Based on the pilot, as far as CW shows go, at least the main character (who is a junior in high school) has a burning passion and a career in mind.

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In one scene in the Tarantino movie Jamie Foxx, who plays the main character, Django, shoots a man carrying sticks of dynamite, and the guy is literally blown into pieces.

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One of the songs he composed for the production, "No Mother, " is about those who lost their parents under the Khmer Rouge, and the main character, Sam, has suppressed many of his painful memories of being a child soldier during that era.

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Layered over the historical fiction is a sci-fi element: The main character is a modern-day barman, Desmond Miles, who is forced to travel through time to relive the story of his ancestors and collect artefacts.

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The main character, Billy Pilgrim, is kidnapped by small green aliens called Tralfamadorians, who teach him the true nature of time: that all moments in the past, present and future exist always, and that death is just an unpleasant moment, neither an end nor a beginning.

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