Magic Power Day Remix?!

Hey everybody here who is reading this.  long time readers of Stephen's screaminglygoodscreenplays.blogspot.com will remember one of his all-time mega-classic screen-plays called Magic Power Day.  Seriously if you don't know this one check it out because it is some good work on the part of Stephen in which God grants magic powers to everyone on Sunday unless they use illegal drugs and unfortunately the Taylor family from Home Improvement has fallen on hard times and they use illegal drugs so they don't get any magical powers.  It's really a very solid commentary on the Taylor family, religion, the socio-economic status and tribulations of tool show hosts, and of course the consequences of long time hardcore drug use.

But what I think would also be neat is if Stephen explored what might happen if he took the title of the movie "Love and Other Drugs" literally and also made Love illegal, and also Magic Power Day was real.

In this instance, you would only get magic powers on Sundays if you didn't love people.   Picture this:  There's a girl who just gets the sweetest magic powers on Sunday and she totally loves it.  But then she has emotionless hardcore sex with someone and becomes pregnant.  What does she do? She knows that if she has the baby she won't be able to not love it, but she just doesn't want to give up her Magic Powers.  Come on, God!  Isn't there some sort of work around?!  Also, maybe (in) this movie's reality, Roe vs. Wade never happened so abortion isn't even an option for her.

I think that if there is a whole world of Christian people trying not to love one another so that they can keep their magic powers, this would make for some really soulless but intense drama situations.  Like there's this whole world filled with Vulcan like people and maybe they talk in robot voices.

Granted the power, once a week
On Sundays non-junkie's are no longer weak
Tim Taylor, betrayer of God's one new rule
He's high all the time and we watch as the drool
Drips off his chin, so when can he begin
To have power, not cower, and bloom like a flower
Into a Sunday magician, and not a junkie- has-been again.
Never he says?  I hope not.
I hope not.

Namaste,

Peter Kline (numberonestevefan at gmail dot com)