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Captain Fantastic
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Matt Lurrie
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You've heard of
the Incredibles; you've heard of Superman; but you have not heard about
Captain Fantastic, or rather, Captain Fan-Fan-Fan-Fantastic. This
week's drama show was entitled Captain Fantastic. |
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The play begins
at the headquarters of the school newspaper The Weekly Bunyan.
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Waldo
Puppybreath, the main character, has just been named editor, and people are
not thrilled about it. |
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People voice
their opposition, including the most notorious gang in the school, the Rat
Finks. |
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When Waldo gets
into a fight with one of the Rat Finks, he accidentally hits himself in the
jaw. |
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And
subsequently knocks himself unconscious. |
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Waldo, who has an
obsession with comic books, and all the characters therein, wakes up in some
alternate universe as Captain Fantastic. |
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Mysteriously, all
the candidates for Prom Queen have been dropping out, and Waldo (sorry,
Captain Fantastic) is determined to find out why. |
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In his fantasy, characters become
super heroes. |
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The janitor becomes bucket man. |
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The nerdy girl
becomes Electra-woman. |
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And with the help
of his trio, Captain Fantastic sets off to right the wrongs. |
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The Rat Finks are
the 'bad guys' in this tale. Their status went from gang (in the real
world) to organized crime (in the fantasy). |
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And they are lead
by a person calling himself Inkblot. |
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In order to flush
out Captain Fantastic, the evildoers capture two people from his school.
One of them was a teacher, and they tried to get her to sign a contract to
move the school to a swampy area. The other, a friend of Captain
Fantastic, they tickled with a feather in order to try to get Captain
Fantastic to come to rescue her. |
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It worked.
Captain Fantastic came, and in an epic fencing match, he beat Inkblot. |
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When he woke up
back at The Weekly Bunyan, as Waldo Puppybreath, he used information
and skills from his fantasy to get out of the sticky situation that he was
in: his editorial about the movement of the school prompted an
investigation that showed that the school would sink under the swamp, and
that he in fact was the true winner of a highly contester fencing match. |
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And all was right with the world
again. |
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Many thanks to
the stage crew, and counselors who worked tirelessly to make Captain
Fantastic a success. It was fantastic. |
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