More Random Thoughts: Third Times the Charm

This is the third time I’ve tried to start writing today but I guess today is just one of those days where the ADD decides to drink coffee that morning. I tried to write one about me trying to come up with a good name for the type of craft or activity where it feels completely alien to you and it almost facilitates a rewiring of your brain. I’m talking about something like Golf, or Texas Hold ’em, or Super Smash Brothers Melee. I just now realized how ridiculous of a list that is. Who else would put all three of those things into one specific category? Who else would actually believe that those three sports, we can call them “Crafts”, share alot of similarities with each other?

Damn, now that I’m writing about it again maybe I’ll just keep going. No. I’ll see what happens if I leave off on a topic and try to write about it a few days later. I think I’ll be really lazy about it and not do it but we gotta test it.

I also tried to write a strange post where I compared different sports to mountain ranges. The peaks of the mountains are the high points of the sport so Derek Jeter might have his own mountain in the Baseball Mountains along with other greats. The highest peaks of the Baseball Mountains would be the legendary world series games and it’s deepest valleys would be the various scandals that keep happening in baseball. Continued steroids, Pete Rose, the Black Sox, and the Astros. If I was to try and describe the Baseball Mountains in detail how would I? Are there many sudden cliffs? What’s the climate like? Are there any avalanches? Would the Football Mountains be dangerous to ski on? What mountain range would have the tallest mountains? These are the questions that will define America as a country. The real, hard hitting, meaningful questions that will dictate the next 1,000 years of human society.

That last bit was obviously a joke. That’s such a strange concept for a mind to try and flesh out. I don’t make alot of sense but even still, I’m into the idea of comparing sports to mountain ranges. I’m gonna keep doing that in my head.

Then I tried to write episode one of my TV show idea since my parents told me that’s what they wanted for Christmas. It can be annoying sometimes how great my parents are. Those assholes are probably reading this right now and laughing that I called them assholes and they’re probably planning on commenting about how I’m doing a good job. I’m a pretty open guy about being sentimental. I like musicals and rom-coms and all sorts of cheesy stuff but my parents need to grow some of their old flaws back before I write some uplifting sonnet poem or some shit.

Now I guess I just write about whatever. The problem is still that I kind of want to expand more on all three of those topics, sports topography, entirely unique sports, and episode one. I forgot to say why I stopped writing episode one. I have multiple ideas about the way the plot of the first episode can go. I gotta ask John since I think both are interesting but one might be a little too silly for episode one. Episode one has to give off whatever atmosphere and style that the show as whole most identify with. I plan on doing all sorts of different types of episodes but episode one, and most episodes of season 1, need to be my version of the standard action adventure rather than my version of The Count of Monte Cristo or my version of Murder Mystery. Even if all I ever do is post any episodes I write online I still would want it to follow that progression of growing comfort with variations in genre. Gotta get the audience used to things before hitting them with the more unusual things.

I plan to have episodes that are not canon at all. Episodes of my own TV show will sometimes be not canon and this will allow me to take an episode and do whatever I want with it. I could have a zombie apocalypse where the main characters all die, not that I would do zombie stuff without some twist, or I could do an episode that’s kind of an alternate reality. Alot of shows have done alternate realities but the plot is always that people form one reality get sucked into the new one and freak out about stuff but I would just set the episode in the new reality and just let the camera be the one that has jumped dimensions. The audience can react to things itself, hopefully, and they don’t need some character from the normal show to be there gawking at every random thing.

When coming up with my world building and what not I tried to give real priority to leaving myself with as much freedom as possible. I want to be able to write any type of story and have it be able to fit into this sci-fi universe I’ve come up with. Other shows could all exist in the same universe. Part of how I would do this is to have some of the populated planets in the galaxy be designated by themselves as Isolated Planets and they don’t have any contact with the rest of the galaxy so maybe 2,000 years ago a planet was settled by a bunch of Amish. Nobody on the planet knows about the rest of the galaxy since the settlers specifically decided to keep it a secret for whatever reason but it’s been 2,000 years so they’ve developed there own really weird identity and maybe even have different types of solutions to thing. Maybe they decided to allow science and technology but only if it was based around agriculture so they can genetically engineer plants and animals but they don’t have cars so they’ve like invented the Pegasus or something to be the primary mode of transportation for the culture. I don’t know what the Amish would look like after 2,000 years of isolation but these would be space Amish. The original settlers obviously had to incorporate technology into their lives since they probably have never even seen Earth before so they’re like the Amish we have now except like 2,000 years from our time, after humanity has spread across the galaxy and the Amish society has gone through the changes that space travel kind of forces on you, they decide to use that technology to go to their own little planet and they don’t tell any of their kids about space travel or anything so that the Amish can live in Amish paradise.

After another 2,000 years, or whatever, our main characters can have to go there or they crash land there. John had a really good idea where you make it a conspiracy episode. Like a modern day Area 51 type episode, Close Encounters of the Third Kind type of thing and it’s told entirely from a regular future Amish guy’s perspective and he’s freaking out about stuff and maybe there is an Illuminati of the Amish people. Like one wealthy and douchey family on the original colony ship just decided they were gonna tell their kids about space and keep using technology in a world where everyone else is clueless so that they can live like gods. This Amish regular guy has a whole conspiracy theory thriller plot and episodes style and at the end it’s revealed that the big conspiracy is that the story is set in the same universe as the sci-fi show. Maybe the main characters from the sci-fi show are spotted doing work for this Illuminati and it triggers the start of this Amish guy’s story. That’s a good episode. John thought of the idea of making it a conspiracy thriller episode but I came up with that Amish idea just now. I probably won’t do that but maybe I’ll incorporate the general idea of it into some other story.

That would have to be in like season 2 though since it’s pretty wild and out there. You can’t just start with total crazy, I mean, you can but there actually is a time where changing your vision to be consumable by a wider audience is a good idea. The only time that’s they right choice is at the start of a series or season when you are hoping to get alot of new viewers to watch the show. When you have some sort of event it’s okay to sell out, I guess. That’s not exactly how I wanted it to sound but you know what I mean.

My hand is getting tired. Me and John played about 5 hours of Melee yesterday. My right thumb is sore from having to fly around the controller so fast. Also my hands get sweaty so I’m gonna order some hand antiperspirant. I was surprised to find out that was actually a thing. We live in a crazy world where I can just choose from any number of lotions that are designed to solve my super niche issue of having sweaty hands when I play Melee. You see how that’s kind of a proof that we live in a crazy time. I certainly wouldn’t choose to live in any other time and that’s not entirely because the other era’s of history were less convenient.

I’m thinking of splitting these types of posts into multiple really small posts but I don’t know. What do you think Mom and Dad?