dr. toronto
DR.
TORONTO
A sci-fi comedy about
a love triangle
between
someone who loves toronto,
someone who hates toronto,
& someone who is toronto.
jay
hates
toronto
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annette loves
toronto
sharjil
is
toronto
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DR. TORONTO introduces ANNETTE, an optimistic psychologist in love with Toronto, JAY, a pessimistic stand-up plotting Toronto's downfall, and the EMERGENT CONSCIOUSNESS OF TORONTO inhabiting the body of their dead friend SHARJIL.
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In order to save their city, Jay, Annette, and Toronto must uncover the sinister plot behind Toronto's creation while overcoming the same obstacles their city faces: despair and disillusionment, divide and distrust.
let's start with jay.
JAY moved to Toronto from small town Ontario to make it big!
He blames Toronto.
let's start with jay.
JAY moved to Toronto from small town Ontario to make it big!
He blames Toronto.
the story
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there's sharjil.
SHARJIL is Jay's only friend.
Sharjil is a fellow newcomer to Toronto but seems right at home.
Despite this, Jay likes him.
then one day,
Sharjil is killed.
Jay loses the only glimmer of light in his life and his city.
Until Sharjil reappears one day - in the audience of one of Jay’s definitely-not-sold-out shows.
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Whaaaaat?
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let's go back to annette.
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When Jay moved to the city, he met Annette a PHD student in psychology at U of T.
They hit it off.
Then they broke it up.
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Since then Annette has been working on a secret project with a group of scientists.
The goal of this secret project is to calculate the emergent consciousness of Toronto using trillions of data points like social media posts, TTC transfers, stock numbers, traffic reports, news, weather, etc.
Anything related to Toronto, they have access to, and they use to to amalgamate and approximate what Toronto would be like as a person.
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And Sharjil just donated his body to the program.
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