Because I'm trying to motivate myself to write other things...
Planetary for the process. FEAR doesn't have Planetary's budget but they do have their operating principles: they put three or four people in a helicopter and drop them in a crisis. Then they pick them up when everything's solved or dead. Planetary has wonderful STYLE, too. It's crisp, it's cool, it's kicking ass.
Swamp Thing for the horror. Nobody writes horror the way Moore does - with so much love and affection for everything in it - from the victims to the heroes and even to the monsters. If we can come close to his slow, languid love affair with the monstrous, that would be awesome.
The X Files for the budget. Not the show's budget, but FEAR's budget. They really are stuck in basements a lot of the time, shifting through filing cabinets. The computer age is still a mystery to large sections of FEAR. X-Files also did the conspiracy thing well, and there will be elements of that. Oh yes.
NCIS for the cadence. I love to juggle my US military parlance and acronyms. Expect a lot of such things, delivered with manilla folders by shouting men in helicopters. And despite the lower budget, NCIS is full of technophilia, and there will be some of that too in FEAR.
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