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

[strangerian.livejournal.com]

OH, yeah, the Romulan Commander... *sigh*

Diane Duane's series of ST Romulan books with Ael is pretty good on that kind of thing, though Ael is described as short (the better to get the drop on you, usually) and the Romulan Commander in ST was a tall goddess type. Or so I remember her -- it's been years and *years* since I've seen those eps. In general ST was so busy talking about humans in alien guise that it didn't get around to real aliens very often. But the foundation is there.

[se-parsons.livejournal.com]

Those books were great. I would have loved to have seen something like that ON MY TV, with aliens as the heroes, and a woman as leader.

I loved the little bit of the dynamic we saw on that ship. Those folks were cool and their show would have been cool.

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

I was just about to mention those books, yes. Ael is the Romulan Commander's aunt, so there is a link there too. :)