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<\/a>Despite a massively talented writing team, Salvation<\/em> on CBS was mostly a ratings disappointment and earned just 56% on Rotten Tomatoes. \u00a0It’s a summer popcorn series that didn’t quite connect. \u00a0Why?<\/p>\nAs I see it, some of the problem\u00a0is that it is populated by stereotypes.<\/p>\n
Eccentric maverick tech billionaire<\/strong>,\u00a0Darius Tanz (Santiago Cabrera)<\/span> What happens is:<\/p>\n College wunderkind\u00a0calculates an asteroid is six months from striking the earth and destroying all life. Wunderkind contacts eccentric billionaire, who knows (is in love with) the\u00a0Pentagon Press Secretary. Because they don\u2019t want to cause public panic, they agree to keep this information secret within the government. Meanwhile,\u00a0Deputy Secretary of Defense is already running the D.O.D.\u2019s top-secret operation to deflect the asteroid. At the same time, eccentric billionaire is working with earnest young Sci-Fi writer, on a different approach to saving humanity. <\/em><\/p>\n What we care about are human relationships and how disaster, catastrophe, or dire threat reveals character. It’s never about the asteroid, the space aliens, the flood, the fire– it’s about how people show who they really are in meeting danger. We never see the inner conflict within the characters or their personal worldview shaping how they each<\/p>\n We never see the inner conflict within the characters or their personal worldview shaping how they each\u00a0intereact with others and how they approach the problem of the approaching asteroid.<\/p>\n In Salvation<\/em>, the characters never move much beyond stereotypes or agents to push the plot forward. \u00a0But we don’t care enough about the asteroid– we’ve seen it before.<\/p>\n Save<\/span>Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span>Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span>Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" #ThinkpieceThursday – We care most about the characters, not the predicament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,128],"tags":[910,25,26,593,27,28,30,31,32,33,34,898,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42],"class_list":["post-7914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-television-character-development-script-scriptwriting-tv-blog","category-thinkpiece-thursday","tag-cbs","tag-character","tag-characters","tag-drama","tag-emotional-toolbox","tag-etb","tag-film","tag-films","tag-laurie-hutzler","tag-movies","tag-nine-character-types","tag-salvation","tag-screenplay","tag-screenplays","tag-screenwriting","tag-script","tag-scripts","tag-scriptwriting","tag-tv","tag-writing"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-768x576.jpg",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"ttshowcase_normal":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",125,94,false],"ttshowcase_small":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",75,56,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"Image Size 500x500":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",500,375,false],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-300x400.jpg",300,400,true],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-600x450.jpg",600,450,true],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-100x100.jpg",100,100,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Laurie Hutzler","author_link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"#ThinkpieceThursday - 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\nCollege wunderkind<\/strong>,\u00a0Liam Cole (Charlie Rowe)<\/span>
\nEarnest young sci-fi writer<\/strong>,\u00a0Jillian Hayes (Jacqueline<\/span> Byers)<\/span>
\nGovernment Deputy of Defense<\/strong> (with a sensitive side),\u00a0Harris Edwards (Ian Anthony Dale)<\/span>
\nPentagon Press Secretary,<\/strong>\u00a0torn between her establishment lover and the romantic billionaire, \u00a0Grace Burrows (Jennifer Finnigan)<\/span><\/p>\n