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Nigel Cheats Death by Some Human Type Person - Short, Comedy - An alien encounter brings unexpected consequences for Nigel and his wife. 6 pages - pdf, format
A vorpal mimsy - never been called that before, well not in my hands...
This improved with time and the superhero part was at first weak, but then delivers. Is the bar scene needed or could that have been avoided? Not sure, it was mainly exposition, although it did work and helped set up the rest, but if this were being filmed they may wish to simplfy.
I think we could have done with some foreshadow, if his skill is now sexual attraction. And that could have been funny. But these are nick picks, it did well.
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Didn't convince me. First of all, I think this doesn't really qualify as a superhero script. Rather some satiric scifi, reminded me of a Louis de Funes film where aliens would land because they needed his cabbage soup as fuel. But this wasn't half as funny to me. It's well written and easy to read, but it didn't make me laugh.
Not bad at all. I liked your writing, descriptive. Had a good sense of place. One funny moments in there too. Just not sure of the superhero arc. I got his superpower, but he didn't right a wrong... Actually he did. Lack of sex. Overall, pretty decent. Good job here.
Not a bad little story here. His superpower though? He can turn his wife into a beautiful woman that's gagging for it? I dunno. Some funny parts but nothing amazing. Decent.
Ah, the old translator is broken gag, I do like those.
A humorous, well-written tale. I do like this, my only Bandersnatch is Nigel doesn’t seem to become a superhero. I read that but at the end as Alice returning to reward him for rescuing her, as she says vorpal mimsy. Apart from that this is a funny enjoyable rompenstompernuble.
-Mark
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Starting with the writing and forgetting the parameters of the challenge- I give it an A-plus. Very well crafted. The preciseness and the efficiency of the descriptions allowed the author to pack a whole lot of story into six pages. I am guessing that this author crushes other genres. A lot of talent. That being said - I didn't laugh. Maybe that's on me.
There was one bit of dialogue that I didn't like:
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CLOVIS You rescue an alien and they give you superpowers! Everyone knows this. A super suit! Glowing jewelry that makes ridiculous objects appear out of thin air!
Aside from being too OTN, I even question the premise - does everyone really know that when you rescue an alien they give you super powers??
Anyway - I am torn on this one - thought the writig was fabulous - the humor not quite there.
Page 1 - When you give a character description, you must set it off with commas - here you did not, and you ended this passage with an orphan (just not a good way to start).
"..the last of drop of..." - Huh? Typo?
You end Page 1 with another orphan, which in a 6 page script can be an issue.
Missing a period after "dashboard". Usually, with this many issues on Page 1, I'd be out but I'm staying in.
Page 2 - another orphan.
"still dripping" - Huh? Basically, you have a double Slug going on, as "EXT. NIGEL'S CAR" is really the same as "EXT CLEARING", so the first Slug should be replaced by the "CLEARING" Slug.
"magazine" - HUH? What magazine?
Oh boy, now we go back to the EXT NIGEL'S CAR Slug? WTF?
Slug work is really problematic!!! I may have to bail.
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Sorry, but, I can't rate this b/c I don't see a superpower.
There doesn't have to be a superpower... and in this one there actually is a superpower, anyway.
The pacing with this one is all wrong. The alien doesn't leave until page 4 and then he goes to a pub where a bloke talks about superpowers. The pub scene just isn't necessary. the good bit is the superpower but we only get to see it right at the end.
How a story like this should go is, protag meets alien, alien gives him superpower, superpower ends up doing more harm than good.
The end bit doesn't have to be like that, but there should be three stages to your structure. Yours only really has two.