I used 30k fatalities as my base flu number, if you care.
Roughly 600k COVID-19 deaths.
Roughly 2k breakthrough deaths.
See? Easily math.
Car fatalities in the USA = 1 flu
Murders per year = 1/2 flu
Overdoses = 2 flus
Suicides = 2 flus
Cancer = 20 flus or 1 COVID
Bee stings = 1/300th flu or 1/20th breakthrough COVID
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
So your favorite show just got cancelled! Can you save it? Maybe. But it's complicated. Fan support has absolutely helped save shows like #StarTrek#Lucifer and #TheExpanse, for example. But it's really really hard. I'll try to explain why. 2/?
First and foremost, the studio, the people actually paying for the show, must also WANT to save it. Fan support can bolster this, but ultimately, its all up to the studio. 3/?
Randomly decided to watch #DS9 “Emissary” for the first time in a decade or so. Great opening! We meet Sisko in battle against hopeless odds. He loses his wife and saves his son all in the first five minutes. Rooting interest established. 1
Struck by the handheld camera work in the opening sequence, which was unheard of for #StarTrek at the time. Adds tension, energy, and verisimilitude. 2
God I wish they’d pay to up res #DS9. It looks so grainy. 3
How to Kill a Character. A Writing Spew in Many Parts. (Inspired by various recent pop culture events.) /BeginSpew 1
Okay, you’re a writer. You’ve got a mess of characters. You want to move your audience. So it’s time to take out the old writer’s ax and chop chop chop! But how do you do it with maximum impact without your audience turning against you forever? 2
Pull up a chair and Uncle Robert will explain it to you! #TVWriting#Novels 3
So... what’s the hardest part of #TVWriting, you ask? (You are a metaphorical construct, but whatevs) Is it the long hours? The pressure? The actual struggle to fill blank pages with perfect words? No. TBH, it’s the constant soul-crushing rejection. 1
For every TV show that makes it to air, there are dozens that were pitched, several shot. Stacks of scripts and pitches as high as the sky, each representing hundreds of hours of work. 2
And the closer you get to the win, the more bitter the disappointment of the loss. So for many in #TVWriting, the next few weeks are going to be rough. 3
Got a little free time, so let's try something new. Let's roll-up a #RuneQuest character! The new edition from @Chaosium is beautiful, and character creation reminds me a bit of Traveler. Very involved. I'm going to go completely random and see what we get.
Here’s the #RuneQuest character sheet for those of you playing at home.
Stats first. I'm rolling 4d6 per stat, pick best 3, roll in order. NOTE: Human Size and Int are 2d6+6. Here goes.
STR 13, CON 11, SIZ 9, DEX 15, INT 17, POW 18!, CHR 11. (I actually picked the smallest SIZ result)
So... been thinking a lot about all the beautiful scripts out there that will never seen the light of day. The stillborn and the misbegotten. They'll never be filmed. They're just paper now. How would you like to read one?
Tell you what... I'm going to post my failed Syfy pilot Defender here, one page at a time, for the next 95 days. It's got starships and sword fights, space battles and ballroom dancing. And yes, some kissing.
NOTE: 1. I changed the title (& ship name) back to MORNINGSTAR. I only renamed it DEFENDER because of a network note & I like MORNINGSTAR better. 2. This script was work for hire & is (I think) property of UCP. But per WGA rules, I retain publishing rights. So there's that.