   filled   his   stomach   with   my   𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠;   he   has   rͬiͥnseͤdͩ   ᴹₑ      ᴼᵘᵀ                          

indie,   canon-div.   portrayal   of   elijah   mikaelson.   teleplay   by   vendetta.  

[annadaptors]

Dalziel + Pascoe - 'Bones + Silence' (BBC, 1998).

"Probably, as usual, you did it all by yourself, you and your sidekicks, the pretty inspector and the ugly sergeant. The Holy Trinity! Three in One, and that One's you! [...] But what about the other trinity, the ones you dug out of the concrete in your car park?"

[sweetsmellosuccess]

It's as if Christopher Nolan was inspired by Lewis Carroll -- "Inception" meets the Mad Hatter. It's challenging to wrap your head around (at least for this spatially challenged critic), such that it's difficult to keep any of its distinct layers together. Instead of watching the film as one might a series of transparencies laid perfectly over one another, it's more like a disparate collection of finely detailed dioramas strewn about on a wonderfully antique table.

[hawkinsp0st]

this is actually my favorite part of the script when it comes to byler coding. let’s look closely at mike and el’s actions:

1. he grabs her shoulders.

his first instinct is not to kiss her, not to embrace her even, but to put his hands on her shoulders.

2. the physical contact is WARM AND INVITING; to them both.

forehead touch = platonic elmike !!!!!

“when i stumbled on her in the woods, she just needed someone.”

this “warm and inviting” stage direction HIGHKEY confirms to me that almondmilk is not being romantically coded anymore. not even a little bit. they’re literally having them embrace out of need for human contact. that is NOT romantic; they “just needed someone.”

3. (about the willel hug) their hug is STRONG; neither will let go.

clearly, this is the important hug in this moment, rather than the reuniting of the main couple who is currently in a really serious fight and the audience is wondering whether they’re gonna get back together ????

aka, the focus is mainly on will’s arc, and will’s arc is kinda centered around being in love with mike.

oh, we won. we won so hard it’s not even funny.

[wyrmalien]

brain is doing that think where thers like. an energy building. in the back of my skull. thats warning me im about to get really autistic about new piece of media

[triflesandparsnips]

this early draft of the OFMD pilot is giving me life

PDF here, from this resource, tag which subsumed character you are

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if you read deep enough into the house of leaves lore, you can actually find the name of the texas oil executive who bought the copyrights to the songs written by the band johnny talks to in that bar after their contract was cancelled as part of a record label collapse/merger. you know. poe? she had that song, angry johnny? the song they were talking about at the bar? it was on the radio in the 90s. in real life. anyway can you take this orange hard drive for me i was supposed to deliver it to a college professor

[nagasakidivision]

Yo, long time no see. The gist of what's been going on, there's several wings to it and I don't want to go into a ton of detail so I'll try to keep it brief:

First off, the past few months have been bad on a personal level. My inactivity started when I got seriously ill for a few weeks. That got followed up with several family emergencies, trying to sort out my school transfer and running into a ton of issues, paperwork getting lost in the mail, not getting into my dream program, you get the idea, Most of it's over now (...........except for the part where I have to apply for grants, if you're not American then everything bad you've heard about the American education system is 1000% true, for the love of God please help me.)

Aspect two: I've been working on what's easily my most challenging writing contract yet (most wordcount I've ever done, requires the most collaboration with other writers, most research-intensive) and desperately trying to meet the deadline for that. I've got my first drafts in on time, so I now have some breathing room until my redlines come in and I have to edit. Hence, why I'm finally back. :V

So, I still have a lot of muse for everyone....unfortunately I have no object permanence and have forgotten how to write script format well so trying to wrap up the second drama track has been really slow going. I'm probably going to be doing prose format "drama tracks" from here on out just because I am completely incapable of switching tracks mentally from one format of writing to the other and having to swap between a technical writing mode and storytelling mode is about as much as I can handle. Still gonna finish the second as-is though! Especially since it's most of the way done.

That said, I'm probably gonna do a monster AU story or two for Halloween within the net few days and I've got Damien's solo bit of that AU 75% done so that's likely coming up before the last part/s of the drama track.

Anyways. I think that's all the housekeeping. Thanks for sticking with me! I have...a lot to catch up on, so that's my next goal. After going to sleep.