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Will Wright To Make Fan-Participation TV Show
SmarterThanMe writes "Will Wright, creator of several famous computer games beginning with 'Sim,' is involved in the production of a new TV show called 'Bar Karma.' Viewers will be heavily involved in putting forward their own storyboards that the show will then play out. Viewers also vote on the storyboards that they most like for the next episode. In effect, the viewing public collaborates with each other to create the show."
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How long until someone abuses a flaw in the voting system or simply uses a billion proxies to vote up a storyboard consisting of an elaborate episode-long orgy?
This really worked for Snakes on a plane. /s
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I don't think its going to be a winner. People have different tastes, and people with similar tastes tend to watch the same program.
So one day you're watching a soppy romantic comedy - because the majority 'vote' at the point in time likes those - and in the next episode you're going to watch the estranged lover murder a few children and throw kittens off roof tops.
So basically either a particular niche takes over the storyboard (which kinda defeats the purpose) - or the flavour/genre of this will be so erratic that few people will truly enjoy it.
Maybe Drew Carey or Clive Anderson can guest-animate.
When the foot seeks the place of the head, the line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
Maybe 4chan can wield their social sword for good and teach execs that we don't need 10 minutes of show and 22 minutes of laugh track in every episode.
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a storyboard consisting of an elaborate episode-long orgy?
Why do you say that like that is a bad thing?
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
We already do it for news, now TV shows? What's next, paying $10 to sit in front of a movie I had to help write?
This isn't a new idea - Let the Blood Run Free did this back in the 90s. You could phone in at the end of the show and choose which direction the storyline would take. Dorothy Conniving-Bitch was my favourite character mwahahahaha! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_The_Blood_Run_Free
Considering the proposed judges, I'm guessing we would be more likely to see an episode (or season even) consisting of nothing but laugh track, drowning out every other sound.
With Pedobear as the *Special*Guest*Star*.
That and boobies, naturally.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
There use to be a Dutch mystery show, like a sketch show way back when I was a child, people could call up and vote how it would end. It grabbed my attention back then, and it'll be interesting to see how someone like Will Wright could add a twist to it. Especially these days with texting or twitter.
Man: How many of you kids would like Itchy & Scratchy to deal with
real-life problems, like the ones you face every day?
Kids: [clamoring] Oh, yeah! I would! Great idea! Yeah, that's it!
Man: And who would like to see them do just the opposite -- getting
into far-out situations involving robots and magic powers?
Kids: [clamoring] Me! Yeah! Oh, cool! Yeah, that's what I want!
Man: So, you want a realistic, down-to-earth show... that's
completely off-the-wall and swarming with magic robots?
Kids: [all agreeing, quieter this time] That's right. Oh yeah,
good.
Milhouse: And also, you should win things by watching.
-- Conflicting results, "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"
Considering all the, ahem, unique....,designs in Spore I think the title of the first show will pretty much be "The Cocksons"
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I am far less excited for the actual story.
There's a *REASON* 99.9% of fan fiction doesn't get turned into the next episode. How many Lt. Mary Sue's do we really need? I think there was one rare instance where some Xena fan-fic got published as a book... that was about it.
Women writers tend to make a Han-Solo/Luke or Kirk/Spock love fest, while men tend to write stories where the hero lands on an alien planet inhabited by sex-starved babes in bikinis.
Basically it's trash writing and most of the time, it shows that most people should never even get near a keyboard.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
I miss playmania and midnight money madness they where the fun Participation shows.
Seth Green is part of a new ControlTV experiment where viewers vote on what the star of the show (Tristan) must do next.
Will, we're still waiting for simcity 5 with hulking complexity and more stuff.
This reminds me of a scene in Fahrenheit 451 where the Guy Montag's wife is is super-excited because she has been mailed the script of her favorite soap so that she can have a trivial line that she reads when the people in the "wall" ask her questions. "What do you think Mildred?" "It's swell!" Do you think it's a good idea, Mildred?" "Absolutely!" (I may have gotten the name and the dialog wrong -- but you get the idea).
"Who's there?"
*muffled* "it's the lesbians you ordered"
"Oh yay! This will be the best christmas special ever!"
Welcome back to the mid 90's! Do you think this series will be available at Blockbuster, or will I have to pirate it on AOL?
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Doesn't have a great history.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Expect a show about penises
oh wait. I forgot how boring that was. Pretty much why I stopped playing. Besides, (given that this is a gimmicky premise and will most likely not include great acting) half of the fun is not knowing what will happen in the next episode. It's a little hard to play up the suspense when people have been voting on the possible story-lines.
Why don't we all ask VH1 how this idea worked out for them?
UNIX: Find it, fsck it, forget it.
Depending upon the director, I could actually see this working out pretty well. The key is to get a TON of storyboards, and select the ones you probably would have done anyway to vote on.
Andrew Hussie has raised this technique to an artform.