Post by Sam Winchester on Dec 31, 2012 19:36:36 GMT -5
Yo, Sam Winchester here.
So we're this close to being done with 2012 (well, for USAers anyway) and I've decided to put up this list of my top five favorite scripts of 2012.
Why five?
Because five is chocolate. Nice and smooth around the edges, it tallies up my favorite scripts.
Alrighty, then, here goes, in my opinion, the best scripts I have read in Righters Untie! for the year 2012.
5. Pulse - The Things We Have, The Things We've Lost - Written by ChilledDC
The Pilot for Pulse was a great piece of sci-fi romp. In fact, I remember describing it as a more brainy, challenging Revolution, which was high praise, but the second episode was better. It continued the threads the Pilot left off in a way I wasn't expecting. Some characters that didn't click before now had a whole different dimension to them. They had depth. This is the second script that I have read from ChilledDC and it didn't dissapoint. It did, however, set the bar up for the rest of the Pulse episodes that follow.
4. Inferno - Pilot - Written by Jester (Pele Hearne)
Jester isn't new to RU, per se. He has, however, been one of the most recent members who's created a name and trademark for his scripts. It's easy to detect a Jester script. The complex backgrounds, the challenging narrative, melodramatic characters and character motives. Driven by his love for David Bowie and dramatics, Jester knows how to tell a story to the way of his liking. Which is why it's no surprise that the Pilot to his most recent show, Inferno, is in my top favorite scripts of 2012. With a character that I adored, to the subtle horror surrounding him, Inferno was surreal, meticulous and religious without being biased. It was a read, neither light nor breezy, but instead strange and allusive.
3. Oddity - Pilot - Written by Ceb (Collin Brown)
Ceb's "stoner" (in quotations, because technically no one got stoned... in screen) felt like a mixture between Paul and The Inbetweeners, with a hint of some Starman for good measure (and I love me some Starman). It was Ceb's purest work, through and through, from his offbeat comedy to the equally colorful characters, Oddity was an updated entree in the science-fiction/teenage comedy genre that I wished we saw more of. I remembered reading the second episode, and although I preferred the Pilot to it, I still hope it continues through some way. I wanted to see where our characters ended. There were early signs of having a space opera intertwine with normal, teenager problems. I do like me some intergalactic/puberty storylines.
2. Indefinitely Delayed - Issues - Written by Daz (Dale Murrell)
I love Indefinitely Delayed. I think it's Daz's opus, thus far. It has heart, dark comedy, great characters, a strangely alluring mystery and a setting that I find myself wanting to return to when I click on the script link. Unfortunately, it's been a while since I've done that, but here's hoping that Daz really does release the last two episodes of this incredible comedy series. This episode was my favorite episode since the Pilot. The dialogue went from melancholic to absolutely colorful. The show manages to maintain a very strong sad undertone, but not enough for it to bleed through the show and make the whole thing a downer. It's perfectly balanced, perfectly kept, that I can't help put this episode and show high up in my list of favorite scripts of 2012. This script also has the best third-act in a script under 33 pages in RU history. Please, Daz, as one writer to another, release the last two goddamn episodes.
So there we have it.
My favorite scripts of 2012.
Kidding.
There's one more left, of course. My number one script of RU for the year of 2012. It's been a lovely year for RU this year. I felt we've had great times in the chatbox and in threads. RUM was awesome, the awards thing was super cool. I can't wait to see how RU evolves in 2013. I'm sure we'll have new premieres I can read and criticize like the arrogant fuck that I am and other goodies we can munch on. But anyway, here is, in my opinion, the greatest script of 2012.
Black Skies at Night - Devil's Delight, Pt. 1 & 2 - Written by Dean Winchester (Edward Brereton)
There isn't another show like this in RU. There hasn't been and there probably won't be. It's a a deep fried, Southern-Gothic, religious show set in down yonder in Alabama with a tortured man in the front. What makes this Pilot rich, though, besides the gray-moral areas that leaves you to question, "Is Jacob guilty? Isn't he?" is the incredible dialogue. I know it's a little cheap having the first two parts that make the Pilot one as, well, one, but it's the only way to read the thing. The story doesn't just open up ready for you to leap in and roll along. You have to pay attention, make sure that detail you heard was correct, that this world, although ours, isn't really like ours. Like the New Testament of the Bible, you feel something dark looming, an apocalyptic undertone that makes you question what you believe.
Beautifully written, visually dazzling even through words, Black Skies at Night is for me, without a doubt, the best script of 2012.
Please write down yours or don't. I can't tell you what to do - but I can tell you this:
Happy New Years.
See y'all at the other side, brothers.
