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

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Tyra from Friday Night Lights. Mostly I want to see her at college, but I'd watch a show about her doing anything, really.

-J

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

Ooh, cool question. I'd totally watch the Tara spinoff you described!

Even though I had mixed feelings about her on the show, I think there could've been a great Heroes spinoff that centered on Niki, trying to come to terms with her family's powers and her "evil" alter ego. And kicking ass, of course. :)

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

I want The Adventures of Chloe Sullivan as the ground-breaking, muckraking journalist of the Age of Superheroes.

[anenko.livejournal.com]

I'm totally with you on wanting more about Zoe. I loved Mal, but I'd even watch a Firefly where Zoe was leader, or was forced to take that position for a story arc where Mal was absent.

I'd take any pre-series spinoff starring the women of Farscape. Aeryn is an obvious choice, but the politics and tension between Zhaan's peaceful and ruthless halves might be interesting as well.

Star Wars--more Leia! She was my favourite character, and I'd love seeing her pre-series (it felt like there was a lot of history in that confrontation with Vader in the first movie, for instance). I haven't read the series of books (and don't particularly care for what I have heard, truthfully), so I'd jump on the chance for a movie spinoff focused on Leia, as well. M

[pellucid.livejournal.com]

From SG-1: Sam and Vala, Space Pirates!

[acaciaonnastik.livejournal.com]

I want some Heroes prequels about the likable bastard that must have been Eden McCain before her recruitment, traveling the country having little adventures and stealing shit.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

A She-Hulk type supernatural legal dramedy starring Lilah from Angel.

[copracat]

For Star Trek:TNG, the adventures of Tasha Yar's daughter Sela. I would like it to be a bit of a dark story, lots more DS9 than TNG and with no major Federation/earth human presence.

I'd love a The Bill spinoff where Viv Martella's death was faked to get her undercover for MI6 or is that MI5? Whichever one has her grumpy earthiness dealing with bombs and terrorists and crusty old George Cowley-like bosses. Guest stars would include thinly disguised but subtle send-ups of the anti/heroes of this kind of show, like The Professionals and Spooks with Viv always excoriating them with her sarcasm and saving the day from their testosterone-fuelled machismo.

I very much second the Zoe prequel.

[copracat]

Would she wear a hat at a rakish angle? Would she dress like Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday (but have punched Cary Grant in the face like he deserved?)

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

Why, yes. Yes, she would.

[se-parsons.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see the Romulan Commander show from Star Trek:OS. All about Romulans kicking ass and being Romulans and battling those dirty Klingons and Federation types.

[cofax7]

I want a show about Aeryn Sun between Farscape seasons 3 and 4, when she was a spy and an assassin.

Or I want a Chiana show, set after the miniseries, when she's just kicking around the universe having fun.

[counteragent.livejournal.com]

Yay! That would be a class act.

[counteragent.livejournal.com]

Anywhere Lilah goes, I would follow.

[smonsterbite.livejournal.com]

Wow. Seconded.

[serrico.livejournal.com]

Martha Jones, Martha Jones, Martha Jones. Not necessarily in a Torchwood way--and not in a Sarah Jane Smith Adventures way--but in a way that would let us see her as a doctor, with her family, *and* investigating/fighting Weird Shit From Time And Space.

I second your Zoe idea, and harriet_spy's Chloe idea. *Wholeheartedly* second!

And now for something completely different: in the world of soaps, I would *love* to see General Hospital's Alexis Davis, Diane Miller, Kate Howard, and Lucy Coe have their own show, only without all the annoying trappings of the Cashmere Mafias/Lipstick Jungles of the world.

[bofoddity.livejournal.com]

That Tara-idea is so wonderful that I have to second it.

From Star Wars, it would be great to see something about Mira of the Knights of the Old Republic-games. I'd think she'd make a great main character for a comic book series, detailing her youth and her years as a bounty hunter.

From Heroes, I'd love to see something (mini-series, maybe?) about early days of Angela Petrelli. Hell, an Angela-centric episode in the show itself could be quite wonderful. Also, since the show never gave me an ass-kicking Yaeko, I'd like to see a mini-series (or comic series) about her life after Hiro, where she becomes hero of her own right.

From Supernatural, a tv-movie about Jo would be lovely, where she steps out of the shadows of the Winchesters and her own past. Similarly, I'd like to see a "prequel" about Ellen's life, and how it was like to be a mother to Jo.

[xenacryst.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see a show about Susan Ivanova and what she did after leaving B5. Especially since she left before the rest of the story we know concluded, there's got to be some interesting things that she's been doing out there somewhere.

Well, we're already getting to see what Sarah Jane Smith is up to, but I'd also like to see some of the backstory from Romana, being another Time Lord and all.

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

Romana spinoff, most definitely. Adventures in e-space!

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

SECONDED LIKE WHOA.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

I'd watch The Martha Jones Show immediately. & :-)

[greenet.livejournal.com]

Jane Roland from Temeraire. I'd cheerfully read a book series featuring the adventures of Jane and Excidium.

[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

[counteragent.livejournal.com]

Seconded!

[hossgal.livejournal.com]

I second the Zoe prequel.

*thinks*

For SPN, I'd like to see the story of Ellen and Bill Harvelle - trying to raise a family and keep on hunting. But I think a more interesting show might be made from Sarah Blake, ghost-hunter who specializes in haunted art-work. If you could keep the characters of Sam & Dean, and keep them in the back ground, and throw in Cassie Robinson, as a para-normal investigating reporter with her own Winchester ties, things could be very interesting.

- hg