Similar shows- Twilight Zone, Quantum Leap, all the Treks-inspired me to start writing characters, building worlds, and discovering different ways for stories to walk in the door for those characters. My all-time favorite TV show growing up, Stargate SG-1, is a ten season masterclass in story-of-the-week television writing. Science fiction was also a way into storytelling for me, especially episodic narrative. If you look through all of my work to date, music is a recurring theme throughout. I actually became a musician first (though Aykroyd and Belushi have to share credit with Bruce Springsteen in that regard). Whether it was the film’s absurdity, the incredible music, or both that was the film that made me want to become a filmmaker. The Blues Brothers awakened something in me as an artist. Especially the original cast-I can wax poetic about each and every one of those sketches. I can’t remember when I started watching, but my parents would always have it on in the house when I was little. My earliest inspiration was Saturday Night Live.
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