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Don
Posted: March 18th, 2018, 10:01pm Report to Moderator
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Incident At The Super Save Mart by 0 - Short, Sci Fi - After being in contact with an asteroid, Tommy must try to train the new employee Andrew.  - pdf, format

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Ahaha, I kept laughing through the whole thing.
This is too good for this challenge.

I think I know who it is. You're always funny.

Great job.
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Writing is off in places. I'll give a couple examples from the 1st page:

Code

The falling ball of fire plummets to the Earth... 



If something is plummeting it is falling.

Code

TOMMY, a pimple faced, braces wearing teenager holds a...



Braces-wearing

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A BLUE vine like



vine-like.

Code

He grabs his neck immediately
and passes out.



You mean he immediately passes out?

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Carl nods his head



Carl nods is enough.

That's from the first half page.

The action lines lack flow.

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ANDREW
Oh my God, dude. Your finger just
fall off. Are you okay?



Fell off.



Writing: 2.5
Story: 2.5

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Amusing in places ("those aren't my fingers"). Not sure why the Alien/Tommy can't tell the truth, other than the parameter. No one in the supermarket heard the asteroid crash out back?



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This was pretty funny, lol.

Absurd in all the right places, but considering the constrained parameters of your challenge you did quite well in executing.

The homo line actually made me laugh and the rest of the script had me snickering.

Very good.


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Okay - I laughed at parts and comedy is tough.

Overall  not a bad effort for a short time.

Break up your action blocks as distinct actions occur.  There were several places where they ran together making the read denser than it need be.


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I found this very funny.  I prefer this one, honestly.

I think you should have Tommy talk in a robotic or some alien-type "English is your second language" accent.

I think he has to lie to keep up appearances that he's normal and OK while they look around to see what the Earth has to offer.  

It does need a bit of a story and a reason for all this, but, after only 48ish hours and some real laugh-out-loud parts, great job.

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This started out really, really funny but then kept hitting the same note for too long. Not much of a payout with the ending and Carl wanting to be the cool boss never pays off.

But, like I said with the other script, this was a ridiculously hard challenge topic.

You started out on fire so this definitely gets the win. Nice job.


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Nicely done. A couple of solid laughs.

It's a bit one-note in the joke telling... but, hey, five pages... it's tough to get too far from any single element.

Good job.


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Some pretty obvious typos.

I really enjoyed this though. I laughed a few times and thought the writing was quite good overall.



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No sh*t, there I was....

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Was having a character named Tommy part of this head-to-head? Kidding.

Very funny. Great dialog and banter. Great ending too. Very good work for 48 hours.
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INCIDENT AT THE SUPER SAVE MART
Great OPENING for sci-fi. Love the opening!
Ya dig? Love this
Really great dialogue in this. Good job!
Omg lol at dude your ear just fell off.
Very funny all the way through. GREAT job.
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Invasion of the body snatchers with jokes, okay I'll go with that, decent effort,


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This was great. I was laughing the whole time. Goofy and outrageous. Good job.
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As Anthony said, it's basically invasion of the body snatchers with sight gags.

Granted, there are laughs here, but they're obvious. Body parts falling off, mostly.

Again, if I'm looking for the boxes, sci-fi - check, supermarket, check - not sure about the lying part.

Hate to be the stick in the mud here, but denying is not the same as lying.

Kant said that lying is predicated on everyone else telling the truth. A lie is not a lie if the lie is the norm. So liars depend on truth-tellers. From that standpoint, this script's counterpart did a better job with a key element of the challenge.

But good for you writer for eliciting some laughs with a very difficult challenge.


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