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Y: The Last Man: The TV Show

Joe Washington

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If Y: the Last Man was a TV show, each episode would be 10-12 minutes long with each episode covering each issue.

The first season of the show would be go like this:

EPISODE ONE: UNMANNED (Part 1). In the series premiere, Yorick Brown's life is turned upside down when a mysterious plague kills all the men and male creatures on Earth--except him and his pet monkey, Ampersand.

EPISODE TWO: UNMANNED (Part 2). Two months after the plague hit, Yorick looks for his mother in Washington, D.C. But the happy reunion between mother and son is interrupted by unexpected guests. Meanwhile, 355 has been sent on a mission to retrieve the Secretary of Agriculture who has become the next President of the United States.

EPISODE THREE: UNMANNED (Part 3). Yorick's mother hides his son when the wives of Republicans attack the White House. Yorick tries to escape from his hiding place as Yorick's mother attempts to reason with the Republican wives. Meanwhile, 355 has arrived with the Secretary of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.

EPISODE FOUR: UNMANNED (Part 4). When Yorick and 355 begin their journey to Boston to meet with geneticist Dr. Mann, Yorick decides to visit a memorial for all the men who died, which leads to a confrontation with the man-hatting Amazons. The fate of Yorick's sister Hero is revealed.

EPISODE FIVE: UNMANNED (Part 5). Yorick and 355 reach Boston and meet with Dr. Mann, who blames her attempt at cloning for what has happened to the human race. Alter miss Yorick in her hunt for him but ends up burning down Mann's lab, which leaves Yorick, 355, and Mann pondering where to go from here. The Amazons begin their hunt for Yorick.

EPISODE SIX: CYCLES (Part 1). Yorick, 355, and Dr. Mann hitch a ride onboard a train to San Francisco. But when they are discovered, the trio is forced to leave the train and Yorick is found unconscious by a woman. Hero reels from what she did last episode and begins to put two and two together in the uncovering of the identity of the man she and her Amazon sisters are looking for.

EPISODE SEVEN: CYCLES (Part 2). Yorick wakes up in a town whose people seems to be keeping a secret. 355 is badly hurt and gets taken to the town to recover from her injury. Hero's suspicions that the man she's looking for may be her own brother are proven.

EPISODE EIGHT: CYCLES (Part 3). Hero faces a dilemma in the aftermath of finding out that her brother is still alive. Yorick and Sonia take the time to get know each other. 355 makes a shocking confession to Mann while slipping in and out of consciousnesses. Yorick learns the town's secret and meets face-to-face with her sister.

EPISODE NINE: CYCLES (Part 4). In the standoff between the town and the Amazons, two unexpected deaths occur and Yorick finds himself on the verge of doing the unthinkable.

EPISODE TEN: CYCLES (Part 5). In the season finale, Yorick decides to let Hero live but she and her Amazon sisters gets taken to the town's prison in hope of rehabilitation. Alter obtains a helicopter for her and her team to use to better track Yorick down. Yorick, 355, and Dr. Mann continue their journey to San Francisco and a bombshell of a revelation is exposed onboard the International space station.

What do you think?
 
I've never read it, because it reminded me too much of episode of The Outer Limits I saw once. That being said Garth Ennis calling it "Busydick: The Last Man" is inspired.
 
10 to 12 minutes? Sounds like a web-series.

You would need to make it 45 minutes for commercial TV, an hour for HBO, where it should be, IMHO.

And it would be structured differently than the comics. The first episode of Middle Man, for instance, was the first four issues of the comic, as I recall.

Nevertheless, it would be a great show.
 
Professor Zoom: You're right. It does sound like a web-series. But there are shows like the Whitest Kids You Know and The Business that last that long.

I think of this show as something that wouldn't have commercial breaks.

I thought about combining issues together within the format of an episode but there are one-shot issues like Hero's Journey and Buttons that won't be enough to fill up one episode on their own and they wouldn't feel right being combined with another issue.
 
I would totally watch a "Y" series. Loved the comic. But I think it'd be better served by full-length episodes rather than short 10-12 minute bits. It could really take the opportunity to flesh out things the comic never did, tell more side-stories and branch off a bit more.
 
I think Y: the Last Man as a trilogy of movies wouldn't work any way because they would have to cut out material for it to fit within the format of a movie and I think cutting out material would ruin parts of the story. As a TV show, there is enough room for all of that and we would be given a lot more time to connect with the characters and their journey than what a movie could offer.
 
I think Y: the Last Man as a trilogy of movies wouldn't work any way because they would have to cut out material for it to fit within the format of a movie and I think cutting out material would ruin parts of the story. As a TV show, there is enough room for all of that and we would be given a lot more time to connect with the characters and their journey than what a movie could offer.

Unless it gets cancelled, of course. :)

But I agree, I'd prefer a TV show over a movie, I think.
 
I think Y: the Last Man as a trilogy of movies wouldn't work any way because they would have to cut out material for it to fit within the format of a movie and I think cutting out material would ruin parts of the story. As a TV show, there is enough room for all of that and we would be given a lot more time to connect with the characters and their journey than what a movie could offer.

Unless it gets cancelled, of course. :)
I think there's enough filler you could rather easily cut Y:TLM down to a 13-part limited series. Hell, you could make a pretty good movie just going with the Amazonians/finding Dr. Mann arc in the first few comics.
 
But the filler in Y: the Last Man is important when it comes to exploring different aspects of the characters' world like the theater group. I know not a lot of people are fans of it and I wouldn't count as one of my favorite parts of the story but the theater group was there as an example of how women are trying to cope with the plague killing the men like the woman at the men's memorial who went out to form a band of her own as a tribute to all the male musicians who died that day. I had the feeling that the reason why the leader of the theater group was so passionate and serious about her work was because it serves as a big enough distraction from whatever losses she suffered in her life when the plague hit. It looked like she still hasn't come to terms with it yet.
 
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Personally TV show half hour long. Keep it short tight and action packed. An hour long series but be too long to keep the avg. tv viewer's attention.
 
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Personally TV show half hour long. Keep it short tight and action packed. An hour long series but be too long to keep the avg. tv viewer's attention.

Because so few other hour-long shows manage to keep peoples' attention?? :wtf:
 
I liked the relative realism they brought to the concept: it wasn't that women "haha aren't capable of running society without men" just so much as....*Physically 50% of the population instantly dropped dead*, they're massively underpopulated now, and there simply aren't enough "people" to keep the gears of civilization turning (eventually they do sort of re-establish a semblage of order)
 
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Personally TV show half hour long. Keep it short tight and action packed. An hour long series but be too long to keep the avg. tv viewer's attention.

Because so few other hour-long shows manage to keep peoples' attention?? :wtf:

Yup... Let's see I can think of Lost, and possibly Heroes (which should be canned) that are along the same lines as Y the Last Man, that were/are successful. Y is a deep comic and if anything the avg. TV viewer can't handle too much thinking.
 
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Personally TV show half hour long. Keep it short tight and action packed. An hour long series but be too long to keep the avg. tv viewer's attention.

Because so few other hour-long shows manage to keep peoples' attention?? :wtf:

Yup... Let's see I can think of Lost, and possibly Heroes (which should be canned) that are along the same lines as Y the Last Man, that were/are successful. Y is a deep comic and if anything the avg. TV viewer can't handle too much thinking.

it's not THAT deep of a comic. It's not some brooding philosophical tome.

Sure, the reality of the world, the complications of the world are somewhat complex, but it's not SO out there, SO challenging that it couldn't be made.

If anything, it's not it's "deepness" that would be uninteresting to most people, but rather it's sci-fi trappings.
 
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