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[screenplays]

Completely normal, average native to your planet, Earth [ That's nonthreatening, right? ] asking for recommendations on television shows. I like medical dramas. Anything with classic 'handsome human male meets beautiful human female and proceed to deny romantic feelings over nine seasons' will receive priority.

I also need someone to pick up the three television screens I ordered online. They won't deliver to an 'unknown address'. Money's not a problem, I can pay.

[ So what if everyone else is concerned with other things? Thundercracker certainly doesn't care. ]

Comments

[screenplays]

Yeah. With an important underlying message that's probably just as important here as it is back home.

[ it takes a special kind of talent to make a medical drama with romance mean "TRUST NO ONE". that or a giant robot.

[retconman]

No need to go full-on "after school special," but if you showcase heroes in a good enough light I bet they'd go for it.

[screenplays]

They're going to want heroes in it?

[ he might have to make some adjustments. ]

[retconman]

Not necessarily, but you'd probably have an easier time selling it that way.

[screenplays]

Shouldn't be too hard. Show up, punch things, go to the hospital and fall in love.

[retconman]

There you go. Formulaic, but classic. [ He pauses. ] So what's the appeal, exactly? Trying to get famous?

[screenplays]

No, I just want to tell stories. It's something to pass the time when I'm not watching TV.

[retconman]

No offense, but this all sounds a little fanatical.

[screenplays]

It's not. I just really like television, okay?

[retconman]

To a fanatical level. Almost. A person needs more than one hobby.

[screenplays]

I play real-time strategy games on the internet?

[retconman]

To learn strategy skills for real life?

[screenplays]

I guess? I'm pretty good at them thanks to previous experience, but it's different when it's not real combat.

[retconman]

Real combat? Do you mean military, or--? [ He pauses. ] I guess I'm asking a lot of questions, huh. Don't feel obligated to answer, of course.