which doesn't quite ring true to me (though I stopped watching it at the end of the first season), as I thought the hook of Heroes was that it was extraordinary people in an ordinary world: the old cliche of real-world superheroes (well, it's a cliche in comics since the mid-1980s, anyway, slightly less in other media).Īnyway, I feel I want TTBD (as nobody's calling it) to be real-world-grounded (so I don't have to spend forever on the setup), and maybe have something a bit unusual happening to an ordinary character, so we see him or her react in a way we might react ourselves. "back to the basic principle of ordinary people in an extraordinary world and how these characters are relatable to us and what we would do if we were in their situations, and really grounding it in that conceit"
That said, I liked the idea of one aspect of it being a bit strange and somehow fantastical, in case it be more like a mirror than a viewing-glass, as it were - and that Alice-ism isn't entirely accidental I read a quote from Bryan Fuller on Dan Owen's blog about how he wanted to get Heroes
I'm probably showing my age here, but I was thinking in terms of the general tone of the programme Jonny Briggs (which is not about the actor from Coronation Street, it's a TV show from the 80s). The target audience is 6-12 year olds, and so I set to thinking about what kind of thing would be suitable for them my gut feeling was that whilst it needed to be something which would be relatable in terms of setting, making the focus of it about school or family life might make it a bit too close to reality. As it's just over a fortnight before the CBBC Writing Opportunity closing date, I thought I'd just ramble a bit about - er, sorry, I mean share - the thought process behind my entry-to-be, which currently rejoices in the title of 'Title to be decided'.