News, Stranger Things: June 1, 2009 : 12:21 am
Post Your Thoughts on I Look Forward To Remembering You
As Episode 05: Disconnect circulates through the Internet and we wrap up Singularity 2009 (Did I say Balticon?), I’m setting my sights on the next episode for Stranger Things.
I did an impromptu Twitterpoll and the audience voted overwhelmingly for Mur Lafferty’s time-travel/mystery/romance piece “I Look Forward to Remembering You.”
I originally heard the story on episode 61 of Escape Pod, and knew even then that it was something I wanted to do.
This week I’m going to download Escape Pod #61, reacquaint myself with Mur’s story, and begin the adaptation process.
I’ll be posting updates here and on Twitter as I work through the script. Post your thoughts about the story and what it means to you. I’ll be referring back to these comments as I construct the screenplay, and eventually, the movie.
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- Listen to Escape Pod #61: “I Look Forward To Remembering You.”
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Post your thoughts on the story below.
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- Stranger Things: Ep05
- New Script Completed
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago at 12:21 am. 3 comments
tags: adaptation, disconnect, escape pod, i look forward to remembering you, mur lafferty, screenwriting, script, Stranger Things, twitter
I think what touched me most about this story is how easy it was to slip into the view point of the husband. There is something about this story that makes you think about your own future and what would the be the choice you make? Could you make that choice for you to be closer to your spouse? Could you do that now? Later? When? It struck me deeply and having worked with the community when the story first aired on EscapePod it struck a cord with me.
I remembered this particular story fondly, so I went back and listened to it again. I thought the time travel aspect was handled as any Sci-Fi trope should be, as a minor story device allowing the opportunity to look at more important things from a new angle.
This particular story’s themes of love and loss are common, yet presented with a twist. I particularly like the story because the human aspects of the story are neither cheapened nor sidelined by the science fiction.
Also, I liked the very plausible service monetizing time travel. I expect it would be something quite like that.
In addition to the insightful comments of Icepick and Nuchtchas, I like the handling of the standard time travel trope, in which the traveller gets hung up by his incomplete understanding of history, but the “mistake” works out in the end. You see it a lot but it fits very nicely.