When I say public spanking, I know you’re thinking of this…
But that’s not what I’m talking about. No, I’m talking about a critique I received on my TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES spec. As you might remember, I entered my spec into the Austin Teleplay competition. I received my rejection letter with the requisite “thanks for trying, better luck next time” paragraph and that was that.
So imagine my surprise when I received a brief one-page write up. This one-page write up.
Now, allow me to address some of their points.
- This was my first spec.
- I was using the pilot script for my formatting (I should have used a regular season episode).
- The dream sequence is a staple of the series (both the films and series) and I think I use it well.
- They wanted Danny to be better developed? He’s not in 4/5 of the episode. I’m taking this one as a compliment (“damn, I’m really into this spec and now I wish the show wasn’t canceled” is the exact compliment I’m taking from that. Friedman, do you hear that? You should hire me.).
I thank the AFF for the comments. They should look forward to a FRINGE or CHUCK next year… unless I get hired or into the Disney/ABC Writing Fellowship.
(Fingers crossed)
… to be completely honest, I first wrote that post a long, LONG time ago. At some point after getting those notes from the AFF (I’m still waiting for word regarding the fate of my feature), I let a friend, who’s also a TV producer (he spent a long time on a very successful but recently cancelled network show), read my TSCC spec. Here are his notes.
And now you’ve read all the notes I’ve received on that spec, which I’m damn proud of. As I write more TV specs, I suspect my TSCC script will disappear into some never-to-be-opened folder on my laptop. At that point, I might post it here for people to read. Until then, you’ll just have to speculate about a not-too-distant future where computers and robots become self-aware.
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