Discussion: What spinoff would you create?

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

Ever since Xena and Buffy broke out and became hits, we have a lot more tv shows with female leads-- and even shows where the main relationships are between women. But there's still a ways to go before there's as many shows starring women as there are men.

So here's my question(s) for discussion:

1) If you could take one female character, who's not the lead of her own show, and *make* a spinoff show where now she actually *is* the lead character, who would it be? And what would the show be about? (For comics, insert "spinoff comic" and for books insert "spinoff book series" here.)

I have a few that I can't choose between:

From Stargate: Atlantis, I would be interested in a spinoff show about Sora, the Genii soldier, being a spy and sneaking around the galaxy blowing up Wraith and collecting intelligence. It would sort of be like Alias in that she could never really trust her superiors, and probably at some point she would go rogue. Teyla would be in the show as her mysterious antagonist that shows up once or twice a season to dispense information, and she can't really be trusted, but they have mad UST together.

From Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I'd watch a show about Tara being a helpful spirit and having adventures on different metaphysical planes of existence, possibly in the past or the future, and helping people and then moving on-- maybe a little like Quantum Leap where she can't control where she goes or what her mission is, and just has to do the best she can.

From Firefly, I would love to watch a "prequel" type tv-movie about Zoe, showing us her childhood, her life in the military, meeting Mal and Wash, and more about how Zoe and Wash fell in love. (Or maybe I just want someone to write that story. *G*)

What about you guys?

Comments

[hossgal.livejournal.com]

Second on the more Leia request! I would have liked more about what the temptations and struggles would be for a politician who discovered she was a Jedi.

I haven't read the series of books (and don't particularly care for what I have heard, truthfully)

Two books that I thought were done well and featured a strong, in-character Leia were written by Barbara Hambly - Childern of the Jedi and Planet of Darkness. While both books are focused on Luke/OFC (whom I also love), Leia is a vital part of both stories.

- hg

[anenko.livejournal.com]

I would have liked more about what the temptations and struggles would be for a politician who discovered she was a Jedi.

Exactly that, yes!

I also love family relationships, so seeing Leia dealing with the discovery of a brother, her father (and mother, eventually?) would make me happy.

Thanks for the book recs! I'd heard that a lot of the authors were prone to putting Leia down, and the mere *thought* of that makes me twitch.

[hossgal.livejournal.com]

I also love family relationships, so seeing Leia dealing with the discovery of a brother, her father (and mother, eventually?) would make me happy.

Then you might like the bits of Childern that dealt with Leia's memories of her family on Alderon.

I thought Hambly did a good job with Leia - she's not a hard core warrior type, but then she wasn't one in canon, either. Oh, and I got the title of the second book wrong - it's Planet of Twilight.

- hg