Dream Foo!
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newnumber6Wherein my subconscious apparently rips off Joss Whedon! And actually there were a whole bunch of other dreams.
Okay, the dream was that I was hearing about this new show. In the dream I was hearing about it, rather than creating it.
It was SF.
It was sort of western themed a little.
It was set in the far future, in a different star system.
It had a large regular cast of characters who were interesting.
It was named 'Tranquility' (which is a pretty close word to Serenity).
I think it was also created by Tim Minear. Now, it wasn't completely a Firefly ripoff. I can't remember more than one of the characters (although I believe one was sort of Wash-ish in character), but one of them was a mystic, who, although she dressed a little like Inara, was supposedly a conduit to 'gods' (and, apparently, was even having an affair with a noncorporeal God which possessed her body). Also, in the dream, I was hearing the producer talk about it, and he was specific that although the series was science fiction, there would be little in the way of special effects, in order to keep costs down. It all take place on a single planet. Like if Firefly was a 'Wagon Trail to the Stars' (yes, I know that was the description for Trek, but let's pretend it works for Firefly), then Tranquility would be the Gunsmoke.
Anyway, the series sounded like it could be good, in the dream, although the producer was appealing for help in a new means of distributing it... something about selling the episodes to apartment buildings so anyone in it could watch it at will, rather than being bound to a schedule. I don't know, it doesn't really make sense in the waking world, but in the dream it sounded like a bold new experiment. They were also talking about a contest, some sort of 'name that series' contest about some network's shows, for people who wanted to be the first to see the first episode. I tried at first but never got anything right and so I left.
In the dream, I walked into another building, along with Ron Glass, who apparently was also there. I mentioned that the idea of the show sounded neat, but we'd have to see how it actually turns out, because "ideas are cheap." Then he turned to me with a smile and said that he didn't know, sometimes he'd found ideas could be quite expensive, at least in terms of time. It took me a second and then nodded, and said something about, "Ah, because a good idea will take hold of you and make you spend time reading or even writing it." And he agreed that's what he meant. Then mentioned he was going to a convention and said he might be able to get me some sort of job there if I was interested, so I could meet a bunch of SF writers. That's about when I woke up.
So when I woke up, my first thought was, "Hey, that was a dream? Too bad, that sounds like a great idea for a series." Followed by "Maybe I could develop it." Followed by, "Oh, crap, it's just ripping off Whedon almost completely." Actually as soon as I made that connection I couldn't get lines from that song from the plotted XET Musical (the one that was entirely a homage to OMWF) out of my head):
Dave: As your guest, one request, I've a question to pop you?
PoT: Join me in the re - al, world!
Dave: I'm no dope, there's no hope, I'm not groping to stop you...
PoT: Strange is the night where black stars rise
And strange moons circle through the skies.
Dave: Please hold back, your attack, there's one fact that I've keyed on...
PoT: Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
where flap the tatters of the king
Dave: This whole thing? Where we sing? You're ripping off Whedon...?
(Okay, only the Dave lines were stuck in my head, the rest I couldn't remember). Still, it would almost be cool if Minear and Whedon decided to do a spinoff set in the Firefly universe but not actually using the characters.
Next up, I had this dream where I was at work, and putting some product on a high shelf using a ladder, and I was on top of it but needed it to be moved slightly, so I asked someone down on the ground to move it a little, and a truck driver (a new one, not any of my regular ones), moved the ladder out from under me so I was left hanging, and I said, "Dude, don't be a d*ck"
I guess I woke up, and must have fallen asleep and transitioned back into dream while I was in my 'repeat the dream to myself as much as possible so I can remember it in the morning' phase, because the next thing I could recall, I was repeating the dream... but to others at work. And I started talking about it, but then someone new came. It was someone I knew casually in high school - I knew their name, had a couple classes with her, but wasn't particularly close to. Anyway, I started repeating the dream and then noticed when she turned her head, half of her face was severely burned, almost like by acid (because there were individual spots outside of the main area, like there was splatter). It freaked me out a little - not enough to wake me up, but enought o make me lose my place a bit in the story. And then I felt guilty because I made her feel bad about her burned face.
I think next I dreamed that I discovered two cats of mine (that I actually haven't had for something like 10 years or more) had had kittens and I wasn't aware of it. So I was wandering around the home picking up little kittens and saying 'oohh, how cute!' (they were in the cute, active kitten stage, rather than the true newborn stage where they're blind and such), and looking for the parents who were nowhere to be found.
Finally (well, I hink there were a few others, but this was the last I can remember), I dreamed I was in a mental institution. I apparently had a visitor, and was wondering who it was, only to find out it was my cousin. He asked me if I thought that Bill Clinton had stolen the election. I said "Uh, that doesn't sound quite right to me," and he said something like "Good, that means they haven't gotten to you yet" and told me he was here to break me out. So we ran past the front gate orderlies and a car pulled up quickly to pick us up. We were on the run when I woke up.
Okay, the dream was that I was hearing about this new show. In the dream I was hearing about it, rather than creating it.
It was SF.
It was sort of western themed a little.
It was set in the far future, in a different star system.
It had a large regular cast of characters who were interesting.
It was named 'Tranquility' (which is a pretty close word to Serenity).
I think it was also created by Tim Minear. Now, it wasn't completely a Firefly ripoff. I can't remember more than one of the characters (although I believe one was sort of Wash-ish in character), but one of them was a mystic, who, although she dressed a little like Inara, was supposedly a conduit to 'gods' (and, apparently, was even having an affair with a noncorporeal God which possessed her body). Also, in the dream, I was hearing the producer talk about it, and he was specific that although the series was science fiction, there would be little in the way of special effects, in order to keep costs down. It all take place on a single planet. Like if Firefly was a 'Wagon Trail to the Stars' (yes, I know that was the description for Trek, but let's pretend it works for Firefly), then Tranquility would be the Gunsmoke.
Anyway, the series sounded like it could be good, in the dream, although the producer was appealing for help in a new means of distributing it... something about selling the episodes to apartment buildings so anyone in it could watch it at will, rather than being bound to a schedule. I don't know, it doesn't really make sense in the waking world, but in the dream it sounded like a bold new experiment. They were also talking about a contest, some sort of 'name that series' contest about some network's shows, for people who wanted to be the first to see the first episode. I tried at first but never got anything right and so I left.
In the dream, I walked into another building, along with Ron Glass, who apparently was also there. I mentioned that the idea of the show sounded neat, but we'd have to see how it actually turns out, because "ideas are cheap." Then he turned to me with a smile and said that he didn't know, sometimes he'd found ideas could be quite expensive, at least in terms of time. It took me a second and then nodded, and said something about, "Ah, because a good idea will take hold of you and make you spend time reading or even writing it." And he agreed that's what he meant. Then mentioned he was going to a convention and said he might be able to get me some sort of job there if I was interested, so I could meet a bunch of SF writers. That's about when I woke up.
So when I woke up, my first thought was, "Hey, that was a dream? Too bad, that sounds like a great idea for a series." Followed by "Maybe I could develop it." Followed by, "Oh, crap, it's just ripping off Whedon almost completely." Actually as soon as I made that connection I couldn't get lines from that song from the plotted XET Musical (the one that was entirely a homage to OMWF) out of my head):
Dave: As your guest, one request, I've a question to pop you?
PoT: Join me in the re - al, world!
Dave: I'm no dope, there's no hope, I'm not groping to stop you...
PoT: Strange is the night where black stars rise
And strange moons circle through the skies.
Dave: Please hold back, your attack, there's one fact that I've keyed on...
PoT: Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
where flap the tatters of the king
Dave: This whole thing? Where we sing? You're ripping off Whedon...?
(Okay, only the Dave lines were stuck in my head, the rest I couldn't remember). Still, it would almost be cool if Minear and Whedon decided to do a spinoff set in the Firefly universe but not actually using the characters.
Next up, I had this dream where I was at work, and putting some product on a high shelf using a ladder, and I was on top of it but needed it to be moved slightly, so I asked someone down on the ground to move it a little, and a truck driver (a new one, not any of my regular ones), moved the ladder out from under me so I was left hanging, and I said, "Dude, don't be a d*ck"
I guess I woke up, and must have fallen asleep and transitioned back into dream while I was in my 'repeat the dream to myself as much as possible so I can remember it in the morning' phase, because the next thing I could recall, I was repeating the dream... but to others at work. And I started talking about it, but then someone new came. It was someone I knew casually in high school - I knew their name, had a couple classes with her, but wasn't particularly close to. Anyway, I started repeating the dream and then noticed when she turned her head, half of her face was severely burned, almost like by acid (because there were individual spots outside of the main area, like there was splatter). It freaked me out a little - not enough to wake me up, but enought o make me lose my place a bit in the story. And then I felt guilty because I made her feel bad about her burned face.
I think next I dreamed that I discovered two cats of mine (that I actually haven't had for something like 10 years or more) had had kittens and I wasn't aware of it. So I was wandering around the home picking up little kittens and saying 'oohh, how cute!' (they were in the cute, active kitten stage, rather than the true newborn stage where they're blind and such), and looking for the parents who were nowhere to be found.
Finally (well, I hink there were a few others, but this was the last I can remember), I dreamed I was in a mental institution. I apparently had a visitor, and was wondering who it was, only to find out it was my cousin. He asked me if I thought that Bill Clinton had stolen the election. I said "Uh, that doesn't sound quite right to me," and he said something like "Good, that means they haven't gotten to you yet" and told me he was here to break me out. So we ran past the front gate orderlies and a car pulled up quickly to pick us up. We were on the run when I woke up.
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