User blog:The Testcardiologist/O Mediaclone (chapter 1)

Sobre as nossas cabeças a luz Sobre as nossas mãos a criação Sobretudo o que mais for o coração No palco do tempo, teatro de Deus Árvores, sândalos, sonhos Os frutos da mente são meus e são teus enfim revelados, nus sob o sol Nossos segredos guardados enfim revelados, nus sob o sol
 * Sobre as nossas cabeças um sol
 * Dançamos a dança da vida
 * Nossos segredos guardados

O MEDIACLONE

copyright 2020 Organizações Sigma, Organizações Tabajara, Organizações Mundo, The Testcardiologist and Mediacorp Studios

CHAPTER ONE

some boring lecture at a university in Guara Nampur, circa 2015. The lecture starts with people accusing plagiarism in mangas. A few Vradivans, including one that attended a MIPCOM in 1996, were there.

The Beginning
1996, Roterlaine.

Narciso Castro Santelices is working at Canal 24. He attended the MIPCOM and tried avoiding any stand selling Atlansian content. Depressed, he finds a stand featuring letters that were strange to him: TCP: Television Corporation of Pacifilavia.

The top seller was Under One Roof, whose second season just finished. Season one in its entirety was on the verge of being sold to EVT in Neurcasia, KBC in Kaehia and a network in Hisqaida.


 * Narciso: Pero que programa es esto y que coños he llegado aquí?


 * TCP seller: English, please.


 * Narciso: Fine... Excuse me, do you believe that I am fit for buying this program?


 * TCP seller: Yes, it's already successful in Neurcasia and Great Gritain. What, are you nervous?


 * Narciso: You need to be more aware of that. I need programming to avoid the dringos.


 * TCP seller: Where are you from?


 * Narciso (in a Vradivan accent): Vrádiva.


 * TCP seller: I've got the right thing for you: Under One Roof. I'm going to pay the Centralians for dubbing it to Spanish and later give it to your channel. We already have a second season underway so I guess you really need it.


 * Narciso: Take my money! Here, pay with my beautiful Vradivan money!


 * TCP seller: A vradivon. Mint condition. Look, we're not a huge player but I believe that with our show you'll end up winning.

six months later
 * Narciso: Thanks.

Canal 24 premieres Under One Roof as Bajo el mismo techo. A Pacifilavian spy was sent to see the "premiere". There was apparent censorship given that Atlansian products, including the once-omnipresent Coca-Cola, were there. The dub was commissioned by Centralians, later the contents were reviewed by the channel.

Days later, he returns to Guara Nampur as he writes to The Star saying that the seller of Under One Roof was a mere spy who wanted to investigate the Vradivan regime.

On the other side, Vradiva was still bleeding from the whole issue that started in Great Gritain with Pepsi's Number Fever (La febre del nombre). Narciso quits Canal 24 in June 1998 and moves to Hopikua on a continental trip. He calls himself "a desertor of the Vradivan regime". In August 1998 he ends up in Guara Nampur, where he becomes ingrained in its culture.

And then came that fateful September 10th, 1998. The deadliest terrorist attack in Transania to date. Newscasts all around the world start receiving news of the attack on Canal 24.


 * Terrorist attack hits Vradivan TV station (News 5 at Seven)
 * Atentado num canal vrádivo mata centenas (Telejornal PC)
 * Sale del aire Canal 24 en atentado terrorista (RTPC)

In the western world, this fatal accident got less than one minute of screen time, even on CNN and news reports given by Reuters to television channels.

"It was all a conspiracy...

The Vradivans knew that I was carrying a deadly series...

Luckily I'm in a safe spot in Guara Nampur."

(commercial break)

Rise of MediaCorp
The following year, PIM was restructured and MediaCorp was created.

It was a benign company at its start.

The TCP seller, who was a spy (Mark Tan), convinced Narciso to join MediaCorp.

He was unable to find a post for Channel NewsAsikai's Vradivan correspondent for two reasons: he was now being hunted by Vradivan authorities because they thought he was responsible for bringing one of the planes, when in reality he didn't, and he said he found comfort in Guara Nampur.

His test on freedom was put to place after he accepted having dinner at a local McDonald's.

"This really is the taste of democracy. Vrádiva will never see it again."

The job interview went down like this: Meanwhile in the Vradivan Islands:
 * Mark: Why do you want to join MediaCorp?
 * Narciso: I feel like an outcast in Vradiva. It's almost as if they thought I was responsible for the attacks.
 * Mark: Do you have the feeling of being hunted?
 * Narciso: Yes and no. Yes because in Vrádiva they believe I am the culprit and no because I left Vrádiva months before the attack.
 * Mark: Do you still have the copies of Under One Roof?
 * Narciso: Yes, from the Centralians. They weren't interested in it.
 * Mark: Alright, you're going to work as a cameraman...
 * (Narciso is hyped)
 * Mark: ...for the next series of Under One Roof.
 * Narciso: Oh, the irony...
 * Mark: On top of that, you'll have to manage sales for our other hit series, VR Man.

CVD emerged from the ashes of the restored C24, and is secretly planning to make the country's first sci-fi series. As the months pass, so does the insane competition between the two parties involved. MediaCorp Studios and CVD were now at a standstill.
 * Exec 1: We have received a tape from Pacifilavia. It's from their poor television series, VR Man. The series lacks special effects and was probably made on a cheaper budget. For this end, we decided to tackle the Pacifilavians by making The Virtual Man, a mix of live-action and 3D animation using the computers made for the popular Hisqish television series ReBoot.
 * Exec 2: Is there going to be any profit?
 * Exec 3: Do we need any rewards?
 * Exec 1: Haha. No. I am making this show for myself.
 * Exec 2: When will we premiere it?
 * Exec 1: April 2000 probably.

A large-scale terrorist attack in Taraiki in March 2000, resulting in the death of 54 people, most of whom Temuranians (due to the so-called dispute between Kaehia and Temurania over its eastern Rota islands) delays the premiere of Virtual Man to May 5, likely because they thought that event was a replica of the C24 attack eighteen months before. MediaCorp Studios, May 6, 2000 Another ellipse in time.
 * Narciso: Coño. I was in Kaehia before I settled in Guara Nampur. Now it seems that every country I go to is under scrutiny because attacks like these are happening on a near-yearly basis. What's next? Neurcasia? New Eusland? Lanoas? Cenfestaro?
 * Exec 1: We have disturbing news. The Vradivans plagiarized our show and added special effects.
 * Exec 2: What can we do ah?
 * Exec 1: This is a formal meeting, stop using colloquial English. No, I don't have anything. But I have the solution, the real Phua Chu Kang. Not the Phua Chu Kang from our show.

"El martes 11 de septiembre de 2001, siendo las 8 y 46 de la mañana, Repúblicas Unidas sufrieron la mayor ofensiva de su historia que culminó con la destrucción de las Torres Gemelas en Esperantia."

No puede serrrrrrrr! No!

I believe I went too far

Let's rewind to the actual date

"Kia ora, tonight, an extended 3 News as we bring you coverage of the horrific events in the United Republics." Earlier on in the year, on the 12th of February, the old brands were discarded in favor of a new MediaCorp brand.
 * Narciso: It's as if the world was conspiring against me secretly. All these events will probably lead to a massive catastrophe.
 * KBC newsreader: It's like Taraiki all over again, but in a larger city with more resources. This time the enemies were played in the opposite direction.
 * Narciso: It's almost as if I was going to be the next victim. Or Guara Nampur, to be more accurate.

As the world tries to enter a new recession that hit the region hard in the days that followed the attack, Narciso finds tapes of CVD and the renamed "Television of the World" that had taken over that year.

Narciso analised the contents of the tapes. He was surprised to find hidden Pacifilavian content.

He then realized that his move to Guara Nampur had a hidden strategic plan. Working at Mediacorp was like working for an anti-Vradivan agency. A MediaCorp employee told Narciso that coverage of Vradivan events remained low.

Is there a solution for this conflict?

A SEGUIR CENAS DO PRÓXIMO CAPÍTULO

idk I ran out of ideas for now

A Mediacorp Studios production for Channel 5.