Thread:TJlive800/@comment-4952704-20150504134101/@comment-16747922-20150505023542

Holy shitefrack, dude, this was quite an entertaining read and just basically HUNDRED GODDAMN PERCENT of what was on my mind. If we really want to make this the next-gen brilliant fan fiction to blow BTFF off its socks and shape-ups, Extreme Makeover Alpha edition is required, I see that now, and it's very exciting. However, with the whole Bradly thing, dragging on a "cop doesn't trust hero" cliche is just irritating. I watch Arrow, and while it's gotten MUCH MUCH better in the middle of season 1, Oliver's rivalry with Quentin Lance is pretty annoying and I heard the character doesn't really change much. So centuries from now when people reread Alpha, even if they want to see the "character coming a long way", it may feel a little tedious to have Bradly be sort of "abrasive". He's a Plumber and all this alien bullshit shouldn't freak him out or offend him. I think Bradly should be Alpha's Joe West - a responsible and hardworking cop who can be those things without being a total douche. He's the human here so he needs to get the spotlight for badassery to balance things out.

As for Sif, based on the things we've been plotting, I'll admit I frankly don't think too highly of him. We're always talking about what affects him and not what he does, and he's basically turning into Liz. A character with a shitload of importance and things that happen to him/her but just a vulnerable sobstory who's unimportant and irritating to watch, with any sign of strength inducing just groans. Not saying that's who Sif is, it's just that we're just focused on what happens to him, not what he does.

...Which leads me to my point: we should emphasize Sif's badassery a bit more. Make him a bit more "responsible" in the sense. For example, take Matt. Fisk's actions affect him like crazy and change him as a person, but you root for him since he's just such a strong, rounded, responsible and likeable character. He gives off this "warmth" and his cool, laidback attitude in his daily life gives him this sense of "this guy knows his shit and seems like an awesome person to be around" feel. That mixed with the brutality of his hero persona make him one of Marvel's best heroes. Yet Fisk is such a fascinating character that you're itching to see what he's up to. Both sides up the tension to great heights and we want to see shit go down on either front. That's what's called interesting. And I'm not saying Sif should be Matt Murdock, I just think he can have that sort of persona with a bit of a reckless edge to him.

EDIT (ish): OH! OH!H!H!H!! OHHHH!!! OHH!! OH! O! O! OOOOWOAWAWAW!! I got an idea! We could take the POI/Batman/Arrow approach - have Sif Hunderson the human and Sif Hunderson the Alphacarnation be two separate identities. Sif's police story in the pilot can be like the Karen story - the cops try to protect him and investigate whatever's happening to him while Sif does his own investigations out in the city and beats them to the punch. Bradly can have a few conversations with "the monster" while he thinks of Sif sort of as a damaged lowlife felon. Sif builds this image to justify his getting in trouble with criminals constantly - he does this to lure leads to the police and let them do their jobs while he deals with the more supernatural shit. The dynamic that develops here will let the police sort of warm up to "the monster" and basically rely on him to do one half of the work while they hit the targets they can reach. In the meantime, we can get some "what is Wells up to" cutscenes except with Bradly as a Plumber. We won't know what's going on and audiences can assume that Bradly is evil, up until one episode where Sif faces Alphamaster for the first time, basically, in a while. (I think it should be Hell's Welcoming if you want that to be the "holy shit" episode). The police have no choice but to assist Sif, and while Alan thinks Bradly is crazy, Bradly sort of hides himself using Plumber tech to subdue Alphamaster. Sif is overpowered and reverts, and Bradly is shocked...

...He then chloroforms Alan. Audiences will freak out thinking they reveal evil shit here, but no - Bradly tells his SWAT forces to "get him out of here" - Alan is taken off in an ambulance while Bradly and the SWAT guys start pulling out grapple guns and shit - they extract Sif from the place while bomber ships scare Alphamaster off. Alphamaster is just as shocked while Bradly in a helicopter reports to Conroy that they've "finally found their package". Sif meets Conroy and the audience learns that evil Bradly is really just Plumber Bradly. Conroy is shady since they were meeting in the FBI office. Conroy explains everything, then we cut to the whole "Alphamaster uses the keys to enter the Hell dimension" or whatever. He meets Ziegel and his cult, and Conroy's a bit disturbed since he's faced Ziegel before and is afraid of him (we can later have Ziegel show up in a post-credits scene for season 2's finale where Ziegel is glad that Conroy is out of the way, setting up a teaser for S3). There's this epically choreographed action sequence that finally sees both Sif and Bradly working together in badass mode to drive the cult out of their home (this can be payoff if we tease the cult and the hell dimension in earlier episodes). The cult disbands, explaining Qwan's recurrence, Ziegel's individual plan, and Alphamaster taking more extreme measures to reunite with his dad or whatever. Hell's Welcoming can set the stage for both stories and just send audiences cheering and pissin' their pants. Whaddaya say?