Monday, May 27, 2013

the original intro; Bandits! Those Filthy Bandits

My Town Whispers
Have you
ever been really scared 
My friends,
Derek, Shane and Clifford
went to Dark Town,  I'll tell you more about each of them later. No one ever spoke about what happened to them, just to say, they are never coming back home too, My Town. The police never made a full investigation, only to say the case is officially closed.
Burp and Stanley
knows what happened to each of them 


One night when Burp and Stanley where lying drunk outside the My Town Tavern, Betty, Jill sister, and Jack’s sister in-law, overheard Burp and Stanley mumbling that the ,"bandits from dark town found them and buried them alive."

The My Town police never made an investigation, only to say the case is officially closed. Betty, Jack and Jill, Fred and Sam  refuse to believe anything Burp and Stanley say, why should they, they're drunks


the case is officially reopened, I re-opened it.  I’m going to Dark Town to find my friends.
Sheriff Bill
 says  "people who go  to Dark Town  never return home, they die in Dark Town." I believe that’s a lie started years ago by a bunch of foolish folks and drunks. Most of them are gone now, dead, and the others that are still living can know longer speak, read, or write.
Soon the few that are still alive, will be gone.

 I’m not afraid of the dark; I'm not afraid of dark town 
 a place without a face
 where
People bump into each other,  lost,  not knowing which way is left, which way is the right-of-way, Which way is up, and which way is down,
unless 
  of course you’re upside down, than of course, everything looks right-side-up





“Dark Town Bandits” 
Whisper Boy, they can see us!
Damn Bandits!”
Just kidding Boy, nobody-can-see-us, it’s dark outside!
Dark Town! Eyes Wide Open
A place where you you feel  like your eyes are closed, while they're open.
Ever wonder what it's like not  being able to see your way home?


Come walk with me !
 If you’re like me, you like a gentle bump in the dark. 
  Come along for a walk, we can talk.  I’ll walk slow, that is if you’re not afraid of the dark.
 together we can search for my friends. If you decide not to walk with me, that’s fine, ill walk alone, but if you decide to come along, I won’t stay long.

   Say goodbye to your family and friends. There’s no moon, sun, fun,  no sense of time, or date, or direction  to go in Dark Town, It’s eerily quiet, and ugly. If there is life there, if him or her, or it, wish not to be seen when we get there, their secret will remain a secret.


And so I walk alone today, my friends told me they’ll stay in MY TOWN, and think of me. “Be careful,” they said
Burp took my picture, said he wanted to hang it up in the My Town Tavern so My Town folks will always remember me.
When he sees me walking down Main Street with Derek Shane, and Clifford, and three lovely ladies, he just might stop drinking.

 Dark Town
 a place where people bump into each-other, not knowing which way is left, which way is right, walking in circles picking each others pockets.



  
My name is, BOY! I live in My Town
(my friends)
 Derek, Shane and Clifford


 I’m going to find them…

“Dark Town,”
Damn Bandits

BOY!
   My Town, that’s where I live. I overheard Jack and Jill; they’re my neighbors,telling my other neighbors, Fred and Sam, that they overheard Burp, the town drunk, mumble something as he was stumbling out of the My Town Tavern about the Bandits who live in  Dark Town. Stanley, another My Town town drunk, was overheard by Ugly, the bartender at the My Town Tavern saying to Burp, "they  were lucky to escape Dark Town alive that night." 
Another drunk, whose name was never known to Sheriff Bill, apparently was not so lucky that night.
 
Everyday at dusk, Jack and Jill, and  Fred and Samantha, would meet at the My Town tavern to  listen while Burp and Stanley  shared stories about Dark Town, and some of the other My Town  residents whose secrets they hope will remain a secret. Occasionally, Bingo ,his wife Lucille, and Hiccup would stop in the My Town Tavern to join them.  
Most days Burp and Stanley are intoxicated and are no-longer able to stand-up on their own two legs, all they are capable to do is mumble and giggle. 
This year the My Town Tavern is celebrating its One Hundred and twenty five year anniversary. From the first day it’s been  open for business twenty four hours a-day, every day of the year since. Some locals who have recently passed on, were known to have said their  ancestors told them the My Town tavern was where Wild Bill Hick-Cock, Colonel Custer,  and Geronimo would pow-wow about looming battles, but by the time the  warriors got around to discuss wartime strategy, they were too drunk for war talk, and  would pass-out.  
Burp would often mumble Ugly was the proprietor of the My Town Tavern back than, but knowing Burp, the residents of My Town disregard much of what Burp Mumbles.   

Welcome to Dark Town
 Dark Town, a place not far from My Town. It’s not a town, just a place, without a face. A place  people in My Town talk about not to go. I’m sure you've heard of a place like this, a place you've been told not to go and often wondered why, knowing that someday you would likely go anyway, even though you were warned not to go.
 

 I’m going to Dark Town to search for Derek, Shane and Clifford. And while I’m there, out of sight from mom and dad, and jack and Jill, and Fred and Sam, and everyone else in My Town, I’m conducting my own investigation.
 
I’ll be back  to My Town with my friends and everyone else who ever went to Dark Town who went searching for something or someone. My backpack is packed with toilet paper, pretzels, mouthwash.  I'm wearing jeans, a tee shirt, and  new underwear. I’m not one of those kids who play in the dirt, and put his hands in his pants, and fingers in his mouth, gets sweaty and smells of bad stuff.



 Derek, Shane and Clifford went to Dark Town to search for friends and girlfriends.
Sheriff Bill warned each of them, "Don't come back to My Town unless all three of you have found a wife. If any of you step on My Town soil again , without a wife,  each of you will have to apologize  personally to each of  the families of My Town that you harassed when I caught you peeking in their windows at night. Leave the good-girls in My Town alone"



Sheriff Bill caught Derek and Shane sitting in a tree peeking in Carla's  window with binoculars late one night. But, before Sheriff Bill chased the boys out of the tree, he grabbed the binoculars from Derek and quickly sneaked a peek himself  in Carla's bedroom. Not to alarm anyone, Sheriff Bill never told anyone about the boys secret, or his, of course  The next night Carla's Aunt Sophie caught  Derek and Shane holding the ladder while Clifford  was peeking in Carla's mom's bedroom.

Aunt Sophie made an emergency call to Sheriff Bill, but  was told by deputy sheriff Bingo that Sheriff Bill was busy with other  My Town issues, and never returned Aunt Sophie's call.
Sheriff Bill asked deputy Bingo to look-into the complaint, knowing of course that deputy Bingo has no private investigation skills.  Sheriff Bill cannot investigate Burp and Stanley,  he knows they can implicate him in the nighttime crime  of window peeping.

The next afternoon, Clifford stopped by the My Town Tavern and asked Burp and Stanley if they would  meet him, Shane and Derek at the "My Town Park" at midnight, he told them he would have a pleasant surprise for the both of them.  Clifford told Burp and Stanley to " Wear Black."

Early the next morning, before sunrise Sheriff Bill received a phone call from Jack and Sam. Apparently during the night, someone stole a pair of black pants, black tee shirt, and a black dress  from their clothes-line in the backyard.
Its anyone's guess who wore the dress that night.



Some of the My Town patrons told Sheriff Bill , The last few evenings Burp's been  heard  laughing hysterical in the  My Town Tavern mumbling something  resembling the sound of black panties. Sheriff Bill can only assume the boys invited Burp along to peek.



  My Town neighbors told Sheriff Bill they would often see the boys carrying a ladder around town just after sunset, assuming the boys were innocently building a tree house in town. Sheriff Bill's reply was,  "I will investigate," knowing only to well, he was also guilty of night-peeping, and overly enjoyed peeping in Carla's bedroom.


During One night of, "peek-a-boo," Burp was so drunk he fell off the ladder while peeking in  Carla's window.  When he hit the ground, Carla's dad came running out of the house with a shotgun blasting at the trees. The boys, Burp and Stanley were already down the block, out of sight and range from the gun shot. Leaving behind  the ladder as evidence. Mr Horn never did know who  was peeking in his daughters bedroom, or if the stalkers got a glimpse of his daughter in her nightgown, or less.

Sheriff Bill knew Derek, Shane and Clifford were the culprits.  As for Burp and Stanley, Sheriff Bill was never quite certain if they  too were with Derek, Shane and Clifford peeking at  Carla in her nightgown that night.


Sheriff Bill knows the boys will never return home from Dark Town, 


 Bandits!   

Sheriff Bill is a true crime fighter and man of extremely high intellect. When he first noticed Burp stumbling  into My Town he knew the new arrival would be someone he must keep an eye on. Sheriff Bill doesn't believe Burp’s birth name is Burp, of course. If Jack or Jill, or Fred or Sam or anyone else of course should ask the Sheriff about Burp, Sheriff Bill’s response is always the same, “Burp just appeared early one morning in the My Town Tavern, a-bit disheveled and drunk. It's been obvious  to the folks of My Town that Burp enjoys the My Town Tavern so much, he's decided to stay, and make it his home.  When Sheriff Bill asked Burp his home address, Burp told the sheriff his home address is the “My Town Tavern.”   Sheriff Bill found that to be a bit amusing. When asked where his family lives, or of any known relatives, Burp reply was, “I dun no, they’re all drunks.”   The sheriff found that to be a bit amusing and felt he would never ask Burp anymore questions about his family.
But Sheriff Bill soon did ask Burp about the first morning he appeared in the My Town Tavern a-bit disheveled, drunk and mumbling something about the, Bandits of Dark Town.
Burp just mumbled something and giggled. 
Sheriff Bill considers Burp an honorable, law biding citizen of My Town, who on occasions has been known for telling a few tales to some of the local patrons in the My Town Tavern. Who at times, are either UN-willing to listen, or could be heard laughing out-loud around Burp .



Those Filthy Bandits

Kid, Apples, and Peaches
 DARK TOWN


 First night of my life I'm away from home.

Dark Town! Don’t knock, walk right in,  

 softly not to alert, alarm, or have them think I'm here to harm them.  Who am I fooling, if anyone is here, they seen me already.   If someone is waiting for me, I’ll reach-out my hand, the first to shake and say hello.
  darkness!   No lights or smell in the air
Whiskey makes a scared man brave, thanks Burp!


The middle day has changed from light to dark; the pavement dark dust, no leaves on trees, dead dark bark.



 faded letters of crusty white paint, rusty chains and an old black crow with torn feathers,scarred skin, rotten talons, and a filthy tongue covered with black dust from licking black dust, its mouth is open wide unable to crow, old bird. Now I know how this place  got its name, perhaps the town should be called, “old, rusty, crusty, and dark.”


The creator of life forgot about Dark Town.  Moonlight is non-existent, helpless against a face whose wish it is I don’t survive the night!
    If there is life here, damn it, it’s dead.   If him or her, or it, wish not to be seen, their secret will be safe with me. I’m helpless to any ghouls, growls and goons from any eyes on a face, whose wish it may be that I don’t survive the night

 Old, rusty, crusty, and dark,dead tress infested with disease lie shattered in the dust.   No roads, vast land and alley-ways of empty homes. Prowling Dark Town, others have prowled, and have never been found!  Someone somewhere is breathing.  My mind is an illusion of confusion, thoughts of who might be behind  the darkness; keep walking, slow, make friends I keep telling myself, make friends. Feel their sweat and  skin  in the palm of my hand.





 Inside Danny's Darkness


“Whisper Boy, Bandits!

“Do you live here in Dark Town, Danny?” I ask.

“quiet boy, im asking the questions

“Forget about your friends Boy, their dead, I'll show you their bones. The other two, the boy and the girl, they escaped.  My friends who came to dark town are dead too. When I came to Dark Town and started snooping around, and snoop I did, I uncovered a bizarre breed of  life in Dark Town. Dark Town has dark secrets, has its own full moon, shines bright all the time, brightest shine I've ever seen, and its own  sun, shines all the time, hottest sun I've ever felt, and plants, the greenest plants I've ever seen, and animals too, the friendliest animals I've ever pet .  
  There is a man in our moon, Boy


remember the word, Bandits.

" I’m  not afraid to fight, to live in the land of light all night." 


   DANNY!


  Dark! Light! I've walked and I've talked to myself of course,  Somewhere in Dark Town are the dead and barely alive bodies of people from My Town.
"I'll stay to uncover the mystery of night and day"


“Hide Boy!”

  I’m nowhere swimming in a clear, cool lagoon. A bright sun and moon shine together in the middle of the night and day.
Above a silhouette of something leaning against a tree is staring at me floating in the cool lagoon, its eyes like diamonds, I'm not alone.



High above the cliffs, the body stares.
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“Damn HICCUPS”
 deep valleys of lush green grass, a towering cliff of granite pours crystals of cool water into a deep gorge flowing to nowhere.  I’m here, no-where, 
STILL
High above a figure looms. I am not alone.
"HICCUPS!"
A sun shines in daylight, somewhere in Dark Town.

“Danny! Where the hell are you?" I scream

   
 I’m being watched swimming,alone. Help me Danny!”  I ask the empty air.

“The Bandit watching is laughing Boy, watching a naked boy swim. His filthy eyes stare. Stay where you are, they know you’re here, there, stay in the sun, they can’t hurt you there. Danny will be here.” An unfamiliar voice whispers out.

“Damn! Someone new! Treading water, hiding the private, Vulnerable to someone new, and the thing staring down at me, seeking to conquer its prey!
ME! ”

“Boy, are you there!” A familiar voice whispers from somewhere.

“Yeah I’m here, where do think I went, fishing!” I respond.
 “Boy, Stay where you are, they know you’re here, stay in the sun, they can’t hurt you there.
 I told you once before, don’t be a smart-ass, Danny will leave you here, alone. You live in eternal daylight now Boy.  Danny caught the Bandit hunting for you from the cliffs. Danny was hoping it was Hiccups, it wasn't” said Apples.

 Good, no more playing hide and seek, These bandits are freaks, Apples! A strange voice called my name, was that Little Red Riding Hood?

“That was Peaches! Your girlfriend, she was watching you swim, naked, and so was I, a good sight to see, for peaches and me.

“Oh shit! Peaches! Reminds me of a song I know; “Apples, peaches, pumpkin pie.”

GET OUT OF THE LAGOON!”  Apples laughed.

And why is Peaches my girlfriend? Throw me a towel.

Put your panties back on, Willie looks chilly! Apples laughed.

“Listen, Boy I don’t have a towel, Ill close my eyes, and count to three! Ready;
1, 2, 3, get-out-of-the lagoon!  
Jerky Boy, I was peeking!
The bandit spying on you from the cliffs wasn't Hiccups; He was one of Hiccups bandits, the killer known as "BINGO."   Danny tied him up to a tree for fun in the sun. If Danny can capture Hiccups, he will have captured their leader.
Danny thinks Stanley the drunk, Bingo, the deputy, and Ugly the bartender from "My Town,"  are bandits in disguise.
Ya-see Boy,
They can’t live in eternal Daylight, they need the night,without Sweet-water to drink, they die.   They've been trying to kill me, Danny, and Peaches, and now they want to kill you. Our other friends are hiding underneath the darkness. Danny found the skeletal remains of your friends, and the other kids told Danny they hid and watched while the Bandits buried five of their friends alive.
Boy
   If we can tie them to a tree for fun in the sun, they’ll all die and 
disintegrate.

“Stay where you are! Don’t move!”  A familiar voice whispers.

“Shit!”  I mumble.

“Yeah, yeah, calm down, I’m back, been out sightseeing.” Darkness whispered.
“Sightseeing in the dark?  I met Apples.”
“I know, she told me! Said you’re afraid of the dark.I told you Boy, BANDITS.
Are you drunk?”   Darkness laughed.
Yep! Apples to!
SHIT!
Hey Boy! 
Somewhere in Dark Town are bodies of people, alive and dead. I need your help  finding them,  dead and alive.
 I knew you were going to ask me that, you like whiskey?
“Yep, Love whiskey, thought you’d never ask.”

“SHIT”

“I told you Boy, forget about your friends, they’re dead!  Follow me, I’ll show you their bones,  the bandits ate the meat, than threw their bones in an empty field, more bones and a skull are in an open ditch. The bandits killed my friends too, ate all of them.   
Burp and Stanley told everyone in “MY TOWN” their friend “Hiccup” was captured and  dead in Dark Town. 
Burp and Stanley told everyone in MY TOWN Hiccup’s not-around, 

That's Bullshit Boy, he’s been found.
  Hiccup is here,living in Dark Town, alive and well, he’s the leader of the Bandits, Hiccup killed your friends. Along time ago, the bandits had captured Burp, Stanley and Hiccup, tied them up, and hung them from a tree. With his dying breath, Hiccup asked the bandits if they like whiskey. He showed them where Burps worst whiskey was buried and they  cut all three of them loose, Burp and Stanley ran, but Hiccup stayed. Old man Jack, he's dead now, been dead along time, left a note in Dark Town Cabin written in English about what happened that night.  Somewhere in Dark Town Burp’s finest whiskey is buried. Bandits drank the cheap stuff, too, and the deputy of My Town, BINGO, he's a Bandit in disguise living in My Town. Apples said.

"Boy; Dark Town has a full moon, with a man inside, shines bright all-night, brightest moonshine I've ever known, and a sun, shines bright  every-day and night, hottest sun I've ever felt, and plants, the greenest plants I've ever seen and eaten, and animals too,  the friendliest animals I've ever eaten.
Just kidding Boy!
 Let’s go!" Apples laughed.




Danny found one of someone's friend barely alive, said his name was "Lips" said he was a friend of someone named Burp . Danny has Lips hidden in the sun of darkness. 

 I’m  not afraid to fight, to live in the land of light all night.

Danny has a plan, he’s very clever you know


   sun-sweetened fruit drop from the trees  drooping over the water falls, dumping fresh fruit in the stream. Underwater it sheds  and blends  nectar with the cool water.
  Danny's plan is for each of us to hide in the fruit trees with  slingshots he made out-of banana  peels and bamboo and shoot fruit pits at the back-sides of the bandits while they're kneeling down  drinking the sweet water. One by one as the bandits fall over with pits of fruit embedded in their blistered bloody, and smelly backsides, Danny will knock them on the head with a branch of bamboo, and dump their dirty bodies in a hole in the ground, and they too will be buried alive.




Climbing
Boy, Apples and Peaches grabbed as much sweet fruit that they could stuff inside their pockets and inside their shirts and climbed till they reached their perch high in the trees. Hiding, comfortably sitting on the soft bark of the branches  swallowing mouthfuls of  nectar and licking the leaves;  Boy, Apples, and Peaches ate until their stomachs where busting with fruit.
Meanwhile
  Danny of the Sun was alone hiding alongside the stream, every muscle and limb calm, invisible, hidden inside the groves of trees.

  In the tree, Slingshots are loaded, pulled and ready to fire at each bandit-backside, fruit leaves filled with pits for cheeks, and Peaches is ready and aiming for filthy hanging private parts.

"Bandits ! Bend-over
 Stick those dry crusty and dirty dusty mouths in the stream and start drinking.

Boy! Apples! Peaches!
SHOOT!
  filthy bandits are gulping mouth fulls of sweet water

SHOOT ! "

Danny pleads, his screams silent to the bodies asleep in the trees



"HELP ME!"

Danny screams fade, Hiccup has Danny


"AWAKE"
Danny’s sneakers, The Bandits grabbed Danny,
  Boy shouted.



“Dark Town Bandits” 
Don’t-knock, walk-right-in-go-on-inside
Damn Bandits

Whisper Boy, they might hear us, see us, and  kill us too
Damn Bandits!”
“WHISPER!" I ask.
“Boy, hide, you can never go back home to, “MY TOWN, DARK TOWN will be your home.” said Apples.
“MY HOME, SHIT!”
“That’s right Boy, your new home!” Applesauce said.
“I came to Dark Town to find my friends! What-am-I-going-to-do-here Apples, make Applesauce?”
“Follow me! And be quiet, did you bring sunglasses with you?  Apples asked.
“Did I bring sunglasses?  I came to Dark Town, not the beach.”
“You’re in for a big surprise Boy, if you live long enough to see it.”   Apples said.
 Apples, do you like whiskey?
“Love whiskey! Let’s keep walking. Hey Boy; did Burp give you this whiskey? ” Apples whispered.
Yep!
“Drunken fool, he gave you the cheap stuff!” Apples seem annoyed.


APPLES, where are we?
I’m walking and talking to myself a-lot. 

Must-be the whiskey talking boy.

Sweet Apples, tonight you and me are alone, whiskey, and Boy is feeling frisky!

OK Boy; just this one-time, our secret

Oh-Apples!

Nice Boy.

Damn Apples, ten minutes of fun and you run. I’m alone again, and forgotten in Dark Town!



Sweet-water!
 




No longer able to stand-up, Jack and Jill help Burp and Stanley sit down in the two rocking chairs on the porch in front of the tavern.  Gently Jack and Jill push Burp and Stanley back and forth, listening and laughing as Burp and Stanley mumble about the time they barely escaped the filthy men, and filthy women who live under the darkness in Dark Town.


Sheriff Bill was in the My Town Tavern
having lunch the day Burp first stumbled in. The Sheriff recalled hearing Burp and Stanley calling the filthy bandits Wally, Soot, and Rachel. Burp often mumbles in his drunken stupor that there are many more filthy men and filthy women living under the darkness in Dark Town.
Burp once asked the Boy who was sitting on his fathers lap at the Bar, if he believed in the Fairy-Tales about the bandits of filthy men and filthy women!
"No! You’re drunk!"   The Boy replied.
The kids name was, Boy.

Dark Town , not a town, you will never find it on a map, its a place without a face. Sheriff Bill doesn't think it has a Tavern, perhaps it does, if Burp and Stanley where there, it must.  It’s kinda-a  two day walking trip, through the My Town Valley, over the hills and through the woods.
Walking out of the woods, darkness  appears out-of-nowhere. It’s not a town, just a place, without a face.  I’m sure you've heard of a place like this before! A place you've been told not to go; alone, and often wondered why, you were told not to go; alone, knowing someday you most likely would go, anyway; alone. You've often wondered if a place like that actually exists, a place you’re told, DON'T GO !



“Dark Town Bandits” 

Whisper Boy

Just kidding Boy, nobody-can-see-us, it’s dark outside!
Forget about your friends Boy, they’re dead!
 A voice with no face speaks.
“You know Burp ?”
 Yep, I know Burp!” the voice of darkness whispered.

 Don’t be afraid of the dark boy, it doesn't bite, It’ll only kill you.

 
I have to go! I will not be able to watch-over-you, and don’t speak to strangers.”

“Don’t speak to strangers!   The voice of darkness leaves Boy all-alone to wonder around Dark Town.  Strangers! Bandits! Bullshit! Burp!
Lost and alone, wondering drunk through the unknown.  Daytime! Nighttime! No sense of time, or place on earth!
“Hey! Boy!  Darkness told me about you, said you don’t listen, and said you talk to yourself in the dark. The Bandits didn’t eat you yet I see! They will when they get hungry.” An unfamiliar voice whispers.
“Who are you? I’m not supposed to talk to strangers.” I respond.
“SHUT-UP,”
 What kind of name is SHUT-UP!  Where’s Danny darkness.” I asked SHUT-UP.


“The Bandits have him." said SHUT-UP


Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Old Life




OLD LIFE; YOURS and MINE
Rambling with Tim
 Let’s write  for fun. There’s plenty of gold making film told from old.  Seen from inside, behind  the mind of wisdom,  inside the minds of knowing  eyes, eyes and minds unlike like yours and mine.   
Wisdom: the sum of learning, knowledge, insight, the quality of being wise.
  Tell wisdom; create characters that live as if they wrote the definition of wisdom.  Television and Films should be generated from acquired knowledge, (wisdom)  a sense of reality and a Hugh dose of  imagination
Television and film at times should be told as intended, Television is in denial believing old is  unattractive, (quality) Remember; books/ novels in general are stories whose characters are written by adults, whose characters are depicted as adults, and whose actors in film are played by adults.
 OLD LIFE
 Wisdom  
 Design a short progressive story (no ending) told from the perspective of  the wisest, a  know-it-all no one likes, some folks frown on being around
Sounds foolish, remember, no ending, you are wise

 Wisdom has no boundaries;
Entertainment is reluctant, (afraid) to blast open creating entertainment told from the eyes of old age, WHY?  Age (their denial, not mine) is not a thing of beauty,
Who better than to story-tell about anything than those whose minds are wiser than mine
                                     Storytelling absent of wisdom is miserably limited                  
 Inject the knowledge youth has not yet learned ; wisdom knows a feeling one feels from being near and dear with another, knowing how to touch, hold, kiss, speak, and? 

Stories of make-believe are fun to write, (Fairy-tales) they can be written to appeal to any age, and due to the simplistic nature of us humans, fairy-tales will always have the sky as their limit;
Tell tales seen from behind the eyes of age, imagine  from an intellectual point of view, sounds silly, not really
TV is reluctant to examine / explore ideas whose subjects are what they consider 2 old for television fun  
Those folks somewhere in office Television are to blame for the absence of interesting television, a blemish that curses the industry.
Films depicting the future usually have no sustainable value, they’re difficult to make / write because of the unknown (can you predict the future) BUT; it’s wonderful to watch the imagination of the future by its creator
The five alive in heaven knew better, better to do it through the eyes of wisdom, generating great storytelling, fact or fiction.   
Far-fetch films are a grab bag of garbage, and that’s precisely where they end up.
You know how I feel
Some of The best resource is found from researching books / novels, and  interesting as it sounds, books is where you will conjure up some of your better clever ideas. And  lounging with a small group, (creative engineering) a prerequisite for entertainment.
 It takes time and patience and more discipline than most of us posses.  The author brings to us a life alive of his / her fictional characters. What’s fascinating is the unselfishness and willingness by the author to change the story until its right to sell, having the balls to move beyond original, unlike TV and film, who seem to be committed to originality, so it seems.
“Storytelling”
What you see is not the best,
There is never going to be “the best” of anything!
Good, yes
Best, Na
OLD LIFE knows love! Knows how to love, knows how to make love, knows beauty lies in the wisdom to know, and knows sometimes its wise to be silent 
  Look in the eyes of age! Stare at wisdom, LOOK at IT; age has a story to tell if you are willing to listen

Soon we will have some fun, comparing identical  scenarios that tell two different tales !