Thread by @baddestmamajama

An anthology show that is just dead pilots, and at the end of the season the most popular one gets a series order

BUT they all draw from one pool of actors

I don’t know if it would work but screenwriters would need a lot less therapy

A lot of people are confusing this idea with Amazon’s old game of making a bunch of new pilots and then ordering the most successful after a trial period. I submit you don’t understand the heartbreak and madness screenwriters go through with a dead pilot.

Imagine spending anywhere from 6 months to 2 years working on a pilot. Now a pilot’s not just a pilot, it’s an introduction to a whole world and a whole bunch of people you’re asking viewers to invest in for years. You research. You write bibles. You write season arcs.

You outline the script. You write the script. You write the script fourteen times. Now your reps like it. YES!Now it’s out to development and prodcos. YES! Now it’s pitched to networks. YES! And all this time you’re getting notes and incorporating them and attaching talent. YES!

And anywhere, at any point along that line, one of those YESses becomes a no, you’re dead. Oh sure, you can pitch it other places. But we know the casualty rates. And aallllll that work, that entire universe you’ve built, those people you built to be as compelling as possible...

Let me tell you. It’s something significantly more painful than romantic heartbreaking. More along the lines of your Alderaan blowing up. Dead pilots are murder on your brain. They live inside you, screaming to get out.