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OMG!!! I'm am totally PSYCHIC!! When Karl accidentally let slip that you and he had a 'big announcement' coming, my first thought was "ooh, I wonder if they'll do an "Outcasts" and reboot the show?"

CAN I CALL IT OR WHAT?!?!

So excited for this!! Trinity will really have a chance to shine again!!

currently storyboarding out episode 3 of M:SCU, aiming to have the first have of the season all storyboarded by the end of the month, and progressing into writing them, once storylines are nailed down. hoping to start releasing 'spoilers' and get speculation going and finding out what people would like to see within the next week.

A tough as nails member of the Metropolis Police Department, Maggie transferred from Star City after her divorce, and steadily worked her way up to Captain before transferring to the Detective Division. She has been assigned a variety of high profile cases in the past, and has always given 110% to her job, sometimes at the cost of a social life, and causes a strained relationship with her teenage daughter, Jamie. She has had no significant personal interactions since she came to Metropolis but this will change as she forges close bonds not only with her new partner and the staff at the SCU, and as her burgeoning relationship with reporter Toby Raines develops. Although, like most police officers in the city, she doesn't agree with the 'costumes' waging their own battle, she does appreciate how their work has improved things, and has come to see the usefulness those not in law enforcement can have in crime solving. However, she also feels that certain members of the higher ranks have come to depend on their help a little too often, and has been rather outspoken in her opinion that the whole of Metropolis PD needs more serious training and extra funding. Her transfer to command of the S.C.U. was supposed to be a punishment duty, but she has turned the department around with a high case closure rate, earning her the support of Police Commissioner Mike Henderson.


After his testimony convicted several other officers at the 44th precinct, Dan Turpin has not had it easy, often getting into fights with his fellow officers who question his loyalty to the force. His marriage has been under strain as her career went through a downward spiral, as he was relegated to various lowly duties, but his promotion to Detective, 3rd Grade, and transfer to the SCU gives him hope things are turning around in his favour. Tenacious and stubborn, he is a good sidekick for Sawyer, acting as her partner, as she sees potential and wants to help hone his skills and smooth down the edges he has developed over the past year. His wife Suzie and son Thomas are the light of his life, and he goes to work every day to make the streets of Metropolis safe for them and other families, just like his own father, a police sergeant before his death in the line of duty, did before him.


The youngest of 5 children and only daughter of a minister from Orangeburg, South Carolina, who went on to become a junior Medical Examiner working for the Metropolis OCME, Beth Chapel has seen some bizarre cases across her autopsy table. A trained forensic pathologist with the necessary medical and legal qualifications, she originally trained as a surgeon in Los Angeles before the loss of too many patients took its toll, transferring to the Medical Examiner's office. After a short time though, she found that while her 'patients' were no beyond her medical help, she could still bring them some peace by helping put their killers away. Wanting to progress further in her new field, she started taking night school courses, and achieving her law degree, went to work where she felt she could get a new start, leaving LA behind, and moving to Metropolis. Her attention to detail, and ability to look beyond the obvious, and keep an open mind, and her friendship with Maggie Sawyer, means she has become the unofficial ME to the SCU, often being assigned to their cases, which appealed to Chapel's sense of justice, inherited from her father.


One of the several forensic technicians assigned to the crime lab at Metro Central, the main branch of the Metropolis Police Department, Wally was recruited from the Central City police lab by Maggie herself, since he felt a place like Metropolis would offer more of a challenge, especially with the increase in meta-related cases. She recognised his talent and genius, even if it came with a somewhat eccentric and outrageous personality, which had caused several reprimands on his service record. Wally loves being the source of attention, and knows he can deliver the goods, be it with some little tid-bit of information, or one of his cheesy wisecracks, that only he really finds funny. But all this behaviour is to mask the fact that he suffers from a anxiety disorder, brought about when he suffered a case of identity theft, and someone ran up large bills in his name. He is the main go-to guy for any matters relating to forensics matters on any SCU cases, and while he will sometimes go out to crimes scenes, this is only as a last resort, so he is usually a lab-rat, happy to help from the sidelines.


A brilliant research scientist, Kitty Faulkner was one of the last personal hires of Virgil Swann before his untimely death several years ago, and has slowly risen to the position of Assistant Head of Research and Development at the Metropolis branch of S.T.A.R. Labs, a private research institute set up by Swann. Although a biochemist by training, Kitty’s genius IQ and photographic memory have become something of al all-rounder as well as a go-to trouble shooter, and this is what brings her to the attention of Maggie Sawyer and the S.C.U. when Dr. Chapel recommends they pay a visit to her for help with a ‘meteor rock’ problem. Kitty’s cheerful demeanour and occasional ditzy moments hide a dark past, growing up where she was abused by a step-father, and rejected by a mother jealous of her intelligence, meaning Kitty has had very little in the way of familial support over the years. The bonds she forms with the S.C.U. members go some way to mitigating these feelings, and although over the years she has attempted to play down her natural intelligence and amazing mind to better ‘fit in’ with people, it is the work at both S.T.A.R. and with the S.C.U. that allows her to finally come into her own.

Vampire Diaries for me, is one of the shows I watch when it comes out on DVD - thats how I watched Season 1 and 2, and finally 3, although, like with Season 4, I read up weekely on the developments, so know all about Jeremy dying, Elena turning off her humanity, and Bonnie descending into darker magics.
I originally liked Bonnie, but for me, she wasn't the same after Season 1 - she had the charm of being a novice witch at first, making mistakes, but then suddenly, she's Super-Witch out of nowhere. In Season 2, she annoyed me because she was all judgy about Caroline being a vampire and killing someone, having conviniently forgotten the only reason she WAS a vampire was because she was one of the ones arguing Damon should give her his blood! Season 3, she only got worse, when she got all whiny about Jeremy being haunted by his dead girlfriends - hello, woman, that's YOUR FAULT as well! How can you moan about his giving Anna a final kiss considering the way they were torn apart?! I honestly hope she moves onto the hereafter and finds peace, after they finally defeat Silas SOMEHOW, because I think she's done all she can, she was becoming TOO convinient.
I'm also a little disappointed that they DIDN'T kill Katherine - I was hoping the show down would be something akin to the novels, where Elena sacrifices herself to destroy Katherine, but then they use the cure to save her from a final death. With Elena now a vampire, Katherine is a glimpse at just how far Elena herself might fall one day, so I suppose that's why they're keeping her around - plus the fact that Klaus now has ANOTHER doppleganger to fall back on (especially if "The Originals" doesn't last more then a single season, and they bring him back to the parent show), Katherine might find herself in quite a scary place.

Come along, Karl, I'm eagerly anticipating this review!!

yeah, Ms. Aimee suggested Celtx, to help with the format - I originally used Microsoft Works (my laptop's default word processing program), and I'm getting there with Celtx, but generally only after I've planned it all out in Works first

As soon as weebly work again for me (lousy new internet connection!!!) I will put up the re-checked, hopefully FINAL version.

EDIT: Script is now up, same earlier link still works.

New version of premiere/pilot episode, now coming in and just under 65 pages...

www.weebly.com/uploads/1/6/5/9/16593520/metropolis-_special_crimes_unit_1.01__formation.pdf

I had a thought today - although many of us are CHLOLLIE fans, naturally, with the departure of Justin Hartley from the show, and the fact that, from what little info about Season 3 has been released, Bruce spends the last year looking for a way to resurrect Chloe, this year there will definately be a chance to explore some of the romantic and sexual tensions between the two leads.
However, not only is Bruce mourning Chloe, but he's presumably also mourning the departure of Selina... and ADD TO THAT, the fact that this season introduces Talia Al Ghul, who in the comics was one of the MAJOR players in the love life of Batman AND Bruce Wayne. Bruce may play up the ladies man angle as part of his 'secret identity', but he's DEFINATELY going to have his hands full with femme fatales and love triangles this year... poor guy!!