Idea for a TV show

[The Johnny]

I dont know the connection, but something can be worked in as a sidetrack story to the adventures of Bella.

Lumberjack werewolves that fight organized crime vampires?

[Cain]

Yeah, they're troperiffic, but Tropes Are Not Bad so thats alright.  Most of them would actually fit really well.

Except the monster.  I humbly suggest that get transplanted to Fork, WA, where it can eat all the sparkly vampires it can find.

[Freeky]

  Sparkly Vampires!

[BabylonHoruv]

Needs more forbidden love to make it crappy enough to  be on TV. Perhaps a Lumberjack falls in love with a Hippie?

west coast lumberjacks and hippies actually get along pretty well.  (at least in my experience) 

I like the idea, Vancouver is a great setting.  Also some great possibilities in the islands in Puget sound, people have been smuggling drugs through there for generations.

[BabylonHoruv]

Where the hell is Forks, WA?

It's really boring, and it rains a LOT.  I think the stupid sparkley vampire lady researched her setting about as well as she did her vampires.

[East Coast Hustle]

I say we should make this show, but as a "documentary".

[Cain]

Well, that idea also occured, I wont deny.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

I think if you added a geek/computer type of character it would appease just about everyone.

No, sorry. Pet peeve: computer geek characters written by people who are not computer geeks. The easiest way to lose the geeky segment of the audience is to add a computer geek character (particularly if his or her existence doesn't make any sense), since inevitably the plot will call for that character to do something that the screenwriter doesn't know how to actually do, and the character will then 'explain' it with bullshit. Solutions: geeky character explains nothing (or gives very vague explanations, or lampshades with "if I told you I'd be out of a job", or something). Alternately, geeky character is a cute perky goth girl -- nobody minds characters like that, regardless of how little sense they make.

[Chairman Risus]

I think if you added a geek/computer type of character it would appease just about everyone.

No, sorry. Pet peeve: computer geek characters written by people who are not computer geeks. The easiest way to lose the geeky segment of the audience is to add a computer geek character (particularly if his or her existence doesn't make any sense), since inevitably the plot will call for that character to do something that the screenwriter doesn't know how to actually do, and the character will then 'explain' it with bullshit. Solutions: geeky character explains nothing (or gives very vague explanations, or lampshades with "if I told you I'd be out of a job", or something). Alternately, geeky character is a cute perky goth girl -- nobody minds characters like that, regardless of how little sense they make.

I hate characters like that.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

I guess I should rephrase. People usually prefer the perky goth girl making technobabble nonsequitors to some arbitrary male character making technobabble nonsequitors. Then again, you could go totally over the top and against any semblance of reality, and end up with Hackers, in which case geeks might watch it just to laugh at how badly the geek character was written.

[Chairman Risus]

I guess I should rephrase. People usually prefer the perky goth girl making technobabble nonsequitors to some arbitrary male character making technobabble nonsequitors. Then again, you could go totally over the top and against any semblance of reality, and end up with Hackers, in which case geeks might watch it just to laugh at how badly the geek character was written.

I prefer the anti-social, misanthropist lab guy in csi over perky, geeky fan service goth girl in ncis.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

I guess I should rephrase. People usually prefer the perky goth girl making technobabble nonsequitors to some arbitrary male character making technobabble nonsequitors. Then again, you could go totally over the top and against any semblance of reality, and end up with Hackers, in which case geeks might watch it just to laugh at how badly the geek character was written.

I prefer the anti-social, misanthropist lab guy in csi over perky, geeky fan service goth girl in ncis.

Point taken. Actually, the best fit might be taking the character of Hodges from Bones and replacing 'organic sludge' with 'cryptoanalysis' and 'bugs' with 'suid exploits'.

[BabylonHoruv]

I think if you added a geek/computer type of character it would appease just about everyone.

No, sorry. Pet peeve: computer geek characters written by people who are not computer geeks. The easiest way to lose the geeky segment of the audience is to add a computer geek character (particularly if his or her existence doesn't make any sense), since inevitably the plot will call for that character to do something that the screenwriter doesn't know how to actually do, and the character will then 'explain' it with bullshit. Solutions: geeky character explains nothing (or gives very vague explanations, or lampshades with "if I told you I'd be out of a job", or something). Alternately, geeky character is a cute perky goth girl -- nobody minds characters like that, regardless of how little sense they make.

Just means the writers need to do their homework.  It's not that hard to hire a real geek as a technical consultant to make sure the details are right.

[Cainad (dec.)]

I think if you added a geek/computer type of character it would appease just about everyone.

No, sorry. Pet peeve: computer geek characters written by people who are not computer geeks. The easiest way to lose the geeky segment of the audience is to add a computer geek character (particularly if his or her existence doesn't make any sense), since inevitably the plot will call for that character to do something that the screenwriter doesn't know how to actually do, and the character will then 'explain' it with bullshit. Solutions: geeky character explains nothing (or gives very vague explanations, or lampshades with "if I told you I'd be out of a job", or something). Alternately, geeky character is a cute perky goth girl -- nobody minds characters like that, regardless of how little sense they make.

Just means the writers need to do their homework.  It's not that hard to hire a real geek as a technical consultant to make sure the details are right.

Hire = money

Why spend it when the majority of your audience won't know the damn difference anyway?

[President Television]

I think we're all overlooking the obvious question of how a computer geek would come into play in any semiplausible plotline based on drug-dealing lumberjacks and gangsters. Would said geek work for the government or what?