Exactly, Fluffy, thats the kind of thing I was trying to think of to say when I read that post. I can apprecaite trying to make something seem alien, or taking away the "Human" like approach to them, but if you go very far with that, why should I give a damn, when the point of the story is to give a damn?
What would be your idea of a perfect science fiction series?
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Exactly, Fluffy, thats the kind of thing I was trying to think of to say when I read that post. I can apprecaite trying to make something seem alien, or taking away the "Human" like approach to them, but if you go very far with that, why should I give a damn, when the point of the story is to give a damn?
Two ideas
1. A star wars show set in the future with jedi master luke skywalker training a new generation of jedi knights. set on yavin 4, the series could follow the exploits of the teachers and students as they are called away on different missions.
2. A Cowboy bebop live action TV show. it would be awesome!
1. A star wars show set in the future with jedi master luke skywalker training a new generation of jedi knights. set on yavin 4, the series could follow the exploits of the teachers and students as they are called away on different missions.
2. A Cowboy bebop live action TV show. it would be awesome!
This would be fantasy, not sci-fi, but it's so brilliant that I have to repost it until someone makes it. This was originally posted by TemporalFlux on March 20, 2008:
Any show need good actors, writers and directors.
The ones I would like to see adapted are:
Dreadstar - based on Jim Starlin's comics (our galaxy is destroyed in the pilot!)
World War - a sequal to Harry Turttledove's Homeward Bound - USA and Nazi's have FTL ships, USSR, Japanese Empire and the Race are all trying to catch up.
The ones I would like to see adapted are:
Dreadstar - based on Jim Starlin's comics (our galaxy is destroyed in the pilot!)
World War - a sequal to Harry Turttledove's Homeward Bound - USA and Nazi's have FTL ships, USSR, Japanese Empire and the Race are all trying to catch up.
Agreed-freakin' brilliant!
Superluminal
A scientific genius invents a cheap, easily-made faster-than-light drive in 2011 and publishes schematics on the Web.
Every nation on Earth now has spaceflight capability and literally there's an explosion of humanity into the stars.
The series would focus on a United States Space Forces starship which is tasked with a mission similar to the U.S. Cavalry in the Old West - to protect colonists, provide communications, deal with various problems.
I'm convinced that if Earth ever got warp drive, there would be thousands of different human cultures out there. You'd have polygamist worlds. Fundamentalist worlds of all religious stripes. Hippie worlds. Nudist worlds. Libertarian worlds. Not to mention aliens - some of whom would be exploited by us, some that would be more advanced and bad news indeed.
I'm thinking of a cross between Star Trek and Stargate and Firefly - this would not be the orderly universe of the Federation, but the lawless frontier of Firefly's outer rim, with starship crews armed with today's tech.
Could be fun.
A scientific genius invents a cheap, easily-made faster-than-light drive in 2011 and publishes schematics on the Web.
Every nation on Earth now has spaceflight capability and literally there's an explosion of humanity into the stars.
The series would focus on a United States Space Forces starship which is tasked with a mission similar to the U.S. Cavalry in the Old West - to protect colonists, provide communications, deal with various problems.
I'm convinced that if Earth ever got warp drive, there would be thousands of different human cultures out there. You'd have polygamist worlds. Fundamentalist worlds of all religious stripes. Hippie worlds. Nudist worlds. Libertarian worlds. Not to mention aliens - some of whom would be exploited by us, some that would be more advanced and bad news indeed.
I'm thinking of a cross between Star Trek and Stargate and Firefly - this would not be the orderly universe of the Federation, but the lawless frontier of Firefly's outer rim, with starship crews armed with today's tech.
Could be fun.
A suggestion for a title: Author Soapbox, Esquire.
What does "balanced for the offense" mean, I wonder? Themis is a plaintiff's lawyer?
I also wonder what sort of justice a Greek goddess would find satisfactory; presumably all the chattel slavery, infant exposure and political repression that went on when people actually worshipped her would be fine.I admit it sounds like a pretty good high concept, though.
I assume that's the idea? The alternative - justice as the author's soapbox, as you put it - is a far less interesting one. How justice is a malleable, flexible and evolving concept would be an interesting premise to hang a series around.
Oh, then that would be pretty neat.
I don't even care about the bigger budget, just let RHW tell his story.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Cheerleaders.
A group of 4 high school cheer leaders get infected when their car goes of the road into a ravine with some sort of strange radioactive material...they soon find out they each posses a unique ability...they have a hard time controlling their powers...after witnessing something the school janitor, an elderly Asian man decides to help then by teaching the ninjutsu...which they seem to almost master by the end of the second episode.
I am not sure what special abilities they would have...maybe controling the 4 elements...earth, wind, water and fire.
The girls live the life of all american teenage girls during the day...but at night become mutant ninja vigilantes.
They've been made already. Buffy, Angel, Firefly. As close to perfect as it could get, at least for me.
They Come In Peace
In the year 2043, scientists using an advanced space telescope discover that what they thought was an asteroid is actually an artificial craft making a b-line for (actually a curve towards) Earth that will arrive in exactly one year, on July 7th, 2044. Shortly after, cryptic messages are sent by the object, something which continues for some weeks before abrutly ending with one message:
"We come in peace."
The story follows Dr Warren Dandridge, a scientist assigned to translate the mysterious "last transmission", kept secret from the public. For some reason, the Enigma (what the object comes to be known as) sent this signal out as a mathematical equation rather than a clear message, which they had demonstrated the ability to do. When it is later learned that, somehow, people (the Settlers) from the Enigma had already arrived on Earth, had been here for decades and were in fact fully human, the mystery deepens.
A group calling itself the Paradigm emerges later in the story, as the Enigma hurdles toward Earth from somewhere inside of the Jovian orbit, claiming to have formed thousands of years ago as a defense against Enigma (which they call "The Restoration"). They had kept the secret by hiding it in plain sight, buried within various religious texts and symbols. They, of course, think that God or some spiritual force gave them this warning, but Dr Dandridge suspects otherwise.
As Dandridge and a small group of trusted associates delve deeper into the historical angle, they are disturbed by what they find. And more so by how easily they are finding it. All the while, they have a war on three fronts, with world governments/militaries, the Settlers and the Paradigm, all of whom have their own agenda.
The story is told from two vantage points; one with Warren Dandridge experiencing the events of the whole year until arrival, this being the primary perspective from which the audience views the story. But there is also another vantage point, from the very day before contact, told in a more cryptic fashion, with Dandridge providing cool narration of the events we witness in the other.
While the tone and pacing of the series would be LOST-esque, the actual style and thematic undertones would be more in-line with something like The Prisoner, with Dandridge increasingly realizing that he is at the nexus of something he can't escape (which is why only he and the Enigma itself are the true focus of the series). The underlying theme mixes "life here began out there" with a kind of nuBSG-esque "inevitability paradox", wherein the (single) previous encounter with these "entities" is seen to have unfolded in much the same way, with tragic results.
Warning: Not for the faint of attention span.
I have been wanting to see a series like this for a while and anything similar would be nigh on perfect for me.
In the year 2043, scientists using an advanced space telescope discover that what they thought was an asteroid is actually an artificial craft making a b-line for (actually a curve towards) Earth that will arrive in exactly one year, on July 7th, 2044. Shortly after, cryptic messages are sent by the object, something which continues for some weeks before abrutly ending with one message:
"We come in peace."
The story follows Dr Warren Dandridge, a scientist assigned to translate the mysterious "last transmission", kept secret from the public. For some reason, the Enigma (what the object comes to be known as) sent this signal out as a mathematical equation rather than a clear message, which they had demonstrated the ability to do. When it is later learned that, somehow, people (the Settlers) from the Enigma had already arrived on Earth, had been here for decades and were in fact fully human, the mystery deepens.
A group calling itself the Paradigm emerges later in the story, as the Enigma hurdles toward Earth from somewhere inside of the Jovian orbit, claiming to have formed thousands of years ago as a defense against Enigma (which they call "The Restoration"). They had kept the secret by hiding it in plain sight, buried within various religious texts and symbols. They, of course, think that God or some spiritual force gave them this warning, but Dr Dandridge suspects otherwise.
As Dandridge and a small group of trusted associates delve deeper into the historical angle, they are disturbed by what they find. And more so by how easily they are finding it. All the while, they have a war on three fronts, with world governments/militaries, the Settlers and the Paradigm, all of whom have their own agenda.
The story is told from two vantage points; one with Warren Dandridge experiencing the events of the whole year until arrival, this being the primary perspective from which the audience views the story. But there is also another vantage point, from the very day before contact, told in a more cryptic fashion, with Dandridge providing cool narration of the events we witness in the other.
While the tone and pacing of the series would be LOST-esque, the actual style and thematic undertones would be more in-line with something like The Prisoner, with Dandridge increasingly realizing that he is at the nexus of something he can't escape (which is why only he and the Enigma itself are the true focus of the series). The underlying theme mixes "life here began out there" with a kind of nuBSG-esque "inevitability paradox", wherein the (single) previous encounter with these "entities" is seen to have unfolded in much the same way, with tragic results.
Warning: Not for the faint of attention span.
Basically, humans it turns out were part of a program wherein a powerful intra-galactic species (physically indentical to, but far more advanced than modern humans), while seeking to have most of their race "transcend" to another type of existence (but not into "magic ghosts", ala SG1 Ancients), were allowing small numbers of people who didn't want to join them to essentially start over from scratch, "re-evolving" on hospitable alien planets. But all this is under the strict condition that these re-evolved people not destroy their new world, lest they be removed from it (and removed period).
Earth was the last chance for the pseudo-luddites to pursue their dream of a redo, all the others having failed. The Earth humans had actually also failed, some 80,000 years ago, resulting in a 'Restoration', where their physical influence was almost wiped out. Somehow, they managed to get a stay, only this time they'd only get a few thousand years at best to prove they had learned and could live in harmony with the Earth. The humans never expected this to succeed, nor did they want it to.
You see, their plan all along was to get the others to leave them the hell alone, and go whereever they were going, so the new evolution of man could once again advance technologically, and expand uncontested into the cosmos. It was something they thought they could never do under the strict symbiosis paradigm. So they created a new paradigm, one which would require the destruction of the Restoration.
Hence the 'Secret Knowledge', which would give the humans the ability to stop the Restoration and end the cycle once and for all.
Dandridge, though unbeknownst to him, is actually an agent of the alien humans (though Earth human himself), only he possessing the ability to translate the "last transmission", which contains instructions on how to stop the Paradigm. The Settlers (the only actual alien humans which our characters encounter) were sent to "help" him, though they're mostly viewed as terrorists as their mission entails destroying religious symbols (chiefly Hindu and Pagan, but also Buddhist and Abrahamic) hiding the Secret Knowledge.
This puts him in the awkward position of being the arbiter of Earth's fate. The alien humans are certain that the Earth humans will destroy the planet at some point in the near future. But if he follows his directive, he'll be helping to wipe out humanity as he has known it.
There has to be another way. I just don't know what it is 'cus I haven't wrapped it all up yet.
Earth was the last chance for the pseudo-luddites to pursue their dream of a redo, all the others having failed. The Earth humans had actually also failed, some 80,000 years ago, resulting in a 'Restoration', where their physical influence was almost wiped out. Somehow, they managed to get a stay, only this time they'd only get a few thousand years at best to prove they had learned and could live in harmony with the Earth. The humans never expected this to succeed, nor did they want it to.
You see, their plan all along was to get the others to leave them the hell alone, and go whereever they were going, so the new evolution of man could once again advance technologically, and expand uncontested into the cosmos. It was something they thought they could never do under the strict symbiosis paradigm. So they created a new paradigm, one which would require the destruction of the Restoration.
Hence the 'Secret Knowledge', which would give the humans the ability to stop the Restoration and end the cycle once and for all.
Dandridge, though unbeknownst to him, is actually an agent of the alien humans (though Earth human himself), only he possessing the ability to translate the "last transmission", which contains instructions on how to stop the Paradigm. The Settlers (the only actual alien humans which our characters encounter) were sent to "help" him, though they're mostly viewed as terrorists as their mission entails destroying religious symbols (chiefly Hindu and Pagan, but also Buddhist and Abrahamic) hiding the Secret Knowledge.
This puts him in the awkward position of being the arbiter of Earth's fate. The alien humans are certain that the Earth humans will destroy the planet at some point in the near future. But if he follows his directive, he'll be helping to wipe out humanity as he has known it.
There has to be another way. I just don't know what it is 'cus I haven't wrapped it all up yet.
I have been wanting to see a series like this for a while and anything similar would be nigh on perfect for me.
Not to mention leaving a casting "out" - as Justice evolves the lead actress could be changed as needed...
Some great ideas have been listed. I would really love to see something along the lines of Firefly mixed with Space Above and Beyond with definite "going somewhere" plot or story, along the lines of B5. A little mix of some sort of overall conspiracy like the X Files tried to portray. I also think that there should be a small contingent of main characters, but with a revolving door of other, lesser roles; I think this would prove realistic and interesting.
A good series that can surprise and have a strong arc is all I ask. I enjoy shows with a bit of humour to them. I've really enjoyed Misfits and Being Human lately. I think they could both become favourites with slight improvements.
I'm not sure I'd want "the perfect show" because it seems whenever fans get what they want they think it's shit, so I'd rather let the writers write their perfect show and surprise me.
I'm not sure I'd want "the perfect show" because it seems whenever fans get what they want they think it's shit, so I'd rather let the writers write their perfect show and surprise me.
This isn't so much something I'd like to see, as much as something we did see (sort of).
In the 1980s I came up with the idea of a dreadnought-class battleship being lost in time for centuries while galactic civilization collapsed. (Sound familiar?)
The difference between my idea and Andromeda was that the ship was fully crewed and self-sustaining (and wasn't controlled by an AI with generous cleavage.) Also, what it emerged into was a civilization that wasn't just in tatters-- it was still functioning, but had been overthrown by an alien race. All humans were second-class citizens.
The ship was powerful enough to take on almost anything one-on-one. But it was still severely outgunned and totally on its own, being just one ship against the equivalent of the Galactic Empire. And it had to start building a grassroots rebellion from scratch.
This isn't the most original idea in the world (ANDR, BSG, SW), but what can I say. I was a teenager. And it amuses me that I came up with it years and years before Andromeda appeared.
In the 1980s I came up with the idea of a dreadnought-class battleship being lost in time for centuries while galactic civilization collapsed. (Sound familiar?)
The difference between my idea and Andromeda was that the ship was fully crewed and self-sustaining (and wasn't controlled by an AI with generous cleavage.) Also, what it emerged into was a civilization that wasn't just in tatters-- it was still functioning, but had been overthrown by an alien race. All humans were second-class citizens.
The ship was powerful enough to take on almost anything one-on-one. But it was still severely outgunned and totally on its own, being just one ship against the equivalent of the Galactic Empire. And it had to start building a grassroots rebellion from scratch.
This isn't the most original idea in the world (ANDR, BSG, SW), but what can I say. I was a teenager. And it amuses me that I came up with it years and years before Andromeda appeared.
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