Oh dear.
The Muses started talking to me last night. Dammit. They keep replaying bits of Torchwood: Children of Earth in my brain and adding dialogue from the audience again. My meds must be slipping and Breadbox Editions are bubbling up, but I need some input.
I'm cutting for length, there are no spoilers beyond what you've seen in the ads and please keep spoilers out of comments. Some people on my flist will cut you if you spoil them. ;-)
Even though it's five episodes, I'd really have to compress it down to about what one episode would be to maintain any chance of getting it done. Plus there's not as much to snark at in some bits as others, mostly because there's only so many times you can come up with commentary about the mystery of why the kids are saying a message in unison.
I think I can take a machete to cut down the length mostly from just cutting out a lot of transcript style descriptive text and just hitting the highlights (and lowlights) with commentary, but I'm wondering how much that will affect the over readability. Do you need the whole thing detailed, or would lots of summary along the lines of "Shit blows up. A lot." get it done for you? How about outright skipping some stuff that just doesn't work in the BBE format?
I'm really going to go nit picky on some of the writing, and I've seen quite a few good summaries, but I'll probably post another entry after the whole thing has aired in the US for further ideas on what I should take aim at, because I know I've missed something because opinions are all over the map for this one and I'd like everyone to get a "voice" at least once, both pro and con. I'll also desperately need some help from someone (or more) of the shipper persuasion who's a good sport to represent their section of the audience, or at least someone to give me some good moments to review. I've got my slashy mind, so I've got that covered, even for pairings I would never actually slash. *g*
So... shorter, summaries and snarky? Is it a workable idea? Or do I need to see about upping the dose on the meds that help me sleep?
Captain Jack keeps giggling over the kids saying "We are coming." He may be hundreds of years old, but truly, he's 13.
JACK: It might be nothing to worry about. Maybe some alien pranksters have tuned them in to the audio from a porn channel. They haven't got to the really good part yet.
Send help. Please.
I'm cutting for length, there are no spoilers beyond what you've seen in the ads and please keep spoilers out of comments. Some people on my flist will cut you if you spoil them. ;-)
Even though it's five episodes, I'd really have to compress it down to about what one episode would be to maintain any chance of getting it done. Plus there's not as much to snark at in some bits as others, mostly because there's only so many times you can come up with commentary about the mystery of why the kids are saying a message in unison.
I think I can take a machete to cut down the length mostly from just cutting out a lot of transcript style descriptive text and just hitting the highlights (and lowlights) with commentary, but I'm wondering how much that will affect the over readability. Do you need the whole thing detailed, or would lots of summary along the lines of "Shit blows up. A lot." get it done for you? How about outright skipping some stuff that just doesn't work in the BBE format?
I'm really going to go nit picky on some of the writing, and I've seen quite a few good summaries, but I'll probably post another entry after the whole thing has aired in the US for further ideas on what I should take aim at, because I know I've missed something because opinions are all over the map for this one and I'd like everyone to get a "voice" at least once, both pro and con. I'll also desperately need some help from someone (or more) of the shipper persuasion who's a good sport to represent their section of the audience, or at least someone to give me some good moments to review. I've got my slashy mind, so I've got that covered, even for pairings I would never actually slash. *g*
So... shorter, summaries and snarky? Is it a workable idea? Or do I need to see about upping the dose on the meds that help me sleep?
Captain Jack keeps giggling over the kids saying "We are coming." He may be hundreds of years old, but truly, he's 13.
JACK: It might be nothing to worry about. Maybe some alien pranksters have tuned them in to the audio from a porn channel. They haven't got to the really good part yet.
Send help. Please.