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What TV show/movie/etc. would you like to see and how would you make it?

Try to give specifics of characters, setting, episodes, or casting, etc. -- stuff like that.

I actually created a fictional tv show for a landcom scifi challenge a while back. It was a scifi show. The main character was a woman who fit the Kirk archetype, except she had a younger sister, and the setting was more clearly military than Trek ever was. I cast her as Emilia Clarke. Her love interest was a non-military Doctor.

The setting was the sort of typical weak vs. powerful storyline with the main characters on a ship that was part of a civil war. It was set up as a war between Earth and all the various colonies.

Ooh, I did one for an LJ comm too. The challenge was "create a version of Anita Blake for TV that wouldn't suck." Because LKH - at that time - was notorious for always talking about a proposed TV deal that never came into fruition, I think partly because she's a very hands on author that hates letting go off control.

But yeah, so most people wrote up straight up adaptations. I ended up pitching VAMPIRE BALLET PSUEDO-REALITY SHOW. Because the books actually had this all Vampire ballet troupe show up in the later books and they are there... and do nothing. And I was like "OMG VAMPIRE BALLET. YOU CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA. WHY AREN'T YOU RUNNING WITH IT?!?!?" I still want it to be a thing.

To quote my old synopsis:
Set in LKH's AU world of vampires and werewolves, the Midnight Stage focuses around the life and challenges of the only all-vampire ballet troupe in the world, Danse Macabre. With lifetimes of experience and lessons straight from the masters, the troupe is the best of the best. But when everyone's been dancing to their own beat for the past couple hundred years, putting together the perfect show isn't as easy as it seems.

An all female witch version of Team Fortress 2 with different classes of witch/mythological creature for different playstyles e.g Broomstick/dragon pilot, clockpunk ghost templar knight, cyclops archer, demonic-possessed pyro-expy, ogress brute, a ninja class based on sealthy infiltration (like TF2's spy), and a malevolent ghost based on stealthy defense (like Arkham's Batman/ Assassin's creed Multiplayer characters).
Oh, and the horde mode is an your team against a mob of angry torch-and-pitchfork wielding villagers.

Edited 2015-02-24 00:47 (UTC)

*TV show I already like* but with lots more lesbians

Iterate for all TV shows I like

I want to do a fakity show--a double-fakity show--that parodies competitive fakity shows. Specifically, a music competition show that never actually cuts anyone, and is just an excuse to get different musicians to play together, but has the pretense that it's trying to form a band but just hasn't decided whom to cut.

Then I want to do a show that basically gets a bunch of old musicians and follows them on a tour around the country, where they jam with local musicians, and invite some of them to play in big concert at the end of the tour, or to accompany them for part of the tour. (OK, that's two different shows, really.)

I have wanted to do these for years. I probably never will.

What's a fakity show?

Well, some people call them reality shows. But they're not real, they're fake.

Something with the plot of The Parent Trap, except it doesn't have to have twins, just a divorced dad who gets engaged. And it's from the new fiancee's point of view, and instead of being a gold digger she really does love the man but struggles over whether he's worth marrying since he comes with a sadistic, two-faced child who keeps trying to drive her away. It ends with them marrying and the kid getting sent to have a miserable life at boarding school. The kid's biological mom thinks this is an excellent idea too, and becomes friends again with the dad as well as his new wife.

They'd never make this, because there's already an American Sherlock Holmes on the air as we speak, but I would want to do an American version of Sherlock Holmes.

What I would want to do is play up the aspects of the original stories that have to do with imperialism and the frontiers, and the class aspects of it. I'd have it set somewhere in the Southwest - I think San Diego would make the most sense (it's close to the Mexican border, it has a military atmosphere, it's not LA, all of which are good things), but I could see doing it in Arizona or somewhere in Central California even. I think the sun-drenched atmosphere is important, and the kind of desert landscape. Think of the film Repo Man as an aesthetic touchstone - that's a lot of what we're going for here, thematically.

Holmes is a obsessive weirdo strung-out drug user. Obviously he comes from money but he's a black sheep. Bohemian and hipster-ish and Vice-like in outlook, intense and combative and high-strung and actively opposed to what he sees as convention and hypocrisy and normality. Wiry, slender, intensely energetic. He's made the choice to take part in this lifestyle, as weird as it is, but in a lot of ways the choice was made for him as a result of his personality. As I say he's a drug user. Frequently and excessively. All kinds of drugs. One of those people who's really committed to the idea of taking drugs. More than a dash of Hunter S Thompson in his personality.

Watson is a veteran, obviously, who was a doctor with the Marines. He's Hispanic and has family roots in San Diego (unlike Holmes who's from a super-WASPy New York family) but although he's not estranged from them the relationship is fraught. He has his own issues, but he's certainly closer to normal and more able to deal with shit than Holmes. Drinks too much but doesn't use drugs otherwise. A goddamned tough motherfucker.

They live in a dilapidated-ass run-down flat in a crappy part of town (they don't work out of it, though, Holmes has a separate office in a strip mall). They're in a weird situation where, although they mostly associate with riff-raff and criminals, they're also capable of dealing (though not without difficulty) with more middle-class and upper-class people. And many of the stories will deal with that kind of class conflict, conflict of expectations and outlook and interests and culture, and also of race - all the tricky elements of the American experience.

Other minor characters include street contacts, police detectives they work with (look for a female version of Lestrade as the most prominent one), etc. I wouldn't want to touch on Moriarty at all really, and Mycroft not as a prominent character and definitely not as some kind of intelligence-department spy. Uh.... other than that I can't think of any other major points. No particular ideas on casting unfortunately. Just think it'd be cool I guess.

I would watch that. Especially because it sounds like it would really go all out on themes that most shows are afraid to handle.

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