Post by jakob on Oct 11, 2017 0:29:23 GMT
The origins of these ideas, whether they came from me or someone else I may or may not explain, but both are concepts for a television series inspired by a novel. Pick the version of the story you would most like to see and why. Harsh criticism is welcomed.
Both are set far into the future in which the Earth has been abused by humanity, that we've become "enlighted", but instead of fixing Earth, we've moved everyone off of it and started anew on a separate, cleaner planet. Both feature a vital main character. Both have the same general theme of "we can't erase our human history".
Story A: On Earth, a duo of anthropologists working like WALL-E, have discovered the key to time travel and plan to escape to the time people left Earth so that they aren't the abandoned ones anymore. They wind up in Holocaust times and escape, while accidentally taking back with them a kid/teenager who was a concentration camp victim. They make it to the time of takeoff and travel to the new enlightened planet. Years pass and the trio have grown to be capable explorers, the kid, now an Earth historian, set themselves for planetary exploration. They don't make it to their destination though, as en route through their journey, they are shot down and crash land on a planet... run by Nazis, where they are taken prisoner. Through their accidental meddling through time travel, they had allowed these Nazis to escape to the future as well and begin a planet of their own.
Story B: On the enlightened planet, decades after arrival, our new world leaders hire a group of 5-7 anthropologists and an Earth historian to check on Earth's resources to examine how the planet has benefited (or the opposite) since we left. They bond/clash on their trip. We juxtapose storyline A with a storyline B involving a young boy planning an escape from the concentration camp. Storyline A characters fly from continent to continent, calculating Earth's oxygen, gravity, etc. They are shot down in a snowy wasteland and taken prisoner by what appear to be creatures that have inhabited Earth, but who we discover are actually people we left behind, who have formed their own society led by a ruthless Immortan Joe-style leader using old military technology and resources left behind. Storyline B concludes with the boy vanishing after a brush with near-death and winding up in the future at the time we are preparing to leave to the enlightened planet. We discover this boy is the historian that is now back on Earth and imprisoned again. How he traveled forward in time, we will find out.
Both are set far into the future in which the Earth has been abused by humanity, that we've become "enlighted", but instead of fixing Earth, we've moved everyone off of it and started anew on a separate, cleaner planet. Both feature a vital main character. Both have the same general theme of "we can't erase our human history".
Story A: On Earth, a duo of anthropologists working like WALL-E, have discovered the key to time travel and plan to escape to the time people left Earth so that they aren't the abandoned ones anymore. They wind up in Holocaust times and escape, while accidentally taking back with them a kid/teenager who was a concentration camp victim. They make it to the time of takeoff and travel to the new enlightened planet. Years pass and the trio have grown to be capable explorers, the kid, now an Earth historian, set themselves for planetary exploration. They don't make it to their destination though, as en route through their journey, they are shot down and crash land on a planet... run by Nazis, where they are taken prisoner. Through their accidental meddling through time travel, they had allowed these Nazis to escape to the future as well and begin a planet of their own.
Story B: On the enlightened planet, decades after arrival, our new world leaders hire a group of 5-7 anthropologists and an Earth historian to check on Earth's resources to examine how the planet has benefited (or the opposite) since we left. They bond/clash on their trip. We juxtapose storyline A with a storyline B involving a young boy planning an escape from the concentration camp. Storyline A characters fly from continent to continent, calculating Earth's oxygen, gravity, etc. They are shot down in a snowy wasteland and taken prisoner by what appear to be creatures that have inhabited Earth, but who we discover are actually people we left behind, who have formed their own society led by a ruthless Immortan Joe-style leader using old military technology and resources left behind. Storyline B concludes with the boy vanishing after a brush with near-death and winding up in the future at the time we are preparing to leave to the enlightened planet. We discover this boy is the historian that is now back on Earth and imprisoned again. How he traveled forward in time, we will find out.
