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Not Quite Right features discussions that
are unfiltered and uncensored,

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and may include themes that are
inappropriate for younger listeners.

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Also, I swear a lot.

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Something doesn't seem quite right.

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Welcome to Not Quite Right.

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My name's Ed and I'm Amanda.

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And welcome to the 5th and final
Daredevil for the January 2026 Not Quite

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Right Prize for Flash Fiction.

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Now, Daredevils,
our people have signed up for the honour

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and privilege of having their story
absolutely annihilated on the podcast.

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Which is fun, isn't it?

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It's fun for everyone involved.

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Except for the Daredevil.

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Only masochists need apply,
which is every writer, let's be real.

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But some are masochists in private and
some prefer their pain to be more public.

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But for the rest of us sadists,
we can watch from a distance.

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From a safe distance.

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What's the safe word here on the
Daredevil?

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Please only I only know unsafe words.

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So we will read out the story,
we'll talk about the story, break it down,

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share our thoughts,
and hopefully all will learn something in

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the process.

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In addition to our schadenfreude from
watching our poor Daredevil get

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annihilated.

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And who is in the hot seat today?

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In the the devilishly hot seat is
Marianna Saran, First time Daredevil,

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first time Daredevil, second time entrant.

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And Mariana has chosen well and chosen
the winning team this round.

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Which team?

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Which team was that, Amanda?

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Well, it depends how you look at it,
because if you look at which team had the

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winner on it, then it's Team Amanda.

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I don't think that's how it works.

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I think.

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Well, you did ask me, which was a dumb.

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That was a bad move on my part.

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No, Mariana's chosen correctly and wisely,
and she's chosen Team Ed,

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the winning team.

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All right, well,
what were your prompts this round?

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And Team Ed prompts were the word quick,
the action of planting something,

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and the kicker of having a character who
is a flawed protagonist.

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So let's read the story, shall we?

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All right, let's show.

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And the story is called All in God's Plan
by Marianna Saran.

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You're not my mum.

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There it is,
the 4 words I never wanted to hear,

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the phrase that's been gnawing at me
steadily for the past 14 years.

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I continue planting my rose.

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A thorn nixed me, drawing blood.

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It's an omen.

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I look up, smiling.

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She's expressionless, stone cold.

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I've never seen my bubbly,
quick witted sweetheart this way.

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Lucille, don't be ridiculous.

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Of course I am.

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I dust my hands of earthy remnants and
stand to meet her gaze.

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Reaching deep into her pocket,
Lucille retrieves a crumpled piece of

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paper, her eyes boring into me.

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I admire their green hue,
her beautiful long Auburn hair and

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flecked nose,
none of which she's inherited from me.

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I note her usual rosy lips are grey.

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Unravelling the sheet,
wrinkled letters spread to spell missing.

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It winds me.

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The photo of two year old Lucille sits
puckered on the page next to a computer

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generated expectation of her appearance.

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It's accuracy is annoying.

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I've loved this little puppet since first
wrapping my arms around her on that

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overcast day in June.

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It was down South, Not a parent insight,
this helpless tiny tot,

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abandoned in the middle of the road,
riding her tricycle.

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No helmet,
no protection from the world's atrocities.

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Fate had it that I came along.

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It was all in God's plan.

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I opened my mouth to protest.

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Lucille interjects before I can draw
breath.

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Don't even think about lying.

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I've already called the police.

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I grab her hand, yanking her in,
thrashing like an animal that's been

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given a hit.

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She evades capture.

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Baby, where's this coming from?

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My voice,
a gentle whisper from the girls at school.

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Mum, wait, can I even call you that?

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Well, that's right,
you're not my ******* mum, are you?

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Language, young lady,
don't you ******* tell me what to do.

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Lucille's tone offends me.

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The girl facing me is suddenly
unrecognisable.

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I guess blood really is thicker than
water.

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Ungrateful little ****.

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14 years of unconditionally loving this
kid means nothing to her.

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Where's my real mum?

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The venom strikes quick and deep.

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Your real mum.

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I'm your real mum.

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The girls at school, they saw this online.

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She waved the evidence, slicing my face.

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When I rescued Lucille,
the web wasn't for children.

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Now anyone can access the entangled lies,
forever swirling in the cloud.

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I thought moving Interstate would leave
the loose ends across the border.

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I was wrong.

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Honey, I hate you.

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Tears spill.

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I saved you.

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Your mother didn't care about you.

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She didn't deserve you.

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Lucille takes a loose brick from the
pavement and hurls it at my head.

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Dancing lights pull into our driveway.

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Please understand.

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I I love you.

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You'll always be my daughter.

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Lucille's eyes swell.

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Thank God she knows I love her.

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I'll never think of you again.

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The words fire like an assault rifle,
leaving wounds beyond repair.

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Two officers approach, cuffing me.

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Casey Allenby,
you're under arrest for the abduction of

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Sally Montgomery.

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Thank you for your story, Marianna.

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And Marianna has left us a voicemail,
which we'll play now.

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Hello, My name's Mariana Sarin,
and I'm the author of All in God's Plan.

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The inspiration for this story has been
drawn upon a lifetime as a journalist,

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where good people do bad things,
and sometimes they convince themselves

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that those bad things are not so bad.

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I also hope that there was a twist in my
story in that people assumed Lucille had

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perhaps been a adopted, but at the end,
obviously, we find out that she was,

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in fact, abducted.

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So thank you, Marianna,
for your story and for your message.

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I think we should just get straight into
it.

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Yeah, for sure.

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And we will start with the title,
which is all in God's plan.

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And that is a phrase that appears kind of
around the middle of the story and maybe

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hints potentially at the frame of mind
perhaps of our protagonists here are very

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flawed protagonists.

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And there's a title.

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I think it's fine.

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I think it works, it does the job.

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I don't think religion is a major theme
necessarily in the story.

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And so I wouldn't,
I would say that it didn't recall the

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story for me and it didn't like echo that
central theme.

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But as a title, it's fine.

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Yeah.

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And you know, you say this at other times,
like using that kind of cliche phrase

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doesn't necessarily feel special or
unique with the story.

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So it does pay to think that through a
little bit.

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But yeah, you know,
it's not a problematic title.

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It's just one where maybe there's an
opportunity to to elevate.

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I guess in this case the cliche phrase of
all in God's plan is presented ironically,

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like the fact that it is perhaps a
righteous phrase that is used in a way

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that is not so righteous.

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I suggest it often is.

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But anyway,
it's a conversation for another time.

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OK,
let's get into the story and the opening

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line.

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You're not my mum.

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And Marianna, in your message,
you indicated starting off with maybe

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some assumptions of adoption coming
through.

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And actually,
the first time I read this story,

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my first assumption was it was like a
stepmom situation.

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Yeah, because me too.

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A common way you would hear that,
or maybe not.

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You're not my mum,
but you're not my real mum kind of thing.

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And yeah,
that would be a common experience for

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step parents to have a child sort of act
out at that age and say, well,

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you can't tell me what to do.

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Yeah.

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And more acting out of this kind of of
teen rebellion rather than what we come

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00:09:23.058 --> 00:09:24.240
to learn in this story.

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So, you know,
Mariana mentioned that in her message,

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and I feel like she successfully
delivered that twist.

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Yeah, which is good.

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You know,
we often say it's hard to pull off A

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twist in a 500 word story, and she did.

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So that's a big tick there.

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And maybe talking high level as we go
through.

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I think this is a well constructed story.

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We start off with a interjection into a
very calm moment,

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which is our protagonist just planting
flowers in the garden and slowly

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00:09:52.134 --> 00:09:56.352
escalating and adding more detail and
adding more urgency,

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I guess right up until the end where
she's carted away in handcuffs basically.

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So I think just as a high level comment,
generally,

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I think that's that's handled quite well.

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We do get that story progression.

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We have a beginning,
we move into our middle,

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we have an ending,
and it's not a vignette,

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it's a complete story.

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That's true.

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I mean,
we do spend a fair bit of time inside

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this characters head, which I said this,
I believe in our longest episode.

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I do actually think it's quite
appropriate to spend some time in the

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head of a flawed protagonist.

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I do think you need to see their thought
process to really appreciate what they're

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doing and why.

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And I did feel in this case that I
understood the protagonist.

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I wouldn't go so far as to say, you know,
I resonated with her or could appreciate

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00:10:41.239 --> 00:10:42.320
what she was doing.

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I mean, who would want to steal a child?

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That's a really interesting question to
ask at this time in 2026 with certain

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files flying here, there and everywhere.

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I suggest there are a few people who
would like to steal a child.

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But anyway, all that aside,
I did feel like it made sense to me.

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You know, I could follow her thinking,
even though obviously it's deeply flawed

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00:11:05.531 --> 00:11:05.960
thinking.

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00:11:06.160 --> 00:11:10.426
And I think that was a real strong suit
here because I think that's crucial,

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00:11:10.426 --> 00:11:12.920
you know,
and also good use of first person,

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because one of the things that works here
is the contrast between the main

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character who's expressing her own
thoughts in the first person never really

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00:11:21.342 --> 00:11:25.000
gives up the idea that she's acting
righteously and for the good.

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00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:29.181
And what we see are details that seep in
that prove that that's actually not the

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00:11:29.181 --> 00:11:29.440
case.

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I think another thing that Mariana is
doing well here is giving us the thoughts,

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but then having the character say
different things.

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And I think that can be really satisfying
as a reading experience as well.

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Yeah.

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Having the thoughts conflict with the
action.

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00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:43.600
Yeah, you've got.

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Yeah.

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So there's conflict already inherent in
that.

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And then from there,
there's conflict interpersonally between

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00:11:49.051 --> 00:11:50.080
the characters as well.

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Yeah.

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I guess if I could offer a criticism on
that, that is what you're here for.

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So go on.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for your permission.

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Permission to criticise.

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Granted,
although there is that conflict inherent

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00:12:03.306 --> 00:12:06.801
in the scene,
we don't really get much in terms of

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agency from our protagonist.

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Our protagonist the whole time is working
in the garden and maintaining her

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00:12:13.301 --> 00:12:17.855
innocence up until she gets carted away,
and there isn't really much that she has

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00:12:17.855 --> 00:12:18.800
any control over.

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I guess she's trying to change opinions
or she's trying to, like,

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00:12:23.124 --> 00:12:26.890
state her opinion,
but what unfolds is really without her

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00:12:26.890 --> 00:12:27.280
input.

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00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:30.440
She could be saying anything in that
situation and nothing would really change.

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Yeah,
she's kind of almost just sort of like,

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00:12:32.280 --> 00:12:33.360
forget about it, it's fine.

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And, you know,
the daughter is escalating there or the

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00:12:37.068 --> 00:12:40.459
not daughter is escalating,
but the main character is quite

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00:12:40.459 --> 00:12:42.720
emotionally static throughout the story.

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We don't really get that stress coming
through.

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We, I mean,
not to be unfair because she does start

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00:12:47.925 --> 00:12:51.811
to get, she starts swearing and, you know,
sort of thinking a little bit darker

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00:12:51.811 --> 00:12:54.240
thoughts like ungrateful little **** and
whatnot.

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But the implications here are huge.

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And I'm not sure that her reaction maybe
fits the stakes here.

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And, you know,
she may not be fully be aware of the

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00:13:04.623 --> 00:13:04.960
stakes.

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She's clearly not operating from a place
of logic.

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So it's safe to say she might not fully
understand what's going on.

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However,
the one thing that you're for 14 years

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00:13:13.143 --> 00:13:17.680
you've been trying to avoid coming to the
surface has come to the surface.

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00:13:17.680 --> 00:13:20.480
And you're kind of like, no, no, no,
that's that's not true.

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00:13:20.640 --> 00:13:24.396
You're, you're my daughter and, you know,
just kind of arguing instead of melting

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00:13:24.396 --> 00:13:26.320
down, which you imagine might be the case.

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00:13:26.400 --> 00:13:26.800
Yeah.

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00:13:26.800 --> 00:13:31.935
And she might be forced to confront those
lies and this cognitive dissonance that's

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00:13:31.935 --> 00:13:34.320
been in her head for the last 14 years.

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And how does she unravel in that moment?

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00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:37.600
And what is she doing?

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00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:40.422
Because she's trying to speak,
but the daughter interjects and she tries

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00:13:40.422 --> 00:13:42.240
to say something,
but the daughter interrupts.

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00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:44.320
And I think, what's she doing?

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00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:45.640
Like, how is she panicking?

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00:13:45.640 --> 00:13:48.800
What is she just still calmly planning
her rose?

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00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:52.109
We do have this moment where she grabs
her daughter's hand and tries to yank her

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00:13:52.109 --> 00:13:53.240
and the daughter pulls away.

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But I don't know, I did.

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00:13:54.400 --> 00:13:58.480
I guess I wasn't feeling that sense of
urgency that maybe should have been there.

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00:13:58.520 --> 00:14:03.140
But what does come through is what
Marianna mentioned in her message is that

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00:14:03.140 --> 00:14:08.060
people in this situation, her experience,
and this is based on some level of real

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00:14:08.060 --> 00:14:11.540
life experience,
is that people who do wrong things often

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00:14:11.540 --> 00:14:14.000
don't see themselves as being bad people.

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00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:19.848
They they see their actions as morally
justifiable and good in various ways

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ordained by God.

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Yeah.

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And look,
another thing I want to point to was the

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daughter in this relationship,
who I think is an interesting character

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00:14:28.236 --> 00:14:32.378
and I feel could have been developed a
little bit more because we don't get her

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00:14:32.378 --> 00:14:33.000
perspective.

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00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:36.996
But we see that she's been shown this
image and it looks annoyingly like

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00:14:36.996 --> 00:14:39.569
herself from the main character's
perspective,

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00:14:39.569 --> 00:14:43.840
which has prompted her to realise that
she had been kidnapped many years ago.

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00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:48.827
But I wonder if her reaction could have
been a bit more nuanced because this is

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someone who presumably has known no other
mother.

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And we're in this situation where she's
already phoned the police and she's

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00:14:55.790 --> 00:14:59.885
basically waiting for the police to come
on the basis of a computer generated

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image.

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But I feel like in reality,
if I imagine a person in that position,

dda4d722-f350-49c3-82a6-9b2c2731a329-1
00:15:04.549 --> 00:15:08.960
they may feel deeply conflicted because
they have a they've got some questions.

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00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:11.680
They've got some questions,
like not just answers.

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00:15:11.680 --> 00:15:12.040
Yeah.

afcf99b6-9be9-4aaa-bece-40ab32f5a6d9-0
00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:17.577
Her mother in quotes would you would
expect to have been like a loving,

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00:15:17.577 --> 00:15:23.063
caring mother that had raised her,
who she would feel a strong attachment

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00:15:23.063 --> 00:15:25.880
for, more so than her unknown parents.

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And I would expect her to feel quite
conflicted about that.

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And maybe there would be a moment where
she would not phone the police but work

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00:15:33.214 --> 00:15:37.480
through that conflict with her mother and
kind of come to these realisations.

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00:15:37.680 --> 00:15:39.040
And we don't get that conflict.

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We don't get her conflict.

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00:15:40.920 --> 00:15:43.560
And I think that might be something that
is missing from this story.

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Yeah.

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00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:46.236
I mean,
we get this sort of back and forth

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00:15:46.236 --> 00:15:46.840
between them.

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00:15:46.920 --> 00:15:47.240
Yeah.

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But yeah,
there's not sort of new information added

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00:15:49.803 --> 00:15:50.920
in that back and forth.

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It's kind of like, you're not my mum.

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Yes, I am.

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Yeah.

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00:15:54.520 --> 00:15:55.160
No, you're not.

401bf85a-fb5a-43da-acf3-88c8a6e3dbe5-0
00:15:55.320 --> 00:16:00.440
And where's the kind of reveal of the
harsh truth that proves it?

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00:16:00.800 --> 00:16:02.760
Like, we've got this picture,
this missing photo.

af414cac-0307-4296-8087-6f72653e72db-0
00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:08.280
Where's the discovery of an old photo of
your own hidden away somewhere?

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00:16:08.280 --> 00:16:12.040
Or where's the question over why you
never had a birth certificate?

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00:16:12.040 --> 00:16:14.752
Or, you know,
these things that might be big,

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00:16:14.752 --> 00:16:19.115
big clues of what's really going on,
Maybe more convincing than a missing

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00:16:19.115 --> 00:16:23.360
poster that with a girl on it that just
happens to look a lot like you.

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00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:26.639
There are some other details definitely
that could have been worked in to

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00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:27.280
emphasise that.

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00:16:27.760 --> 00:16:31.647
But I think what Marianna's done very
well here is kept it to a scene because

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00:16:31.647 --> 00:16:35.236
when we start talking about all these
other elements and, and you know,

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00:16:35.236 --> 00:16:38.276
the finding out as opposed to like the
coming to terms with,

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00:16:38.276 --> 00:16:42.413
we're talking about different scenes and
different settings and it is hard to like

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00:16:42.413 --> 00:16:43.559
condense all that down.

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00:16:43.560 --> 00:16:46.040
So she has done well to fit that all into
a scene.

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00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:49.187
But yeah, there there is some opportunity,
I think,

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00:16:49.187 --> 00:16:52.415
to explore the daughter side of things in
a more nuanced way,

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00:16:52.415 --> 00:16:56.320
or maybe one that adds to the conflict
and adds to the drama of the scene.

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00:16:57.040 --> 00:16:58.880
We're talking about these big themes.

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00:16:58.880 --> 00:17:01.440
And I think that that's how this story is
like.

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00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:03.320
It presents well as a story.

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00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:06.177
And so it becomes about like the bigger
thoughts,

1bbe56b1-6ded-4831-a486-0baef958eed4-1
00:17:06.177 --> 00:17:09.941
the deeper thoughts about what this story
represents and how it connects

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00:17:09.941 --> 00:17:10.560
emotionally.

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00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:15.314
But, you know, on a practical level,
I did feel that this story needed to be

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00:17:15.314 --> 00:17:17.520
set up a little bit more at the outset.

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00:17:17.520 --> 00:17:19.520
And maybe that's a little bit of what's
missing.

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00:17:19.520 --> 00:17:21.200
So we've got you're not my mom.

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00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:22.960
There it is the 4 words I never wanted to
hear.

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00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:28.720
Now I know that it's Mariana's intention
here to set up that twist, right?

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00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:32.480
And to have us think it's a step mum or
adopted mum or similar.

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00:17:32.840 --> 00:17:36.845
And one thing that's a little bit of a
bugbear for me in the opening of a story

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00:17:36.845 --> 00:17:39.800
is a hanging line of dialogue without
someone to speak it.

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00:17:39.840 --> 00:17:40.640
And so we've got this.

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00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:41.320
You're not my mum.

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00:17:41.320 --> 00:17:42.760
Now that's a dramatic thing to say.

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00:17:43.280 --> 00:17:44.440
We know it's a child.

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00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:46.400
Well, I mean, we assume it's a child,
right?

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00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:49.160
We get that's the immediate image that
comes to mind.

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00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:53.956
We don't know it's a 14 year old girl and
we don't know who she's saying it to and

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00:17:53.956 --> 00:17:55.000
what their deal is.

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00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:58.978
And so we've just got these,
these words spoken in a black void

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00:17:58.978 --> 00:17:59.600
basically.

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00:17:59.880 --> 00:18:00.880
And we need more than that.

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00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:04.524
We,
we do learn fairly soon that the mother

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00:18:04.524 --> 00:18:07.440
character is trying to plant a rose.

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00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:12.251
So we get that it's in a garden,
we don't really get any sensory details

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00:18:12.251 --> 00:18:13.240
of that garden.

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00:18:13.280 --> 00:18:16.704
We get the, the pricking of the thorn,
but we sort of aren't dropped into a

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00:18:16.704 --> 00:18:17.560
visual scene there.

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00:18:17.560 --> 00:18:21.151
We're just given there's a rose and look,
that's OK because we're focused on the

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00:18:21.151 --> 00:18:22.880
action that's happening in that garden.

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00:18:23.120 --> 00:18:26.279
But I suggest, you know,
wouldn't hurt to get just a little bit

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00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:28.600
more of where we are and what that
represents.

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00:18:28.600 --> 00:18:32.387
Because I know that it was intentional to
have this pricking of the thorn and,

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00:18:32.387 --> 00:18:35.360
and that sort of stuff and,
and to work with that as a theme.

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00:18:35.600 --> 00:18:38.136
So I think you could expand on that a
little bit,

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00:18:38.136 --> 00:18:42.042
but I guess top line comment just being
we probably needed a little bit more

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00:18:42.042 --> 00:18:46.202
there and perhaps even a little bit more
before the conflict begins because we're

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00:18:46.202 --> 00:18:50.209
dropped right into the middle of it,
meaning we don't really get the beginning

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00:18:50.209 --> 00:18:50.920
of this story.

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00:18:50.920 --> 00:18:52.880
We've sort of dropped right into the
middle.

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00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:55.612
And it's great to drop into the middle of
action,

e23c5c27-720e-4eef-81e4-d03d2f238cee-1
00:18:55.612 --> 00:18:58.898
but it's not necessarily great to drop
into the middle of a story,

e23c5c27-720e-4eef-81e4-d03d2f238cee-2
00:18:58.898 --> 00:18:59.880
if that makes sense.

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00:19:00.520 --> 00:19:02.629
Yeah,
like establishing that relationship

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00:19:02.629 --> 00:19:06.244
before it breaks down a little bit,
which is tough because, as you say,

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00:19:06.244 --> 00:19:07.400
we want this one scene.

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00:19:07.760 --> 00:19:10.600
Yeah, look,
it is challenging in the constraints here.

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00:19:10.600 --> 00:19:11.680
And that's the thing, I think.

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00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:17.080
I think Marianna's done a great job to
build the story as she has in the scene.

b8b2f523-934d-4eee-a187-eab9f2cbcf26-0
00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:20.165
But yeah,
inevitably there are these elements that

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00:19:20.165 --> 00:19:20.760
are missing.

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00:19:21.040 --> 00:19:23.740
I think the difficulty becomes, you know,
if we talk about beginning,

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00:19:23.740 --> 00:19:25.360
middle and end and all that sort of stuff.

e7a3c7c8-f846-483b-bc29-44e9722932d2-0
00:19:25.360 --> 00:19:29.242
We have talked about this in a couple of
Daredevils already this round,

e7a3c7c8-f846-483b-bc29-44e9722932d2-1
00:19:29.242 --> 00:19:33.502
but we have a story where there's a back
and forth but there's not a cause and

e7a3c7c8-f846-483b-bc29-44e9722932d2-2
00:19:33.502 --> 00:19:33.880
effect.

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00:19:34.360 --> 00:19:37.972
The cause has happened already, you know,
she's found and the effect even has

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00:19:37.972 --> 00:19:38.760
happened already.

fa9312e4-7021-4ae2-a5dd-d35f0eccd34f-0
00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:41.080
Lucille's friends have found this missing
poster.

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00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:42.960
They presented it to her.

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00:19:43.320 --> 00:19:47.280
She's felt confident enough in that to
decide this is not her real mother.

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00:19:47.840 --> 00:19:52.224
We don't get an insight into any of that
action and then it's just a back and

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00:19:52.224 --> 00:19:54.360
forth of you're not my mum, Yes, I am.

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00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:56.040
And and a bit of back story.

6ba3d78b-db85-4c1c-8fd7-cf38507be2d4-0
00:19:56.680 --> 00:20:00.817
Whereas what we probably needed to get
was something happens which causes

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00:20:00.817 --> 00:20:04.340
something else to happen and that causes
a reaction, you know,

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00:20:04.340 --> 00:20:07.640
action reaction to build towards the
climax of this story.

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00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:11.636
And the climax is that she's arrested,
but even the police have already been

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00:20:11.636 --> 00:20:12.360
called as well.

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00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:17.160
So there's no catalyst sort of revealed
in this story to bring us to that point.

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00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:20.400
It's already happened, basically,
and we're just watching it unfold.

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00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:25.001
And I think that's a challenge that we've
seen a couple of times in these stories

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00:20:25.001 --> 00:20:26.760
and something that bears repeating.

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00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:29.610
You really need for the story,
for a plot to progress,

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00:20:29.610 --> 00:20:32.840
for the action and reaction to really
build towards that climate.

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00:20:33.560 --> 00:20:37.891
I guess what we're not calling out,
and as I read through this story is the

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prose, because on a sentence level,
as I'm reading through it,

c0b289e7-a43e-402e-b620-3c05d04e8a6a-2
00:20:41.481 --> 00:20:44.160
I don't really have major concerns about
that.

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00:20:44.280 --> 00:20:47.000
Yeah, no, at a sentence level,
I think it's it's working.

35050ed9-30bf-4221-9ccd-65bb11d39259-0
00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:52.139
I think maybe the challenge for this
story is that what we're presented with

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00:20:52.139 --> 00:20:54.320
here works in itself as a package.

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00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:57.408
But because it's a 500 word piece of
fiction,

32b9e7db-210a-4839-b21d-3e0636b9c473-1
00:20:57.408 --> 00:21:02.444
we haven't been able to connect with the
characters in maybe the way that we

32b9e7db-210a-4839-b21d-3e0636b9c473-2
00:21:02.444 --> 00:21:04.079
needed to for this story.

6cee8f50-37ab-4f7b-b63e-fd6cccc3f871-0
00:21:04.320 --> 00:21:08.740
But we don't get to see any of that 14
years of bonding and relationship

6cee8f50-37ab-4f7b-b63e-fd6cccc3f871-1
00:21:08.740 --> 00:21:13.040
building where you think this person is
your mother, like that's huge.

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So we don't get any insight into that.

a214480b-50fa-468a-8682-ce55315668fe-0
00:21:15.760 --> 00:21:20.680
And then we also don't get the heartbreak
that would go with that, which is huge.

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Like, I can't imagine, right.

deef419d-a28e-4dce-8559-bc077199f476-0
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And not just heartbreak of like,
you're not my real mum when I thought you

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00:21:25.917 --> 00:21:26.960
were, but you stole me.

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00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:27.920
Holy ****.

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00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:28.960
What's wrong with you?

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00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:30.200
And what does this mean?

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00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:31.440
And my whole life's a lie.

2575530b-cd46-4db0-8e99-5a4fe96589ed-0
00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:37.000
Like for a 16 year old to be confronted
with that would be absolutely shattering.

a60ff4c3-cde2-43b1-80df-c9b6951323f7-0
00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:39.840
And I don't really feel like we get that
shattering.

6d06ff75-9364-4d4a-8e0b-5b59533c4065-0
00:21:39.840 --> 00:21:43.238
We get, well, I called the police,
so now you're getting arrested and I'm

6d06ff75-9364-4d4a-8e0b-5b59533c4065-1
00:21:43.238 --> 00:21:44.800
never going to think of you again.

1d6ea33c-275b-4b73-a35c-b4f7f729274b-0
00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:47.588
Like really,
you're not going to think about this

1d6ea33c-275b-4b73-a35c-b4f7f729274b-1
00:21:47.588 --> 00:21:49.920
constantly every day for the rest of your
life.

8801a698-5856-41c7-aad3-687fac05c6b5-0
00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:52.520
Like Oh my God, like real trauma.

87069144-3223-4872-8d58-6cd9472bd2a3-0
00:21:52.520 --> 00:21:57.680
So I feel like maybe that's where we were
lacking the emotional aspect of this.

1c627f32-f832-4d5c-b9c7-cef03b44f186-0
00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:00.520
We've got the drama of it,
and I think that ticks the boxes.

215da6b3-36f1-4c4e-85da-cfbe8f24e955-0
00:22:00.520 --> 00:22:06.653
But we don't have the real human emotion
on both sides that would accompany this

215da6b3-36f1-4c4e-85da-cfbe8f24e955-1
00:22:06.653 --> 00:22:08.320
kind of epic scenario.

f1cb1259-b7cf-4f64-8e60-6e8c5b9278f8-0
00:22:08.600 --> 00:22:09.000
Yeah.

cb50acbe-fc52-459a-8bd9-c6c0167c84cf-0
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Look,
I do like as we move through the story,

cb50acbe-fc52-459a-8bd9-c6c0167c84cf-1
00:22:11.220 --> 00:22:13.640
when I rescued Lucille,
the web wasn't for children.

79f5959c-bc40-49e0-904e-05c350d86f17-0
00:22:13.640 --> 00:22:17.865
Now anyone can access the entangled lies
forever swelling in the cloud, you know,

79f5959c-bc40-49e0-904e-05c350d86f17-1
00:22:17.865 --> 00:22:19.360
again, reinforcing this idea.

1c4858e2-046c-4c6f-ad50-15282be95e32-0
00:22:19.360 --> 00:22:23.030
And this is this is another one I think
we've mentioned on a past episode that

1c4858e2-046c-4c6f-ad50-15282be95e32-1
00:22:23.030 --> 00:22:26.748
the Team Ed stories leaned heavily into
character as opposed to the Team Amanda

1c4858e2-046c-4c6f-ad50-15282be95e32-2
00:22:26.748 --> 00:22:27.120
stories.

8fdd5776-af42-410f-941a-bc9eaaecc1ba-0
00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:31.626
And this one is it is that character
study is that understanding this

8fdd5776-af42-410f-941a-bc9eaaecc1ba-1
00:22:31.626 --> 00:22:33.600
character and what motivates her.

32929227-85c3-40a0-b15e-0ffe6f0173bd-0
00:22:33.760 --> 00:22:38.785
And this is another moment of cognitive
dissonance where the character is calling

32929227-85c3-40a0-b15e-0ffe6f0173bd-1
00:22:38.785 --> 00:22:43.688
things lies that are actually the truth
and giving us a bit of insight into her

32929227-85c3-40a0-b15e-0ffe6f0173bd-2
00:22:43.688 --> 00:22:44.240
thinking.

111b1a82-1916-4eb9-b846-f1e56479cc8a-0
00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:49.969
But as we then go to the ending,
and I think in my notes and also other

111b1a82-1916-4eb9-b846-f1e56479cc8a-1
00:22:49.969 --> 00:22:53.905
judges notes,
here we have the ending that comes very

111b1a82-1916-4eb9-b846-f1e56479cc8a-2
00:22:53.905 --> 00:22:58.280
abruptly of the two officers cuffing her
and arresting her.

05e07d8c-cfd7-47e9-b527-5d6d8c1327b4-0
00:22:58.440 --> 00:23:02.845
And that last line of Casey Allenby,
you're under arrest for the abduction of

05e07d8c-cfd7-47e9-b527-5d6d8c1327b4-1
00:23:02.845 --> 00:23:06.121
Sally Montgomery,
is probably important exposition on one

05e07d8c-cfd7-47e9-b527-5d6d8c1327b4-2
00:23:06.121 --> 00:23:08.493
level,
as in it kind of solidifies what's

05e07d8c-cfd7-47e9-b527-5d6d8c1327b4-3
00:23:08.493 --> 00:23:10.640
happening and calling back that twist.

f93a213c-3869-4cdf-bdf4-4657d13c3c9f-0
00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:12.640
I think by that point in time,
we do get it.

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00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:13.600
We do get what's happened.

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00:23:13.600 --> 00:23:15.800
So it's probably not necessary.

ce0e2909-d2cc-4b67-a5d5-81a41c5159a5-0
00:23:15.800 --> 00:23:19.676
I think what you want to do is focus on
the relationship between the two people

ce0e2909-d2cc-4b67-a5d5-81a41c5159a5-1
00:23:19.676 --> 00:23:23.649
here and the police coming in and taking
her away is not really part of the story

ce0e2909-d2cc-4b67-a5d5-81a41c5159a5-2
00:23:23.649 --> 00:23:25.200
that you're trying to tell here.

08068a53-fa80-44d7-bb4a-8f4035aff9ac-0
00:23:25.560 --> 00:23:29.160
And that gives you a little bit more time
back to then focus in on that

08068a53-fa80-44d7-bb4a-8f4035aff9ac-1
00:23:29.160 --> 00:23:30.360
relationship a bit more.

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00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:30.840
Yeah.

78454d6f-11ff-4f06-ab7e-ce0f4fb3d112-0
00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:35.103
And I think you need to,
I think for this to really feel resonant

78454d6f-11ff-4f06-ab7e-ce0f4fb3d112-1
00:23:35.103 --> 00:23:37.962
as something that's happened, you know,
real,

78454d6f-11ff-4f06-ab7e-ce0f4fb3d112-2
00:23:37.962 --> 00:23:42.811
we do need more of that emotion and that
heartbreak and that absolutely earth

78454d6f-11ff-4f06-ab7e-ce0f4fb3d112-3
00:23:42.811 --> 00:23:45.920
shattering loss of sense of self that
would come.

f99b2abc-f070-4e79-811c-f53e3f3f305c-0
00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:47.320
And that's a big ask.

e29c74ca-33eb-472e-94dc-90553379c08e-0
00:23:47.320 --> 00:23:50.206
Like,
that's a lot to be able to convey such

e29c74ca-33eb-472e-94dc-90553379c08e-1
00:23:50.206 --> 00:23:51.040
huge emotion.

f7acc8d1-ae7c-47ee-a2e9-310fb3622b65-0
00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:53.560
But you know,
I think that's what we work towards.

e1ddd6d5-6fb6-403d-a454-22489eba4259-0
00:23:53.560 --> 00:23:58.172
And I think emotional resonance is always
a strong goal to have because I think

e1ddd6d5-6fb6-403d-a454-22489eba4259-1
00:23:58.172 --> 00:23:59.960
that's how we connect to story.

b76e4a1b-e27c-4f13-87aa-6399bdf59c3a-0
00:23:59.960 --> 00:24:03.739
Like a story can be very clever,
but how we connect is through real human

b76e4a1b-e27c-4f13-87aa-6399bdf59c3a-1
00:24:03.739 --> 00:24:07.467
emotion and resonating with other
people's experience and having empathy

b76e4a1b-e27c-4f13-87aa-6399bdf59c3a-2
00:24:07.467 --> 00:24:09.000
for other people's experience.

fb1261f1-cc69-4ede-b108-6ae62238fbac-0
00:24:09.080 --> 00:24:12.142
And while I do have some empathy for this
flawed protagonist,

fb1261f1-cc69-4ede-b108-6ae62238fbac-1
00:24:12.142 --> 00:24:13.920
it doesn't get over the line for me.

ae2c6530-f567-43d9-a426-44955eab1506-0
00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:18.216
I sort of needed a little bit more
realness for this to come off as a real

ae2c6530-f567-43d9-a426-44955eab1506-1
00:24:18.216 --> 00:24:18.560
story.

2b581463-1133-4126-a941-cd936e64d089-0
00:24:19.080 --> 00:24:21.423
But, you know, it's,
it's a very strong concept,

2b581463-1133-4126-a941-cd936e64d089-1
00:24:21.423 --> 00:24:23.720
very interesting, you know,
and engaging story.

201df244-7de1-4bc2-8859-6c50a406cdbd-0
00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:27.380
So in that regard,
I think it did exactly what it set out to

201df244-7de1-4bc2-8859-6c50a406cdbd-1
00:24:27.380 --> 00:24:27.560
do.

ab51150c-40bb-4a7b-99b1-76adfb926316-0
00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:31.458
I guess what I would have liked to have
seen and what maybe would have landed it

ab51150c-40bb-4a7b-99b1-76adfb926316-1
00:24:31.458 --> 00:24:34.200
on the long list is more attention to
that emotional side of things.

cc5c0614-bd50-4e9d-9ea3-a49ba6dfa8c7-0
00:24:34.600 --> 00:24:35.040
Yeah.

d029c56a-c316-41a6-9703-11f4601a405e-0
00:24:35.160 --> 00:24:35.800
Look, I agree.

7ff55625-00ec-49ac-b8b6-5ce7fe5e6cc3-0
00:24:35.800 --> 00:24:37.840
You've got a very strong premise here.

67bab03a-d712-4af9-b179-ef362c5d152d-0
00:24:37.840 --> 00:24:42.892
Obviously that's a compelling situation
and just to emphasise that you do have

67bab03a-d712-4af9-b179-ef362c5d152d-1
00:24:42.892 --> 00:24:46.922
two characters here,
22 characters that are both quite complex

67bab03a-d712-4af9-b179-ef362c5d152d-2
00:24:46.922 --> 00:24:50.120
and I think 1 character is being focused
on here.

6c11299e-f9c1-4c2b-b10c-1fc43b57e58f-0
00:24:50.120 --> 00:24:55.306
But there's an opportunity to explore 2
characters and also their relationship

6c11299e-f9c1-4c2b-b10c-1fc43b57e58f-1
00:24:55.306 --> 00:24:58.720
and how this event has impacted their
relationship.

25c661e4-63f7-4b1f-8720-f76787b5aba3-0
00:24:59.240 --> 00:25:02.651
When we talk about single effect and
emotional payloads at the end of the

25c661e4-63f7-4b1f-8720-f76787b5aba3-1
00:25:02.651 --> 00:25:04.725
story,
that's really where you want to focus

25c661e4-63f7-4b1f-8720-f76787b5aba3-2
00:25:04.725 --> 00:25:06.799
your effort of,
of how you can enhance that.

2bdc4c12-3ed2-428c-848a-3e1e6ac04d2e-0
00:25:06.840 --> 00:25:09.200
And I think there's definitely a lot,
a lot to explore there.

15a59089-1381-466d-aa4f-4b15ef1db24f-0
00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:12.600
And your strong point in this story there,
there are many.

4107eb68-6c54-47cc-884e-c7f83a7489be-0
00:25:12.680 --> 00:25:15.597
The structure is great,
the prose is great,

4107eb68-6c54-47cc-884e-c7f83a7489be-1
00:25:15.597 --> 00:25:20.770
but from a an emotional perspective,
there's a little bit more to do there to

4107eb68-6c54-47cc-884e-c7f83a7489be-2
00:25:20.770 --> 00:25:22.760
really kind of sell the story.

b10ac43b-c0b8-4333-b77d-1a8d5daed149-0
00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:23.680
Yeah.

5d3f67c5-e4d9-43bf-ba21-40f47117e659-0
00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:24.440
So thank you Marianna.

6f24c23e-2280-4c1d-9974-eac8c43fe022-0
00:25:24.440 --> 00:25:27.760
I hope that has shed a little bit of
light onto our thinking there.

7fdded34-bd13-46f8-b4a7-63d1fe001220-0
00:25:27.760 --> 00:25:33.720
A lot working in your favour and maybe
some points of focus for next time around.

39b45865-39b6-4759-8038-8f0a03431a7a-0
00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:35.720
So we hope you will join us again.

55916012-780e-4eca-8b94-6e2dc889b8a2-0
00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:37.920
I mean, we've jumped around a bit there,
haven't we?

91e692c9-cab2-4c15-b9ca-d6b2113310b8-0
00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:40.280
We've sort of gone here and there and
everywhere with our feedback.

992f55bf-0915-483e-b834-a8b2a56096c4-0
00:25:40.280 --> 00:25:44.482
So hopefully you're able to organise
those thoughts in your own mind and and

992f55bf-0915-483e-b834-a8b2a56096c4-1
00:25:44.482 --> 00:25:47.320
take from them what you will,
what's useful to you.

4cf4995e-e264-4b3c-ac4f-4b60484ef513-0
00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:50.426
But yeah,
thank you so much for jumping into this

4cf4995e-e264-4b3c-ac4f-4b60484ef513-1
00:25:50.426 --> 00:25:51.040
experience.

42a43480-a93d-4671-af1b-3e2057fa9f9c-0
00:25:51.040 --> 00:25:53.440
I hope it was a little bit enjoyable.

732fd392-f35d-4112-98b3-666fc4ae562f-0
00:25:53.440 --> 00:25:54.520
Do you think it ever is?

69bf00f0-2fad-499c-803b-daa0ab5eb0ec-0
00:25:54.520 --> 00:25:55.280
I don't know.

53b5bd34-62bb-4a10-b424-4d63e288e964-0
00:25:55.360 --> 00:25:55.880
Question.

630fd441-533a-483f-97cc-34a2b32cabbb-0
00:25:55.880 --> 00:25:56.200
Question.

354ca93f-467c-4004-b2ed-138e7499734c-0
00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:56.680
I don't know.

420d0973-8aca-46cb-bae9-e36371e5cc5f-0
00:25:56.680 --> 00:25:59.503
I as I've said before,
I'm not sure if it's something that I

420d0973-8aca-46cb-bae9-e36371e5cc5f-1
00:25:59.503 --> 00:25:59.920
could do.

2b43cbc5-1171-44e4-b921-7952158c13aa-0
00:26:00.040 --> 00:26:01.080
Yeah, It's we.

83371784-003b-4ce1-9f8f-9001be5214cb-0
00:26:01.080 --> 00:26:05.370
We always appreciate our daredevils for
going through the pain on everyone's

83371784-003b-4ce1-9f8f-9001be5214cb-1
00:26:05.370 --> 00:26:05.760
behalf.

69285751-49e7-485e-ac67-dc7f70415c36-0
00:26:06.360 --> 00:26:08.720
They're a bit like a sacrificial lamb.

313845c3-d019-4168-b752-64e640650649-0
00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:09.320
Yeah.

692e4724-4d94-4953-ba3e-1679e5af9b73-0
00:26:09.640 --> 00:26:11.080
Like a cautionary tale.

fd1961a5-d3b7-46c0-bdc5-d23d5aad792a-0
00:26:11.120 --> 00:26:11.480
Yeah.

e6301b83-b267-4d97-93b4-9d53471af233-0
00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:11.600
Yeah.

c74fc1d9-1e9d-4f3e-92c6-aad3880cfd9e-0
00:26:12.280 --> 00:26:15.838
Maybe that's the analogy,
and we look forward to reading your next

c74fc1d9-1e9d-4f3e-92c6-aad3880cfd9e-1
00:26:15.838 --> 00:26:18.388
story,
which I will in fact be meeting with you

c74fc1d9-1e9d-4f3e-92c6-aad3880cfd9e-2
00:26:18.388 --> 00:26:22.159
about because you've gone with the
coaching option for the next round.

f093690b-a4e4-489a-a296-5cbe82cd2504-0
00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:25.720
Something a bit more private,
which is probably a smart idea.

d8526631-8e31-45cd-bcc1-eb7100814fb5-0
00:26:25.720 --> 00:26:29.000
Let's be real and lick your wounds.

8fc510bc-bbe0-4eb8-99f5-955f58701eef-0
00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:31.498
But yeah,
I'm really looking forward to that and to

8fc510bc-bbe0-4eb8-99f5-955f58701eef-1
00:26:31.498 --> 00:26:35.390
seeing what you deliver next and how that
compares and whether any of our advice

8fc510bc-bbe0-4eb8-99f5-955f58701eef-2
00:26:35.390 --> 00:26:36.400
was, in fact, useful.

0125d62d-c376-469f-be4b-23d2956601d7-0
00:26:36.760 --> 00:26:40.605
And you can hold Amanda accountable for
all of the **** that she said in this

0125d62d-c376-469f-be4b-23d2956601d7-1
00:26:40.605 --> 00:26:41.000
episode.

58d99a36-59e9-459f-be2d-24614613304a-0
00:26:41.800 --> 00:26:42.480
So there's that.

c840e63f-de0f-4571-9c67-42f536806ea9-0
00:26:42.520 --> 00:26:43.400
Absolutely.

379c784a-8950-4312-8744-198db6647ad9-0
00:26:43.640 --> 00:26:44.320
So thank you.

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And that brings the January round to its
conclusion.

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Yeah.

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Our first ever write off our little baby.

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What an experience.

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That was a lot of fun.

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And I'm looking forward to April.

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Yeah, we've got a fun theme for April.

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I'm super psyched for that one.

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Yes, I'm excited too.

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I mean,
this January round has been chaos for us

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behind the scenes.

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Like the actual judging of this comp went
quite smoothly and quite quickly.

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But we've had so much other stuff going
on.

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We've been recording **** we've been
preparing, you know,

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our collection of smutty stories.

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We've been doing all the regular stuff
that we do for this competition.

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Many, many things therein.

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Busy, busy, busy time for us.

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But hopefully we're starting to see the
light at the end of that tunnel.

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And we look forward to seeing everyone in
April.

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And if you don't have a ticket,
what's wrong with you?

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Go to the website, sign up.

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Yeah.

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And we're looking forward to April.

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It's gonna be lots of fun.

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Fun theme, fun prompts.

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It's gonna be amazing.

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Don't miss out.

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You're so convincing right now.

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I love it.

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If for no one else, do for yourself.

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You don't want to do anything you're
gonna regret for the rest of your life.

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And if you miss out on the April Not
Quite Right prize,

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you're going to regret it till the day
you die.

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So that was the hard sell for you.

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But we'll see you all back very soon for
the April round.

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But until then, right on, right on.

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We hope you enjoyed this special
Daredevil episode of Not Quite Right.

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If you have thoughts on this story,
follow us on social media and join the

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