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fandomsecrets2012-12-18 06:35 pm
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[ SECRET POST #2177 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2177 ⌋
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Rewrite a season of your favorite (but imperfect) shows!
(Anonymous) 2012-12-19 12:19 am (UTC)(link)(Try not to step outside of the bounds of that season though unless you're dealing with a cliffhanger - rewrite a season, not a whole show).
Re: Rewrite a season of your favorite (but imperfect) shows!
(Anonymous) 2012-12-19 01:58 am (UTC)(link)The evil Danny from the future escapes like it was hinted at. Epic battle ensues and fans all over the world cry tears of joy.
The relationship between Valerie and Danny is finally dealt with instead of left hanging.
Danni's instability is dealt with instead of just randomly melting and then being okay.
If Vlad suddenly changing goals was supposed to be a sign of his deteriorating sanity, then this is shown so that it doesn't seem like he went out of character.
The new villains are given proper characterization, dammit.
Sam doesn't become that "I know better than you and I'm always right no matter how much disagree with me and you will be proven wrong for not agreeing with me" character.
Some damn explanation for Danny erasing his parents memory at the end of Reality Trip.
Everything else is okay; I guess.
Re: Rewrite a season of your favorite (but imperfect) shows!
All I say is I agree with everything you said!
Re: Rewrite a season of your favorite (but imperfect) shows!
(Anonymous) 2012-12-19 07:32 am (UTC)(link)it just kills me that one of the writers (Steve Marmel) actually wanted to go into the this more serious, plot-heavy direction for the third season (he confessed he wanted to address evil future Danny's return, for example) -- and apparently he told his plans to some fan(s) who swore secrecy on the specifics -- but Hartman wanted to keep going in a goofier direction ala Fairly OddParents ( :/ ), and then the writer left the team, so now we will never know what could have been *sobs*
DS9 S7 BIG SPOILERS. It ended 13 years ago, you should know this shit. Also seriously TL;DR!
Season 7 is bad because it disregards a lot of the character development built by the first 6. Basically I would make sure the character writing stayed a LOT more consistent.
Surprisingly, I'd keep most of Ezri Dax's arc- she has a lot of potential. She gets more character-focused episodes than average (mostly at the expense of Miles episodes), so that as a new character that season she gets a complete mini-arc from when we meet her. As a station on the front lines, DS9 really could use a counselor and it's a career that was never really used to best effect with Deanna Troi's storylines. Instead of the plots of Ezri revisiting Jadzia's attraction to Worf, give her more stories of her actually COUNSELING people (and herself). Drop the episode with her family and Miles undercover altogether. Tweak the one with her exploring Dax's murderous host to catch a killer, but it's not bad and keeps her stories psychologically based.
Sisko's Emissary plotlines were always my least favorite part of DS9. It's pretty clear that the first 6 were building to his ascension, so I won't change that. I would jettison the stuff with Sisko's mother being one of the prophets, and the conspiracy theory stuff that the whole Star Trek mythos is just taking place in Benny Russell's mind. *eyeroll* Give Kassidy more to do, especially more ass-kickery.
Drop the Dukat as Pah Wraith emissary subplot, and especially drop the Dukat-as-a-Bajoran nonsense and Dukat/Winn. Basically this:
Dukat and Winn are both at their best at their most ambiguous. If we HAVE to remove him from leading the Cardassian faction of the Dominion, do something else with him. Maybe link Kai Winn to Section 31 in some way. Winn hates Sisko-the-Emissary and the Federation has always been uncomfortable with it. Perhaps there's something they could have tried to do something to stop him ascending to a higher plane of existence?
On the subject of Section 31, it's unfortunate that Garak was always off involved with Odo, Kira, and Damar and the Cardassian Resistance and was never in any of Bashir's Section 31 episodes. Maybe they elaborate on that in the DS9 relaunch novels?
Less holosuite episodes (although DS9 has mercifully few of them in comparison to TNG and Voyager; and some of DS9's are quite good- "His Way" and "Our Man Bashir" come to mind). I like Vic Fontaine in season 6's "His Way" and his cameo in the Mirror Universe is hilarious. But god he gets overused in season 7. I'd keep "It's Only a Paper Moon" because Aron Eisenberg's acting is great in it, and it shows some consequences of the war beyond the physical. And it has Ezri actually doing counseling stuff. Maybe trim the baseball episode into a funny B-plot to an episode with more serious A-plot?
Keep everything about Weyoun because Weyoun is awesome, especially the cool Weyoun 6 story. Keep Damar's involvement in the Cardassian resistance. Keep the ending of Kira/Odo's relationship and the end of the Dominion War with regards to the Founders. The virus plot isn't my favorite, but it works ok and the series should end with Odo rejoining his people.
I don't hate season 7, but its flaws are all the more noticeable because the rest of DS9 is so strong. As you can see, there's a lot of things I'd keep. But after the heights of Seasons 4 and 5, 7 is just FRUSTRATING.
Re: Rewrite a season of your favorite (but imperfect) shows!
Elliot talks his departure over with Olivia off-camera and she's the one to break the news to the captain instead of vice-versa. She's still upset about it, of course, but at least she's not moping around like a teenager who's been stood up by her prom date all season.
Alex and Casey actually have storylines instead of just being trotted out for a handful of episodes combined and then forgotten. Alex tries to repair her relationship (romantic or otherwise) with Olivia. Liv's abandonment issues and Alex's role in exacerbating them are dealt with in the wake of Elliot's retirement. Casey deals with working alongside Alex for the first time and finally starts to see her as a person instead of a pair of shoes she can't fill (in my headcanon Casey has a total inferiority complex where Alex is concerned).
Amanda comes in and immediately has a big ol' crush on Olivia. That part might already be canon tbh.
Nick has a personality beyond "Elliot 2.0."
Doctor Who season 6 ahoy!
So after the universe reboot and the honeymoon planet shenanigans, there's ACTUAL FALLOUT from season 5 because nobody knows who blew up the TARDIS, Amy has two separate timelines in her head, Rory has 2000 years in his head, and the Doctor is going "so, I'm apparently so terrifying I got chucked in a box like a monster. By actual monsters. This sounds like a Problem that I Need To Do Something About.
The Silence happens, because the Silence is the most frickin' awesome alien threat in the history of ever, but no Future!Doc getting killed occurs.
After kicking the Silence's ass, Amy and her boys continue to travel the universe, because Amy is still trying to reconcile crack!Amy, who grew up with great chunks of her life and memory being gobbled up without her being able to notice or remember it, and reboot!Amy, who grew up with loving parents, a fully intact timeline, and only only tiny little nagging hole in her memory where the Raggedy Man used to be; Rory is trying to figure out who he is outside of Amy, because suddenly having a load of memories dumped into your brain that all take place on the night before your wedding tends to do that. So neither of them have any idea how to cope with normal life. The Doctor, meanwhile, is worried about the Alliance and the Silence and River and who blew up the TARDIS and can use all the distraction he can get.
Conspicuously absent: bullshit Amy/Doctor teasing and pregnancy bullshit.
The Doctor's Wife, however, remains exactly the same, because that was as close to a perfect episode as possible.
The beginning of Lets Kill Hitler, with Amy and Rory's crazy friend hijacking the TARDIS to Nazi Germany and getting subsequently waylaid by a bunch of miniaturized war criminal hunters from the future in a shapeshifting ship that can take human form and shoot lasers out of its mouth and is patrolled by sarcastic murderous antibodies (I STILL CANNOT BELIEVE A PHRASE THAT AWESOME EXISTS OMG), happens.
However, Mels is not actually River Song, nor does River Song have anything to do with anything except to be mysterious and sassy and flirty and epic with limited screentime. Instead, the Tesselecta decides the guy who who slaughtered all the Time Lords and all the Daleks along with a bunch of other transgressions is a more nefarious war criminal to chase, and whacky Nazi shenanigans with side helpings of Time War Angst and Pandorica Anxiety ensues. Also, Amy and Rory learn some more Vincent-y stuff about not being able to change history all the time.
After that, due to something vaguely to do with the Alliance that I am too lazy to detail right now, Rory gets separated from Amy and the Doctor. Oh noes! But this is good, because it allows Amy to Do Epic Shit scouring the universe for Rory and figuring out that time and space is awesome but not as awesome as Rory, while Rory gets to Do Epic Shit all on his own and find out that he totes rocks, and the Doctor gets to Do Epic Shit and be super-smart and prove he's actually not that scary, for reals you guise, and get the Alliance laughed out of town. Out of the galaxy? Basically a whole lot of Epic Shit. With Because the Amy-Rory-Doctor trio is epic when actually handled right.
After that, the Ponds want to try living normally on Earth. But they're not sure! So they tell the Doctor to meet them in a year, or two years, or three years, at a specified time and location, 'cause he has a time machine right? and then they'll tell him if they want to stay. So that happens, and the Ponds become actual normal well-adjusted people with Fo Serious Yo character development.
However, sad Doctor is sad without his Ponds, so he goes straight to the agreed-upon time and place without waiting as long as they did. Except the TARDIS goes wonky because monsters, and he has a choice whether to stay there or Never Ever be able to land in this place and time again. Well, he's not gonna let down the Ponds, so he waits there for years (maybe fourteen years, if I was in a particularly sappy and sentimental mood), waiting for the Ponds to let him out while slowly going batshit insane due to loneliness and hallucinating about ex-companions and investigating who blew the TARDIS up. It turns out SHOCK. The TARDIS blew herself up to kill an even bigger enemy. But who? Suspense!
Anyhoo, the Ponds try out regular humaning. It's weird. Sort of boring. But also cool. Waiting for things to happen instead of going to them is kinda fascinating. Eventually though, Rory is an awesome nurse and Amy starts writing children's fiction in the form of fairy tale versions of her adventures with the Doctor. A raggedy man, a ship and her thief, a monster that monsters are scared of, toy romans, floating cities, goblins who eat memories, moving statues. They decide that they want kids, but are scared to have kids, and they don't want to pass up traveling with the Doctor and saving the universe, so they run off again and they meet up and save him from the monsters and it's ultra-sappy and cute.
Too lazy to describe the stuff that occurs after that, but it is cool and creepy. Honest. It really is. I swear. It involves some inventive Moffat-monster I'm not talented enough to come up with.
Near the end, River turns up. Duh. Then some totally random douchebag drops by and spills the beans to Amy and Rory, but not the Doctor, that River is actually Amy and Rory's daughter (what? the concept was great, even if the actual execution sucked balls) but they don't have time to talk about it, because Big Damn Two Part Finale happens. OMG.
The Silence are totally trying to conquer the universe and shit after being blown up by the TARDIS. Or is it before? Or did it never really happen because the universe rebooted? No one knows. It breaks the audience's brain a little, but not as much as The Big Bang. But the stakes are extra-personal, because if Amy or Rory dies, River will have never existed. The Ponds are pissed because, um, spoilers much? But epic ending is epic and beyond my talents and they realize that actually, having River be their kid is kind of amazing. So time can be rewritten and all, but you don't always want to. You want to figure it out on your own.
So after beating the Silence again with the TARDIS's help, which involves lots of horrible deaths (Everybody Lives doesn't work if you do it every single damn time, Moffat!!), the Ponds decide okay, now they're finally ready to stop traveling, and leave to go back to normalness and raising River/Melody and being a nurse and writing stories (stories are so important to this era arrrrgh why did they not come up more often). All sappy-like, but not quite RTD-level sappy. Or depressing. And they don't tell the Doctor about River, but he figures it out anyway.
P.S.: Next season, with a completely different companion (Clara I guess), there's one scene in an episode where the Doctor is saving the world in the year 2050 or something, and old!Ponds see tell tale shit happening on TV, realize the Doctor's there, and race over to the location and see him one last time. As always happens with the Eleventh Doctor and the Ponds, it's been forty years for them, but only a few months for him. Also, he buys Amy's books and gives them to his new companion to read.
Wow. Did I word-vomit all that? I didn't even think of any of it beforehand -- this is all crap I came up with in the last fifteen minutes.
Re: Doctor Who season 6 ahoy!
(Anonymous) 2012-12-19 08:24 am (UTC)(link)Re: Doctor Who season 6 ahoy!
(Anonymous) 2012-12-19 12:10 pm (UTC)(link)