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[lotus0kid]

Ahh, happy Friday, everyone! Boy I'm glad to have a nice, normal weekend, you know? Holidays are great, but two weekends in a row is a bit much. Anyway, I'm thinking I might go (duh duh duuuh) laptop shopping tomorrow. For serious this time, I know I've been complaining about my elderly computer for like... wow, like a year, yeah. Okay then. And this is the best time, while I've made some money and don't have too many bills to pay. Because on the list of major purchases, right after the laptop is the apartment. Right.

Distraction! A fannish5 contribution:
Name five characters who should have their own spinoffs.

1. Badger from Firefly. He goes straight and gets to work cleaning up the mean streets of Persephone. Yes, the whole planet. Because he's badass like that, with his very fine hat. I think it's about time Mark Sheppard got his own show, don't you?

2. Rebel from Heroes. It may be more comic book-y than the show would want to go, but I would absolutely watch the plucky specials of Rebel secretly undermine the evil Building 26. Especially if every so often their gruff mentor Claude swung by to get in on the fun.

3. Dumbledore's Army from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I've said it before- I would've much preferred to read a book about Neville Longbottom and his crew fighting Death Eaters with Hogwarts as their battlefield than Harry, Ron, and Hermione Go Camping. I'm somewhat holding out hope JKR will make it happen someday.

4. The Parkman-Suresh-Walker family from Heroes. It just ended so fast, and had so much potential! *sigh*

5. Mirror!Wendy Watson from The Middleman. Javier Grillo-Marxuach (totally spelled that right the first time- yesss) said in some commentary that they would've done like eight episodes in the Mirror!Universe, and I can see why. I'm picturing this show as like a reverse of the typical good-guy-bad-guy set-up. Here, we'd have the "hero of the week" go up against Miss Watson and get swatted down by a combination of her brilliance and resources. And the Middleman would be her arch nemesis who would crop up every season finale with some dastardly plan to break her grip on the world.

P.S. visiblemarket, let me know what theater you want to go to on Sunday, if you're feeling up to Sherlock, 'kay?

Comments

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

You mean Heroes doesn't count? Yes, a show with a villain as the main character would be cool, but eventually they'd end up trying to tone her down or something lame like that.

It is indeed. I'm really sorry to drag you all the way out to DC again, though. I know it's kind of a chore.

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

Well, that would be the challenge. How to keep the audience rooting for the bad guy for more than a handful of episodes without compromising.

Eh, it's a nice theater anyway.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

I don't think it'd really work, unless you had sympathetic peripheral characters. Which would be possible; some of evil!Wendy's guards could be semi-decent people, or Father Pip could have scenes, or something.

It is, in a nice area.

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

Hm, yeah, though then you risk the villain becoming jokey, with the decent peripheral characters kind of rolling their eyes at her. But Father Pip can totally come along.

Mmkay when do you feel like going, afternoon or evening?

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you ever watched Rome (which isn't a perfect comparison because even the baddies ended up a bit sympathetic) but it had a couple of really wretched people in the lead, and then there were the average joes just doing their job and not being nearly as awful.

Mm, I'm working tomorrow, so afternoon is probably better. I think there was one at 1 pm and the other at 4 pm.

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

Nope, missed it, but some average joes just going with the flow woud be good.

Okay, let's have lunch at noon and catch the 1pm.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan. For both ;)