TBF, Mags, you have been doing a lot of the heavylifting for the quest, so this will be in good hands.
To be clear to everyone, this is just me burning out on imagination of the quest, since my muse has been hitting me over the head a lot with so many different ideas that I just can't find myself too interested in this.
I'll still hang out here, though, since this still does have a sepcial place in my heart.
I'd like to thank you all for making this a wonderful experience while it lasted.
I'd also like to thank @Magoose, @Fluffy_serpent, and @Martin Noctis for doing so much to help prepare and write this quest. I couldn't have done it without you all.
I was a fan of this show, and was introduced to it by a family member. I thought the premise was amazing, and the chemistry between all the characters was amazing. I could watch them talk to each other all day long, and I tried to do so whenever I could catch it as apparently it did not have a fixed schedule. I think this is the main reason why it took me so long to find out that this show was cancelled without finishing its first season, at only 15 episodes.
Frankly speaking, this could be one of the great series of the 80s if given the chance. The characters all have their own views on how love should be pursued, and while they tend to go to extremes sometimes, it's when they work together when they find a more common ground for success. Though Cupid/Trevor Hale may believe love is about passion and emotions, Dr. Allen believes that it should be more about friendship and patience. neither of those approaches are bad in themselves, but take them to be the only aspect needed and it may fall somewhat flat. I can see this as a show where in the end both sides learn from each other to achieve their own goals.
Thus I give you:
TV Pitch: Cupid GENRE: Comedy/Drama
SUBGENRE: Romance
FORMAT: TV Show
Set Up: A larger-than-life character who may or may not be the Roman god of love—Cupid—believes he's been sent to earth to bring one hundred couples together before he is allowed to return to Mount Olympus. Whether by fate or other circumstances, now going by the name of Trevor Hale, he is put under the care of psychiatrist, and self-help author, Dr. Claire Allen, whose own work is often based in romantic relationships. All the while, he plots his campaign to promote romance, and earn his way back to Olympus. While encouraging sexual abandon in others, Trevor remains chaste; as he believes sex with a mortal will confine him to Earth forever.
Showrunner: Donald P. Bellisario Composer: Mike Post
Cupid/Trevor Hale: Trevor Hale is attractive, witty, uncommonly intelligent—and he may be Cupid, the Greco-Roman god of erotic love. Probably not, but he thinks so. Trevor's insistence that he is Cupid lands him in a mental hospital where he meets psychologist Claire Allen. Trevor tells Claire that he has been stripped of his godly powers by Zeus, and exiled from Mount Olympus as a punishment for arrogance. To win his way back among the gods, Trevor must unite 100 couples in everlasting love, without his bow and arrows. Trevor finds work as a bartender, and regularly disrupts Claire's group therapy sessions.
Played By: John De Lancie Alternate: Bronson Pinchot
Dr. Claire Allen: She is a New York psychiatrist who leads a support group for singles seeking lasting, meaningful romantic relationships based on shared interests and friendship. She has been assigned the task of supervising and studying Trevor Hale (whose name she knows is an alias), and readmitting him to a mental institution if he poses any significant danger to the public. In her case study ("Cupid: A Case Study") she expresses the belief that Trevor's delusion is in response to the repressed memory of a former lover. During their interactions,
Played By: Marina Sirtis Alternate: Candice Bergen
Champ Terrace: He is Trevor's roommate, best male friend, and a struggling actor looking for his big break. Champ tends to do odd jobs in different locations, sometimes as a bouncer at the club where Trevor works at, while looking for auditions in different roles for TV shows, and is usually dragged along with Trevor during his schemes to bring together a couple. He doubt's Trevor's claims of being Cupid the most, and is usually the voice of reason when he thinks he's going a bit too far.
Played By: Michael Dorn Alternate: Howard E. Rollins Jr.
A.N.: Finding the actors was both the easiest and the hardest thing I've done. I mean, in a way, if this hits it off then they might have a harder time finding a place in Star Trek: TNG, but at the same time I can't help it as I do believe that they are the right choice for casting. Cupid is one of those shows where the Main Cast is small, while the rest is mostly are either guest stars or just one-episode characters, though sometimes they managed to get popular enough for the show to continue. So, let's see what happens here.
Lucasfilms has so much soft power and influence over America (and the world), and is still growing. They are probably more influential than otl Disney at their peak in late 1980-Early 2000s.
Can you imagine all the Video Essays that will be made about them in the future? It would be insane.
Considering the amount of love and respect that ILM have for Bruce and George, they would be willing to pull those kinds of stunts on occassion to get what those two want.
Yeah, Pat Robinson and those fuckers of the evangelical right whom we utterly defanged and made far less powerful in this timeline due to our actions. You know the people that think that gay people are the devil in disguse and such.
I call Bruce's Republican... branch, if you can call it that, the Faithful Coalition (Catholics, Mormons and more... organized if you can call it religious minorities in America), and the California Club respectively.
Bruce is not brave enough for that kind of politics.
But I can see him moonlighting as a diplomat to get American hostages out of dangerous situations with his father, if Joseph has another midlife crisis.
Typically, yes. Although it's generally just referred to as the Religious Right since it includes more than just protestants, even if they're the most prominent. It's also referred to as the Evangelical Right.
Well, I hadn't really thought of what to get much. 😅
I guess, and wouldn't be suprise if by this point we could possibly outright make a console to survive the crash from sheer reputation and decent quality assurance. So even though I have no clue how it would be handled, we PROBABLY don't need buffs to avoid problems come 1983.
Though not like we would have trouble paying for it just from our blockbusters.
I call Bruce's Republican... branch, if you can call it that, the Faithful Coalition (Catholics, Mormons and more... organized if you can call it religious minorities in America), and the California Club respectively.
TV-Pitch: History of the Masses
Gnere: Education/History
Format: Comedy sketches (live-action and animated) play between the host talking about how the topic
A unique history show that doesn't focus on the big names and events that shape history, but which focus on the more important part of it, common person. It asks the question of how they lived, ate, loved, and died. It also doesn't focus on one culture or people, so each topic is given two episodes to really give it justice.
Episode 1-2: Jobs
Episode 3-4: Food
Episode 5-6: Housing
Episode 7-8: Bathing
Episode 9-10: Games
Episode 11-12: Entertainment
AN: a quick and simple pitch of an idea I wanted to get out of my head, if someone wants to fill it out some more go ahead
as you can tell this is heavily inspired by shows like Horrible Histories
