Thinking Through The Story - 2/25/16

When I sat down and actually started writing I realized that some of the background material may change as I move forward. I have a pretty good idea as to where I'm going but little things sometimes pop up. For example, in my notes and outlines I had the tabloid show named Real TV. As I was writing I remembered that there used to be a show called that so I changed it. I also had to tweak some of the dates and ages of people to make sure they fit the timeline I am using. That is much harder than I thought because there are numerous timelines for the franchise out there and none of them agree on 100% of the information. My timeline doesn't even do that. I have merged and altered the two found HERE and HERE just in case you were wondering. As the story progresses it will become obvious that I am pretty much ignoring most of the events in part VIII and completely throwing out part IX. Jason X is a non issue because that takes place in the future. I despise Freddy vs. Jason so I won't be borrowing anything from it either. The 2009 remake is a different film and timeline altogether so I ignore it as well. I do make reference to past VII and have included Tina as a character but I leave some of the details around her experience ambiguous.

One of the things I am doing (albeit cautiously) is altering the Voorhees family history ever so slightly. I don't want to reveal what I've come up with yet but I promise that it isn't as kooky as the mythology in part IX. I will say that I have borrowed Tom McLoughlin's idea of introducing Elias Voorhees into the story.He obviously won't play a huge part because the story is set in 2014. Pamela, according to the tombstone in part IV, was born in 1930. If Elias was the exact same age as her (and I'm suggesting that he wasn't) he would be at least 84 when my story takes place. That being said, Elias does serve a function in my story but he is not a character. I haven't even decided if he is still living. For better or worse (and it may be worse) I am trying to fix some of things that have always bugged me about the series. Whenever you do that, you're bound to upset some folks. If people actually read this I imagine that some of them are going to hate what I've done. That's cool. We all have our opinions concerning these movies and we all have our own ideas as to how they should go.

I do want to say this. If you are reading this, thank you. I am doing this simply for my own entertainment but I thought that there might be one or two fans out there who would get a kick out of it.