1 hour ago, 1974mdp said:

Final Draft is the buggiest software I've ever used. It makes me want to throw my computer out the window sometimes!

When I was in grad school, I used to use a brand called Sophocles. I was able to get it at half price because I was a student and that screenwriting software was the best one I have ever used, superior to FD. I used it lol throughout my MFA program and it never gave me one single problem with typing my screenplays and television scripts. I had read that it was most likely that the developer was bought out by the makers of FD who quashed the software. If my laptop hadn’t died, I would still be using it. It was that good.

I can concur that Final Draft is buggy as hell. I think that's part of the reason why I haven't updated mine to the latest version. The only reason I am considering it is b/c of the Grammarly extension you add to it. 

I ain't updated it either lol.

About “The Gates”, I really hope that MVJ avoids the pitfalls that today’s daytime network soaps have fallen into, staying wedded to the same tired tropes and stereotypical themes. Leave the old 20th century Dynasty style catfights where they belong.
 

Women can be as strategic and calculating as any man, show them as captains of industry who are capable of moving and manipulating people and situations as if they are grandmasters moving pieces on a chessboard. 21st century boss moves is something I would like to see. (*Insert GIF of Emily Stewart, seated behind a desk, reclining in a chair , heels atop the desk with a smug expression on her face-if I ever find that clip*).

 

3 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

About “The Gates”, I really hope that MVJ avoids the pitfalls that today’s daytime network soaps have fallen into, staying wedded to the same tired tropes and stereotypical themes.

And please no teens and very young adults getting pregnant.   Let's have modern young people.

Final Draft is too expensive to crash like that. At over $200 it should work better. I had the full version years ago and I understand why professionals use it because it's great for editing and you can select which elements you want read out loud so you don't have to listen to stage directions read if all you need to hear is dialogue. I've been using Fade In for my scripts and it's pretty good.

1 hour ago, ReddFoxx said:

Final Draft is too expensive to crash like that. At over $200 it should work better. 

ICAM!!

19 hours ago, janea4old said:

And please no teens and very young adults getting pregnant.   Let's have modern young people.

I'd love a character I can relate too, maybe one who doesn't ever want kids. Maybe had her tubes tied or a vasectomy(for a guy)

15 minutes ago, Khan said:

ICAM!!

It has become industry standard just by hanging around long enough. Similar to Y&R, they don’t have to do much to maintain loyalty from their base, I guess.

22 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

I'd love a character I can relate too, maybe one who doesn't ever want kids. Maybe had her tubes tied or a vasectomy(for a guy)

I'd love to see (on any show) a story about a woman who chooses to terminate a pregnancy for very simple and practical reasons and who doesn't suffer some form of retribution for it afterward.

I'd also love to see a young vixen who isn't raped as punishment for "being bad," and a young heroine who doesn't lose her virginity to rape, too.

Edited May 4, 20241 yr by Khan

I just want to see black folks represented for the complex and multifaceted people they are as much as any other race. Not the default best friend, thug, and steeped in condescension “goody” and sanitized town doctor or cop. 

2 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

I just want to see black folks represented for the complex and multifaceted people they are as much as any other race. Not the default best friend, thug, and steeped in condescension “goody” and sanitized town doctor or cop. 

ICAM!

I just hope that not everybody is crazy rich, people don't have 80s mini series names and nobody dreams of turning the show into a campy farse. 

1 hour ago, Sapounopera said:

people don't have 80s mini series names 

Similarly, I hope the African-American characters don't have stereotypically African-American names that don't really exist outside of the Maury show.

On 5/3/2024 at 12:53 PM, DramatistDreamer said:

I really hope that MVJ avoids the pitfalls that today’s daytime network soaps have fallen into, staying wedded to the same tired tropes and stereotypical themes. Leave the old 20th century Dynasty style catfights where they belong.

But she was so GOOD at it:

 

18 minutes ago, Khan said:

Similarly, I hope the African-American characters don't have stereotypically African-American names that don't really exist outside of the Maury show.

But she was so GOOD at it:

 

I wouldn’t mind seeing a Demarco or a Demetrius or a Teyana. Some recognizably Black names.

I’m ready for some complex, interesting layered Black men. Curtis, T.J., Devon, Nate, Carter, and Zende aren’t cutting it. The soap writers couldn’t be less interested in those characters.