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'Twas the Night Before Nanowrimo
Oct. 31st, 2011 11:23 pmAnd all through the house, not a creature was stirring...
...Okay, that's bollocks. We're rifling through the chocolate left over from the trick or treating. we completely deny stocking up *just in case* we were besieged. It never hurts, you never know... :cough:
Anyway. Doing last minute re-reading of Stormwatch and Authority. Will of course be going back regularly throughout the month, especially when writing the stuff on set or the writers arguing (I have no names for the writers, directors or producers. KILL ME NOW), rehearsals, stuff they can skim for trailers and one-sheets, but this is the last minute last gasp. Tomorrow I have to start writing the announcement that the show has been greenlit as the new HBO/Sky production and at the very least the fan speculation on casting. maybe even start it with the audition? ARRRRGH. oh, god, why don't I read trade stuff? Or Variety? this will bear absolutely no relation to reality...
:deep breaths: Skimming Stormwatch due to only needing the Stormwatch Black stuff for Authority plottishness and a few other storylines - Apollo and Midnighter's backstory episode and using Change or Die. Interesting little bit of... not so much character change as how Shen's referred to. (Jack's shown as having massive argh about killing in an early Stormwatch ep, but later in the run when Stormwatch Black're solidified as a team, he's killing quite regularly. Jenny merely electrocutes people she feels are tossers.) her character is changed very quickly from timid-ish nice girl with feathery arms she can glide with to sarcastic badass and moderating influence due to The Bad Influence That Is Jenny. Suppose it's the whole 'gods/archetypes' thing Ellis gets into with 'Change or Die' and continued the mythology with Planetary - Jenny gets referred to as the Spirit of the Twentieth Century, Jack as the God of the Cities, and Swift gets the Winged Huntress. Interesting for how, plus treatment of powers post-proper activation. At first as a casual aside, then it becomes their archetype-title. Not just proper wings, but claw hands and feet, being able to hear and see things, gauge the wind eddies like birds do. then you get the Engineer, the Doctor, Apollo, Midnighter... (note to self: must not refer to the Doctor *ever* by the name he got later - he doesn't have one during the Ellis/Hitch/Neary run, Angie states in the first issue that they don't know it. I may be filching little bits like the Jenny/Shen relationship from the series, but the feel's better with the Doctor as he is in the Ellis/Hitch run)
Also going through scene tags- drafts of scenes, dialogue snippets I'd previously written - found a couple that're getting ejected due to change of character I'd decided. I can't have what would normally be quite a decent scene of the lead actress discussing this new role on a superhero show with her agent... because I've since established that her boyfriend is a complete Ellis fanboy. Maybe I can adjust it for the actress playing Angie?
...Okay, that's bollocks. We're rifling through the chocolate left over from the trick or treating. we completely deny stocking up *just in case* we were besieged. It never hurts, you never know... :cough:
Anyway. Doing last minute re-reading of Stormwatch and Authority. Will of course be going back regularly throughout the month, especially when writing the stuff on set or the writers arguing (I have no names for the writers, directors or producers. KILL ME NOW), rehearsals, stuff they can skim for trailers and one-sheets, but this is the last minute last gasp. Tomorrow I have to start writing the announcement that the show has been greenlit as the new HBO/Sky production and at the very least the fan speculation on casting. maybe even start it with the audition? ARRRRGH. oh, god, why don't I read trade stuff? Or Variety? this will bear absolutely no relation to reality...
:deep breaths: Skimming Stormwatch due to only needing the Stormwatch Black stuff for Authority plottishness and a few other storylines - Apollo and Midnighter's backstory episode and using Change or Die. Interesting little bit of... not so much character change as how Shen's referred to. (Jack's shown as having massive argh about killing in an early Stormwatch ep, but later in the run when Stormwatch Black're solidified as a team, he's killing quite regularly. Jenny merely electrocutes people she feels are tossers.) her character is changed very quickly from timid-ish nice girl with feathery arms she can glide with to sarcastic badass and moderating influence due to The Bad Influence That Is Jenny. Suppose it's the whole 'gods/archetypes' thing Ellis gets into with 'Change or Die' and continued the mythology with Planetary - Jenny gets referred to as the Spirit of the Twentieth Century, Jack as the God of the Cities, and Swift gets the Winged Huntress. Interesting for how, plus treatment of powers post-proper activation. At first as a casual aside, then it becomes their archetype-title. Not just proper wings, but claw hands and feet, being able to hear and see things, gauge the wind eddies like birds do. then you get the Engineer, the Doctor, Apollo, Midnighter... (note to self: must not refer to the Doctor *ever* by the name he got later - he doesn't have one during the Ellis/Hitch/Neary run, Angie states in the first issue that they don't know it. I may be filching little bits like the Jenny/Shen relationship from the series, but the feel's better with the Doctor as he is in the Ellis/Hitch run)
Also going through scene tags- drafts of scenes, dialogue snippets I'd previously written - found a couple that're getting ejected due to change of character I'd decided. I can't have what would normally be quite a decent scene of the lead actress discussing this new role on a superhero show with her agent... because I've since established that her boyfriend is a complete Ellis fanboy. Maybe I can adjust it for the actress playing Angie?
