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sholio: Talk about a TV show which doesn't exist, but which you would like to see.
My ideal TV show would be sci-fi, and episodic, because then I could get properly fannish about it and hopefully there would be loads of fic to read and write. It would probably be fairly close in initial concept to Stargate Atlantis, because the setup for that was great — a small team of people sent into an alien tech city in an unknown part of the galaxy to set up a base and explore. However, this would not be a primarily military mission. It would focus on science and exploration and diplomacy and there would be lots and lots of interesting local alien cultures and there would be miscommunications and friendships and everyone really doing their best to learn. Also it would be international in a way that actually feels really international. And, again, sooooo much less military, although of course they would have some sort of security force.
One of the people in charge would be Amanda Tapping, because I am still utterly in love with her. However, she would be playing a character sort of a cross between Sam Carter and Helen Magnus. Also there would be someone purely trained as a diplomat or anthropologist.
Like SGA, the plots would focus on exploration teams. They would be mostly scientists, with one security/military person in case of hostile wildlife. She would be played by Katee Sackoff. The rest of the team would be trained scientists and anthropologists because again this is a peaceful exploratory mission, not one where everyone runs in to everywhere with massive guns. (To make up for this partial loss of drama, the environments/wildlife they encounter are way more varied and dangerous than on SGA.)
Dev Patel plays the up-and-coming young genius scientist who bounces with excitement at everything new he sees. Marsha Thomson is an archaeologist. Kate Mulgrew is the leader back on Earth. I fancast more people but I can't remember them.
One of the recurring plot points is really exploring the alien-tech city in which they base themselves. It has bizarre quirks of architecture and layout, and the tech is pretty quirky too. Lots of weird stuff happens! Also we get to see more logistics of the expedition — people serving duty shifts serving food and cleaning (people puzzling out how alien laundry machines work!), food supply and storage problems, power generation, people actually having to figure out how to interface with alien systems. Every now and then there would be entire episodes focusing on these mostly behind-the-scenes characters.
Now someone make this.
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sholio: Talk about a TV show which doesn't exist, but which you would like to see.My ideal TV show would be sci-fi, and episodic, because then I could get properly fannish about it and hopefully there would be loads of fic to read and write. It would probably be fairly close in initial concept to Stargate Atlantis, because the setup for that was great — a small team of people sent into an alien tech city in an unknown part of the galaxy to set up a base and explore. However, this would not be a primarily military mission. It would focus on science and exploration and diplomacy and there would be lots and lots of interesting local alien cultures and there would be miscommunications and friendships and everyone really doing their best to learn. Also it would be international in a way that actually feels really international. And, again, sooooo much less military, although of course they would have some sort of security force.
One of the people in charge would be Amanda Tapping, because I am still utterly in love with her. However, she would be playing a character sort of a cross between Sam Carter and Helen Magnus. Also there would be someone purely trained as a diplomat or anthropologist.
Like SGA, the plots would focus on exploration teams. They would be mostly scientists, with one security/military person in case of hostile wildlife. She would be played by Katee Sackoff. The rest of the team would be trained scientists and anthropologists because again this is a peaceful exploratory mission, not one where everyone runs in to everywhere with massive guns. (To make up for this partial loss of drama, the environments/wildlife they encounter are way more varied and dangerous than on SGA.)
Dev Patel plays the up-and-coming young genius scientist who bounces with excitement at everything new he sees. Marsha Thomson is an archaeologist. Kate Mulgrew is the leader back on Earth. I fancast more people but I can't remember them.
One of the recurring plot points is really exploring the alien-tech city in which they base themselves. It has bizarre quirks of architecture and layout, and the tech is pretty quirky too. Lots of weird stuff happens! Also we get to see more logistics of the expedition — people serving duty shifts serving food and cleaning (people puzzling out how alien laundry machines work!), food supply and storage problems, power generation, people actually having to figure out how to interface with alien systems. Every now and then there would be entire episodes focusing on these mostly behind-the-scenes characters.
Now someone make this.
