My Professional Work
in
Films and Television
Roland Michel Tremblay
RM Tremblay, 44E The Grove, Isleworth, Middlesex,
Tel +44 (0)20 8847 5586
www.themarginal.com rm@themarginal.com
Summary
E=mc2 The World’s Most Famous
Equation (Channel 4,
SouthBeach (FTV Entertainment and Maverick Films)
Black Hole High (Strange Days at Blake Holsey High) (NBC)
E=mc2 The World’s Most Famous Equation
I was instrumental in developing that two hour film which presents a
brochette of the best British actors. It was on Channel 4 in
Here is quite a website I built for that film containing all my reports.
I was asked to put it offline at the time, from fears that someone might steal
our material, but now I don’t see what harm it could cause. You can buy a copy
of the film from the production company I had a contract with as a Development
Producer, and I sure believe that what you will see next will prove to you how
great a Development Producer I can be:
http://www.darlowsmithson.com/catalogue.htm
Portal to everything I did for
this film:
http://www.themarginal.com/emc2.htm
I probably did more and wrote more, however this is the website I did at
that time, up until I was asked to put it offline.
SouthBeach was a television series in the
This is the original film script that I have written which could have
been SouthBeach. To be honest, I was so limited with the original material
given to me, I’m not sure the film would have done any better than the series.
However, this is so far off the television series, it
could easily be modified to be a film in its own right. For a start, I wouldn’t
mind moving it to
Here are the two other film
scripts and one synopsis I have written for that production company. I haven’t
put them on my website up until now because I wasn’t sure of were I stood about
copyrights. If you are interested in those scripts, like for SouthBeach, please
let me know and I will put you in contact with the production company:
Corporate
GIA (synopsis) DOC – PDF - LIT
Black Hole High
(Strange Days at
Blake Holsey High)
Television series on
NBC
My life has inspired this television series, and I developed a lot of the
characters’ personalities and some episode ideas. No time to develop further at
this time, but below you will read an email I sent to a fan site followed by
the initial brainstorm I sent them. You will see that a lot of it has ended up
being in the series.
I was not credited for my work on Black Hole High, but I was paid and I
have the proof here that I worked on that series. They have not kept all my
ideas, but a lot of them they did, and I am pleased about it. You can see at
the beginning in the intro of each episode that Josie has a T-shirt with the
word Anarchist written on it, that’s me, my website is called The Marginal, my most popular published book is a book called The Anarchist
(poetry), and Josie is very much as I described her in my brainstorm, she’s
based on me, like most other character profiles. (I hope I won’t get shot for
stating this! But the series is dead now, and I wanted to tell someone for
quite a while, because I am proud of the work I did on Strange Days at Blake
Holsey High.)
Bruce Kalish, Director,
Writer and Producer (US)
(On the Jubilee
week-end, while I had 4 days off work, I wrote 8 episode synopses for the
series Black Hole High. The Executive Producer of the series Bruce Kalish was
so impressed he wrote back:)
Roland, you are so
prolific, you put everyone I know to shame... I think as our working
relationship continues I will give you some movie ideas I have been mottling
over and let you run with them if you want. Or if you have ideas I'd be glad to
listen to them and give you some input. In this first order I will not be able
to get you a script, however, if we get the pickup for the back half of the
season, hopefully by the end of this year, I will get you scripts, I can
promise that. Sorry I can't do more for you now with all the help you given...
other then get you paid for the research you're doing for me and seeing if I
can get you a technical advisor credit. Thanks so much for responding with the
speed and more importantly the intelligence that you communicate with the
writers. Thanks for your notes they are extremely helpful, I was inspired by
your hard work and finished off the piece. Thanks again for coming into my
life!
Credits: Black Hole High, The
Famous Jett Jackson (including the Movie), The Fall Guy, Incredible Hulk and
Eight is Enough
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0435888/
Here are those 8
episode synopses:
(Actually, at this late hour I can only find seven… where is the eighth?
When I find it I will add it here. These synopses might not have been picked up
per say, they however influenced and inspired many of the episodes of Black
Hole High:)
Parallel
Universe DOC
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Lady
Queensbury DOC
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Mixed
Universes DOC
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My email to a fan website:
De : Roland Michel Tremblay [mailto:
Envoyé : 20 July 2006 23:29
À : X
Objet : Black Hole High
Dear X,
I have read your fan website with interest. I live in
Lucas vs.
They are best friends, but they are nothing alike. One completes the
other. Lucas is the intelligent idealistic guy and
I think
Please read here on my website some of the reports I wrote
about the science and possible solutions to problems the characters had to
encounter. I had to take out any mention to Black Hole High to put these
reports online at the time, however it is clear that
it is about the show. It shows the possible situations we considered. Please
read it and let me know what you think:
http://www.themarginal.com/#science_fiction_helper_reports
From my CV,
what I did on the show (note
that I have not been credited for working on the show, so my name does not
appear anywhere, and I don’t mind that):
Brewster (Black Hole High) Productions inc. (April 2002 to October
2002)
Technical Adviser/Science Consultant/Writer (working mainly from
We had 7 months to write and research 13
episodes of a children’s television programme that is now being broadcast all
over
Many of my reports can be read online: http://www.themarginal.com/index.htm#science_fiction_helper_reports
http://kids.discovery.com/fansites/bhhigh/bhhigh.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days_at_Blake_Holsey_High
Regards,
Roland Michel Tremblay
Black Hole High
Brainstorm Session
Distribution List: the executive producers and writers on the
show
Please note that everything that follows is just for brainstorm sessions
and inspiration, nothing is fixed in the story. You will find many
contradictions and that is healthy. Please modify, delete and update with your
own notes and circulate. Don't be afraid to invent new psychological, social
and physical traits to the characters instead of building on what has already
been defined here or in the episodes already written. You can also create new
sections or topics to be defined by you and others. Feel free to reorganize
everything. Change the color and highlight everything you modify/add so we can
easily identify it.
I intend this file to be alive, in progress, being modified and added to
all the time by everyone. It could be the basis for any new episode. Every time
you modify it please save it adding one number to it (for example
bhhbrainstorms34.doc if it was called bhhbrainstorms33.doc) and then send it
around to the distribution list. Feel free to add new names to the distribution
list.
(The only new thing in this is the first entry, a description of Prof Z
which will inspire me my third episode idea. I intend to link this with the
study of the sky with the telescope somehow. I think all the writers should be
given this file after you modify it to your liking. Please delete this
paragraph after reading it.)
44E
The Grove, Isleworth, Middlesex,
Tel:
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Prof Z
Prof Z did not come from nowhere, he is an
inventor and used to work at the lab with Mr. Pearson. He was a bright student
then and a bad employee, he did not get along too well with Mr. Pearson. But he
is a genius and without him the machine would have never been a reality. His
quarters are in the basement and lead to lots of tunnels under the school that
reach the lab. The kids will discover his little room of inventions and be
fascinated by this hidden side of Prof Z. He used to be working down there
without anyone knowing until the science teacher disappeared and then he was
asked by Mr. Pearson and the Principal to take over the science class. He
always liked to be left alone to work on his projects and inventions but today
he enjoys teaching the smart kids, he is learning to get out of his cavern. In
his lab we will see a lot of fascinating things with boards filled with
equations and calculations.
Josie the Genius and
the Feminist
The big Josie… for some reason I imagine her as a fatty or at the very
least tall and acting like a boy, I can already see her defending the weak
Lucas against bullies (I knew a Josie at the University of Ottawa and she was
fat and a lesbian). Josie will need to prove that she is The Genius and I think
it would be a nice touch if she was a feminist defending the right of girls. Of
course, I would not have her talk politics or starting a rebellion, but she
could often have comments about how girls are better and more intelligent than boys (which of course is true!).
How can she prove that she is a genius? We could start in class, the
teacher could be asking a whole bunch of questions and the only one to answer
or holding her arm in the air could be Josie. Vaughn could have a try and make
mistake after mistake, humiliating himself, and Josie would have the right
answer all the time. She could even correct the teacher once or twice. That
should establish her reputation. The teacher should be annoyed and send her to
the principal.
Principal Durst vs.
Josie
I think Josie should always get into trouble and end up in the principal
office all the time. Like three times in a row. Each time the speech of the principal
would change and Josie will attack her more and more. About her lies, about
what is going on with Mr Pearson, etc. The principal
should threaten Josie of kicking her out of the school,
witch should pleased Josie no end in a funny way. We should see her smile
suddenly appearing, and she could play the game that she is horrified by the
prospect of being kicked out.
When the principal realizes that Josie wants to be kicked out, she will
promise her that she will die in this school, she will never be kicked out no
matter what she does, but she will have to be punished. And we could see Josie
having to clean the toilets and finally get helped by her friends Lucas,
Marshall and Corrine. We could have Corrine arguing that she should not be
helped, that she deserves it. Ultimately she will help her.
Corinne vs. Josie
I think they should never really like each other even though we could
have real proofs at times that they actually like each other. I think that most
of the time you never really like the person you are sharing your room with and
your whole life becomes how to live with it and accept it. So they should
ultimately like one another, but could never really admit it and they should
act consequently. Tensions between each other. Corinne
should get jealous because Lucas and Marshall see her as a genius when, before,
she was the genius. Corinne's IQ is 172, Lucas think that Josie's IQ must go
over 200. That annoys Corinne no end. As well, she is highly frustrated because
everything Josie says or suggests, always sound like a great idea, but not hers
anymore. They are no longer listening to her.
Corinne vs. Lucas
Corinne should be secretly in love with Lucas, and Lucas should be
completely blind to it. They should have both always been first in class, big
competition between who will have 100% in the next maths exam, and they should
have always studied together. The thing his, Corinne needs to study a lot but
Lucas never really had to study. Things come so easy for him,
he can sit down at 3 am the night before the exam and get 100%. Corinne needs
to work a lot harder to reach the same result and she should always be at the
teacher office to get the next problem explained to her. Lucas never did, but
he always come to her to find out the problems he cannot
solved. She will get annoyed with that. Corinne and Lucas should have always
been very close and Josie will be threatening that relationship. Corinne will
have admiration for Lucas, and that will annoy Josie no end. She will think it
is not deserved, that Lucas is just a big dreamer without logic.
Lucas
Lucas should be the philosopher of the group and he should never really
have fit in. He should always bring back citations of Aristotle, Plato and
Socrates. Josie will be much more Descartes (Cartesian, logical, like Pascal).
Lucas will have a bunch of theories that could revolutionize physics as we know
it (like we can go faster than the speed of light) and will greatly need Josie
to fill the holes in his ideas. Therefore Lucas will admire Josie completely.
They should argue about the stupidest ideas until they run out of things to say
and fall asleep out of exhaustion. They should have a secret place in the
school where they could meet at night to discuss philosophy. Corinne will sort
of suspect that and find out. She will no longer speak to them until something
brings them back together. Of course, the wildest gossips will go around about
Lucas and Josie's meetings in the dark secret place.
Lucas should be living a permanent existential crisis and find comfort
in philosophy. I think he should be openly suicidal in a funny way, even though
there will be real deep moments. He should be helped by Corinne who would love
to understand him better, to be part of his closed universe. He should be the
one becoming invisible, living between two times like a ghost, and see the
philosophical side of it. Lucas should be bullied in school,
he must be seen as a nerd and a computer wizard with Corinne.
Lucas should be much more sensible to weird phenomena, and things should
be happening that he sees and the person is with will not see. So it will annoy
him that sometimes only him saw something and he will
waste time trying to convince the others.
Lucas vs.
They are best friends, but they are nothing alike. One completes the
other. Lucas is the intelligent idealistic guy and
I think that kids today are not stupid, they
are very much clued up. I think they are dealing with suicide, drugs and deep
psychological problems. The show would benefit greatly in content if we were to
talk about these subjects in a very nice manner (without the details) rather
than having this Happy-Go-Lucky universe. If drugs are not mentioned, at the
very least it should be suggested in the dark past of
Lucas should be his greatest confident and probably his sort of
psychoanalyst trying to understand what is really the secret of
I think
Principal Durst
Principal Durst was a good person at heart. She suffered a lot from all
her colleagues (especially males) in the days when she was just a teacher. They
were always laughing at her, considering her not too intelligent and they tried
to get her fired. One day she was very down and thought of leaving, she woke up
and thought she would fight back. She would show them what she was made of,
that she too could be an iron lady. She devised a plan to get the respect of
the old principal, the administration office and especially Mr. Pearson. She
became a good friend of them and when the time came and the old principal had
to leave, she was the logical choice. She managed to be nice to everyone
involved with the choosing process and with the help of Mr. Pearson she made it,
she became principal of the
Principal Durst vs.
Mr. Pearson
Principal Durst is a woman who never had any lover and she cannot date a
teacher because in her eyes she is in a position of power. The only acceptable
person for her is Mr. Pearson. Mr. Pearson knows that Principal Durst is
interested in him and will use this to his own advantage in order to get what
he wants from her. Unfortunately for the principal, Mr. Pearson is in love with
his lost wife that he wishes to get back somehow. And though Ms. Durst looks
like she wants to help him to get back his wife, she secretly despises that
idea that she will often reject as ridiculous. According to her Mr. Pearson
should get on with his normal life and look at other people who cares for him
today, like his son Vaughn and the school's staff (her). This is why and how
Mr. Pearson was able to get Ms. Durst on his side.
Mr. Pearson
Mr. Pearson was some sort of genius in his old days,
he had a vision that gave him the chance to experiment with some sort of time
machine. He had a vision and he built it. It went wrong and he lost his wife in
the process. Now he starts noticing that different times are co-existing and he
gets the idea that he could somehow get back his wife before she dies (or
disappears). Either his wife has been thrown into a different time, like
thousands of years ago, or perhaps she died during the experiment or died of
something else somewhere else. If she is in the past, he will want the kids to
experiment with the machine in order to see if they can make it work so
eventually he could find where in time his wife is. If his wife died, it will
be a question of going back in time before she dies in order to get her back to
the present or prevent her death.
He tried a lot of different things to get his wife back and he never
succeeded. Understanding that the kids are quite bright with the help of Prof
Z, he is willing to let them try again and again without really telling them.
Today Mr. Pearson is building stratagems and plans to get that help, he kind of lost it a little even though he is still
very intelligent. I don't think he should be that crazy demented man with a big
laugh, he should still appear as normal.
He gives a lot of attention to the kids because he is afraid they know too
much already, but he also gives them a lot of information indirectly because he
needs them to help him find his wife.
Mr. Pearson vs.
Vaughn
In order to reach the kids and lay down certain paths to follow to the
children, Mr. Pearson needs an insider, his son Vaughn. He already has
Principal Durst on his side, so he can already manipulate them very well. Mr.
Pearson should be sometimes the person creating a problem or a situation that
gets sort of delivered by his son Vaughn. Of course the children will always
benefit from the great resourcefulness of Vaughn who is helped by his dad.
There should be tunnels and caves under the science lab, with rooms with
equipments remaining from the times when the lab was working at full capacity.
Perhaps there should be a tunnel from the school to the lab in which certain
episodes could take place.
Vaughn is not a happy kid as he lost his mom and is unsure about the
love of his father. He blames his dad for this and always wants to know how and
when they will get her back. He will get to understand that his last chance is
the science club since all else failed. He could confide this to the others and
perhaps they could be aware and helpful, try to get her back (of course they
should never succeed). At the very least they could see her in the past, try to
save her but fail. That will be the big psychological problem of Vaughn, the
lost of his mom even though he knows there might be a way to get her back, so
he keeps some hope and dreams about it. Eventually, despite being a spy for his
father, he will become more and more on the side of the science club against
his dad, even though he will never stop from reporting everything, like a good
boy. He could eventually do something against his dad and will be punished for
this. Then he would get back to normal in his relationship with his dad (for
the need of the show).
Vaughn vs. Principal
Durst
Principal Durst should gets reports from Vaughn as well about what is
happening within the science club, but Vaughn will be much less responsive to
her, he will lack respect and he will play against her many times. He will not
like her too much because he knows she is interested in his dad and he does not
want her as his new mom. He says that they will get back his real mom somehow
one day.
Analysis of Ally
McBeal and Frasier
The whole success of Frasier and Ally McBeal was due to one particular
thing happening over and over again. First of all it was a very formal
environment. The court, the judges and the lawyers for McBeal, and the high
class family, good manners and importance of the projected image in Frasier.
All of this makes funnier the lies, the things we cannot admit, that cause us
to lie even more in order to cover our first lie. And always we lose face
completely. Then ultimately the truth time comes up and the story resolves
itself.
How I transpose this to Black Hole High
I believe we can have a lot of fun with the Principal, Mr Pearson and
his son Vaughn, if they are very formal or solemn and very high class. Often
the funny side comes from people who cares a lot about their image and suddenly
find themselves in very bad situations that compromise their image, formalism
or solemnity. But we have to be careful to not become grotesque or clownesque,
like for example Cruella in 102 Dalmatians. It should not become a circus.
Examples of this: the principal could have a bunch of habits that are
very important to her and the kids could displace her things, or prevent those
habits from happening. She could loose face in front of other teachers or even
worse, in front of the whole school. Same for Vaughn, he could be very proud of
one of his experiment, and it could turn sour because our science group would
have played with his experiment as a revenge on him for something he might have
done. (I am assuming that on top of the science club, there will be normal
chemistry, physics, mathematics and philosophy
classes.
Surveillance
I think the principal should hire Vaughn as a spy, to keep an eye on our
friends. And we should see the principal and Vaughn in very compromising
situations, like in the rooms of the students, or looking in their things. Or
suddenly they are around them trying to listen, and perhaps the kids could find
some microphones in their room and use this to their advantage, for a joke, in
order to compromise the principal (echoes of Richard Nixon surveillance at the
White House).
The most
I think the school should be heavily haunted, people should hear things
at night, see people walking by that suddenly disappear. Animals
suddenly flapping in the dark. Everyone should have their own little
story to tell. Of course, we will come to understand that this is because many
different times are co-existing in the same space, but
until we know that for sure, ghosts frightening students could be a nice little
touch to the show. Everybody likes ghost stories and suspense, especially if
you can discuss it in the science club and explain the phenomena
scientifically.
Sets
Science Club Room
This show should be different than other school shows because it is
Science Fiction. Even though this will be in a school, we should try to make it
look more like if we were in space (I said look like). A bit
like the merging of the old English Harry Potter school with a touch of sci-fi
in it. Walls made of stones would be much better, and there should be
many computers and monitor screens. We need to feel like we are on a ship, like
in Star Trek, even though we are in a school (so perhaps we should forget about
the old stones style?). It should be very clean and look very nice, a bit
hi-tech.
We are in the almost number one school in
Scientific Laboratory
For the laboratory, I liked a specific feeling that was used in a Star
Trek Voyager episode. The one where the holographic doctor is shipped into the
Alpha quadrant and arrives on a prototype Federation ship called Prometheus.
The sick bay is very nicely done, nice colors, with lights in the ceiling. This
looks like the best they have ever done. The episode is called: Message in a
bottle, season 4, episode 14.
The Rest - Very Futuristic
As this is a science fiction series and that usually we have certain
expectations when it comes to sci-fi, I will have everything look a bit
futuristic. Like if we were in the future. This can be easily justified by the
fact that Mr. Pearson, who is rich beyond belief, will never have less for the
school that his son is attending. I would not go as far as having the doors
opening like in Star trek, but almost. We should find the latest gadgets on the
market and have them everywhere, like PDA or Pocket PCs like the Compaq iPaq
which is the nicest looking one. It can be used as a mobile phone and a
satellite Global Positioning System (GPS). This could be used as some sort of
tricorder to find out that we are displaced in time and space. We should use
e-books in class and e-book readers. They exist in the market, but are not very
popular yet. They ought to be. Perhaps we should have computer desks for every
student. I had that in certain of my classes at the
This show should give us a taste of the future, even though it would
only use things that exist today. I think the school should be run by a main
computer that could be used to control everything. The most sophisticated
security system that the kids can break into and also the type of system
"House of the Future" that permits you to control everything with a
mobile phone/PDA Pocket PC.
Casting
Just one word about the fact that perhaps
the cast should not look so perfect, or too beautiful, like models. Personality should come first. We should not have the feeling that
these people are out from LA with a sun tan, and that they are the perfect kids
on the block that every parents want. They should all look intelligent, even
the baddies. We should not be too obvious with the Manichaeism,
the baddies should not be stupid or looking bad. Most often baddies are
intelligent and they are not so well identified. They don't have a tag over
their heads saying: I am a baddy. Intelligence should be required in order to
discover who are the baddies and how to fight them.
What I like about those
kids is that they appear intelligent and curious by nature, they are not
models, they don't look like your perfect kid that every parents
want, they don't have this attitude of "I am the best, listen to me and I
want to take over everything" and finally they appear dysfunctional. The perfect definition of a kid in a sci-fi series. Please
no dumb girls or fat stupid guy, nobody likes them. Nobody should act like if
they were kids, they should act as they are. Ultimately they should not act at
all, they should be themselves. That is why the casting is very important.
Atmosphere of the
show
I know it sounds a bit stupid to mention, but the old English school
atmosphere sounds good in this context, a bit like Harry Potter. I understand
we cannot have the cast starting to speak in a British accent, but to have one
British kid might be a good idea (
One model couple
representing the perfect parents
I think that we need a couple that loves each other and could
potentially go out together without ever really admitting it or doing anything
about it. I think this should also be a complicity with the kids and they
should not interfere that much, even though they will suggest it at times. So
the couple can still continue to pretend that nothing is happening whilst they
are in love. That can be a lot of text in the season. And it can be funny.
Now, who should they be? It cannot be the old woman, because she exists
in the present and she is old. And this pseudo relationship should be happening
in the present and the past. The new or old science teacher
with the principal? That is an idea, but that would mean getting the
principal much more involved in everything. She would need to be able to go in
different times too at some points.
What happens with the
second science teacher?
One of the science teachers could be a woman, and the other one a male.
As I mentioned they could wonder about the fate of the other when the old one
comes back. They might not want to be separated and they would have to find a
solution about keeping him or her. Then the principal could be a man instead of
a woman. Though the dichotomy man/woman, when it comes to Mr Pearson, seems
more interesting than two men.
Old Civilization in
the Past
It should be obvious that the experiment worked before exploding and
that they used it to go in the past. So later on in the series we can get to
know their secret dealings with a civilization that existed before us, and we
will discover that even though they lived before us, they were much more
futuristic than us. So in the lab we should see very hi-tech equipment and
perhaps the kids should find the equivalent of a Star Trek Tricorder. That
device could do many things and it will help them find the portal in order to
go back.
How they find their
way back
The old woman should say that the big magnets are creating a huge
magnetic field that opens a hole in the fabric of space. She was not that
involved, but she knows that they must have gone somewhere because they brought
back impressive objects. They also observed weird phenomena, like time appears
to be running at different rates in certain places of the lab.
Josie will then have a look at the device and from what the old woman
said, she will sort of understand that she can see
some areas where the gravity is stronger. The old teacher will deduct that time
might be running faster in those areas and that might be a way to find the portal
and go back to the future. Pushing buttons should indicate where to go in order
to go back.
What happens in the
long term and
how to survive beyond season one
I think that even though a lot of things can happen in the school, you
will quickly run out of idea. The series really should be revolving around the
lab and the experiment. Therefore, after the weird phenomena happening around
the school in the first episodes, puzzling most students and revealing the
science behind the whole experiment, you will need something more. That is why
the kids should go back into the past and find a way to control the machine. At
the very least they could visit that old civilization and discover this very
futuristic society and sort of not believe that there are no traces of their
existence. We could then learn that if our civilization would die today,
nothing would guarantee that in thousands of years another civilization would
find traces of our own existence. Therefore it is important to protect
ourselves from asteroids that could potentially destroy our planet (it could be
the reason why they disappeared, and this could be the conclusion that the
scientists reached by learning more about them before the machine exploded). We
could have a nice little speech about the universe. How Jupiter is so large
that it attracts most of the asteroids that otherwise could come and crash on
Earth. It should also be known that a relatively small asteroid could destroy a
whole city like
Not only that, but the kids could finally have their own time machine
and go in different times, just by finding the right portal. I would not do it
every time, and perhaps only once or twice in the first season (including the
whole civilization).
What happens in the
few subsequent episodes
-The invisibility is one, so we can talk about ghosts and people trapped
between two times, also between two realities (dream and reality).
-Episode about the Déjà-Vu and what it could be. So things happening in
the future could have happened in the past and by concentrating we can remember
the future and change it (we would talk about the fluctuation of the timeline)
the past and the present are not what they appear to be.
-The snow episode and the interpretation of the experiment as being a
nuclear explosion. An episode about the principal and Mr.
Pearson, the confrontation. We would also understand more about the fact
that different times are co-existing in the same
place, and this is because of the natural magnetic fields of the Earth being
trapped in our No Man's Land bubble. And obviously we could talk about what is
a nuclear explosion, radiation and the consequences of that.
-Episode about time rate being different in certain areas. A plane could
just freeze in the sky and the kids and the population needs to deal with this.
What would the principal do in front of this astonishing proof that something
is going on around here? So the kids will learn that by applying more gravity
or less gravity in the area of the plane, they can change the rate at which the
plane can go, and therefore unfreeze it from the sky.
-The kids should regularly look at the sky using a telescope. We need to
review what is the universe, its scale and life story. We should also get to
know what stars, planets and galaxies are and where we are in our own galaxy
the Milky Way.
-There should be an episode about that. They could be finding a way to
travel in time by figuring out the speed at which the solar system is going at
right now, and the speed it was going at during these different periods in
history. They would figure that out by looking at all the other solar systems
and galaxies, the gravity that has been exerted on our solar system, and the
famous device from the old civilization capable of calculating/processing these
things.
-We could have an episode about another weird device from the old
futuristic civilization. And this device could be used in some exploration of
the very small, like the atomic world. We could study Quantum Mechanics, but
incorporate that into another story with a crisis and a solution involving
Quantum Mechanics. Give me more time and I will come up with something.
-Table of the Elements. Find a situation, a crisis that can only be
solved by figuring out the interactions between certain elements (chemical
reactions) and applying them. We could learn that we are made of Carbon, and
computer intelligence from Silicon, and that ultimately none is better than the
other. It is a bit the story of Evolution, the Movie. The Aliens are made of
Nitrogen instead of carbon, therefore their poison, instead of being Arsenic,
it was Selenium. But we could do something like Plutonium decaying and involve
the story of Pierre and Marie Curie, discovering radioactivity and dying from
radiation poisoning. The weird situation in the bubble would have, for example,
transformed some normal matter into radioactive matter. We will then see how we
can take matter and transform it into something else.
-We could write a story around exploring things like Thunder and
electrical storms. Also Fire Balls (have you ever heard about this phenomenon?
Fire Balls appearing out of nowhere and chasing people before exploding into
something. Very interesting and frightening.
-Other subjects related to science: Force and Energy, Light, Sound
(waves), electricity, electronics and telecommunications.
Roland Michel Tremblay
www.themarginal.com rm@themarginal.com