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

[executrix.livejournal.com]

I, too, first said "Zoe Alleyne!" but, as an act of penance (when I first started watching Homicide: Life on the Street I didn't like Kay Howard) I would like to carry forward from Sergeant Howard's disappearance from the Homicide Unit (I love HLOTS, but the writing-out of characters is Made of Fail). I like to think that by the time The Wire rolled around, Captain Howard and Detective Greggs would find each other.

On the Literary front, I've always thought that Mary Crawford (from Mansfield Park) would make a great picaresque anti-heroine.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Hee! And then Munch could show up in the Kay Howard Show too for total tv domination!!

Along those lines -- after Julianna Cox raced out of town, I sincerely hope that she took a teaching job at a college of forensic examiners and became the kind of prof whose class students fight to get into, because although she's curmudgeonly she also has a passion for encouraging her students to subvert authority and thwart the sloppy conclusions of senior medical examiners.

Plus she grows her hair long and wears it in braids, and the class speculates on her sexuality a lot, and then it turns out she's bi and Bayliss guest-stars to say "so *that's* why you broke up with me!" and she's like, "who are you again?" and he sniffles affrontedly but can't say anything else because he's Buddhist now. SWEET.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

One hyphenated word: Princeton-Plainsboro!

I don't see Cox in a teaching post, I think she really liked being on the front line cutting up bodies. And I can't believe they could get away with firing her (although if she had been the Third Assistant, I could see her getting fed up with never being promoted and always getting the worst assignments). Hey, maybe she had a huge lawsuit win (possibly represented by Alan Shore admitted pro haec vice) and ended up OWNING Baltimore.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Yes! The Captain Howard and Det. Griggs show would ROCK.