(Last thing under a WIDW tag was a Doctor Who one that I never officially counted even if it sort of applies, so I'll call this #16)

Time for another edition of What I'd Do With... Yes, it's been quite a while since I've done one of these, mostly because I've been doing much more actual writing in the last year or so. But I still get WIDW type urges, and this time I thought I'd try something different, and to make up for the long absence, something a little more intensive than I usually do.

WIDW a movie about Marvel Comics Thor (actually, sort of WIDW a movie and its sequel)...
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The what: An actual script for my proposed Thor movie (albeit still in something of a rough form, I got to a point where I just wanted to get it done and didn't throw in my best work).

If that's too long for you, here's the summary-in-words:
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Rough thoughts about a sequel, in which I decided to include a character normally known to be in the X-Universe, and a classic Thor moment, and even a tiny bit of thoughts on the third movie: ( Read more... )

So, that's it. Comments welcome.

You can get to all my WIDWs here.

Spoilery thoughts on "Evolution of the Daleks", the latest Who episode (and a bit of 'What I'd Do With...'ish thinking about the Daleks).

Non-spoilery summary: It was pretty lame.
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Okay, my last post on Runaways was my joking impression of how other famous comic creators might handle them. Now it's my turn to tell how I'd do it. Normally I'd never do a WIDW with Runaways as I was enjoying it so much as it is... I'd have some ideas of what might be cool storylines, but they were always in isolationg rather than as part of a big 'plan'. Felt it was sort of a little disrespectful to the series. (And I don't generally do WIDWs for things I'm enjoying, only things I'm not enjoying or things that are long gone).

Now that BKV and Alphona are announced at leaving though, I feel I can do one for Runaways. In particular this was sparked by a thread on the BKV forums "What's your pitch for Runaways?". It got me thinking, and sometimes when I get thinking I can't stop until I've got something all set together in a 'plan'.

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So, here we go. Spoilers for issues through #19 and Civil War: Young Avengers & Runaways.
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Haven't done one of these in a bit, and I figured it was time again...

As is often the case with these things, it started with some message board post, on the topic of 'what kind of Buffyverse spinoff would you like to see?'. So, hearing the typical 'Faith and Wood', 'Spike solo series!' 'Slayers-in-Training!' type suggestions, I tried to come up with a different concept that I'd like. Much like when I did the Firefly spinoff thing, I figured I'd take only one character (although I later had to add a character who'd appeared in a few episodes), and put them in with a new group and a new mission. After giving a quick one sentence outline, I thought about it more and decided to flesh it out a bit as a WIDW.

Before I begin, this does make use of some of the ideas I used in my 'Alternate Angel Season 5' and Season 6 and 7 WIDW, but it takes place after the actual Season 5 finale as aired.

Details behind the cut, this one's a little more scattershot than usual...
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So the big thing in comics coming up in March is DC's jump to ONE YEAR LATER. Now, initially I was pretty excited about it, but when information started coming out, I realized that I was dropping far more books than I was picking up. Anyway, I figured OYL was a prime idea to do as a What I'd Do With segment... except not just with DC books, but with Marvel ones as well.

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Comments welcome as usual. Of course, all my previous WIDWs can be found here.

This week I got:

Birds of Prey #88 (good job in making all 3 plotlines interesting)
Runaways #10 (My pick of the week even though I thought it was a little weaker than usual)
X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1 (it's okay. We'll have to see where it goes).

Full reviews as usual are up at my comic review site

I skipped Mutopia X #5. A flipthrough in the store convinced me I'd be happier saving the money.

Work was blehish, about twice as heavy as the usual wednesday delivery, and still no word on when the Friday deliveries are coming. But ah well.

EDIT: Oh, and minor update on my last WIDW
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Some spoilers for Marvel's HoM and Decimation if you don't already know, so all of it's going behind a cut.
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Yesterday I finished Battle Royale, by Koushun Takami. For those who don't know, it's a novel about a class of Grade 9 students in a fascist Japan who are randomly selected to compete in a yearly competition in which they all must fight until there is only one survivor. In short, I really enjoyed the book, far more than I expected to. My official Battle Royale review is here, but I have some more thoughts both on the premise, and translations to other media, that I'll put before the cut tag because they spoil some aspects of the book (and movie, I guess) - they are very minor (IMHO) spoilers though, rather than any big details like how it ends.

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Now, since this is one of the reasons I enjoyed the book so much (because it encouraged such speculation in me), I have to go into my own little thoughts about what I would do if I was in the situation. (Some spoilers, mainly for things that are in the book's concept rather than the specifics of plot, but mostly spoilers for my Grade 9 life. If you're planning on reading the book of my life or watching the inevitable movie, you may be spoiled for the parts about Grade 9! ;))

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Over on Serenity: The Official Movie Website they have a 'point' system - you earn points through various tasks, which you can eventually use to get free merchandise and stuff. One of the most recent 'challenges' was to write the synopsis for the pilot to a spinoff TV series from Firefly, using one character from the series.

So, I did so. It's a bit different than most WIDWs, because I only had a couple weeks to do it (and even that only in my spare time between XET work and other stuff and had a limit of 10000 characters (which I hit and had to reduce), rather than taking all the time and space I need to think, so pretty much I just went with my first idea and ran with it.

The 'one character from the series' I chose was Saffron/Yolanda/Bridgett from "Our Mrs. Reynolds" and "Trash". So, here we go... after the cut is my synopsis for a pilot:
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This and all my WIDWs archived here.

This is a huge one, where I just sort of focused on my ideal cable network. If you want, you can do your own, but of course it's fairly labour intensive so I don't really expect this meme to propogate. If you want, then these are the 'rules':

1. Choose Broadcast or Cable
2. Choose a network name, logo, and, if desired, overall programming theme.
3. Create or recruit programming subject to the following conditions:
a) You cannot buy the rights to any new show currently in production that is already attached to a network. You can, however, buy rerun rights to any show's past seasons (regardless of whether another network has exclusive rerun rights), or buy new episodes of a show cancelled by another network and not yet picked up by another.
b) You cannot have programming that you know would be impossible - if you know an actor is the lead in a sitcom on NBC, you can't have him playing in your show. If you know an actor has said she wouldn't want to return to a series that's been cancelled, you can't produce new episodes with them (but could decide to do it without them). You don't have to do in-depth research, the principle is don't cheat - if, when you think of the idea, your mind says you can't do it because of something you heard, then you can't do it.
c) You can be assumed to have the budget for the rights to any adaptation of a book, comic, movie, etc, (or to pay for the rights to make new episodes of a cancelled series) that is not already in production, to the best of your knowledge, and to do as much new programming as you want, so long as each show remains a reasonable budget (you can't pay $100 million an episode for a new TV series)

You can be as specific or general as you'd like, from day by day and hour by hour schedules, to a few key shows and a general theme for the rest of the programming you'd like. But for goodness' sake, put it behind a cut tag.

My Network: The Infinity Channel (Cable)( Read more... )

This and all previous WIDWs available here.

Well, I was bored and sick and not much to do so I pulled up this half finished WIDW and finished it off. Anything that doesn't make sense I blame on sickness - because I never, EVER, not make sense when I'm not sick. Really.

Here's a _very_ rough outline of where I'd go with S6 and 7 of Angel, assuming we could do one, and assuming it follows off from my own revised Season 5.
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This and all my WIDWs are in my 'Memories' section. As usual, comments and alternative ideas more than welcome.

Been a while since I've done one of these, but, recently on one of the discussion forums I'm on, someone raised the question of what sort of afterlife you'd design. So, I've been thinking about it for a while.

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(Archived in Memories like all WIDWs)

Okay, the following is what I'd do with some means to travel from dimension to dimension with alternate history.
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(This and all other WIDWs archived in my Memories section)

Well, Space is showing a Victoria Day Viewer's Choice Marathon of Angel, which has inspired me to do a WIDW for the final season of the show... Major S5 spoilers behind the cut tag.
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(This and all other WIDW columns archived in my Memories section).

(Oh, first another minor update on the last WIDW. For 'Sliders', the episode 'Cutting Edge', I'd include one of the plotlines being an AI entity asking the Sliders to free it by taking it to another world. This plotline might continue later on, with the AI being a (usually dormant) 'ally' that accompanies them on worlds, and the AI might help with decrypting the timer coordinates for 'home'. Anyway, on to this one...).
'Mutant X' was a travesty. A poor X-Men ripoff with bad actors, bad concept, and really bad writing. It made me ashamed to live in the city it filmed. So, accepting for the moment that a series is being made to capitalize on 'X-Men', here's What I'd Do With it...
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Well, there we go, that's about as far as I'm willing to take the speculations at least at this point. Comments welcome. (This and previous WIDWs are available on my Memories page)

This is my biggest yet (and probably among the least interesting to most people on my friends list, but hey, it's a personal thing), I'll be tackling Sliders, the alternative-history travelling series first on Fox, and later on the Sci-Fi channel, giving TV Guide style log listings for 2 full seasons worth of episodes, as well as general thoughts, ideas, and grumblings about the way things actually went.
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Comments welcome.
Oh and I finally found a use for the 'Memories' function. This and all previous and future WIDW will be added to the Memories tab in my userinfo for easy reference.

This Time.... the Star Trek franchise.
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(Edit, somehow lost a line in cut and past, replaced it)

This one, rather than taking over just Exiles (speaking of which, I decided to add Madrox and Karma to my 'Secret Ops' team), I've decided to take on the whole of the X-Books (with a bit of the rest of Marvel)!
This would be more of an super-editorial position, assigning creative teams and designing casts, rather than specific plotting, but there may be some ideas there... I'll take it from where I'd go with Reload (minor spoilers for what has been revealed about post-Reload books)...( Read more... )
Reading back over this, I seem to be a fairly ruthless editor with a soft spot for whatever I personally like even if they might not sell. Probably not the best combination, but oh well, it's my fantasy, I'm entitled. ;) Next 'What I'd Do With' will not be comics-related, I promise! ;) (No guarantees for the one after that though).

Comments are of course welcome. ;)

This will be a 'whenever I feel like it' type thing, where I take some comic, tv show, or movie, and what I'd do with it if I were put in complete charge of everything that happens. Mostly this is for my own amusement, and so I have a record I can look back on eventually and laugh at myself and my arrogance. Usually it's because I see something wrong with the way it's going now, but sometimes it's just because I just enjoy thinking about what I'd do with it if the facts conspired to put me in charge. In most cases, I'll choose as though I took over from where it is now, but I might occasionally do ones where I go back in time to some critical point and go from there. Rarely will it be a huge detailed plan, mostly general ideas and directions.
This time: Exiles comic (minor spoilers ahead for recent Exiles stuff), starting from nowish.
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