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Reef Dreamer
Posted: January 31st, 2017, 5:14pm Report to Moderator
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Being given Comedy in a OWC is a short straw. I really don't think this genre can be compared with others for ease.

To the script. This was silly, cliched, dumb.....I liked it.

Look, it is what it is. I wonder why people read too much into things like this.

It never tried to be serious, and succeeded.  


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RichardR
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Not my cup of...well...whatever.  Can't see this a a first mission, maybe a salvage crew or something.  Just me.  
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I don't really do comedy and this didn't bring me round.

The writing is fluid enough but felt like it was a porn parody, written by a bloke, with the porn currently missing... like Flesh Gordon written now.

Didn't float my boat.


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MarkRenshaw
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This read like a pisser. I do apologies if it wasn't and this was a serious attempt at comedy but it didn't work at all for me.

Lesbian Astronauts On Mars - It may not float my boat but I bet the SyFy channel would buy this off you no problem!

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Quoted from MarkRenshaw
This read like a pisser. I do apologies if it wasn't and this was a serious attempt at comedy but it didn't work at all for me.


My sentiments exactly, but I do seriously wonder if a pisser isn't simply a form of comedy?

Originally, back in the day here at SS, pissers were known to be purposely bad scripts that ere so bad, they were hilarious.  I think that has changed a bit, in that the pisser now attempts to be funny in its complete absurdity....not just in how pathetically it's written.

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I read for a few pages and then stopped. Not interested. I see what you were trying to do but not funny to me. Might have been better if the carpet munchers weren't obvious at first. Sequel titles anyone?
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Quoted from grademan
I read for a few pages and then stopped. Not interested. I see what you were trying to do but not funny to me. Might have been better if the carpet munchers weren't obvious at first. Sequel titles anyone?


Gaping black hole: The journey into the unknown?
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Here's a few more off the top of my head...

1. Revenge of The Wom's
2. First Womanned Mission 2: The Search For Penis
3. First Womanned Mission: Escape To Uranus
4. The First Womanned Mission and The Crevasses Of Venus
5. Sunspots

I could go on...


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Quoted from SAC
Here's a few more off the top of my head...

1. Revenge of The Wom's
2. First Womanned Mission 2: The Search For Penis
3. First Womanned Mission: Escape To Uranus
4. The First Womanned Mission and The Crevasses Of Venus
5. Sunspots

I could go on...


Wth is a WOM? lol and sunspots? what?

Penis (scoff)
They're women on mars and it's scary now.
There's power in butt stuff
The RED PLANET
Labia...whaaaaa?
Enter the Femme Thunderdome!




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Wom's are the aliens in this script! Lol


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Wom's are the aliens in this script! Lol


Guilty! I didn't read it yet.  

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2001 Lesbians: A Space Orgy



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Title isn't capped. Okay...?

Right out of the gate! In space, no one can hear you scream. Also, no one can tell whether it's day or night, Space is one of the few slugs that doesn't need a DAY/NIGHT indicator, especially EXT. SPACE.

SUPERIMPOSE: is usually shortened to SUPER: which saves you some white (no pun intended) space.

Also, the way you're using it is a substitute for INSERT TITLE. Even so, you usually leave that up to the director, unless you're directing it yourself.

"Slowly, Mars"

No need to describe; we all know what Mars looks like.


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SCARLETT, 32, butch, with a deep voice to match and two
glasses of vodka into her own party, pilots the spacecraft.


The "two glasses of vodka into her own party" is a separate thought and should be in a separate sentence. I'd actually put it in the next paragraph. An action line (and especially a character intro) should rarely (read: never) be this busy.

"There she is[,] bitches."

"...reconstitutes dehydrated cucumbers in a small
kitchen sink." *Marty McFly's voice* English, Doc!


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JAMIE
What's it look like?


Is she seriously asking what Mars looks like?  


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SCARLETT
Santa's here!

JAMIE
What's he look like?

SCARLETT
He's fat, jolly, with a white beard and wears a red suit.


See where I'm going with this? Even if this is a comedy, who's that dumb? However, take Airplane! for example: "A hospital? What is it?" (meaning, what's wrong) "It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now." (meaning, what is a hospital?) That's more of an example of misdirection.

However, you did set up a nice line:


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SCARLETT
Big and red, like Kim's ass.


Are you writing Kim for Rebel Wilson?

"Oh[,] you'd like that."


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SCARLETT
Look at the chore board.


Hell, even in space, you have to do chores?!   Fuck that!  


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Jamie glances over to see her name filled for every chore
everyday. She shakes her head.


Now you know how I feel!

Nice zingers in the dialogue. You need seasoned comedians and/or comedic actors to pull this off.

"forty[-]five degrees"


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JAMIE
I'm too pretty and young to die. I
never got a chance to feel like a
real woman.


This kind of dialogue usually doesn't work, unless you're writing an episode of Scream Queens (Great show, BTW). I can totally read this in Emma Roberts's voice!   Just borrow the Scream Queens cast, and there's your film.

A few missing commas.


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SCARLETT
Shit girl, go iron my shirt then.


*Don LaFontaine's voice* CINDERELLA... IN SPACE!  

I admit, the dialogue is pretty funny. I'm actually chuckling.

Barbie is a proper noun (and zealously protected by Mattel and an army of lawyers, as the "Barbie Girl" band Aqua knows all-too-well). Proper nouns are always capitalized.

"Mike?" as in microphone? Usually it's abbreviated mic. Mike is short for Michael.



Go Full SpongeBob on the time lapse, complete with an impression of the narrator/V.O.

A little too passive.

"Kim has fallen asleep, Scarlett is drinking [drinks] straight from
the bottle."

Are you sure you're not confusing O.S. and V.O.? I know one thing you're confusing!

"OK" or "okay," not "ok."

"Marsand"?! All this time I thought they were on Mars!

All Kim ever does is eat Cheetos. Ha ha.


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Scarlett glances over. A huge metal capsule protrudes above
the surface of the landscape.


Don't open it! Rita Repulsa might be in there.  


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JAMIE
What does this button do?


*Dexter's voice* Dee Dee, get out of my la-BOR-atory!  

Erectus? I see where this is going. I think.  

"And with that we..." Not necessary, though I see what you were doing.

Wow. Thanks for the laugh. Top notch comedy right here, outta this world (pun most certainly intended). Good job.


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Is it wrong, that I'm envisioning Tim and Eric in space ala Red Dwarf...70's porn? No. good.

Rest assured, despite what your fellow MAN has assumed, I actually did find this funny.

One it's a comedy...it can be crude and ridiculous...like this one. It's not to be taken seriously and that's not a problem for me.

This just seems like something I'd see on Adult Swim. Weird and subversive. Would I go so far as referring to this as satire...Hmm let's see

'the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.'

YUP! So kudos on you if that's the goal, but also note that it was mostly guys noting the crudeness, bc we women can take a fucking joke.
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Thanks to all the peeps that reviewed this as nothing more than a goofball comedy whether you found it funny or not.

And to all the peeps that reviewed it like was a Charles Dickens novel... it was a goofball comedy.



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