An interracial family adopts a pair of kids with special powers from an orphanage, and sets out to help each of them find their one remaining parent.

Super Family Drama

17 reviews

livejosh1nine Penpusher · 1 pts

Sorry everybody, I got sick from a tooth infection out of nowhere last week that took me. I'm reviewing everything said! Thanks for the feedback!

Neer Shelter Singularity · 55,464 pts

I still don't understand the need for a dual protagonist as it doesn't add to the story.

"Having two unrelated kids get adopted by the same family creates a much bigger strife potential," - I don't see how.

"...but also shows the power of family in a much bigger way." - I don't see how this is the case either.

I strongly recommend focusing on a single protagonist plot it is hard enough to structure as is already.

Your latest draft of the logline is better but still lacks a clear cut cause and effect relationship between the kids and the foster families avoiding capture.

"...the show is about family and the love of a family." - if so then make the family the goal. If the kids already have a loving family in form of the foster family and still decide to go after the biological parents they never knew then the story is about biological relationships and not necessarily family.

I'd change my original logline recommendation to:
After an orphan with a fear of abandonment is abducted and made a clairvoyant by a secret government agency, he senses his parents are alive and in trouble he must break out of the agency and find his parents before it is too late.

If it is about two kids and a family the support network available to them is greater. They are safer and have more resources at their disposal ultimately it is less interesting as the chances of success are higher this way.

Make it a single protagonist with no family and he or she want to get a family (as the show is about the love of a family they want so badly) also make them young and make them go out into the world on their own to do this and the stakes go sky high.

Rutger Oosterhoff Samurai · 930 pts

OK, do not use ...xing, if you can. Keep the words 'active' if possible. Futher more I like NIRs take because it links all elements together: "After an orphan with a fear of abandonment is made a clairvoyant by a secret government agency, he with the help of his new adopting family must find his parents whom he senses are alive and in trouble. " I'm not sure of: " .. he with..." must that not be "...he(,) with.." ?

dpg Singularity · 112,231 pts

>>>ultimately the show is about family and the love of a family

Which is always a powerful theme. But the central conceit of the story -- what makes it stand out from a 1,001 other films with a similar family value theme -- is the special powers of the kids.

For what nefarious purpose does the government want to "harvest their imagination"?

livejosh1nine Penpusher · 1 pts

Originally the story had the government telling them that they had parents alive... but the story- and log line- may work better if they sense their parents as a result of their powers... hm...

"Two foster children, upon receiving complex mind powers from a rogue government agency, immediately sense their remaining parents are alive and in trouble and set out with their adopting family to find them, while avoiding capture from rogue agency."

I know it's a little long, but am I on the right track?

livejosh1nine Penpusher · 1 pts

Well the idea behind the powers is this.... the government agents were trying to harvest the power of imagination from the children. All of the other children were abducted by nightmares, but the remaining two were able to imagine the nightmares away.

I'm having trouble keeping the imagination bit down to a concise form.

And in addition to them being strong in imagination, I made the two of them the main characters because ultimately the show is about family and the love of a family. Having two unrelated kids get adopted by the same family creates a much bigger strife potential, but also shows the power of family in a much bigger way.