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Guardian Season One and Two Cast
Season two Cast is basically the same as season one, with two added characters (Molly and Johnny) and one character gone (Abby). Since Abby is present, I couldn't say it was Season Two. Basically, all the characters I've fleshed out. I know, I know, how lame, she made dolls, well, my actual sketches still need to be scanned. Until then, make do with fricking dolls. |
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THE GUARDIAN PILOT SCRIPT!
Yup. I know you've been waiting for it. Just remember it's still in it's UBER ROUGH DRAFT FORM. Typos, holes, and notes galore. If by the off chance you read it, I encourage you to CRITICIZE TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT! |
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20.INT. ABBY’S HOUSE
Abby is on the phone when there is a knock at the door. She goes to answer it to see a dripping wet Jordan with foggy glasses looking at her pitifully. She can’t help but chuckle as she lets him in. He is hugging a chemistry book to his chest.
ABBY (hanging up the phone) And to what do I owe this visit?
JORDAN I’m worried about Tyler. I wanted to talk to you about it. (Abby begins to speak, but is interrupted) Now don’t start— I know, we never talk anymore. But Abby, before there was you, there was the three of us. It was only in middle school where he became too cool to hang out with me… That doesn’t mean I can’t be worried about him. You might think it’s stupid, but I always wonder how things might have been life if I’d been just a little bit cooler, or… or if he’d been a little bit less. We used to camp outside in his backyard, just Tyler, Sean and I, telling ghost stories and making up constellations. Rachel—I mean, Mrs. Reed… When my mom died, I was over at Tyler’s house all the time but he didn’t know what to say. He was only eight. I barely knew what happened. So I spent the night one time and woke up crying. Mrs. Reed scooped me up in her arms and whispered in my hair and just rocked me back and forth. She sang to me. And afterwards, she gave me some hot chocolate. I still didn’t want to sleep. So she stayed up watching late night TV until I fell asleep on her lap. I woke up still in her arms the next morning. She didn’t leave me alone. (Silence. Abby does not know what to say.) She wasn’t my mother, Abby. But believe me when I tell you that I can’t even imagine how hard it would be to lose a woman like that.
ABBY (Blinks, as though coming out of a trance) I, uh… I was just trying to-to call him. But his cell is off.
JORDAN (with a laugh) Yeah, he hasn’t changed much. He always had an avoidant personality. Something happens, he doesn’t want to talk about it, doesn’t want to think about it. He just isolates himself from everything and hopes it goes away.
ABBY His parents are dead, Jordan. His brother is dying. That’s not going to go away. (Picks up the phone again). No, no, I have to call him—
Jordan grabs the phone. Abby looks up at him.
JORDAN Abby. Let him go for now. You can call him in the morning. Let him have this night to himself and his sister.
Abby nods, slowly, then hangs up the phone. She stares at it a moment.
ABBY I just… I want to help him so badly… But Jordan. What do you say? Do you pretend everything is fine? Or would that offend him? Do you walk on egg shells around him? Or will that only make him feel alienated?
JORDAN You do what he needs. He knows you’re here. He’ll call you when he needs to.
They share a moment. Then Abby frowns at him.
ABBY What’s the chem. book for?
JORDAN This? (Nervous laughter as he hands it to her). Just another excuse to come over here. (Abby takes it.) Tyler left it in lab today. I was going to give it to him when I noticed it had your name in it.
ABBY Silly thing… He steals books from my locker whenever he forgets his, which is generally always… (She looks up). Do you think he’ll be the same now? That carefree, devil-may-care kid with his feet up on the cafeteria table? When I saw him today… He took off his glass, and Jordan I’ve never seen his eyes look so empty.
JORDAN Thank you.
ABBY I haven’t done anything.
JORDAN Not yet. But you’ll do everything, say everything, be everything that Tyler would never have from me. Thanks for being his best friend.
ABBY You are one incredible kid, Jordan.
JORDAN Yeah. (A beat.) Some people think I’m gay.
They laugh. Abby kisses him on the cheek. Jordan stops laugh, caught by surprise.
ABBY And others are glad you’re not.Emotion:  tired Muse: Jimmy Eat World - Night Drive |
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The first full episode(s) of Guardian ever written happened to be the season finale of season one (described below). It's possible to meld these two into a single episode, particularly if you take out one or two scenes to speed up the process. Please, let me know what you think.
Not A Hero Part One
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EPISODE GUIDE
GUARDIAN
Season One
1. Pilot
The Reed Residence is destroyed by a Kreech bomb. Lisa and Mike explain Tyler’s destiny to him. Tyler begins to grow apart from Abby and further towards Sean and his sister as he tries to deal with his new inebriated guardian, his Uncle Richard. Jason Reed dies, taking with him the Crimson Stone. Now Tyler must begin his quest to find it and take it back. But first, he has to take a vacation. He leaves town in his car, leaving behind his friends and sister, as well as his new-found coworkers, Lisa and Mike.
2. Sunshine
After conferring with Rachel, Tyler returns to Seattle to find a police investigation on the murder he committed. With Mike’s help, he keeps his head low and hides out at Sean’s mansion before heading back to his uncle’s and seeing his sister. Meanwhile, while her brother is away, Allyson has found solace in a sweet new friend, Natasha, a girl who has more than one secret. Natasha gives Allyson to Marian, and Mike sends Tyler to find and save her. “More than just her life might be at stake.” With these words and Allyson’s courage, the siblings discover Allyson’s inner power– she is the bearer of the Azure Stone. In the meantime, Abby asks her science teacher why she keeps acing the tests when she was sure she got answers wrong and finds out he is attracted to her. Annoyed and angry that all people seem to see in her is her looks, she seeks out Tyler to comfort her, but when he can’t be found, settles for Jordan, who hastily hides his song lyrics from her.
3. Surprise
As Tyler learns more and more about his destiny, he grows further and further away from Abby. She keeps trying to talk to him, but he’s floating out of her reach. In an attempt to close the gap, she puts herself in charge of his surprise birthday party. Jordan reluctantly helps. As Tyler has now become completely obsessed with training to be a better warrior, (“In case someone else dares to try and touch my sister”), Lisa and Mike are thrilled to teach him fighting techniques as well as mystical ones. Tyler finds out that while Lisa never went to school, she knows a hell of a lot more about the demon world than he does. Meanwhile, Audra comes back from Nevada with her new football boyfriend, whom Sean delights in making fun of. Abby is disappointed when she “surprises” Sean and Audra instead of her intended Tyler, who stands her up. As she talks to him later on, completely shocked he forgot his own birthday, he admits to her that “maybe there’s not much left for us.”
4. Anchors Away
Tyler continues in his search for the remaining four stones as he has dreams of his nemesis, Marian, who speaks to him in his sleep. Lisa finds an old book of spells in the attic she’d never seen before and foolishly opens it, awakening the ghost of a dead sailor, who tricks her into befriending him. Sean finds out he has his very own Nessie in his backyard pool and calls the demon experts to check it out. Turns out, his problem and Lisa’s are closely linked– Mike doesn’t realize this until he almost loses his daughter to a vengeful ghost and blames himself. Once revived, Lisa gives an amulet to Tyler, telling him to “keep it safe.” Meanwhile, After joining the swim team, Jordan tries to coax Abby out of her fear of water. Audra invites a pirate to live with them, against her parents wishes.
5. Spy Games
Audra’s boyfriend Stanley, whom she dated out of principal to spite her parents, humiliates her by dumping her in front of the school. Sean finds her, ridicules Stanley some more, and then asks her if she’s OK. She shrugs it off, obviously unaffected, and explains that her mom is a vegan, and if Sean wanted to go leave a bunch of uncooked turkeys and chicken-soup cans all over her bedroom. Sean sympathizes, as his mother is a member of PETA, and so they do it to both parents and become fast friends. Lucy and Mike end up visiting the Reeds at the same time, introducing themselves on the doorstep. There is an immediate attraction between them. Abby becomes suspicious of Tyler’s absentmindedness and wonders if he is doing something dangerous. Worried, she talks to the counselor, Ms Freeman, who keeps a close eye on Tyler. A little too close for comfort, as the counselor is taken by a Kreech who overheard the conversation. Tyler is forced to kill Ms Freeman when she comes after Tyler and his sister, but not before finding out it was Abby who led her to him.
6. Triangle
Lisa finds Tyler by the pier after his argument with Abby. She tells him that his old life is dead to him now. He needed to worry about the stones. Tyler begins to realize for the first time how much he doesn’t like to grow away from his friends. Meanwhile, Sean finds Abby alone at the school and tries to reason with her without revealing Tyler’s secret. Lucy asks Mike to help her with some plans for a friend’s wedding. Allyson, again left alone with her uncle, digs around in her brother’s room and finds the amulet Lisa gave him and, by putting it on, turns their world upside down as they reenact the tragic love story of Lisa’s sailor– with Abby and Tyler as the star-crossed lovers! Can Allyson convince everyone to stop the madness– before she loses her brother to a forced suicide pact?
7. Secrets
Sean finds out that Lisa is half-demon and it freaks him out. At first, Lisa appears to not care– “He shouldn’t be involved in this mess anyway!”– thinking Sean to be species-ist. But Tyler finds out he’s more hurt that she hadn’t told him straight out– “I know I’m not a fighter, and I know they never wanted me to be a part of this life, but it’s your life, Ty, and I’ve always been part of that... I thought they’d trust me by now, is all.” As for Abby and Tyler, the incident with the amulet has driven them farther apart, as Abby remembers every detail of Tyler trying to kill her, though is not quite sure what went on, which irritates Tyler to no end– “Out of all the things she could have remembered about that night, she has to remember the fact that I tried to kill her! Like that matters!” Lisa, going to yell at Sean for being prejudiced, stumbles upon him discussing Abby with Tyler. Tyler, wanting to tell Abby his secret, tries to find excuses to do so, when Sean is the voice of reason, reminding him that isn’t the smart thing to do. This touches Lisa, a fan of secrets, particularly Tyler’s, and instead of yelling at the boy after Tyler leaves, she apologizes and they bond. Meanwhile, Jordan helps Audra with a science project, and the two share a rare moment of confiding in each other, and Jordan becomes Audra’s first real friend outside of Sean (as Abby, Tyler, and the rest don’t like her all that much). Abby comes over to Jordan’s house to talk but when he’s not home, discovers his lyrics on his desk. The episode ends with Jordan entering the room, asking her what’s wrong, and Abby throwing her arms around him and kissing him saying, “It doesn’t matter now.”
9. Hiatus
Marian, figuring out where the next stone is, figures a celebration is in order– and decides to take a vacation, to her minions’ dismay. Additionally, Mike has to take a trip to France to research the locations of the missing stones with a wizard friend he knows. In the absence of both villain and mentor, the kids are left to their own devices and Lisa gets the brilliant idea of throwing a party– the kind of party Abby frowns upon, Jordan is uncomfortable at, Audra adores, and Sean hosts and almost misses on account of the flu (though he attends anyway, against Tyler’s requests). Meanwhile, a new demon is in town, who delights more in mischief than evil, and decides to turn the tables on the humans, switching up bodies. Mistaking Lisa for a human, the demon casts his spell on her, causing himself to switch bodies with the girl! In the confusion, the kids (Allyson, Tyler, Sean, with confused help from Audra, Jordan and Abby) have to figure out a way to fix this– without Mike’s help, and without Lisa’s help, as they don’t know who’s controlling her body! When everything’s right again, Sean confesses that it was exhilarating being Audra, clarifying not in a creepy way, and says he wants to feel that daily and asks her out (but possibly done the worst way anyone could ask anyone out in history). She tells him to wait, calls her parents, ask if they approve, they don’t, then kisses him.
8. To the Grave
Enchanted by a dazzling young “knight in shining armor,” Abby finds herself wooed by the eligible bachelor. Somehow, Tyler’s not too happy with this, and Jordan is outraged that this guy is trying– and succeeding– to steal his girlfriend. Looking over Tyler’s dislike of Jordan, they form a truce over their hatred of Abby’s suitor. In their search to find something, anything wrong with this guy, they give up, finding nothing. Jordan leaves, and Tyler obsesses over the wonderful things the newspapers say about James Heartwell. Until Sean notes the date of the newspapers they’re looking at– all of which lie in the same year: 1932. Pulling Lisa in on the deal, who’s thrilled not to be the one enraptured by a ghost for once, the trio try and figure out what this guy’s game is. Never having found a cause of death, they search deeper into history, finding stories about him from England, dating back to 1640. It’s then they realize they’re not dealing with a ghost at all, but a crafty demon who has eluded death for centuries– and seeks to elude it for centuries more by throwing Abby in his grave instead! Oddly enough, the solution may lie in Sean’s egotistical brother Samuel, who says the stupidest thing that makes everything click in Sean’s head. The final battle occurs in a graveyard, where Lisa and Tyler stay behind to destroy the demon, sending Abby and Sean away. Some side stories include Lisa and Audra going shopping together, Allyson nagging Mike to train her too and trying to prove herself worthy through various humorous displays, and Marian and Lucy humorously crossing paths.
10. Crash
Opening: Tyler by the pier. He is alone. Rachel puts a hand on his shoulder and he begins to cry and turns to his dead mother as she enfolds him in her arms. As she calms him, he asks her, “What will things be like, if I was just left alone?” Rachel pauses before answering. “You’d do just fine. But you will never be left alone.” Opening credits and we’re taken back to a week ago, as Sean drives Abby home from the graveyard, trying to explain that the incident in the last episode wasn’t her fault, without revealing the truth behind the matter. As the camera focuses on Sean, who turns to flash a winning smile at Abby and opens his mouth to speak, there is a quick scene change to outside the car where Sean’s car is sideswiped by a black Mitsubishi Lancer. Cut to Samuel socializing at his parents’ party, trying to pick up girls. The Baxter parents are laughing and toasting champagne glasses when a flustered caterer comes up to Mr. Baxter and tells him he has a phone call. “It’s about your son.” The Thornhills, whom the Baxters were talking to, continue in conversation until the caterer informs them that their daughter was mentioned. Cut to Tyler and Lisa back at the graveyard, dusting off their hands after having taken care of the demon. She leans on a grave stone and smiles at him and they both start laughing about how ridiculous the battle had been (more humorous than serious fighting). Tyler teases Lisa and she punches him in the arm and he hits back. They continue to rough house when Lisa is pinned on the ground by Tyler. They stop laughing. Tyler’s phone rings. Cut to hospital. Lisa and Tyler run into the waiting room to see a gaunt Monica Baxter and a drunk Erik Baxter. The Thornhills sit quietly on the couch, staring straight ahead, but Erik is pacing and screaming how he never should have sent Sean to Switzerland in the first place where they drive like madmen. Sean is in critical, as it was his side that was hit, but Abby miraculously only has a few bumps and bruises and is just in an exam room for a checkup. Cut to exam room. Abby’s head is down. She has a bandage around her arm among other minor injuries. She looks sad and worried. A doctor comes in and shuts the door. She frowns up at him. “I don’t need any pain killers, Doctor.” FAST SUMMARY: Tyler sees Abby, gives her a hug, she’s in tears from the experience and says she’s sorry for everything she’d ever done to push him away or make him angry, and he apologizes too. Jordan walks in on them hugging and looks awkward and jealous a moment until Abby talks to him and reassures him that he’s the only one in her eyes. Sean remains in critical for the rest of the episode. A distraught Lisa attempts a healing spell but it’s disturbed when Abby walks in the room and she accidentally and unwittingly links all three of them psychically. All of a sudden, Lisa becomes wary of Abby, though can’t place it, and Sean opens his eyes, Lisa’s healing spell apparently a success. Audra runs in and gives him a hug, to which Sean reminds her, “Easy, babe, I bruise easily these days!” She then assures him he’s in deep trouble for almost making her display a sign of emotion and hits him with her purse before storming out. Unable to stay away for long, and realizing he can’t walk to storm out after her, and being Audra, she runs back into the room, hugs him again, and apologizes.
11. Super Audra
Tyler and co. fight a Goliath of a monster who seems invincible until Lisa looks him up and realizes his weakness is right between his eyes. Pulling your regular Biblical story, Tyler goes up to Sean and tells him, “We have to go.” “Where?” “We’ll need stones. Lots and lots of stones.” Upon hearing this, Audra is convinced she knows where these two disappear off to all the time (“Oh! Stones! I get it! My cousin Rick went to jail for selling that stuff. Mom hates it when I bring him up at the dinner table.”). Sean opens his mouth to tell her she’s wrong, thinks better of it, rolls his eyes and pats her on the head before he leaves with Tyler. Sad and alone, once again, Audra stumbles across her own adventure. While her friends battle the big bad, Audra fights the little ones, in the form of a school bully, a fraud salesperson, and even a dirty cop!
12. Lie To Me
Abby spends a lot more time with Tyler and a lot less with Jordan. Sean and Audra celebrate their one month anniversary. Allyson finds her uncle unconscious on the couch and, with 911 instructions, is able to revive him, but Lucy is called onto the scene to investigate whether or not Richard is a suitable guardian. Not wanting to change houses again, Allyson lies, and says “he just choked on a french fry, it’s no big deal.” Mike gets locked out of his house and tries to find a way back in. Lucy sees him trying to climb through his window and throws her bag at him, thinking him a thief. Tyler and Abby go to an amusement park, where she kisses him. Jordan leaves a dozen missed calls on Abby’s cell phone before giving up and calling Lisa to ask her what she’s doing. He relates his concern to her and as she comforts him, he kisses her. Unnerved, Lisa explains to Jordan that she’s not the one he wants to be kissing– Abby is. Abby returns and finally returns Jordan’s call. He asks her where she was, she replies that she was studying and had to shut off her phone. She asks what he did all day, he tells her he was writing.
13. Priorities
Abby begins to act and dress differently, pleasing Tyler but scaring Jordan. Lisa share’s Jordan’s concern and confides that she’s felt something’s been ‘off’ about Abby since the accident. As they’re discussing this in Allyson’s room, waiting for Tyler to come home, Allyson firmly agrees that something must be done about Abby. Lisa informs Mike of her worries and he asks her if she thinks it’s demonic, to which she replies she doesn’t know. Abby and Tyler play hookie from school as she takes him to the “Old Haunted House” on Windward Drive where she continues to seduce him. (“They call it haunted, because it changes. A stairway that leads to nowhere, a window in the ceiling, it might not be there tomorrow. Things like these you have to experience while you can, and enjoy while they last.”) In the meantime, Marian hires a demon hit man to deliver Jordan alive to her and Tyler is forced to save him. Realizing reluctantly that he’s the bearer of the Amber Stone, he warns Jordan to stay out of trouble after saving his life. Jordan, wanting to fight with Tyler, but being a quiet diplomat is unable to, slumps, agrees, and goes home. Mike warns Tyler about Abby, but he chooses to ignore it.
14. Last Chance Gulch
In an attempt at an ambitious spell to make all facades fade away and have Abby be seen for what she is, Lisa accidentally casts a spell where everyone is honest with each other. Sean tells Audra how he feels about her, Audra tells him she has a headache, Jordan tells Abby he misses her, Abby surprises herself by saying she misses him too, Lucy tells Mike to ask her out already, Richard tells Allyson why he’s always drinking. Abby realizes she has to stay away from Tyler and runs, but is intercepted by Sean who tries to reason with her and she cries, damming him the whole while. Lisa finds them and accuses Abby of not being what she appeared to be and telling her to stay away from Tyler. Defensive at first, Sean sticks up for Abby, who’s still crying, but she pushes him aside and beats Lisa up, warning her to keep her mouth shut. When Tyler finds them, both Sean and Lisa are unconscious. Lisa wakes up first and he demands to know who hurt them. But when Lisa tells him it was Abby, he refuses to believe her with a denial so strong, it breaks the spell. Tyler runs. We see Abby go to Marian at the end of the episode and tell her everything is going well.
15. Run Don’t Hide
Rachel tries to convince Tyler to listen to reason as he watches the sunset on the beach. But he refuses. He hides away from his friends at Ocean Shores in a motel room and begins to work as a pool boy. There, he meets a stripper, Libby, a thrill seeker who ran away from home at thirteen. When they are attacked, Tyler’s protective instinct kicks in and he realizes that Libby holds the Crimson Stone. Unfortunately, his stamina impaired by the alcohol he and Libby had consumed earlier, he’s forced to watch her die as the demon bounty hunter named Jacobs drowns her and takes the stone. Sober at 3:00AM that morning, he talks to his mother before realizing he has to go home and back to his responsibilities, which he realized he couldn’t escape from. Upon his homecoming, he’s stone cold and resolved to accept that Abby is a Kreech.
16. Child’s Play
Tired of always being told she was too young, Allyson confesses her annoyances to a demon her own age who, to please her, makes all the adults act like children. At first, Allyson is thrilled, but it takes an encounter with Marian’s runaway vampire pet to show her that adults say these things for a reason. She and her demon friend Salia, embark on trying to turn the city back to normal. Meanwhile, Sean and Audra act like bickering fiver year olds. Tyler bullies a defenseless Jordan until Sean intervenes, and the three of them are best friends again. Joined by Lisa the tomboy, the delinquents decide to wreak havoc on Seattle. They’re followed around by an eager Audra who wants to play too, but Sean refuses to let her because she’s a girl, to which Lisa responds “I’m a girl!” and they all laugh and she pouts. Mike, who had been telling Lucy that she was too young for him earlier in the episode, has fun raiding his own kitchen with her for cookies. Marian accidentally lets her pet vampire off its leash to exercise and Abby finds herself looking for a friend in a big city.
17. Creature Darkness
While hanging out at the Old Haunted House one day to try and figure out Abby’s game, something prickles Tyler’s spine. He finds a door that wasn’t there before and, pulling Sean along, explores it to find that the house isn’t haunted, it’s alive. And it’s pissed. Earlier, Sean had tried to carve his name into the wall and the Windward House wanted revenge. As the house shifts to confuse them and Sean and Tyler get lost in its madness as it tries to devour them, Lisa finds Tyler’s cell phone on the steps and tries to reason with the house telepathically. Once the beast is soothed, it spits out Tyler and Sean, both looking frightened and disheveled. Lisa smiles down at them triumphantly. “Hi, guys.” Meanwhile, Abby tries to grasp this growing monster inside of her as it tries to swallow her in sympathy for the ones she’s been sent out to kill. She argues with a split personality about how there is no right and wrong, only weak and powerful.
18. The Price of Power
The bounty hunter who killed Libby is now in Seattle and after Allyson and Jordan for a nearly complete set. But Tyler’s not ready to let him take them. However, it’s by fighting Jacobs that Tyler learns the location of the Jade Stone. “After your little brat and the boy, all I need is to take down Queen Kreech and I’ll be the most powerful human in existence!” Tyler kills Jacobs and tries to take the Crimson Stone, but finds his body incapable of holding it. It leaves, and drifts, to find a new host elsewhere. Confused, he asks Mike, who explains that the Guardian was never meant to house the stones, but protect them. It keeps the Guardian from trying to seek out the stones for himself. Meanwhile, Audra infuriates her parents by bringing Sean home for dinner. Abby watches all of this, keeping a particularly close eye on Sean and Tyler, and finds herself longing once again for Tyler’s embrace. She feuds with Marian and splits from her control, going rogue officially.
19. When You Used To Laugh
Abby has a conversation with the Windward House and is caught by Tyler, who immediately draws his weapons. They fight, but Abby’s words are more biting than her actions. She threatens Jordan, and thus Tyler keeps a closer eye on him, thereby neglecting his sister whom Abby steals instead and threatens to toss into the Sound. Having flashbacks of Libby, Tyler freaks and fights Abby furiously and nearly loses Allyson to the water, but saves her in the nick of time. But he realizes with Abby’s extra mental abilities and enhanced strength, he will need a lot more training before he can finally defeat her.
20. With Or Without You
With Tyler preoccupied with his Mental Magic training, demons are running rampant on the street, harassing humans and trying to destroy the world (the usual). Seeing this, Sean realizes something has to be done, and so takes up arms and tries– and fails– to do Tyler’s job as he balances his school work, his parents, and his relationship with Audra, which has grown more and more demanding. Completely stressed out, he explodes at Audra for continuously nagging him and never listening and calls her naive. Hurt, she breaks off the relationship and Sean has never felt more alone in his life. Lucky for him, he has a friend in Allyson, an eager young sidekick who’s willing to help out on both personal and demon hunting fronts. But she, like Sean, has to ask the question: training is important, yes, but is Tyler becoming obsessed with destroying Abby and Marian? But in an instance of near death, Sean is saved not by Allyson, or Tyler, but by Abby, who surprises herself in the task and swiftly runs.
21. Not A Hero Part I
Sean gets tired of Tyler hiding away at Mike’s house day in, day out, and decides to tell him about it. Mike reluctantly lets Sean sit with Tyler as he meditates, Lisa in the room reading a book. Unable to snap Tyler out of his meditation, he turns to Lisa and begins a fight. The feud snaps Tyler awake and he glares at Sean, infuriating him and sending him outside, where Abby has cut the breaks to his car. After Sean crashes into a tree to stop his car and falling unconscious, Abby abducts him. After finding out what happened, Mike explains its best this way, calling Sean a distraction, and now, he could distract Abby while they destroyed Marian. Furious with his callous decision, Tyler rebels, proclaiming Sean is alive, and that he will save him. It’s time for he and Lisa to pool their magic together to be able to find one boy in a big city. Meanwhile, Jordan wonders where Abby’s gone with Audra, as Audra wonders why Sean hasn’t called her back.
22. Not A Hero Part II
Abby continues to blame Sean for her madness, and believes the only way to destroy it is to destroy Sean in the most gruesome way imaginable. The more she tortures him, the more her mental state seems to deteriorate. While scrying with Lisa, Tyler picks up her fragmented mental signal and figures out where she is. As he leaves, Mike apologizes. Tyler walks out without forgiving him, but Lisa hesitates a moment, smiles at her father and tells him that if he really wants to make it up to Tyler, to come with them. While Tyler, Lisa and Mike go to save Sean, Allyson tries to sneak out of the house to join, but gets a mouthful from her uncle, and it’s the first time he ever hits her. In the end, Abby begs to be killed. But Tyler, who had prepared so long for this moment, is thrown for a loop when he finds himself inside her head, unknowingly seperating Kreech Abby from the real Abby. But he's jolted out of it when Sean comes up behind him and bashes her head in with a chair. Sean and Tyler don't exchange a word. He then hops on a plane and doesn’t tell Tyler where he’s going. Alone now without his two best friends, Tyler returns home alone. Fade out on the house. (Final Song, “Wake Up” by Coheed and Cambria).
END SEASON ONE
Oct. 5th, 2006 @ 09:09 pm
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For those of you who don't follow, Guardian is the concept tv show I'vebeen working on for a year now. I've physically written an "episodeguide" (or brief outlines for episodes of a season) for two seasons ofthis prospective show, as well as one and a half full length episodes(the finale to season one).
So what's my update?
Simply this.
Ihave been tossing an idea around in my head for a while of killing amajor character of the series. Not JUST for the sake of killing, ofcourse (though that is part of it) but for a nifty plot device.
Iwas telling Marise, though, that it would hard for me to kill my owncreated character like that. I have trouble when characters I adore onTV shows get killed all the time (one might remember rants on ER'sLucy, Angel's Fred, and recently Full Metal Alchemist's Maes Hughes).So killing one of my OWN CREATED favorite characters is even harder.
Butnonetheless, it needs to be done, if only to emphasize the fact that noone is immortal, particularly in the dangerous lives my charactersleave (as lame as it sounds, think Dawson's Creek meets Buffy theVampire Slayer is the basic premise if I've never told you about theshow.)
After watching Clerks for the first time today, alittle time with Kevin Smith made me realize the PERFECT way to killoff this character that would both get my point across (one I also willnot get into here as it's long) AND provide convenient plots forfurther episodes.
Planning this show on a six season schedule(so I'm optimistic that it'll even run that long, but face it, I'moptimistic coming up with it at all, aren't I?), I've basically plottedout the entire series, however vaguely. Like I said, I've specificallyplanned out seasons one and two episode by episode, but for example Iknow the villain in season three, and major side plots/romances thatwill develope.
SEASON ONE
MainPlot: Abby becomes a Kreech and at first works for Marion, then goesrogue when a spell Lisa cast that connects Lisa, Abby and Sean togetheron a spiritual level drives the kreech in Abby mad. KreechAbby kidnapsSean and tortures him in order to find out why she feels pain/guilt forkilling the real Abby. The more she hurts Sean, the more her mentalability deteriorates until Tyler and Lisa come to the rescue and putAbby into a coma.
Relationships: Jordan/Abby/Tyler, Audra/Sean, slight Lucy/Mike
Subplots:Tyler gets over his parents' deaths by talking with a ghost of Rachel,his mother, which is really just his subconscious. Individual episodedigressions include a ghost that haunts Sean's pool, a house that'salive, Tyler's sabatical to the coast, the entire cast reverting tosix-year-olds, and the cast switching bodies with one another.
SEASON TWO
MainPlot: Mike hides half his daughter's identity from her by not tellingher everything she should know about her mother. Marion tries to coaxLisa to her side and succedes momentarily, but only out of spite forMike, and when her father comes through and proves he loves herregardless of anything, she betrays Marion and destroys her for good.Mostly the episode will deal with Mike's glory days and the secrets hekeeps.
Relationships: Lisa/Johnny, Logan/Audra, Jordan/Molly
Subplots:Lucy gets addicted to cocain, Johnny and Sean have a constant rivalryupon his shakey return mid-season, Abby's in a coma, Allyson is gettingbeaten by Richard. Individual episode digessions include a half-ghostnurse, Lisa looking for a job, cracks about Mike being a weddingplanner, an entirely animated episode, Lisa befriending a poltergeist,and Sean getting turned into a cat and complaining about it.
SEASON THREE (will be less specific with characters even I haven't fleshed out yet)
MainPlot: The crew become aware of a government organization called DIC, orDemon Intelligence Corps (lots of cracks about the acronym are made),which are after controlling the demon population and obtaining thestones for defense purposes. They abduct Allyson, Jordan and Johnny inclassic MIB alien-abduction fashion, making all of Seattle temporarilybelieve in ET. Tyler and Lisa head a rescue mission to retrieve hissister and her boyfriend ( And what the hell, we'll get Jordan too --Tyler).
Relationships (gets sticky): Johnny/Lisa/Tyler/Abby, Molly/Jordan, Audra/Sean, Lucy/Mike
Subplots:Abby awakes from her coma with inherrited kreech abilities, Tylerfinally steals Allyson away from Richard, Allyson who's now in HS feelsthe pressure of popularity, Sean developes HIV, and the infamous wizardSimon appears at long last.
Deaths: Johnny Rockwood
SEASON FOUR (even less specific)
MainPlot: To be honest, I'm still working on it. Vaguely some cult leadingdemon bent on destroying all of humanity (no interest in the stonesmuch, just killing)
Relationships: Abby/Tyler/Lisa, Jordan/Molly*, Audra/???, Simon/Allyson's gym teacher (NOT Allyson herself)
Subplot:Allyson developes anorexia, Audra deals with Sean's HIV by ignoring it,Simon comes out of the closet (literaly and metaphorically) and datesAllyson's male gym teacher
Deaths: (???)
SEASON FIVE
Main Plot: Also still working on it. Ideas welcome
Relationships: Mike/Lucy, Abby/Tyler*, Audra/Sean*, Molly/Amy
Subplot:More hanging out at the convenience store Lisa works at, fightingbetween relationships, Molly's a bisexual, Lisa still in love withTyler, Simon blows up the high school, Allyson begins magic training,lighter season in general until the end
Deaths: Lisa Rivers
SEASON SIX (final season)
MainPlot: Ares, the God of War (really a demon worshiped by Greeks AS theGod of War) and creater of all the stones, wants them back. How do theyfight a demon who claims to be older than time itself?
Relationships: BEGINNING: Mike/Lucy, Jordan/Audra, Molly/Amy END: Jordan/Molly*, Tyler/Abby*, Audra/Sean
Subplots:Mike deals with his daughter's death with Lucy's help, Richard becomesclean and makes it up to his charges, Audra and Sean see it throughSean's full-blown AIDS together, Tyler grieves for lost opportunitieswith Lisa like he did with his mother, Allyson shoots someone.
Thedeath in question is, of course, Lisa's. How does she die? Quickly.What plot devices arrive? Plenty of magic for the final season infighting Ares, believe it or not. But I won't go into it here, notnow.**
And I'm spent for the night.
**Inthe unlikely event that you're interested beyond the information Ipresent in my LiveJournal, I.E you want to be one of my idea monkies(positions currently occupied however unwillingly by Marise Ghoraryeband Abby Thornhill), please do send me a comment.
Oct. 5th, 2006 @ 08:26 pm
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INTRODUCTION: I've blah-blah-blahed about thisbefore, though y'all probably don't remember seeing as A) it was longago and B) nobody cares. But this is an excerpt from the season finaleof a TV show I'm drafting. I'm posting it on here on the off chancethat someone (*cough*Marise*cough*) will read it and maybe say, "Hey,that wasn't as bad as the other crap you write" or maybe "Dude, WTF wasthat? What's this thing again? I don't get it!" (a response I wouldexpect from someone of Sara's mentality or lower... Scratch that, youcan't get lower than Sara's mentality). And without further ado, adialogue between Audra Ellis and Jordan Kane from the episode Not A Hero Part II from the TV series draft, Guardian 5.EXT. ELLIS GATES Audra throws an egg on a passing jeep. JORDAN Ha! Take that, vegan! AUDRA Yeah, go back to Vegas! JORDAN Audra, this is great! See what happens when you get out, stop worrying about things? AUDRA What if I miss Sean's call? JORDAN Then let him gripe about it to Tyler long distance from Switzerland, OK, you dont need him! Jordan throws an egg at a passing car. The sound of angry shouting fades of into the distance. AUDRA I do need him, Jordan. I've never been so dependant on someone in my life. My friends hate him. JORDAN Like that didn't encourage you. Throws another egg. AUDRA My parents hate him. JORDAN All the better. AUDRA I think even my cat, Shellfish hates him. JORDAN(after throwing another egg) You have a cat? AUDRA (shrugging) Horace takes care of him in the servants' quarters. JORDAN You named it Shellfish? AUDRA Im allergic to both. Audra eggs a passingcar. JORDAN Let me get this straight. Everyone hates him, andthat only makes you love him more. His friends hate you, and that onlymakes you loathe them more. So if you dump him, then everyone-- AUDRA Will still hate me. I know what you're thinking.You think that if Sean and I break up the world will continue to spin,and my friends will accept me back with open arms, and Sean will goback to his happy little life and everything will be punky dory. Well,my poor little nerd friend, since you've never been popular, you dontknow how things work around Truman High. My girlfriends will avoid melike the plague because I am now "tainted." Whatever temporary madnessthat took me over in that second I said yes to Sean Baxter may still bein my blood, and they want nothing to do with it. As for Sean'sfriends, not only did I date the poor loser, but I broke his heart.They won't be very receptive to me. In short, I am a social outcast,which not even my money can buy me out of. She pauses, then eggs a passing convertible, with a loud scream and the sound of tires screeching anda loud thump. AUDRA Didn't you hear me the first time? I'm completely dependant on him. SEAN (in awe) Nice shot. AUDRA (nodding) Let’s get drunk.
Oct. 5th, 2006 @ 08:24 pm
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Santiago said to me the other day (and before I forget, this post has nothing to do with honesty, I'm listening to The Spill Canvas) that I was lucky. It was in the middle of a conversation and I was just like, "what?" And he said, "You know what you want to do with your life."
The conversation we'd been having was me talking about how I want to go to Lewis and Clark, and then possibly grad school at USC (in the California area, not the south, Adam dear). The grad school was a decision I'd just sort of made there on the spot, though I'd thought about it before hand. I was fantasizing about majoring in writing for film, with a minor in teaching (though not an English class, I'd die). And then I'd go to USC, take some directing/producing/film courses, wrap up my writing thing there too, and try and work on my television show concept. And if that fell through, we talked about self-producing it on public cable and he made the point of, "If it's good SOME producer will want to buy it." And after THAT I'd take my shot at writing an inventive cartoon show for kids, one that DOESN'T undermine their intelligence, like the cartoons of old, S.W.A.T. Kats, Johnny Quest and the like.
Yeah, I can understand why he'd call me lucky, it sounds like I'd given it a lot of thought-- this was me spouting out something random that happened to sound good. The thing about me is, I always have good IDEAS that never turn out well when put into action, or onto paper for that matter, as most of my failed novels and short stories will tell you.
And then again...
Then again...
OK it's been no secret that I've been a prolific fan fiction writer. Ever since seventh grade I've been writing (at times, in the beginning especially, abominably-- i look back at that shit and cry) for things like Charmed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, ER, TNMT, Teen Titans, among other random bursts of ideas. It's the one thing I never lose passion for-- writing a series of continuous stories with the same characters. So oddly enough, it only occurred to me recently to do this with MY OWN characters and my OWN premise. That's how Guardian was born. A project I've been not-so-secretly working on since summer and am still totally interested in.
The primary character in my show, Tyler, came to me sitting at a Chinese restaurant in DC this past August... I was thinking about a variety of shows I like to watch on TV and this renegade demon hunter came into my head like it was something unique (I know, it's not). But I shaped an entire back story to him, added quirks that made him different, made relationships for him (his sister, his two girls, his best friend, his ex best friend, his mentor, his worst enemy, etc.)
Recently I sat down and planned what would happen in an entire season and I actually did it. I have summaries for twenty-two episodes that advance an overall storyline AND define the characters. I've written three quarters of a pilot episode, and about a quarter of the finale. I've bounced ideas off of bright individuals who eagerly gave me their input. I actually got OTHER people excited about what I was doing, which doesn't happen often. Even Layne has given me cute little ideas for her OWN created character which I happened to adore upon hearing about her. Abby points out plotholes to me, Santiago provides me with witty jokes ("What's with you, you're either taciturn or laconic!" "Those mean the same thing." "... Exactly, there's no alternative for you!"), Marise gives me input about what's unique and what's overdone, what makes sense, what's crazy.
For once, I haven't gotten bored about a topic. I'm not constrained by having to focus on one storyline, I have plenty of stand alone tangent episodes that I just thought would be funny or interesting. And granted, some of the standalones have been done in EVERY show, but that's what the first season is about-- putting the characters in generic instances in order to see how they'd respond, in order to develope them. Season TWO is where the unique situations come in.
Which I've started thinking of. Season two.
I'm writing the finale right now so I can send it to Marise, who saw one scene from it already... It's nifty. Some scenes I look over and think "I need to rewrite those" but generally, I'm proud of my stories and the way they come across, at least on paper.
I really want to continue this.
Another thing, if this was any of my other big projects, I'd be worried about ranting about it here because generally when I do that, I lose interest (something about losing the "mystery" or whatever mumbo jumbo you want). But... I've ranted to people so often about it and I STILL haven't stopped working on it, I felt it was safe to tell the LiveJournal community about it.
Even if not a single episode gets cast or filmed, I will be so happy to complete an entire season of scripts for this show.
Oct. 5th, 2006 @ 08:13 pm
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13.INT. LOCAL RESTAURANT
Tyler is sitting at a booth across from Lisa and Mike.
TYLER
So I'm this Guardian guy.
LISA
Exactly.
TYLER
And Mars was real.
MIKE
Sort of. Kinda legend.
TYLER
So he wasn't real.
LISA
You'd be surprised how many legends are true.
TYLER
So he was real.
MIKE
Who's to say he no longer is?
TYLER
What?
LISA
Forget Roman Gods, kid, and focus on the now. Your house was blown up for a reason.
TYLER
Right. Um, and what was that again?
MIKE
You're involved a serious battle now, Reed. A war that's been going on for centuries.
TYLER
War. Centuries. What does this have to do with me again?
LISA
You're this generation's Guardian.
TYLER
And what do I do again?
MIKE (sighing)
Listen,Reed. Those stones, they exist, and as they get older, they only growmore powerful. If they could blow up a man from the inside out anddestroy a temple 2000 years ago, what do you think they could do today?
TYLER
But no one knows about these things.
MIKE
Almost everyone in the demon world does. As does the odd greedy human who wants it to sell or to use. Demon bounty hunters--
TYLER
Like you.
MIKE
Yes, like me. We know what they are because that's what everyone's after.
TYLER
Uh huh... Demons are real.
LISA
Yes.
TYLER
And you are one.
LISA
Half-blood, thanks.
TYLER
And you're, what, fifteen?
LISA
Twenty-One, you half-wit!
MIKE
Can we stay on task?
TYLER
You blew up my house.
MIKE
Didn't do it.
LISA
Marion did.
TYLER
Who?
MIKE
She's the head honcho of a Kreech nest right here in our hometown.
TYLER
And a Kreech is a demon.
LISA
Kreechesare these ugly little worm-like things about a few inches long. Theywriggle their way into a host's ear to control them with their hugeamount of extra mental abilities. ESP stuff. They're hard to find intheir raw form, but if you can find them, they're very vulnerable.
MIKE
They feed on their host's brain until lack of nourishment forces them out.
LISA
Except Marion. That girl's been a host for, what, twenty years did you say, Dad?
TYLER
Who's who's dad?
MIKE (smiling at Tyler)
We don't like to identify with each other much.
LISA
Brooks is an alias. Real name's Rivers.
TYLER (muttering)
Figures.
MIKE
Theywanted to kill you because they figured out you were the Guardianbefore we did. And there's a period of time of about a year until thenext Guardian is activated. They were hoping to buy more time.
LISA
Instead they just made themselves a new enemy.
TYLER
OK. So demons are real.
MIKE (growls)
I thought we went over this.
LISA
Like seven times.
MIKE
Demonsis just a word us humans have given these creatures. Remember that.Darwin was right. As animals evolved, there were branches off of thehuman evolutionary track that led to grotesque anomalies withincredibly high intelligence. Not knowing how to deal with thesedeformed creatures, humanity shunned them, calling them "demons fromhell," captured in religious art and literature. I'm sure you've readDante's Inferno.
TYLER
Was that a movie?
LISA (to Tyler)
Never got it either.
MIKE (with a sigh, ignoring them)
Butas mankind evolved into the techno-man we are today, these creaturesrealized that they flourished best out of humanity's way, becauseotherwise they were persecuted and hunted. The witch trials, vampireslayers...
LISA
Poor things, and all they wanted was to coexist.
MIKE
Eventually,living in the dark made these creatures evolve further. I don't knowthe science behind it but in my opinion, the lack of light alteredtheir brains, driving them to darker deeds as they lost most of whathumans call morals or conscience. As they grew smarter, they sawhumanity as growing weaker, and soon they want to walk into the lightagain and reclaim the earth. But to do so, they will need the grandestweapon ever invented... the Chaos Stones. And that's where you come in,kid.
TYLER (burying his head in his hands)
I could have beena cool CIA agent, but no, I'm a protector of a thing that destroys theworld and I don't know where it is. Damn my luck.
LISA
Believe me, you'll be damning a lot more of that when we're through with you.
Oct. 5th, 2006 @ 07:42 pm
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