thatgirlonstage:

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iamthedukeofurl:

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

Concept: a TV series consisting entirely of “filler episodes” from some notional story of grand adventure whose ongoing events can only be inferred from the incidental context of whatever character-driven bullshit is happening this week.

Like, maybe they’re a D&D-style adventuring party, and we only ever see them during downtime between adventures. Sometimes one of them is suffering from some improbable injury or bizarre curse, and the particulars of how it happened are only vaguely alluded to – their entire professional lives are basically one big Noodle Incident from the audience’s perspective.

I think you could get some use out of “previously on” and “next time on” segments showing footage that never happened.

For example: “Previously on, Champions of Karamore!” 
*Shot of a scepter lying on a pedestal in a tomb somewhere*
Wizard: “The Scepter of Aratoom is the key to Garroth’s Ascension” 
*Four Seconds of the Heroes engaged in epic combat* 
Warrior: “I’LL HOLD THEM OFF, GET THE SCEPTER”
Rogue *Looking at empty pedestal*: “IT’S GONE! WE’RE TOO LATE!” 
*Dark cloaked figure that the audience has never actually seen before, holding the scepter* “At last…it begins”

And then the entire episode consists of them hanging around the nearest inn, looking at maps and arguing about different ways they could have gotten there, and if any of those methods would have gotten them to the Tomb fast enough. “I told you we should have sold the horses in Roksport and taken a ship to Veremen” “We paid good money for those horses! Staying overland cut at least three days off our trip!” “It would have, HAD THE HORSES NOT BEEN EATEN BY WEREWOLVES!” “There’s no way we could have known about the Werewolves.” “THE TOWN WAS CALLED LYCANSBURG JEREMY!” 

“I died, you know.”

“We know, Jeremy.”

“Noble sacrifice. Dragged to hell. Tortured by demons.”

“Yes, Jeremy.”

“So I’m just saying. I think I deserved a break.”

“It was your turn to do the dishes on the chore wheel, Jeremy. Quit milking the death thing.”

Jeremy disappears for, like, five episodes, and NO ONE ever mentions him or brings it up. The only acknowledgement we get is the first episode he’s gone everyone is a bit more subdued than normal, someone starts to say something and one of the other characters shuts them down with a “NO WE’RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT”. Maybe in the previously on there are snarling hellhounds and the screen cuts to black as someone screams his name.

He then abruptly reappears in an episode where they all have their eyebrows burnt off and their clothing singed, the entire episode centers around the wizard trying eyebrow regrowing spells and all we know is that everyone is passively aggressively pissed off at Jeremy but won’t say anything about it. Ten episodes later we finally get a line in passing about how he died horribly but then got resurrected and the team found him chilling on a beach somewhere after literally crawling through hell trying to find him