Your ideas for a spin off series

POSTED BY: pizmobeach
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 15:23
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PIZMOBEACH

Saturday, April 7, 2012 2:00 PM

I have serious doubts about a return of the original cast and crew and show after this many years, but the 'Verse is vast and there are many stories to tell. :)
So do you have any ideas for a spinoff or other show idea that takes place in the 'Verse?
I had this thought that a show with River as a bridge character so many years later could work (and I think Summer would be great of course and available). Who would she be x years later? What would her special talents lend themselves to and how would they influence her life path? Would she be so mentally and socially injured that she always lived on the edge of society, never or rarely trusting? River as a bounty hunter - too ironical? Who would her friends be? What would be the fall out from Miranda? Another Alliance v. New Independents war? I think that might have a lot of legs considering we only saw glimpses of the original conflict but there's still a lot of emotional baggage there to work with.
Ideas?

MOOSE

Saturday, April 7, 2012 2:37 PM

The Man They Call Jayne

Capitalizing on Jayne's notoriety earned from Serenity, a guns-for-hire company convinces Jayne to become their "boss".

Of course, this goes to Jayne's head, with hi-larious results.

Pretty much a mix of Remington Steele and the A-Team.

TWO

Saturday, April 7, 2012 2:37 PM

Simon is a volunteer with Doctors Without Borders, which has leased Serenity. The Captain is often in conflict with Simon about where the clinic ship will go to next. The needs of the smuggler are greater than the needs of the sick.

On Serenity, River and Inara are running a spy operation, for super-rich owner of the Beaumonde shipyard where Serenity was repaired, against the Alliance. That super-rich owner also builds new ships, shipboard weapons, planetary gravity control, etc. Kaylee is an engineer designing ship engines, specifically for starships that will eventually go to Earth. Publicly, the Alliance is for the idea. Privately, it does not want Earth resettled by Beaumonde because the Alliance won't be able to tightly control Earth since it is twenty something lightyears away.

The big mystery shall be the question of why the numbers of Reavers increase over time, in direct contradiction to the explanation of their origin in the movie.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

ECGORDON

Saturday, April 7, 2012 7:36 PM

Saffron and Badger: Salvage Operations

CSI: Ariel

Law & Order: Londinium

Atherton Wing: Persephone Gigolo

Jayne Cobb: Have Vera, Will Travel

So You Think You Can Dance As Good As River Tam?

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

THESOMNAMBULIST

Saturday, April 7, 2012 9:35 PM

Originally posted by ecgordon:

Quote:
Atherton Wing: Persephone Gigolo

Ha,ha Brilliant!

THESOMNAMBULIST

Saturday, April 7, 2012 9:47 PM

"Sons of Jayne"

Through-out his life Jayne fathered seventeen children ( unbeknownst to Jayne) and they all can shoot a man with a bent scope from 500 yards.
They have been recruited by the government.
Brainwashed, highly trained and seemingly susceptible to suggestion sixteen of the seventeen go out to perform their dastardly missions (Whatever they maybe)
Son number seventeen though is different. He's less accommodating, he thinks for himself, writes songs and is a keen wordsmith. He tricks the government into thinking he's like his brothers, but he isn't.

So now he scours the 'verse in search of his siblings to stop them and their dark murderous tasks. But first he must find his father!

PIZMOBEACH

Sunday, April 8, 2012 2:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by THESOMNAMBULIST:
"Sons of Jayne"

Through-out his life Jayne fathered seventeen children ( unbeknownst to Jayne) and they all can shoot a man with a bent scope from 500 yards.
They have been recruited by the government.
Brainwashed, highly trained and seemingly susceptible to suggestion sixteen of the seventeen go out to perform their dastardly missions (Whatever they maybe)
Son number seventeen though is different. He's less accommodating, he thinks for himself, writes songs and is a keen wordsmith. He tricks the government into thinking he's like his brothers, but he isn't.

So now he scours the 'verse in search of his siblings to stop them and their dark murderous tasks. But first he must find his father!

Oooo, interesting, a tale for the modern angsty world, Man versus Himself almost (our struggle with our government which is made up of ourselves of course), I like it! It's a flip on the "Man running for his life" format of early network tv. Jym (?) is the pursuer.
I imagine 16 very different other brothers, though they share the same deftness with mayhem and violence, they each have their own preferred unique methods (gotta keep it interesting each week), and also, given Jayne's travels, they all look quite different. Except one of course, the lost twin (I see that as an opening episode for the mid season 3 run). And then there's the last one to fall to end the show, the one that keeps dropping dark hints throughout the first few years - no one knows what he looks like, he could be anyone. Also there's the brother who's actually a sister...
I'm ready to cast once we have a title:

17 Sons
Jayne's 17
The 17th Operative
?

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OONJERAH

Sunday, April 8, 2012 9:48 PM

I think each brother would need at least 3 episodes.
An introductory one where we meet just him, and the
good one is searching but hasn't found him.

The good brother's big advantage is he gets clues from
River. Anonymously, perhaps.

. . . . .The worst and most frequent consequence of paranoia is that it's self-fulfilling.

GREENKA61

Monday, April 9, 2012 1:43 AM

Anything involving Badger.

RIONAEIRE

Monday, April 9, 2012 7:23 AM

Ec, :))

I'd want something with all new charactors on an all new ship. The original crew is only mentioned rarely, occasionall cameos perhaps. But I would want to see some of our favorite badguys, Saffron, Badger, even Patience.

I assume you're my pal until you let me know otherwise.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya.

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