I have a feeling my find-and-replace script is trying to tell me something about how that sentence originally read. ;D I could not agree more.
The possibility of canon OT3 would definitely be part of my perfect show. I never thought about that. Robots, artificial intelligences, aliens, and all other non-human or non-biological intelligences would have to be treated with equal respect as humans while allowing for actual differences -- which would be very much present and explored. The show would take itself seriously but have a light tone most of the time and a sense of humor all of the time, and it would balance episodic plots with arc plots from beginning to end.
I have a feeling my find-and-replace script is trying to tell me something about how that sentence originally read
Heh. It's just that I've passed my tolerance level for the @$%*$! smirking of people like that guy from The Mentalist and Ian Somerhalder/Damon from The Vampire Diaries and what feels like every male main character in a commercial on a major TV network.
The "could there be a giant robot?" test is 's litmus test. Mine is the "You fool!" test-- there needs to be a reasonable chance that a character could exclaim "You fool!" at some point.
Ah yes. The giant robot test includes way more TV shows than you'd think--there was an actual giant robot (...for values of giant) in How I Met Your Mother, for example (Neil Patrick Harris forced the group to attend his terrible experimental theater piece where he danced in a robot costume).
"You fool" is probably more inclusive than it sounds, also--it just requires theatrical people. :D
This was very fun to read, and I think I'd like the show you describe, too!
That is seriously very interesting and makes me try to think what my ideal series would be like ... honestly, it's something I have not idea whatsoever about o.O I enjoy good series and movies, but I have a really hard time figuring out what connects them ... I couldn't even answer that litmus test question.
I'd articulated to myself the "When I died" thing a few years back, but hadn't thought about the rest until sitting down to answer the question. Kind of fun!
Cool! I actually have no idea what I want in a TV show, but judging from past experience, my tests are "should be based on Sherlock Holmes in some way" or "be a tragi-comic Britcom" plus "have a cast I find pleasing". Excluding XF, which doesn't count as a fandom because I... didn't actually like the show, almost everything I've loved boils down to one or the other. At a pinch, "asocial genius" can stand in for "Sherlock Holmes". Therefore "a tragi-comic Britcom based on Sherlock Holmes" starring actors whom I adore should just about do it. Or not.
*ponders* My tastes are so completely all over the map that this is a very hard question to answer! The first thing that came to mind, I guess, is that if I could build my "perfect" show from the ground up, it would be a sci-fi or fantasy show with strong, coherent worldbuilding/plotting and a large ensemble cast with lots of women, racial diversity (not just "oh, we have a couple minor non-white characters" but mostly PoC, especially in a future setting), disabled people, queer people, non-neurotypical people, etc. I would like most of the female characters to be something other than young and femmily beautiful -- old, fat, butch, whatever. The show would often be funny but would have a serious side, blending together a mix of comedy, serious character development, and occasional tragedy.
Basically it would be my favorite aspects of shows like Buffy, SGA, Torchwood, etc. all rolled into one show, with a much wider variety of female physical types than you tend to see on TV.
I'd watch that, for sure. Have you seen any Orange Is the New Black? It's got plenty of flaws, but with the ensemble cast of racially and physically diverse women, I feel like if you mixed that in to your listed sources you might come close to what you're looking for.
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I have a feeling my find-and-replace script is trying to tell me something about how that sentence originally read. ;D I could not agree more.
The possibility of canon OT3 would definitely be part of my perfect show. I never thought about that. Robots, artificial intelligences, aliens, and all other non-human or non-biological intelligences would have to be treated with equal respect as humans while allowing for actual differences -- which would be very much present and explored. The show would take itself seriously but have a light tone most of the time and a sense of humor all of the time, and it would balance episodic plots with arc plots from beginning to end.
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I have a feeling my find-and-replace script is trying to tell me something about how that sentence originally read
Heh. It's just that I've passed my tolerance level for the @$%*$! smirking of people like that guy from The Mentalist and Ian Somerhalder/Damon from The Vampire Diaries and what feels like every male main character in a commercial on a major TV network.
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"You fool" is probably more inclusive than it sounds, also--it just requires theatrical people. :D
This was very fun to read, and I think I'd like the show you describe, too!
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I couldn't even answer that litmus test question.
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/weirdness (and also inadvertent early posting of comment due to keyboard mishap)
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So, like, maybe the outtake reels?
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Basically it would be my favorite aspects of shows like Buffy, SGA, Torchwood, etc. all rolled into one show, with a much wider variety of female physical types than you tend to see on TV.
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