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Saturday, December 02, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: THRILLER 40 (Paramount +) LADIES OF THE 80's: A DIVAS CHRISTMAS (Lifetime Canada) 8:00pm A CHRISTMAS SERENADE (OWN Canada) 9:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT? CHRISTMAS ON WINDMILL WAY (Premiering on December 08 on CTV Life at 8:00pm) A NOT SO ROYAL CHRISTMAS (Premiering on December 09 on CTV Life at 8:00pm)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

CRAVE TV ALVINNN!!! AND THE CHIPMUNKS (Season 3) PAW PATROL (Seasons 4 - 5)

DISNEY + STAR DOCTOR WHO: WILD BLUE YONDER

2023 FIFA MEN'S U17 WORLD CUP (TSN4) 6:48am: Final - Germany vs. France

NHL HOCKEY (SN) 2:00pm: Lightning vs. Stars (TSN3) 3:00pm: Chicago vs. Jets (CBC/City TV) 7:00pm: Detroit vs. Habs (SN1) 7:00pm: Kraken vs. Sens (SN) 7:00pm: Bruins vs. Leafs (CBC/SN) 10:00pm: Canucks vs. Flames

NBA BASKETBALL (TSN4) 4:00pm: Warriors vs. Clippers (SN Now) 8:00pm: Hawks vs. Bucks (TSN4) 9:00pm: Thunder vs. Mavericks

A MERRY CHRISTMAS WISH (CTV Life) 6:00pm: An NYC advertising executive returns to her hometown to sell the family farm but instead reconnects with her childhood friend and gets involved with organizing the yearly Winter Wonderland, which takes place on the property.

NLL LACROSSE (TSN) 7:00pm: Rush vs. Thunderbirds (TSN) 10:00pm: Panther City vs. Warriors

CTV NEWS SPECIAL: RICK HANSEN: UNBREAKABLE 50 YEARS LATER (CTV) 7:00pm

IRON MAN 3 (CTV) 8:00pm: After a malevolent enemy reduces his world to rubble, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) must rely on instinct and ingenuity to protect those he loves as he searches for a way to avenge his losses.

LETTERS TO SANTA (W Network) 8:00pm: When young siblings receive a magic pen from Santa that appears to be granting wishes, they request a Christmas gift they want more than anything -- for their separated parents to reunite.

CHRISTMAS AT THE DRIVE-IN (CTV Life) 8:00pm: A property lawyer finds romance during the holidays while trying to save her town's local drive-in from closing down.

WILD BABIES OF AMERICA'S NATIONAL PARKS (Nat Geo Wild) 8:00pm: Baby animals in the National Parks struggle through a perilous first year.

CATERING CHRISTMAS (CTV2) 9:00pm: Fledgling caterer Molly Frost is hired by perfectionist Jean Harrison for the renowned Harrison Foundation's annual Christmas Gala, but things get complicated when she falls for Jean's nephew.

TUCKED (OUT TV) 9:00pm: A veteran drag queen with a terminal illness begins a new friendship with a younger man and cleans up unfinished business with his estranged daughter.

INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR (Crave) 9:00pm: Josh Lambert heads east to drop his son, Dalton, off at school. However, Dalton's college dream soon becomes a living nightmare when the repressed demons of his past suddenly return to haunt them both.

SELENA + CHEF (HBO Canada) 9:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): Alex Guarnaschelli and Selena prepare roast beef and "Chantilly" mashed potatoes.

JOY RIDE (Starz Canada) 9:00pm: Four unlikely friends embark on an epic, no-holds-barred journey of bonding, belonging and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.

SNOW ANGEL (Super Channel Fuse) 9:00pm: After a fatal accident in a snowy village at the eastern tip of Quebec, a screwed-up ex-pro snowboarder decides to pack up her cabin and leave town for good, but someone -- or something -- seems intent on stopping her.

THE LITTLE THINGS (CTV) 12:35am: A deputy sheriff joins forces with a sergeant to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles.

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writinanon · 6 years

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Predator and Prey Details

Here’s the details from Hare and Wolves about everyone

When I say ‘native’ blood I mean the animals not native Americans because this is ostensible normal human history with animal traits splashed over it and normal human history is very depressing and unkind to indigenous peoples. As white people ‘settled’ the Americas their animalistic sides took on the traits of the animals that were better adapted to the New World. Some people didn’t like this and believed it to be a dilution of their heritage and so they only married people that had a traditional or married someone from Europe. As the land was taken over this stopped happening as much.

With the exception of Jerome and Burke everyone has either had their European blood diluted to the point that it only comes up in small traits or the ‘native’ blood around them has taken complete hold. Considering at best 6 and a half generations have passed since the end of slavery and only two have passed since the civil rights movement their animals would be more deeply connected to their African heritage than the others would be to their European heritage)

Rook – White-tailed Jackrabbit, Prey (She’s a Hare, which is a bit bigger and can run faster for longer than a rabbit.)

Jacob, Joseph, John – Red Wolf, Apex Predator (Native to the southeastern United States of America they’re going extinct do to practices however they are still the top of the food chain in their areas)

Faith – Grey Wolf, Apex Predator (Safely off the extreme end of the endangered zone they are the mental go to for the typical image of a wolf for people of the US and Canada)

Nick – Golden Eagle, Apex Predator (Of course he’s a fly boy. Coming from a long line of air force pilots the fact that he chose to not going into the military given his gift of flight was definitely against the grain for his family. Especially since his wife isn’t Bird Prey but Ground Prey.)

Kim – Yellow-bellied Mormont, Prey (These guys are awesome and I think Kim fits in with them perfectly well.)

Jerome – Side-striped Jackal, Predator (In the wild these Jackals are observed as being far less predatory as their relatives while not exactly gentle they aren’t likely attack for meat unless they actually want meat or it’s easy prey. Their territory range is in sub-Saharan Africa and while a bit more prairie like than Montana I felt the shift wouldn’t have been as dramatic and that his family would have moved to the plains as soon as they were able to. There are also no animals like the Jackal in the area, the closest would be a Coyote however they evolved separately enough that Jerome’s bloodline will remain Jackal unless he moves to a different location with a more similar animal or he mates into a different bloodline.)

Marshall Burke – Spotted-neck Otter, Predator (We know that the Marshall comes from Virginia as that is were the US Marshals are based primarily out of plus it gives credence to his total fish out of water knows absolutely nothing mindset. These guys are river otters from Africa and stick close to marshy areas and Virginia has a lot of wetland thanks to the Potomac River.)

Sheriff Whitehorse – White-tailed Deer, Combative Prey (Well he wasn’t going to be a horse. Though often skittish white-tailed deer are fairly territorial and will fight with other bucks for their desired does or grazing territory. They don’t like to come up against big predators, they’ll fight but are more likely to freeze or run, given the opening I felt this fit with the Sheriff’s attitude toward the Seeds.)

Deputy Hudson – Coyote, Apex Predator (Coyotes get a bad rap and I feel that seeing wolves as superior would carry over in this kind of world. What she lacks in size compared to a wolf she makes up for in cunning as well as speed.)

Deputy Pratt – Wire Fox Terrier, Predator (Bred to hunt foxes as well as other burrowing animals, these guys are quick and need a firm hand to guide them, they are however very loyal)

Mary-May – Golden Eagle, Apex Predator (I figured that Mary-May and Nick were cousins and that in this world the title of the bar would both be a sex joke and an animal joke so she gets to be a Golden Eagle too.)

Sharky – Long-tailed Weasel, Predator (Distantly related to the Mongoose Sharky is not one though. This brings him much sorrow after Rook tells him this.)

Hurk – Short-tailed Weasel, Predator (Cousin of the Long-tailed Weasel they are a little smaller and have a shorter tail however that’s about where the differences stop. Hurk gets a huge kick out of Sharky not knowing they weren’t Mongoose, he also finds it funny that Sharky doesn’t know the difference between a rabbit and a hare.)

Adelaide – Short-tailed Weasel, Predator (Small and vicious these guys can and will tear you a new one if they feel like it. They also enjoy heights as I learned when one decided to climb me like a tree and sit on my head for better vantage point.)

Grace – Red-tailed Hawk, Apex Predator (My personal favorite kind of hawk they’re quick and have excellent vision. Also, their screams are the ones that are usually subbed in for that of a Bald Eagle because Bald Eagles have very high-pitched shrieks not majestic wails like Red-tailed Hawks.)

Jess – Barn Owl, Apex Predator (They are the quietest of birds and shriek like banshees if they are displeased.)

Eli – Rocky Mountain Elk, Combative Prey (These guys are a little shaggy around the edges and are usually willing to fight a bear, cougar, or each other in defense of their children/herd)

Wheaty – American Crow, Predator (They will eat anything and are terribly smart)

All Alphas are Apex Predators (AP). Be it a raptor or a wolf or a big cat or a bear, if they’re a top of the food chain predator they are an Alpha.

Betas fall in the midrange Predator to the Combative Prey (CP), animals that can be both predator and prey like weasels or dogs or snakes as well as larger prey animals that can fight off attackers but don’t actively seek out other animals as prey, deer or moose or horses.

Omegas are purely Prey. Mice, rabbits, small birds, creatures that are usually the dinner of predators in the wild. However, being the most fertile and able to carry the largest groupings of children unlike their wild counterparts Omegas are treasured and beloved, sometimes hoarded by Alphas.

Rook is a white-tailed Jackrabbit, Prey.

The Seeds are what are known as Red Wolves, Apex Predators. With the exception of Faith being a Grey Wolf as she was born in Montana and not Georgia.

Prey tend to prefer to mate with Betas or other Omegas because AP’s are possessive, controlling, and often very aggressive. They prefer the milder nature of Betas, be they Predator or CP Betas seem more in touch with the human side of them all and that leads them to being the most level headed out of the separate groups. The Predators are usually the ones that go into things like law enforcement or dangerous jobs because they can keep their heads better than AP’s (not to say that AP’s don’t go into the military or police work Jacob was a military man; however, Predators tend to make the majority of people who pass the psych tests to become military or police).

AP’s tend to try and only mate with Prey because Prey are the most fertile, the most likely to bare larger groups of children, and there are only one of two ways it can go AP or Prey.

When they go to arrest Joseph, Rook has scent blockers on because she is Prey and while it’s not against the rules a lot of AP’s and even Predators would attempt to subdue her with pheromones and then claim she was unfit to arrest and get to escape scot-free. John’s baptism and then her subsequent swim in the lake washed them all off and she doesn’t have the chance to get more. Eden’s Gate is a big believer in living naturally, as ‘The Lord Intended’ and so birth control and scent blockers are contraband. This is one of the reasons that Kim is actually pregnant during what is tantamount to a war for the county (they wanted kids and are more than happy to have their little bundle of joy however having a kid with a crazy cult just down the way that is militant and trying to take your lively hood? Not exactly the best idea. But with birth control drying up they were left with almost no choice). This is bad because she gets a shot for birth control and her shot is wearing off.

Of course, all of the resistance members know what she is, Sharky likes to tease her and call her Lucky. (She argues that she’s a Hare not a rabbit and there is a distinction stop laughing you stupid weasel! To which he replies he’s a mongoose and Rook has to explain that mongoose are much larger stoats. They blow up a Peggie outpost to make him feel better after finding out his ‘Whole life is a lie’ while Hurk laughs in the background.)

The visions of Jackalopes in Faith’s region frighten her, it’s not right for them to have horns and she always runs back to Jerome or the Sheriff after encountering them. She doesn’t want to become a mindless follower, the shell of what she was once.

Shockingly, the Judges are more afraid of her than she is of them when she’s in her much more diminutive form. Jacob has seen her literally riding them in her smaller form. Before he knows it’s the Deputy he is confused as fuck.

As autumn closes in on them she moults her soft brown/grey fur into her snow-white fur, the only color being on the tips of her ears which are tipped in black year-round.

Everyone in the Wolf’s Den coo over her change, she has to stay as a Hare and can’t shift back into her human form until she fully moults, instead of taking weeks it takes roughly three days.

Boomer, Peaches, and Cheeseburger follow her because she has a sweet gently scent and offers nothing but love. They recognize her no matter what form she is in and, before they know it is the Deputy, Peggies and towns folk alike are baffled by the sight of a bear and a cougar protectively guarding a rabbit (I’m a fucking Hare you morons!).

#Far Cry 5 #A/B/O AU #Prey Deputy #Hares are not bunnies #Stop cooing Rook is not adorable she is a tiny monster and will destroy everything you love

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buzzdixonwriter · 6 years

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Writing In The Fred Astaire Style

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire were both incredible dancers, yet with diametrically opposed styles.

Kelly always wanted to make sure you knew how hard he was working and that you appreciated how hard he was working.

Astaire, on the other hand, made it look natural.

Smooth.

Effortless.

Writing is like that.

Some writers want you to see how hard they’re working at their craft.

Others just want the story to flow naturally, smoothly, effortlessly even though the amount of craftsmanship is just as high -- in fact, perhaps even higher, since part of the skill lays in how well it’s hidden from view.

A prime example of Fred Astaire style storytelling is in one of my all time favorite movies and, depending on how I’m feeling at that particular moment, arguably my favorite or second favorite Western, Rio Bravo (written by Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett off of a short story by B. H. McCampbell, directed by Howard Hawks).

Rio Bravo frequently gets dismissed when people evaluate classic Westerns because it contains no obvious Big Important Themes such as those found in The Searchers or High Noon or The Ox Bow Incident.

All of which, in my way of thinking, are Gene Kelly style examples of storytelling.

The beauty and joy of Rio Bravo is how naturally, smoothly, effortlessly it unfolds, how deceptively simple it seems.

Simple? Ha!

The moment you pop the lid on this baby you realize it’s as intricate as a Swiss watch.

Let’s analyze one of the most important scenes in the film, a relatively low key moment not nearly as entertaining or as exciting as the rest of the picture, but absolutely crucial in setting up much of what will come in the story.

And not just by the plot threads it introduces but how those plot threads will interact with other plot threads.

[I’m drastically streamlining the story here in order to get quickly to the key scene, which is the fourth scene in the final edited film. The movie follows the plot of the final draft screenplay very closely, though it’s clear they were fiddling with the dialog during production and eliminated several redundant scenes or lines in the final cut.]

Scene 1 / credits: A freight wagon train approaches the town of Rio Bravo

Scene 2: Sheriff Chance (John Wayne) and Dude (Dean Martin) arrest sadistic bully Joe Burdette (Claude Akins) for murder.

Scene 3: Pat Wheeler (Ward Bond) and Colorado (Ricky Nelson) lead the freight wagons into Rio Bravo. They’re stopped at the edge of town by Dude, whom Wheeler only knows as the town drunk.

Scene 4: Wheeler, Colorado, and the wagon train are stopped again near the jail by Sheriff Chance.

WHEELER: Chance, what's going on here? People stopping me. Everybody telling me what I can and can't do. Next thing, you'll be telling me what to do.

CHANCE: Pat, I will tell you.

WHEELER: What?

CHANCE: Stop your wagons.

WHEELER: I give up. [signals wagons to stop] Now don't tell me what's going on. Just leave me wandering around in the fog. I like it. I'm getting used to it. It makes me feel so good.

CHANCE: You better look out, Pat, you'll blow up and bust.

WHEELER: Listen, Chance, remember me? Your old friend Pat Wheeler. Now, will you please--

Dude rides up.

DUDE: Hey, Chance! What do you want to do about this outfit? Do you want to take their guns?

CHANCE: Got any new men with you, Pat?

WHEELER: No, nobody except Colorado here.

CHANCE: Where'd you take him on?

WHEELER: Fort Worth.

CHANCE: What does he do?

COLORADO: I speak English, Sheriff...if you want to ask me.

CHANCE: All right, buster, what do you do?

COLORADO: I'm riding guard.

CHANCE: Pretty young for that, aren't you?

COLORADO: Just how old do you have to be, Sheriff?

WHEELER: You remember Ryan from Denver, don't you?

CHANCE: Rocky Ryan?

WHEELER: That's his boy. He tells me the kid's faster than he was.

CHANCE: He better be, packing a pair of guns.

COLORADO: Now, Sheriff, if it's the two guns that bother you, I could give you one of them. I could let you have them both. They wouldn't do me too much good. That fellow in the door there has a shotgun on me.

Chance turns to see Stumpy (Walter Brennan) aiming a shotgun through the barred security window on the jail door.

CHANCE: Stumpy, didn't I tell--

STUMPY: I know. I'm going. I'm going.

CHANCE: You can keep your guns, Colorado.

COLORADO: Thanks, Sheriff. I don't want any trouble.

CHANCE: Well, then don't start any.

COLORADO: I won't, unless I tell you first.

CHANCE: That's good enough. Pat, you can put your wagons in that corral.

WHEELER: I ought to do just that.

CHANCE: What?

WHEELER: I'm just guessing, you understand. It seems to me that you've already got some trouble here.

CHANCE: You're guessing right.

WHEELER: It so happens that part of our load there is fuel oil and dynamite. Would you like to have that sitting next to you?

CHANCE: No, I wouldn't.

DUDE: They could put them over there by the creek. Near the Burdette warehouse. If it's going to blow that's just as good a place as any.

CHANCE: Show them the way, Dude. You can go along, Colorado.

COLORADO: Is that the way you want it, Mr. Wheeler?

WHEELER: Go ahead.

Dude leads Colorado and the wagon train to the creek.

CHANCE: Let's get out of the middle of the street.

WHEELER: Now that you're satisfied and that the kid's got his guns...would you mind telling me what this is all about?

CHANCE: We've got Joe Burdette in here.

WHEELER: Joe Burdette in jail? Nathan's brother?

CHANCE: That's right.

WHEELER: What are you holding him for?

CHANCE: They were about to bury the reason when you were coming in.

WHEELER: Murder?

CHANCE: No other word for it.

WHEELER: No wonder this town's in such a mess. What does Nathan say about this?

CHANCE: Nothing. He's not talking. Just doing. You saw part of it. He's got this town so bottled up that I can't get Joe out or any help in. There are men over there watching us. They're his. I can't make a move without him knowing it.

WHEELER: Who you got helping you?

CHANCE: You met half of them.

WHEELER: You mean that fellow with the badge that stopped me, and who else?

CHANCE: Stumpy. You know him. He's watching Joe and guarding the jail.

WHEELER: A game-legged old man and a drunk. That's all you got?

CHANCE: That's what I got.

WHEELER: If I ever saw a man holding the bull by the tail, you're it. It's a good idea putting my wagons where they're safe. Guess I better see they did it.

CHANCE: I'll see you later.

Let’s break down what this scene does:

In a very naturalistic manner, it introduces a character who (a) logically doesn’t know what is going on and (b) logically needs to know what is going on so our protagonist can deliver a lot of necessary expository material without it sounding like a bald faced info dump.

It tells us what the stakes are: A lone sheriff and two woefully deficient deputies up against a rich and powerful foe determined to thwart justice by rescuing his brother with the help of a gang of hired guns.

It introduces three very important characters who will be absolutely necessary in the resolution of the story: Wheeler, who will get killed because of his friendship to the sheriff, and as a result provide both an opportunity for Dude to redeem himself as well as the impetus for Colorado to insert himself into the fray over the objections of Chance; Colorado, who is shown to be a cocky smart ass yet recognized and respected by Chance based on how coolly he reacted when he realized Stumpy had a gun on him; and Stumpy, whom we’ll soon learn has his own motives against the Burdette brothers that will prove vitally important at the climax when ///he/// shows up over Chance’s objections.

Look also at Colorado’s line: “I won't [start any trouble], unless I tell you first.” That’s a set-up that pays off when a new character and sub-plot, Feathers the gambler (Angie Dickenson) blows into town. Chance has reason to suspect her of cheating at cards and confronts her on it, but Colorado interrupts them by revealing he’s spotted the actual card cheat and is letting the sheriff know before he accuses the tinhorn; this puts Chance in the position of having to apologize to Feathers for suspecting her without cause, and that leads to a burgeoning relationship that further leads to Feathers saving Chance’s life by providing a distraction that lets Colorado shoot two of Burdette’s men who have the drop on the sheriff (which in turn results in Colorado being deputized).

Oh, and there’s one last crucial element this scene supplies…

There are few greater sins in writing than the deus ex machine -- the “god in a machine” -- who swoops down without preamble at the last second to save the protagonists.

The deus ex machine is the writer forcing themselves into the story, making it work the way they want it to work instead of letting it flow naturally, smoothly, effortlessly.

And at the climax of Rio Bravo -- when Chance and Dude and Colorado are pinned down by murderous fire from Burdette’s warehouse, hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned and about to be outflanked by Burdette’s men -- what flows more naturally, more smoothly, more effortlessly than for Stumpy to show up with a case of dynamite he took from Wheeler’s nearby freight wagons, determined to see both Burdettes pay for their crimes?

That’s a lot of dramatic weight in one simple little scene, and until the end credits roll you never know it’s there.

#writing #media #Westerns #Leigh Brackett #Jules Furthman #Howard Hawks #John Wayne #Dean Martin #Ricky Nelson #Angie Dickenson #Ward Bond #Claude Akens

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