Studio-Stranger(s)

A Story by Abishai100

Will an iconic Chicago media-network (studio) be 'invaded' by a corrupting 'stranger' (Martian) who challenges pedestrian/society depression?

A media-parody inspired by Switching Channels (Christopher Reeve). Enjoy,

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Modern urban drama/traffic requires a new brand of photojournalism and media/TV coverage, which drew out a new brand of youth-conscious news-folk and media-reporters who'd be able to span this expanse of uncontrolled dramatics and complexity.

AMLAN SATAN: After graduating Dartmouth, I became a Chicago news-figure (TV) and think of myself as a Facebook-IQ nerd.

Satan's got a new Windy-City pad and boasts his Cubs-Topps cards collection and has a 'classic' eBay Sony Trinitron cube-TV with vintage remote and lives with his tennis-coach girlfriend (Sandy) and thinks of this newfound life in media-intrigue as reflective of an American design for traffic-reporting and creative thinking.

AMLAN SATAN: Our network media-studio is quite sophisticated and boasts all the camera/lighting 'machinery' for alien-talk.

Other 'characters' in this Chicago media-studio include a plethora of individuals 'recruited' from around North America and from various backgrounds, including the fiery redhead Shelbye O'Hara who thinks that her reports about Irish-Catholic street-culture in the Windy-City reflects a social pocket of media-audience/subculture society 'clique' access to Facebook-IQ.

Yet another 'figurine' in this media-landscape in the Windy-City is Desmond, a Stanford graduate and African-American who's likening the modern pluralism folk-politics media-coverage (e.g., LA Race Riots) to the cinematic designs/presentations of 'shock-value' storytelling and likens this intrigue surrounding traffic/immigration to alien storyboarding, also good for Facebook-IQ.

EMMY SHOW: The network landscape offers a rich view of the ideations of capitalism in pedestrian-IQ.

Amidst all this regular functionality in this Windy-City studio, a stranger arrived in a classic maroon Bentley claiming he'd been here as a freelance journalist from Crimea with an offering to become a studio-creative consultant for sideshow features and charmed the executives completely.

AMLAN SATAN: This new guy ('Endymion') is a Martian!

EXECUTIVE: Are you losing it, Satan?
AMLAN SATAN: No, he looks exactly like me, under that mask, and I've no twins/brothers I know of, sir!
EXECTUVE: Endymion's an invaluable addition to the studio, Amlan; he's producing the new chess-pic.

AMLAN SATAN: I know, chess for minority reports; he's here to destroy morale...an actual Martian!

EXECUTIVE: Alright, Amlan; you're a respected Ivy-man; if we find conspiracy/sabotage, we'll inquire.

AMLAN SATAN: Good; I'll return to my Facebook-IQ segment research, sir.

When it was discovered Amlan Satan committed suicide just 2 months later from a pill-overdose, conspiracy rumors grew inside the now iconic Windy-City media studio, and others began wondering if Endymion really was some kind of 'Iago' from Mars.