On 09/04/2012 10:44 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > Taking a complete break from FFL and its sillinesses, I went out for a > walk with my dogs and, while on it, came up with a plot for a scifi > story. Because I've already copyrighted it, I'll share the idea with you > while it's still fresh in my mind. > > The story is set in a slightly alternate reality to our own, because > even when "suspending disbelief" normal people in our reality could > never imagine that such things could happen. In this alternate reality, > people who have developed long-standing grudges against or hatreds > towards someone they obsess on, but who cannot afford socially to be > perceived as being as obsessive as they really are, recruit proxies to > do their hating for them. > > They seek our weak-willed, weak-minded, needy people and suck up to > them, buttering them up with praise and compliments and flirting with > them shamelessly and giving them lots and lots and lots of attention. > Which is, of course, the very thing that needy people feel that they > need. > > After a period of doing this, the recruiter introduces the concept of > the Dharmic Enemy, the person who represents all of the things that he > or she considers -- and thus by *assumption* the newly-recruited needy > person considers as well -- the antithesis of all that is holy and > spiritual and lofty. > > The new recruits are taught to chant holy...uh...chants. (I can't think > yet of what to call them for the actual short story, but maybe "mantras" > or "yagyas" or something Newagey like that.) The chants list the evil, > terrible, horrible, lower-than-the-lint-in-a-snake's-navel qualities of > the Dharmic Enemy, and are taught in a kind of call-and-response, > I-stroke-you-when-you-get-it-right manner. And, of course, in this > alternate reality, it works. The new recruits get so *into* chanting > these holy mantras/chants/yagyas to dispel the evil, terrible, horrible, > lower-than-the-lint-in-a-snake's-navel Dharmic Enemy from their midst > that they eventually wind up doing it on their own. > > Then the recruiter just kicks back and allows the new recruits to do his > or her hating for him or her. > > Think this story idea would sell, or is it too far-fetched even for the > scifi market?
Nah. Just reads like you're trolling the TMees again. Give up on them. They're beyond help and a waste of your time to convert. Check out the two episode "Coma" instead which one review said was pretty bad though having the late Tony Scott behind it. I missed the first episode but it repeats today so put both for recording on my DVR.
