Memeage (Epona)
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marina made up a new meme.
THE MEME
1. Comment to this post with "I surrender!" and I'll assign you the basis of some TV show idea. (Science fiction show, medical drama, criminal procedure, etc...)
2. Create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them
3. Add in any actor photos, character bios and show synopsis that you want.
4. Post to your own journal.
marina gave me the prompt: "Scientific-mystery-of-the-week, any genre, set somewhere outside North America (including outer space or whatever)."
The End (no teaser image because I fail at photoshop), an extraterrestrial scientific exploration drama/psychological mystery:
Vienna, 2036. After being flatly turned away for years, irresistibly charismatic master geologist Dr. Renata Petran finally secures an audience with the United Nations commissioner for outer space affairs and convinces him that the time is ripe to actively recruit scientists to participate in a long-dormant UN initiative: a no-return mission to a confirmed habitable extra-solar planet called Epona.
Although her superiors are initially skeptical, Dr. Petran successfully puts together a team of eighteen scientists who all, each for their own reasons, are willing to leave behind everything they've ever known to advance the cause of human knowledge. As a last-ditch effort to stall what he thinks if a suicidally dangerous endeavor, Javier de la Cruz saddles Petran with a formidable adversary. He recruits his long-time friend Dr. Laleh Shirazi (Shohreh Aghdashloo), a botanist and psychiatrist, and charges her with covertly ascertaining the team's readiness.
As the team members ready for their mission and study all available information about their soon-to-be home planet, Dr. Shirazi contrives ever more complicated opportunities to question their motives. She discovers that each of her cohort has their own secrets, some shameful, some merely sad, all the while fighting her own mounting curiosity about the alien planet's rich flora, and the possibility of blanking her own disappointing slate.
After three months of intense preparation, the team faces the decision of weather or not the mission will be allowed to proceed, hanging partly on Dr. Shirazi psychiatric evaluations. Shirazi herself struggles with her suspicion that her diagnoses may rest too much on her personal desire to join the mission, and not enough on the emotional well-being and best interests of her fellows.
Spoiler: They go.
Cast:
Dr. Renata Petran, geologist: Mira Furlan
Dr. Petran's recognition in the academic community has been held back only by her extreme polymathy. She is driven by her devotion to the geological sciences, which fill her working and leisure hours. Although possessed of both charm and grace, Petran has many colleagues but only a few close friends. Her loved ones frequently find it hard to keep up with her single-minded pursuit of knowledge.
Dr. Laleh Shirazi, botanist and psychiatrist: Shohreh Aghdashloo
An avowed bachelor since her divorce almost twenty years ago, Dr. Shirazi set aside her psychiatric practice when the personal toll it took on her life become just too high. Cultivating a second career in botany, she has successfully made an international name for herself as a scientist, and unconsciously channeled her experience in judging people's character into subtle emotional manipulation. Despite this, she has found it increasingly difficult to converse with her two adult children.
Prof. Jonathan van Laar, organic chemist: Idris Elba
Jonathan van Laar is a chemist by day and eccentric by night. His frequent non sequiturs and bizarre sense of humor surround him with some intrigued friends and many highly puzzled acquaintances. Jonathan insists upon remaining an enigma, and although he readily shares details of his everyday life, his thought process is nigh-incomprehensible. His eclectic personality is not reflected in his laboratory technique, though, which is always in impeccable order, although he deliberately hides his reasons for joining the expedition.
Dr. Uma Pasternack, astrobiologist: Dichen Lachman
Uma Pasternack has invested her career in a field of science she believed would remain theoretical in her lifetime. On the eve of her admission to medical school for a conversion to a more practical career path, she gets word of Dr. Petran's expedition and immediately shows up on her doorstep, demanding admission. Under a thin veneer of nonchalant sarcasm she is driven beyond words to vindicate her dreams, and her defensive manner brings her into constant conflict with Dr. Shirazi.
Dr. Kenta Takahashi, MD: Masi Oka
A successful physician with an active social life, Takahashi surprises friends and family when he pursues admission to the Epona mission. Although he finds satisfaction in practicing medicine, his many friends and hobbies leave him feeling hollow and drained. Takahashi gladly trains to go out into space, all the while reassuring everyone he knows that he will (probably) not go through with it. Ultimately, he finds he doesn't know whether he intends to stay or go.
Darius Hoffman, mechanical engineer: Michael Trucco
Darius leaves behind a string of unsuccessful interviews and short-term, dissatisfying jobs, and an equally long string of failed relationships, and decides to take the last piece of advice his twin gave him before dying: make a change in his life. The biggest, most basic change he can think of is to leave all his old friendships and college dreams behind and travel as far as possible with a bunch of strangers, but when his backpack trip across Europe just ends in another broken romance, he decides Europe just wasn't far enough.
Iris Hawkins-Bianchi, mineralogist: Vanessa Marano
Iris is a grown child prodigy, just old enough not to be a novelty anymore, and too bored to finish the last few credits of her doctorate. Instead, she frantically searches for an idol after her own heart and eventually settles on Dr. Petran, whose charm and ambition speak to her more than her former mentor's endless publishing record. At twenty, she decides it's time to step off the beaten path her test scores laid out for her and become, as she sees it, a true scientist. If only she could convince everyone who knows her that it's a sensible move, and not a juvenile whim.
marina made up a new meme. THE MEME
1. Comment to this post with "I surrender!" and I'll assign you the basis of some TV show idea. (Science fiction show, medical drama, criminal procedure, etc...)
2. Create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them
3. Add in any actor photos, character bios and show synopsis that you want.
4. Post to your own journal.
marina gave me the prompt: "Scientific-mystery-of-the-week, any genre, set somewhere outside North America (including outer space or whatever)." The End (no teaser image because I fail at photoshop), an extraterrestrial scientific exploration drama/psychological mystery:
Vienna, 2036. After being flatly turned away for years, irresistibly charismatic master geologist Dr. Renata Petran finally secures an audience with the United Nations commissioner for outer space affairs and convinces him that the time is ripe to actively recruit scientists to participate in a long-dormant UN initiative: a no-return mission to a confirmed habitable extra-solar planet called Epona.
Although her superiors are initially skeptical, Dr. Petran successfully puts together a team of eighteen scientists who all, each for their own reasons, are willing to leave behind everything they've ever known to advance the cause of human knowledge. As a last-ditch effort to stall what he thinks if a suicidally dangerous endeavor, Javier de la Cruz saddles Petran with a formidable adversary. He recruits his long-time friend Dr. Laleh Shirazi (Shohreh Aghdashloo), a botanist and psychiatrist, and charges her with covertly ascertaining the team's readiness.
As the team members ready for their mission and study all available information about their soon-to-be home planet, Dr. Shirazi contrives ever more complicated opportunities to question their motives. She discovers that each of her cohort has their own secrets, some shameful, some merely sad, all the while fighting her own mounting curiosity about the alien planet's rich flora, and the possibility of blanking her own disappointing slate.
After three months of intense preparation, the team faces the decision of weather or not the mission will be allowed to proceed, hanging partly on Dr. Shirazi psychiatric evaluations. Shirazi herself struggles with her suspicion that her diagnoses may rest too much on her personal desire to join the mission, and not enough on the emotional well-being and best interests of her fellows.
Spoiler: They go.
Cast:
Dr. Renata Petran, geologist: Mira Furlan
Dr. Petran's recognition in the academic community has been held back only by her extreme polymathy. She is driven by her devotion to the geological sciences, which fill her working and leisure hours. Although possessed of both charm and grace, Petran has many colleagues but only a few close friends. Her loved ones frequently find it hard to keep up with her single-minded pursuit of knowledge.
Dr. Laleh Shirazi, botanist and psychiatrist: Shohreh Aghdashloo
An avowed bachelor since her divorce almost twenty years ago, Dr. Shirazi set aside her psychiatric practice when the personal toll it took on her life become just too high. Cultivating a second career in botany, she has successfully made an international name for herself as a scientist, and unconsciously channeled her experience in judging people's character into subtle emotional manipulation. Despite this, she has found it increasingly difficult to converse with her two adult children.
Prof. Jonathan van Laar, organic chemist: Idris Elba
Jonathan van Laar is a chemist by day and eccentric by night. His frequent non sequiturs and bizarre sense of humor surround him with some intrigued friends and many highly puzzled acquaintances. Jonathan insists upon remaining an enigma, and although he readily shares details of his everyday life, his thought process is nigh-incomprehensible. His eclectic personality is not reflected in his laboratory technique, though, which is always in impeccable order, although he deliberately hides his reasons for joining the expedition.
Dr. Uma Pasternack, astrobiologist: Dichen Lachman
Uma Pasternack has invested her career in a field of science she believed would remain theoretical in her lifetime. On the eve of her admission to medical school for a conversion to a more practical career path, she gets word of Dr. Petran's expedition and immediately shows up on her doorstep, demanding admission. Under a thin veneer of nonchalant sarcasm she is driven beyond words to vindicate her dreams, and her defensive manner brings her into constant conflict with Dr. Shirazi.
Dr. Kenta Takahashi, MD: Masi Oka
A successful physician with an active social life, Takahashi surprises friends and family when he pursues admission to the Epona mission. Although he finds satisfaction in practicing medicine, his many friends and hobbies leave him feeling hollow and drained. Takahashi gladly trains to go out into space, all the while reassuring everyone he knows that he will (probably) not go through with it. Ultimately, he finds he doesn't know whether he intends to stay or go.
Darius Hoffman, mechanical engineer: Michael Trucco
Darius leaves behind a string of unsuccessful interviews and short-term, dissatisfying jobs, and an equally long string of failed relationships, and decides to take the last piece of advice his twin gave him before dying: make a change in his life. The biggest, most basic change he can think of is to leave all his old friendships and college dreams behind and travel as far as possible with a bunch of strangers, but when his backpack trip across Europe just ends in another broken romance, he decides Europe just wasn't far enough.
Iris Hawkins-Bianchi, mineralogist: Vanessa Marano
Iris is a grown child prodigy, just old enough not to be a novelty anymore, and too bored to finish the last few credits of her doctorate. Instead, she frantically searches for an idol after her own heart and eventually settles on Dr. Petran, whose charm and ambition speak to her more than her former mentor's endless publishing record. At twenty, she decides it's time to step off the beaten path her test scores laid out for her and become, as she sees it, a true scientist. If only she could convince everyone who knows her that it's a sensible move, and not a juvenile whim.
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YOU USED IDRIS ELBA. I DON'T EVEN KNOW. THE WORLD CAN NOT CONTAIN THIS MUCH AWESOME.
You should post this to
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I surrender.
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One of the characters uses her time machine and a sockpuppet LJ to spoil the last Harry Potter book. This isn't dated AT ALL.
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