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isurrendered. She explained it as follows:
1. Comment to this post with "I surrender!" and I'll assign you the basis of some TV show idea. (post-apocalyptic scifi-fi drama, fantasy, noir gumshoe pulp, criminal procedure...IN SPACE, historical dramaWITH WEREWOLVES, 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.
I was assigned 'an alien crashlands on Earth and is stranded until they can get the spaceship fixed.
And so I present to you, without further ado...
We open with a shortened version of Florence & the Machine's "Dog Days Are Over," up to the bridge. The segment from the second chorus to the end will be our closing theme.
We are first introduced to our protagonist as she crash-lands in an empty field outside of Springfield. (No, not that Springfield.)
The landing site, complete with all that's left of the spaceship.
Our protagonist is, initially, a sort of semi-liquid silver bloblike creature about the size of a small dog. She rolls about the field, temporarily shapeshifting into a stump and a rock before determining that these aren't the right forms. Finally she rolls to a lump, desolate, in the middle of the field.
She is noticed by a girl named Lily Caville (Jenna Ushkowitz).
Lily at one of her favorite gigs.
Lily is a lonely young woman and secret sci-fi nerd with a BA in economics that she didn't want, a day job that's slowly killing her, and the recently acquired courage to try and follow her dreams of being a singer. Her parents don't approve, but it's the only thing that makes her happy.
When she finds a strange, alien blob in the middle of the field, at first she thinks she's dreaming. More so when the blog starts to talk inside her head. (Our protagonist being telepathic.)
However, being practical, she takes the blob home, wherein they discuss shapeshifting abilities, origins, and realities. They look through pictures of low-level celebrities online so that the blob, who names herself Rose after the ones that Lily grows, can choose someone to imitate.
She picks Angel Coulby.
Rose in one of her many moments of wonder about the world in which she finds herself.
The newly named Rose can't talk for most of the show. She can communicate telepathically (represented by voiceover), which also allows her to understand the gist of anything people are intentionally trying to communicate to her, but she can't actually speak any known Earth language. It takes her quite some time even to work out how to make sounds. However, she's ferociously intelligent and incurably curious about the world, and manages to communicate most of her points and completely charm the audience even if she can only 'speak' to Lily.
(This is, of course, an excellent chance for Angel Coulby to show off her acting chops.)
The show starts out as fairly cute slapstick comedy as the friendship between the girls builds up, but even in the first few episodes, there are hints of sadder things, with Lily's fear of her future and her struggle to balance her longing for her parents' approval with her need to form her own life. Meanwhile, Rose's inability to communicate and to understand all of human culture are often a source of frustration for her, particularly coupled with homesickness.
Midway through the first season, the show takes more of a turn towards the dramatic, heralded in some ways by the introduction of a love interest for Lily, a businessman and club owner named Jonathan (Zachary Levi.)
Jonathan in one of his smuggest moments.
Jonathan has a bit of an arrogant streak, and he initially seems like a bit of a slimeball, but he's actually a kind guy, and he is genuinely and entirely charmed by Lily. She originally isn't sure what to make of him, but decides to go along with one date and see how it goes, and that sparks off a slightly nervous romance. Rose, meanwhile, is entirely unimpressed, a reaction that stems mostly from jealousy about this stranger horning in on her and Lily's life (also requiring some detailed explanations.) Partly to re-establish her bond with Lily, she reveals why she left her home: fleeing her family, a criminal tribe. And she crashed because she was being pursued by an officer of the law, which had been hinted at previously. That officer is still on Earth, trying to chase Rose down; unbeknowst to anyone else, she has governmental help.
The officer, known as Candy (Hailee Steinfeld), chooses an innocuous form. Fandom nicknames her the bb!Terminator.
It is later revealed - to the audience, if not to the characters - that Rose isn't slated for punishment, rather for protective custody and a request for criminal identities, which she would be only too happy to give. Although Lily is more than happy to try and keep Rose safe (a slightly foolish choice), Jonathan ends up ensnared in some of the more madcap chases, and figures out that Rose has a secret, even if he doesn't guess what that is. To her annoyance, he's quite sweet about it.
That sweetness becomes even more inconvenient when he sits down and asks her whether she's jealous of him and Lily, thereby forcing Rose to confront a whole host of questions about human romantic and sexual desire, particularly as it relates to gender, and about the fact that she seems to be affected by all of the above, particularly directed at Lily but also, as complications forge the group into more and more of a unified trio, an increasingly close friendship with Jonathan.
Eventually Candy tracks down Rose, with the help of the government, and manages to explain her situation. Rose chooses to stay with her newfound family, and she, Jonathan, and Lily end up in a polyamorous relationship on Earth. Candy offers to be her liaison and to help her work out life on Earth and keep up the masquerade a little more easily. The series ends with Rose and Jonathan watching Lily perform at Jonathan's club; afterward, she communicates entirely verbally for the first time all series, to tell them that she loves them both and that she doesn't want to be anywhere in the universe but where they are.
twoskeletons is running a cool meme, apparently based off of something called isurrendered. She explained it as follows:1. Comment to this post with "I surrender!" and I'll assign you the basis of some TV show idea. (post-apocalyptic scifi-fi drama, fantasy, noir gumshoe pulp, criminal procedure...IN SPACE, historical drama
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.
I was assigned 'an alien crashlands on Earth and is stranded until they can get the spaceship fixed.
And so I present to you, without further ado...
Freaks Like Us
We open with a shortened version of Florence & the Machine's "Dog Days Are Over," up to the bridge. The segment from the second chorus to the end will be our closing theme.
We are first introduced to our protagonist as she crash-lands in an empty field outside of Springfield. (No, not that Springfield.)
The landing site, complete with all that's left of the spaceship.
Our protagonist is, initially, a sort of semi-liquid silver bloblike creature about the size of a small dog. She rolls about the field, temporarily shapeshifting into a stump and a rock before determining that these aren't the right forms. Finally she rolls to a lump, desolate, in the middle of the field.
She is noticed by a girl named Lily Caville (Jenna Ushkowitz).
Lily at one of her favorite gigs.
Lily is a lonely young woman and secret sci-fi nerd with a BA in economics that she didn't want, a day job that's slowly killing her, and the recently acquired courage to try and follow her dreams of being a singer. Her parents don't approve, but it's the only thing that makes her happy.
When she finds a strange, alien blob in the middle of the field, at first she thinks she's dreaming. More so when the blog starts to talk inside her head. (Our protagonist being telepathic.)
However, being practical, she takes the blob home, wherein they discuss shapeshifting abilities, origins, and realities. They look through pictures of low-level celebrities online so that the blob, who names herself Rose after the ones that Lily grows, can choose someone to imitate.
She picks Angel Coulby.
Rose in one of her many moments of wonder about the world in which she finds herself.
The newly named Rose can't talk for most of the show. She can communicate telepathically (represented by voiceover), which also allows her to understand the gist of anything people are intentionally trying to communicate to her, but she can't actually speak any known Earth language. It takes her quite some time even to work out how to make sounds. However, she's ferociously intelligent and incurably curious about the world, and manages to communicate most of her points and completely charm the audience even if she can only 'speak' to Lily.
(This is, of course, an excellent chance for Angel Coulby to show off her acting chops.)
The show starts out as fairly cute slapstick comedy as the friendship between the girls builds up, but even in the first few episodes, there are hints of sadder things, with Lily's fear of her future and her struggle to balance her longing for her parents' approval with her need to form her own life. Meanwhile, Rose's inability to communicate and to understand all of human culture are often a source of frustration for her, particularly coupled with homesickness.
Midway through the first season, the show takes more of a turn towards the dramatic, heralded in some ways by the introduction of a love interest for Lily, a businessman and club owner named Jonathan (Zachary Levi.)
Jonathan in one of his smuggest moments.
Jonathan has a bit of an arrogant streak, and he initially seems like a bit of a slimeball, but he's actually a kind guy, and he is genuinely and entirely charmed by Lily. She originally isn't sure what to make of him, but decides to go along with one date and see how it goes, and that sparks off a slightly nervous romance. Rose, meanwhile, is entirely unimpressed, a reaction that stems mostly from jealousy about this stranger horning in on her and Lily's life (also requiring some detailed explanations.) Partly to re-establish her bond with Lily, she reveals why she left her home: fleeing her family, a criminal tribe. And she crashed because she was being pursued by an officer of the law, which had been hinted at previously. That officer is still on Earth, trying to chase Rose down; unbeknowst to anyone else, she has governmental help.
The officer, known as Candy (Hailee Steinfeld), chooses an innocuous form. Fandom nicknames her the bb!Terminator.
It is later revealed - to the audience, if not to the characters - that Rose isn't slated for punishment, rather for protective custody and a request for criminal identities, which she would be only too happy to give. Although Lily is more than happy to try and keep Rose safe (a slightly foolish choice), Jonathan ends up ensnared in some of the more madcap chases, and figures out that Rose has a secret, even if he doesn't guess what that is. To her annoyance, he's quite sweet about it.
That sweetness becomes even more inconvenient when he sits down and asks her whether she's jealous of him and Lily, thereby forcing Rose to confront a whole host of questions about human romantic and sexual desire, particularly as it relates to gender, and about the fact that she seems to be affected by all of the above, particularly directed at Lily but also, as complications forge the group into more and more of a unified trio, an increasingly close friendship with Jonathan.
Eventually Candy tracks down Rose, with the help of the government, and manages to explain her situation. Rose chooses to stay with her newfound family, and she, Jonathan, and Lily end up in a polyamorous relationship on Earth. Candy offers to be her liaison and to help her work out life on Earth and keep up the masquerade a little more easily. The series ends with Rose and Jonathan watching Lily perform at Jonathan's club; afterward, she communicates entirely verbally for the first time all series, to tell them that she loves them both and that she doesn't want to be anywhere in the universe but where they are.
