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Day 3 Assignments
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Lois’ Five Seasons
What I learned… The more I work on this, the more I think this is a simple two-hour movie and not a series.
5 seasons
Season 1: Mann’s company tries to take over Meff’s skunk farm. Mann is a were-owl. Meff is a were-skunk. After winning the Skunk Beauty Pageant, Meff gets Kamali to take him to the skunk farm, just in time to stop Mann from stealing his mephiderite – the rock that enables his family to be were-skunks.
A. A boy turns into a skunk and gets into trouble
B. The boy gets entered into a Skunk Beauty Pageant and wins
C. The boy must defeat the Pageant sponsor who set the whole thing up to steal the mephiderite from the boy’s skunk farm.
D. Why does the Pageant Sponsor want the mephiderite? / Meff gets bought as a pet, while a skunk. Can he escape from his owner without revealing that he is a were-skunk? Does Meff’s father know what he is doing?
E. Meff defeats Pageant sponsor in a skunk vs owl fight. Owl gets taken to animal control. Will he survive?
Season 2: Mann wound up a sick-owl at the end of season 1. Kamali sells his company to Big Pharma that comes across his notes about mephiderite and tries to get it from Meff’s family.
Season 3: Mann finds a mouse to eat and is restored to human form. He teams up with Meff’s family to get his company back from Big Pharma.
A. Big Pharma buys Mann’s small pharma company, reads his notes, and now, they want the mephiderite. They are more powerful than Mann.
B. Mann recovers, eats a mouse and returns to human form. Then he joins forces with Meff’s family to get his business back from Big Pharma.
C. Defeating Big Pharma
D. What will convince Big Pharma that mephiderite isn’t worth having? / How will Mann betray Meff’s family this time? What is Kamali (Mann’s former employee) up to?
E. What damage will Kamali do now that she works for FDA?
Season 4: Mann is now head of the FDA. He claims there is a pandemic and he needs the mephiderite to save everybody from the sickness.
A. Can Mann convince the American people that there is a pandemic and he needs the mephiderite on Meff’s skunk farm to defeat it?
B. Now that Mann has more power, he will use it to take the mephiderite.
C. Can Meff’s family protect their mephiderite?
D. Will the country believe there is a pandemic? / Whose side is Kamali on?
E. Meff is having trouble changing to human again? He ate the rotten egg. What’s wrong?
Season 5: Meff is sick. His family doesn’t trust Mann, but he’s the only one who can diagnose and treat him. It’s not an allergy to mephiderite. It’s that he has switched back and forth too often. Now he must choose – he has one more switch before it kills him.
A. Meff is now a skunk-super-hero. Can he save his own life?
B. Only Mann has the expertise to cure Meff, if there is a cure.
C. Will Meff trust Mann with his life?
D. What is wrong with Meff? / Can he believe Mann’s version of his disease? / Is Kamali behind this? Did she drug him to stay a skunk because she wants him for a pet?
E. Meff only has one more change. It’s the frequent changes that are killing him. Should he live his life as a skunk or as a human?
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Lisa’s Five Seasons
What I learned doing this assignment is that if I keep going and not get hung up on stuff, more creative ideas flow to me. I just have to let them come and go, or grasp it if it feels right.
Season 1: Jane learns how to get on her feet as a vampire
Season 2: Jane learns about the people farms and decides to find ethical ways to get her blood.
Season 3: Jane is killing for food. She has to choose whether to turn her mom into a vampire or let her die.
Season 4: Jane is still trying to make synthetic blood. She comes close, but her work is destroyed by Lucy, who doesn’t want her way of life altered.
Season 5: Jane discovers a way to make synthetic blood, and tries to market it to the OC vampires, but they don’t want her taking away their livelihood, and powers.
3. For each season, brainstorm the Building Blocks.
Season 1: Jane the Vegan
A. High Concept or major hook of the season: Jane gets turned into a vampire
B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Jane finds out she can just buy her blood, but she doesn’t know where it comes from
C. Main Conflict: Jane finds out that there are human farms for the blood she’s getting
D. Mystery/Open Loops: Where do the vampires children come from? Are they human or are they vampires? Where is all the blood coming from?
E. Cliffhanger: Jane finds out about the human farms, where she’s been getting her blood.
4. Write a description of each season and give us the 5 seasons.
Season 2: People Farms
A. High Concept or major hook of the season: Jane has been getting her blood from farms where people are killed for their blood. Jane disagrees with the ethics of these places, and Mina shows her the “ethical” farms. She still doesnt’ want to get blood from the OC vampires
B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Jane decides to get blood ethically, starts a blood drive, but then there si a blood shortage, so she donates her supply to the red cross.
C. Main Conflict: She needs blood, but it’s scarce, She starts getting sicker.
D. Mystery/Open Loops: How is she going to get enough blood to live, ethically?
E. Cliffhanger: Heather gets raped, and Jane goes after her rapist, making her first kill.
Season 3: Janester
A. High Concept or major hook of the season: Jaen decides to kill for blood since she can finds the bad people and get them off the streets, using remote viewing to find them.
B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Jane is learning magic from Dr. Berkwood.
C. Main Conflict: Dr. Berkwood finds out Jane is a vampire. Jane earns her trust by saving one of Dr. Berkwood’s kids.
D. Mystery/Open Loops: Vampire hunters come into town. Will Jane get caught or killed? Will Dr. Berkwood help her or betray her?
E. Cliffhanger: Jane kills one of the vampire hunters, who is also Heather’s boyfriend.
Season 4: Out for Blood
A. High concept or major hook of the season: Jane is working with Dr. Berkwood on making synthetic blood
B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: The OC vampires are suspicious fo Jane and wants to know what she’s up to, but she can’t tell them until she succeeds.
C. Main Conflict: Jane ends up telling one of the OC vampires and they feel threatened. She tries to explain how it will be better.
D. Mystery/Open Loops: Will the synthetic blood actually work? Will there be any weird side effects of the blood, and will it keep the vampires immortality? Will the vampires kill Dr. Berkwood since she knows? Dr. Berkwood is secretly imbuing the blood with her own to give it soul energy, but it’s taking form her. Jane doesn’t know
E. Cliffhanger: Jane finds out that Dr. Berkwood is using her own soul energy so the vampires can still have strong powers. Lucy destroys the lab where they were working on the blood.
Season 5: Ethical Vampires?
A. High Concept or major hook of the season: Jane and Dr. Berkwood have to start over on making blood, and find a way to make it desiraable to the vampires
B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Jane and Dr. Berkwood do activism in the vampire community to raise awareness about ethics, and also promote the synthetic blood
C. Main Conflict: the synthetic blood doesn’t give them the full supernatural powers. Some vampires want the synthetic blood, but some want to keep theiir powers.
D. Mystery/Open Loops: will they be able to improve the strength of the blood? What will happen to the human farms? Will they let them go free or just kill everyone?
E. Cliffhanger: everyone at the people farms get turned into vampires.
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SU Bingeworthy Lesson 3
Five Seasons
Griff’s Five Seasons for THE LAST STRAW
What I learned doing this assignment: This is a very fluid creative process. I have tried not to get sidetracked by perfection and allow unanswered questions to percolate.
How does a talented journalist break the biggest story of her life while struggling to raise two troublesome teenagers?
Stephanie, a single mom, is tired of shilling vanity products for young mothers, thinly disguised as a parental advice column. Her two teenage boys are constantly at each other’s throats and failing at school.
When the neighbor’s troubled daughter inadvertently drops a tantalizing scandal in her lap, Stephanie must find a way to pursue the story while keeping her hectic home life together before the county steps in to take away her two boys.
Main Characters:
Stephanie Sherwood: Single mother doing her best to raise two challenging teen boys while trying to break into investigative journalism.
Randy Sherwood: Seventeen, compact, and angry. He remembers just enough about his estranged father to miss him in his life. He relentlessly bullies his younger but bigger brother, Todd. Has a big crush on the neighbor’s daughter, Marcey.
Todd Sherwood: Fifteen but looks twenty-something. A big kid who seems slow-witted until he has something to say. He is secretly accepting martial arts tips from the neighbor as a way of defending himself from Randy.
Brad Collins: The nerdy music teacher across the street used to be a famous rock star. He keeps a low profile, trying to do the best he can for daughter Marcey. Brad blames his former celebrity avatar for the drug overdose of Marcey’s mother.
Marcey Collins: Twenty, fierce and fit, Marcey pretends to be an aimless party girl to protect her father from worrying her more dangerous avocation of aiding migrants crossing into Arizona.
Supporting Characters:
Harmony: Marcey’s best friend and partner in crime (and love.)
Agent Vaughan: Mysterious operative keeping an eye on Marcey. Stalker?
Morgan Blackledge: The estranged father of Randy and Todd. He’s been in the Amazon looking for the ingredients to patent new drugs.
Maria: A young migrant who is saved from death when she finds the supplies left by Marcey and Harmony.
El Jefe: Mexican drug kingpin with aspirations to save the world (his way.)
Environmental Characters:
School counselors; social workers; police officers and detectives; foster parents; homeless/houseless tricksters and angels; human traffickers; border patrol agents; Coyotes; drug smugglers.
Five Season Arc
Season 1: Running Away From Home – Stephanie disappears after an argument with the boys and Marcey.
Season 2: Where Did Mom Go? – The boys break out of foster care to find their mother.
Season 3: Who Is This Dad Guy, Anyway? – Stephanie’s estranged husband turns up and teams up with the boys to find their mother.
Season 4: Bring Mom Home or Bust – Stephanie and Marcey are reunited but fall into the hands of the Cartel. Marcey re-focuses Stephanie’s story from Border Patrol abuse to the plight of migrants working without health care while being exposed to toxic chemicals.
Season 5: All is Forgiven. – Stephanie and Marcey convince El Jefe to fund the conversion of Brad’s tour bus into a mobile clinic for migrants in exchange for a white-wash job in Stephanie’s story.
Season 1: Running Away From Home
Stephanie Sherwood is the harassed single parent of two teenaged boys. She struggles to keep up with deadlines at the magazine for which she writes a parental advice column. Home life is hectic and Stephanie must keep her boys, Randy and Todd, from killing each other.
Randy is the angry, bullying older brother who gets in the most trouble at school and at home. He is smaller than his younger brother Todd and angered by the fact that he gets overlooked for sports, his passion.
Stephanie compares parenting woes with her neighbor, Brad, whose daughter appears to be wasting her time hanging out in the desert with a bunch of losers. What Brad doesn’t know is that Marcey uses the slacker persona to cover up her risky forays into the desert in order to help migrants survive crossing into the US from Mexico.
When Marcey accidentally spills the beans about her secret life, Stephanie knows that this is the opportunity she has been waiting for.
A. Concept: A single mother struggles to raise two troublesome teenagers while trying to break a big story for a magazine.
B. Arc/Journey: Stephanie stumbles onto a big story that requires her to tail Marcey, leaving the boys to fend for themselves
C. Main Conflict: Stephanie tries to keep Social Services at bay while pursuing her lead.
D. Mystery/Open Loops: What does Marcey do out in the desert?
E. Cliffhanger: After a big argument with the boys Stephanie goes missing.
B Story: Agent Vaughan has already taken an interest in Marcey’s activities.
C Story: Brad is itching to get the old band back together.
D Story: Supplies left in the desert by Marcey and Harmony save the life of Maria, a young migrant girl.
Season 2: Where Did Mom Go?
A. Concept: Brothers Randy and Todd are cast into the foster care system and separated.
B. Arc/Journey: The authorities ignore the boys’ insights into what happened to Stephanie and so the boys resolve to find her themselves.
C. Main Conflict: The boys must elude capture and learn to cooperate in order to survive a hostile homeless environment.
D. Mystery/Open Loops: Randy and Todd make allies and enemies in their quest to find Mom.
E. Cliffhanger: Estranged father, Morgan, finds the boys and joins in the search for the missing Stephanie.
B Story: Marcey discovers Stephanie following her in the desert. She misunderstands Stephanie’s motives and they are first chased by Coyotes and then arrested by Border Patrol.
C Story: Marcey is sprung from custody by Brad before the shadowy Agent Vaughan can get to her, so he takes Stephanie captive instead.
D Story: Maria ends up in a farm labor camp and is victimized by co-workers and bosses.
Season 3: Who Is This Dad Guy, Anyway?
A. Concept: Randy and Todd end up in protective custody but are finally released into the care of their estranged father, Morgan Blackledge.
B. Arc/Journey: Morgan is an eccentric Indiana Jones character who, surprisingly, signs up for the mission of tracking down Stephanie.
C. Main Conflict: Morgan, Randy, and Todd follow tantalizing leads that take them into dangerous drug cartel territory.
D. Mystery/Open Loops: Morgan begins to suspect that Agent Vaughan is not actually a law enforcement agent of any kind.
E. Cliffhanger: Morgan and the boys are taken into “custody” by Agent Vaughan and re-united with Stephanie.
B Story: Brad sets out in the old tour bus to find Marcey but succeeds only in crossing paths with the drug cartel.
C Story: Maria stands up to the farm bosses and is beaten and left in the desert to die.
Season 4: Bring Mom Home or Bust!
A. Concept: Stephanie, Morgan, and the boys find themselves detained by Agent Vaughan.
B. Arc/Journey: Randy and Todd must learn to embrace their differences and work together. Stephanie and Morgan’s reunion reveals that they never stopped being in love.
C. Main Conflict: Morgan and Brad expose Agent Vaughan’s unwholesome intentions towards Marcey.
D. Mystery/Open Loops: El Jefe encounters Agent Vaughan and vows to find out who he really is.
E. Cliffhanger: Stephanie changes the focus of her story. Will it have the desired impact?
B Story: El Jefe turns out to be Brad’s biggest fan.
C Story: Coyotes find half-dead Maria in the desert and turn her over to El Jefe’s men.
Season 5: All Is Forgiven.
A. Concept: Stephanie struggles to get her life back together and to publish her story.
B. Arc/Journey: Randy and Todd re-enter “normal” life as celebrities. Brad’s tour bus is converted into a mobile clinic for farmworkers.
C. Main Conflict: Stephanie has trouble finding a publisher for her story until she ties in the sensational idea of the drug lord with a “heart of gold.”
D. Mystery/Open Loops: Where did the money come from to convert the bus?
E. Cliffhanger: Agent Vaughan resurfaces.
B. Story: Brad gets the old band together for a reunion tour and donates his share of profits to the clinic project.
C. Story: Maria comes to work for the mobile clinic.
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Lesson 3. Easy Way to 5 Seasons:
I tried to jump straight to the outlining and was messing up something terrible. So, I got a scrap piece of paper and began BRAINSTORMING, knowing how I wanted my story to end I decided to go with the framework of working BACKWARDS from the end to the start! I have tried not to go for the perfection mode but rather put some ideas down on paper as the more I work on this the better it will become. Early Days!
What I learned is “don’t skip steps” just “trust & follow the process”!
Season 1: England 1830’s. Two parallel stories play out of a gay man and lesbian: a middle-class horse trainer turns bad ass in order to find the whereabouts of her missing lover – her maid! An aristocratic gentleman comes to terms with his true self when his lover, a common sailor is arrested when they spent the night at a “Molly” house and is sentenced for “Acts of an unnatural nature”.
Season 1: (Where Art Thou My Love?)
High Concept or major hook of the season. England 1830’s. Two parallel stories play out of a gay man and lesbian woman when suddenly they are torn apart from their lovers
B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Both hide their sexuality from their respective family/friends, despite their parents setting them up with respectable partners.
C. Main Conflict: proving herself to the criminal underworld whilst hiding her sexuality from her mother. He eventually confides in his sister and “comes out” which now gives him the courage to find his lover, a common sailor.
D. Mystery/Open Loops: will she get caught by the police, will someone from the criminal underworld dob her in? Can she hide her lesbian relationship with her maid? Elliot is being blackmailed by a stranger and doesn’t know where to turn.
E. Cliff hanger: Harriet and Elliot have a chance meeting at the Old Bailey and when they discover they have things in common their luck changes for the better.
DRAFT:
England 1830’s. Harriet Wright a middle-class horse trainer turns bad ass in order to find the whereabouts of her missing lover. She leaves no stone unturned which leads her to the criminal underworld. To gain the trust of the criminal underworld boss she must partake in crime. Will they give her answers of the whereabouts of her maid? Can she trust them or is she being used? To protect her from the authorities she decides to dress as a man when working with the criminal underworld boss. She also has to hide both her sexuality and crimes from her doting mother.
When Harriet passes “the test” she is given a tattoo on the back of her right hand, 5 dots placed between her thumb. A “sign” she can be trusted. Elliot Otto Edwards an aristocratic gentleman comes to terms with his true self when his lover is arrested for “crimes of an unnatural act”. He becomes a recluse and hits the bottle not knowing
what to do about his circumstances. Eventually he comes out to his sister and finds the courage to rescue his lover. We also see the back story of the lovers, how they met etc. and follow the crime/arrest of Tilly/Rosie and Richard.
Season 2: Crime vs Law
A. High Concept hook: Harriet assists Elliot in finding the culprit responsible for the blackmail
B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Through Harriet’s new found allegiance with the criminal underworld she tracks down the prison where Rosie is being held as well as the ship hulk where Richard is held.
C. Main Conflict: Harriet is now more popular with the criminal underworld than the big boss, he plots to get rid of her.
D. Mystery/Open Loops:Elliot suggests he and Harriet wed
E. Cliff Hanger: will Harriet accept Elliot’s hand in marriage, will the crime boss have Harriet murdered? Can she survive?
DRAFT:
Harriet uses her new-found skills and tracks down the culprit responsible for blackmailing Elliot. He comes to a gruesome end. She also finds the prison where Rosie is being held and the ship hulk where Richard is captive. In the meantime, Richard proposes a marriage of convenience with Harriet.
Harriet is now more popular with the criminal underworld than the main boss, who now plots to exterminate her for good. Will she accept Elliot’s hand in marriage, will the crime boss murder Harriet? Can she survive? We also see how Rosie/Tily cope with being arrested as well as Richard. Harriet/Elliot turn up to the prison/hulk having just missed their partners being transported to the court house a few days earlier.
Season 3: Prison/Hulks & The Old Bailey
A. High Concept major hook: Harriet survives the death threat and turns on the crime boss who she now must eradicate in order to survive.
B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Harriet/Elliot continue to track down their lovers. Harriet follows the leads, from the lists of criminals from the Old Bailey to the prisons where the criminals are being held.
C. Main Conflict: Both family’s are shocked at the announcement of their marriage. Harriet takes over as head of the criminal underworld, a second tatoo is now applied indicating she is the new boss and not to be messed with.
D. Mystery/Open Loops:?
E. Cliff Hanger: Old Bailey both Rosie/Tily convicted of their crimes and sentenced to 7 years hard labour in Australia. Richards case is more serious as death by hanging is the usual punishment for his crime but as he is such a fit/healthy strong young man he is sentenced to 10 yrs hard labour in Australia. Both Harriet/Elliot miss the court cases and their two lovers have already been carted off to London docks ready for transportation.
DRAFT:
Harriet turns the tables and extinguishes the crime boss, she has now earned herself another tattoo to crown her glory. Both Harriet/Elliot attempt to track down their lovers whilst shocking both their family’s with an announcement of marriage. Harriet has now proved herself as an individual not to be messed with.
We follow Rosie/Tily and their court case where they are both convicted for 7 years hard labour in Australia (Tily for robbery of clothing and being in possession of stolen clothing, Rosie for being in possession of stolen clothing. Richards court case, is more serious as death by hanging is the usual punishment for his crime but as he is such a fit/healthy strong young man his life is saved but sentenced to 10 yrs hard labour in Australia. Harriet/Elliot find themselves once again too late to rescue their lovers as they are already being transported to London Docks ready for transportation.
Season 4: Bound for the Antipodes
A. High Concept or major hook of the season. Focus more on Rosie/Tily & Richard. Harriet/Elliot find the name of the ship that has already set sail with their lovers on board.
B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Life on board the ship/journey to Antipodes
C. Main Conflict: Rosie/Tily fight. Tily has sex with sailors in order to save her
sister. Tily becomes ill and so one of Sailors takes Rosie and makes her have sex with a young seaman (virgin). As Tily’s health deteriorates Rosie makes up to her and thanks her for her love and protection ever since they were little street urchins. Tily dies and her body tipped into the ocean.
D. Mystery/Open Loops: What will Harriet/Elliot do next? Are they ready to forsake their comfortable lives in order to re-unite with their lovers? Rosie becomes sea sick, or is it something more than that?
E. Cliff hanger: Storm at sea, captain calls upon Richard to help steer the ship through the storm. Will they make it through?
DRAFT:
Focus has now shifted towards the lovers and Harriet/Elliot seem to be always one step behind. The ship has already sailed with their lovers on board. During the voyage Rosie/Tily struggle with their sisterly relationship. Tily once again comes to the rescue of Rosie when she decides to have sex with the sailors in order to save her younger sister. During the voyage Tily becomes ill and one of the Sailors takes Rosie and makes her have sex with a young seaman (both are virgins). As Tily’s health deteriorates Rosie makes amends with Tily and thanks her for her love and protection ever since they were little street urchins. Tily dies and her body tipped into the ocean.
Harriet/Elliot must decide what to do next? Are they ready to forsake their comfortable lives in order to re-unite with their lovers. Rosie becomes sea sick, or is it something more than that? During the journey there is a storm at sea, the Captain
calls upon Richard to help steer the ship through the storm. Will they make it through?
She feels more alive than she ever has with her new gained criminal activities however she misses the ship on which her lover Rosie has sailed away to Australia. Will she pursue her to the Antipodes or remain bereft for the rest of her life?
Season 5: Australia
High Concept or major hook of the season. Life in the Colonies/prison
B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Richard now considered a hero, given a smaller
private dwelling rather than being shoved in with the great unwashed in
Prison. Rosie struggling without her sister.
C. Main Conflict: Harriet/Elliot decide to travel to the ends of the earth to be
with their one true loves, despite conflict from their family’s.
D. Mystery/Open Loops: Will Harriet/Elliot re-unite with Rose/Richard. Will
Rosie keep the baby?
E. Cliff hanger: Harriet/Elliot now in Melbourne track down Richard, Richard
knows of the whereabouts of Rosie and warns them that he heard she was not well.
DRAFT:
Life in the great open spaces of Australia. Richard now considered a hero, for saving the ship is given a smaller private dwelling rather than being shoved in with the great unwashed in prison. Rosie now heavily pregnant struggles without her sister. Harriet/Elliot decide to travel to the ends of the earth to be with their one true loves, despite conflict from their family’s. Will they find their lovers alive? How will they find them?
Brief look at the sea voyage of Harriet/Elliot in opposite conditions of their partners. (wealth/first class). Once in Melbourne they first track down Richard. Richard knows of the whereabouts of Rosie and warns them that he heard she was “not well”. They find Rosie with a young baby girl, in the most shocking condition. Elliot hires and architect and draws up plans to house them all. Rosie one day sees the Sailor that made the young man have sex with her, Harriet takes her revenge out on him, kills him and dumps his body into the river. Elliot suggest that Richard and Rosie marry in order for them to “properly all live together” under the one roof. Series ends with a second marriage and the four of them moving into a large resplendent home in the new city of Melbourne.
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Frank’s Five Seasons
What I learned doing this assignment is…
What I learned is that this can be a time-consuming process, but it’s also not too difficult. At a certain point, I gave up trying to get this assignment right and just started plugging in ideas that popped into my brain. While my five seasons aren’t perfect by any means, they did yield a few exciting possibilities. For example, season 3 could be done in the style of the show “24” where each episode takes place over one hour of story-time. “Westworld” did this with their season 2 where the entire season only spanned about two days. My season 3 would basically take place over a few critical hours or a couple of days where the Hak-Jordan children and their allies must race against the clock to save their parents from execution.
For each season, brainstorm the Building Blocks and write a description:
A. Season 1: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
- B. High Concept or major hook of the season: a strange orphan fighting to survive in an alternate history version of America where slaves defeated the Confederacy and formed their own nation.
- C. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Marjorie discovers she was adopted and develops a powerful psychic link to her birth parents in her lucid dreams.
- D. Main Conflict: stop the oil-and-gas company from taking her house and defeat the shapeshifting assassin.
- E. Mystery/Open Loops: where is she from? Who and where is her biological brother? Will she end up romantically involved with charismatic Nelson, or with intense Rafael?
- F. Cliffhanger: learns that she has a brother who was exiled to another alternate America.
Description: Marjorie has always felt out of place in her Gulf Coast community. She doesn’t have many friends at school since most of the kids there think she’s weird. One day an older friend of hers goes missing and Marjorie vows to find her or bring to justice those responsible for her disappearance. As she faces peril in her investigation, she receives insights from strange dreams she has where people who are not her parents, but FEEL like they are her parents, give her technical knowledge that helps her solve the case. By the end of the season, she realizes that she was adopted. Even more shocking: she was sent to this world from another Earth! Plus: she has a brother who was separated from her and trapped in a yet another alternate universe!<div>
A. Season 2: In Love and War
- B. High Concept or major hook of the season: Henry, the brother, lives in a version of America where the Native Americans retained sovereignty of their continent and now they’re a space-faring civilization.
- C. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Henry is sent on a military mission to Venus to protect ancient alien ruins from being taken over by the European Coalition, falls in love with an enemy scientist, and learns that the ruins may be a way back to Earth Prime.
- D. Main Conflict: stop his enemies from taking control of alien city, choose between love and duty.
- E. Mystery/Open Loops: will Henry betray his adopted culture in order to return home?
- F. Cliffhanger: Henry has the choice to leave his compatriots behind to journey to Earth Prime.
Description: We meet Henry, the other Hak-Jordan
child who was exiled to an alternate universe. In this one, time runs a little
faster than the others and Henry has grown to be a young man with a distinguished
military career. He is sent to Venus to defend alien ruins against the European
Coalition army that is trying to invade and take control. While exploring the
ruins, Henry is trapped in an alien prison with a scientist from the enemy
side. They fall in love in the process of trying to escape. Henry must choose between
love or duty. By the end of the season, he discovers that the aliens built a
multiverse portal to the other worlds. He can go home to Earth Prime, to his biological
parents, but doing so would mean betraying his compatriots.A. Season 3: Tick-tick Boom!
- B. High Concept or major hook of the season: a race against time as the Hak-Jordan children race to save their parents from execution.
- C. Big Picture Arc/Journey: The children jailbreak their parents from the fascist regime.
- D. Main Conflict: Hak-Jordan family vs Torquemada and the fascist regime.
- E. Mystery/Open Loops: What will happen to Torquemada and his daughter? What will the regime do with the multiverse portals?
- F. Cliffhanger: The Hak-Jordans are safe for the time being but Torquemada and his daughter have access to the portals and they enter one to track down the family.
Description: Marjorie and Henry are re-united and they realize that Torquemada and his fascist overlords are going to kill their parents and dissect their brains for the portal knowledge. They only have a few hours to save them. Gathering their few allies, the Hak-Jordan children must infiltrate an advanced enemy fortress and evade/kill/trick a small army of technologically-sophisticated robots and soldiers to save their mom and dad.
A. Season 4: Shots Fired
- B. High Concept or major hook of the season: A war across three worlds.
- C. Big Picture Arc/Journey: The Hak-Jordans have to fight Torquemada, and lead their respective people to victory.
- D. Main Conflict: Hak-Jordans vs Torquemada, Torquemada vs his daughter, Fascist overlords vs everyone.
- E. Mystery/Open Loops: Who were the ancient aliens that built the portals? Why are these three worlds connected? Will the evil regime win?
- F. Cliffhanger: A doomsday weapon is launched by the fascist regime and threatens everyone in the other two worlds.
Description: The Hak-Jordans are reunited once more as a family after decades apart. But now is no time to rest. The Fascist Overlords of Earth Prime have seized control of the multiverse portals and are preparing to invade both the F.P.N. and the Tribal Nations. They’ve developed new military technologies that will help them too, including a doomsday weapon that can wipe out sentient life in each of the worlds. The Hak-Jordans have no choice but to risk their lives again. And this time, they must solve the mystery of who built the multiverse portals and why.
A. Season 5: The Descendants
- B. High Concept or major hook of the season: How do you defeat an unstoppable enemy?
- C. Big Picture Arc/Journey: The Hak-Jordans figure out the mystery of the portals and defeat the fascist regime.
- D. Main Conflict: Hak-Jordans vs themselves, the Allies vs the Fascists.
- E. Mystery/Open Loops: How did the predecessors of the Hak-Jordans split the multiverse?
- F. Cliffhanger: None, the series concludes with the Hak-Jordans and their allies having taken heavy losses, but ultimately achieving peace.
Description: War rages across the F.P.N. and the Tribal Nations. The overlords of Earth Prime are ruthless in their quest for domination. The Hak-Jordans have been able to stop the doomsday weapon from being deployed but the war going badly for their side. Only by fully understanding the origin of the portals will they be able to defeat their enemies once and for all and unite the peoples of the F.P.N. and the Tribal Nations. This will require them to face the truth about their ancient past and the crimes they committed in a previous life. Will they be able to face their monstrous past selves that were corrupted by power and greed? Or will they hide their shame and abandon their allies to a future of slavery and oppression?
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