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Sunday, October 02, 2022

doublewide concept pitch

I just plotted a hard edged  
action suspenser tv series 
where all the supporting 
actors are riven, riveting, 
interlocking and breaking 
in waves and clashing catch, 

in patterns wholly real, yet, 
it's a God's eye view, only 
ADHD so, you only piece 

the puzzle box narrative together 
as it goes. You sense the main links 
and trends generously, easy - plain

enough like life. Heavy business 
and light going on. Point is. 

The theme of the show is 
there's this guy. 

Because the CIA and local law 
enforcers, plus the medical
emergency responders,
art students and the ad dep't
of the vitamin company - look -
the cool neighborhood bar people
cross paths and cozy up in? 

It's 
just 
life, right? 

Tons of stuff like that! 

So there's all this real grit
set to explode into any moment!
Menace is sudden! Like life, and - 

this guy 

every time something
horrible, because 
of a completely different
random asshole 
(or assholess) is about
to happen, or is actually
happening -
you
know
how it is when
shit goes down 
in those shows. 

This fucking
GUY comes in! 
You'd about forgotten
about him by then - it's
like he's from another
plot! From the corridor
or door or 
rushing

in a physically normal
way from between two ferns - 

and he's badass. 

Thwack! Knee shot
in the chest! 
Pirouette elbow shot!
Two hardest 
human striking surfaces
on earth! 
Sudden 5-hit combo!
Uppercut! 
Uppercut! Body blow!
Body blow! 

This guy, nondescript
as all hell - white,
burly but mousy
- great chin, strong 
eyebrows, but - good
fluffy flop-shag of hair
(NO male pattern baldness,
gene-test the auditionees if you
have to it has to look real. You

sorry. Parentheses close) never
at any point get a real
or good look at the guy.
Not unless you cheat freeze
-frame. The camerawork, oh
man it's smooth swift pan and 
balletic shift enough. Not crazy
cam cut-cuts you can't even see 
what's up or who just hit who. No.

Completely natural and believable
camerawork, but 

this guy 

just walks right in and on
through. Knocking clowns down
and out like popcorn fireworks 
boom thwack crunch  and - poof!
The casually dressed avenger is

KA-GONE. 

Thing is, the whole show
could
conceivably
be done entirely
without

that guy.

He never shows
up
past or before crisis-point,
he takes out
the trash like some
carefree maniac on zen
meditation mode
and he's

that gon
e.

Whoever he is, he 
appears to have no
overlap, intersect or
relation to any other
cast member of these
characters. He just 

shows

up.

Like mixed-martial arts 
bro ex machina all casual,
barely interrupting the ongoing
plot arcs, 
brutally 
ending 
the threat-point,
and 

that's his whole deal. 
He's like the real hero 
you never find out about because 
- where the hell? How did be - ! 

Shit. 

The name of the show 
would be Badass J. Doe
Or some similar hook. 
Jack Slip. No that's weak.
Jack Nil. 

Nonesuch Joe. 

TOUGH GUY SWEET! The antibullybully? No, 
that's...that's a different world, different character. 

Superhero b.s. Skip it: it would be a damn-ass
refreshing change from the kind of bullshit
"hero" arc bullshit we seen now. 

It needs it. We do. The time does. 
Anyway. 

Be pretty cool to have a guy like 
that around! Right? Come on. 

Brut Cause. Casual Force. 

Interloper II: Real chronicles of a true community hero. 

That'd be the movie version. I figure, do the series season 
one, season two, season three - then with interest running 
hot and continuous, ditch tv and jump straight to the sequel.

We'd announce,
"The entire series
is now officially 
retroconsidered as 
the first movie, Part 1 
of a planned Who Knows?
This coming feature is officially
the second movie. Any questions? 
Get it straight if so! Don't call
it a show no' mo' oh kay?
First movie, 66 hours, second shot 
- coming up - probably less. We're 
getting it down, folks."  

I've pretty much got it 
all 
worked out to an nth. 

Apart from who the hell 
is that guy? The 

Interloper. 
Coming later on 
to cinema, but first? 

Let's do some shows?

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