TV Show Idea: Gang of Daggers ver 2 pt 2

The main stars of the show start out as the social outcasts, many of whom get picked on by the other high school students. They grow as a person while with the "gang." Towards the end, they will find themselves in a total reversal of fortune, in charge, respected, and with great responsibility.

This allows for a variety of storylines for each actor, and less repetition of character types.

When released on DVD, a viewer could watch the television edit, the director's cut, or select a character and see all scenes that have that character in them, getting that character's story.

What worked for Sci Fi's "Battlestar Galactica" (and to some extent in ABC's "Lost") is a "history" would develop within the show that would influence all interactions as the show went on.

There would be very little magic in the show, and almost all of it would be invisible and subtly.

For set construction, I think for the first season you could get away with building one "village" and making each of the four avenues off of the town center to look different. (Extras could be professional actors, or people into Live Action Role Playing [LARP] or Society for Creative Anachronism [SCA].)

Ideally, you will have several different storylines going on at once, and the audience could focus on one or another in the tv show or the dvd. And this will keep things from getting boring.

Storylines for the "gang" on Adrena would be them walking around, selling their services, chasing women, drinking, and finding themselves caught between rival factions.

The violence may seem too much, but I feel it is realistic. (I was surprised how the written story seemed like a video game at parts.)

Historically, boys in their teenage years would be fighting in battles, like today in how they are doing crazy stunts.

"Think 'Harry Potter' meets 'The Sopranos,' with a bit of NBC's 'Friday Night Lights.'"

I also like "The Wire" in how you have all these different angles of a story going on at once, and that could be a major part of the show, how are people related to the "gang members" reacting and responding to the changes going on in the characters.

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