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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?

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[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

Me neither, for the most part. By the time Harry Potter was going strong, I had given my heart completely to Discworld, a fact I couldn't be happier about. But, in any case, I think there's a really good story in Neville's last year at Hogwarts.