People watching

Well, since people recognised that Weeded Out was built from real conversations, it's all been slightly depressing, with people hinting that I should make that screenplay being a lot of the background noise since 2023. The camera gives me a bit of power back, as I can capture them if they're rude.

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To be fair, most of the conversations Weeded Out was based on were conversations that I'd been really involved in, which I put in the mouths of various characters.

The plot was generally fiction, but some of it was based on real life. Not much, though: episode 2 is a slight exaggeration, but it captures the envy that I have regarding Glen or Alex or some of my more academically inclined peers.

For example, Sean drives a car, works at a retirement home and sells weed. Some of my dealer mates have day jobs, but none of them were nurses, though one of my old mates Eli is studying nursing.

Tina is partly me, but I'd say it's partly Jordan as well, as it was written with him in mind.

It's pretty obvious that it captures the dynamic between myself, Stephen and Michelle C, but we all took turns writing about that (Michelle wrote the Hungry Ghosts song).

Jade is mostly Michelle, but shades of Patria or Chelsea (Māori Chelsea). I asked Michelle's permission before I wrote a character based on her. She'd been burned by a play that Ethan wrote that she felt was all about her.

Southern Kiwis are more into Kiwiana. Like, none of us thought it was weird when we started singing in Kiwi accents. Unusual, but everyone was into it.