"I Surrender" meme
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john_elliott:
1. Comment to this post with "I surrender!" and I'll assign you the basis of some TV show idea. (Science fiction show, medical drama, criminal procedural, etc...)
2. Create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them.
3. Add in any actor photos, character bios and show synopsis that you want.
4. Post to your own journal. (And![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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isurrendered, too, if you feel like it.)
john_elliott gave me "Sitcom in a steampunk setting". It's been long enough that I think I have to admit this is probably all you're getting:
Patently Absurd UK. 6 x 30 min.
Patently Absurd was a half-hour sitcom set in a steampunk version of London – although for budgetary reasons, it was mostly set indoors, where the writers were free to make jokes about the traffic hazards posed by steam-powered quadrupods and ornithopters without the props department having to build any. Likewise, though the hapless Al Frankenstein's job as a junior clerk in the London Patent Office brought him into contact with a variety of implausible devices (one of which in each episode he would inevitably "borrow" in an attempt to improve some aspect of his personal life), the actual operation of these devices frequently occurred off-camera, with suggestive sound effects, lights, and occasional bursts of smoke hinting at their progress.
The makers of the series attempted to balance a regular cast composed largely of young unknowns with a parade of cameos by established comedians, leading off strong with appearances by Stephen Fry (as the putative inventor of a Thinking Machine which subsequently proves to be operated from within by his accomplice Alan Davies) and Mitchell & Webb (presenting a mathematical theorem of great potential which unfortunately can only be understood by three people in the world – of whom Webb's character is not one). Later episodes, however, suffered from an increasing proportion of cameo artists whose names were not such a draw, or who didn't really mesh with the style of the series; Sue Perkins and Giles Coren at the dinner party in episode five being a case in point, for all that the scene is a sentimental favourite of many fans.
Perennial rumours of a Christmas special intended to round off the series and explore the steampunk secrets of Santa Claus have so far failed to materialize any solid evidence.
john_elliott:1. Comment to this post with "I surrender!" and I'll assign you the basis of some TV show idea. (Science fiction show, medical drama, criminal procedural, etc...)
2. Create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them.
3. Add in any actor photos, character bios and show synopsis that you want.
4. Post to your own journal. (And
isurrendered / isurrendered, too, if you feel like it.)john_elliott gave me "Sitcom in a steampunk setting". It's been long enough that I think I have to admit this is probably all you're getting:Patently Absurd UK. 6 x 30 min.
Patently Absurd was a half-hour sitcom set in a steampunk version of London – although for budgetary reasons, it was mostly set indoors, where the writers were free to make jokes about the traffic hazards posed by steam-powered quadrupods and ornithopters without the props department having to build any. Likewise, though the hapless Al Frankenstein's job as a junior clerk in the London Patent Office brought him into contact with a variety of implausible devices (one of which in each episode he would inevitably "borrow" in an attempt to improve some aspect of his personal life), the actual operation of these devices frequently occurred off-camera, with suggestive sound effects, lights, and occasional bursts of smoke hinting at their progress.
The makers of the series attempted to balance a regular cast composed largely of young unknowns with a parade of cameos by established comedians, leading off strong with appearances by Stephen Fry (as the putative inventor of a Thinking Machine which subsequently proves to be operated from within by his accomplice Alan Davies) and Mitchell & Webb (presenting a mathematical theorem of great potential which unfortunately can only be understood by three people in the world – of whom Webb's character is not one). Later episodes, however, suffered from an increasing proportion of cameo artists whose names were not such a draw, or who didn't really mesh with the style of the series; Sue Perkins and Giles Coren at the dinner party in episode five being a case in point, for all that the scene is a sentimental favourite of many fans.
Perennial rumours of a Christmas special intended to round off the series and explore the steampunk secrets of Santa Claus have so far failed to materialize any solid evidence.
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Date: 2014-12-29 04:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-29 07:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-19 01:18 am (UTC)Somebody has re-interpreted a classic work of literature into an entirely incongruous TV genre: think "War and Peace" as a three-camera sitcom, for instance. Which work of literature, and which genre? And - assuming it's not a complete disaster - what is it about the resulting show that works?
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Date: 2014-12-29 08:32 pm (UTC)Is Stephen Fry's thinking machine called the Mechanical Twerp, by any chance? :-)