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fake!TV shows are never a bad thing, even if they make me sad at the lack of them...
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tafkarfanfic gave me:
Freema Agyeman
Emily Rose
Rachel Luttrell
Michael Trucco
Kari Matchett
Sharon Gless
Ben Browder
And my brain, which is currently fixated on ghosts (even before my "cross-dressing ghosts fighting space zombies" comment, I was thinking about ghosts in other contexts while dreaming about Florida this morning), came up with:
Half-Life
An asteroid mining crew are caught in a terrible accident that leaves them unconscious for more than thirty-six hours. When they wake up, they find themselves able to interact with the world around them in strange ways. After a few walk through walls, and one falls through a floor, they realize the truth: they're all dead, but the energies they encountered are keeping them 'alive' (and habit is keeping them from falling out into space). Some of them just want to die, some of them want to know how this affects their bonuses, and a few are determined to discover how it happened and reverse it. Along the way, suspicions arise that the Company they work for orchestrated the accident to test a new element they discovered.
There's probably also some philosophical stuff about death and life, what makes us 'real', what a soul is, and probably some religion regarding heaven and hell. And some stuff about grief, though that might not enter until midway during the first season when we get a glimpse of the lives of the people they all left behind, and how they're dealing with the 'catastrophic accident' that the Company mourns.
Sharon Gless is Babs Blakely, the crew foreperson who just wanted to finish off her last tour and settle down in obscure retirement, she's brash and cynical, but cares a little for her crew.
Kari Matchett is Caroline Eston the suave and no-nonsense Company rep who got caught along with the rest of them. She spends most of her time pretending it didn't happen and assuring everyone that the Company will see to their burials.
Ben Browder is Babs' second, George Vergis. He's the suicidal one who just wants to die so he can be with his wife--one of the people who didn't make the transfer to half-life. (Babs always said she only chose him for his facility with numbers and accountants' flare, not for his inter-personal skills)
Freema Agyemen isMartha Jones Kim Harper their head prospector, she's got a good geological background, and it's her theory that the element caused their problems. She's just having trouble proving it. It's hard to run experiments when physically touching things is chancy, at best. Luckily, the computers are rigged for voice commands.
Emily Rose is Cessy Knevel, a pampered Family brat who wasn't even supposed to be there. She spends most of her time trying to call home and clashing with Caroline, since they went to school together. She has a few hidden piloting skills that only come out during the episode with the Sirens.
Rachel Luttrell is Irene 'Renie' Dellast. While she's Kim's partner in all things geology, none of the others suspect that she was the Company plant who brought the element with her. She finds herself befriending Cessy for reasons she can't quite fathom, especially since they dislike each other intensely.
Michael Trucco is David Melton, the quarter-master/cook. Of course, since they're not really alive anymore part of his job is utterly pointless. He occasionally hallucinates his old flame, something that Kim believes is a side-effect of their situation.
Guest cast:
Tricia Helfer is Shannon diGuerra the head of the Company, with more agendas than even she's certain of. The only thing she's clear on is that the Element wasn't supposed to do that, but it doesn't matter: the Company image comes first. Always.
Katee Sackhoff is Cordelia Knevel, Cessy's fraternal twin sister. She ran away from the Family at sixteen and made her own way through the world. She and Cessy don't share much outside of their piloting skills (rumor has it, Chuck Yaeger was a distant ancestor). Cordelia is trying to find out what happened to the sister she thought she knew.She's also David's ex, shut up, it's my show.
Naoko Mori is Motoko Stannis Kim's bff from college (they used to compete until they realized they did much better besting everyone else in their class), and a good geologist in her own right, and all she wants is answers about the loss of her friend. Shannon keeps giving her the run-around.
Andrea Parker is Mara diGuerra-Knevel, Cessy and Cordelia's mother (and Shannon's aunt), and she doesn't care what happens as long as the sanctity of the Family and her reputation is preserved. Her little drug and alcohol problem might make that hard, though.
Idris Elba is Morton Jones, an ambitious member of the Company's board with his fingers in everyone's pie. Motoko and Cordelia go to him for information which he gives for a price: find out Shannon's agenda, and help him take over the Company.
(and I stopped there, as I could go on for a while)
Episodes one&two (because a double-pilot at least gives everyone extra money for their work if the show doesn't get picked up): After a normal day of mining a new vein of ore, an explosion sends everyone into a deep sleep. After waking, they start walking through walls, but not each other; Renie falls through the floor while arguing with George about a technical issue, and Kim makes the leap of diagnosis. Babs and David make cranky comments about food supplies going bad and their missed pensions. Shannon fields the first Questions about The Accident, and Cordelia gets an anonymous tip about Morton's usefulness.
Episode three: The ship is still operating under low power and voice commands, but Babs discovers that she can touch things if she tries hard; Kim argues with the computer over recent data purges (bad Caroline!). Meanwhile, Mara has a drunken argument at a Family function (she's not grieving over the loss of her daughter. really), and Morton gets another little piece of the puzzle.
Episode four: the problem with being ghosts is that there are other things out there in the universe just looking for things to munch on. Sirens lure them into voice-commanding the ship into an unknown sector of space. Cessy saves the day by flying them back out after Caroline and David break through the hypnosis. Shannon has another press conference and a femslashy confrontation with Cordelia.
Episode five: George and another crewmember discover that direct current will short out the effect of the Element and let them die. Renie tries to talk them out of what's essentially suicide, but the other man is already gone. David, meanwhile, admits to Kim that he's been seeing things.
Episode six: Shannon manages to send a data burst to the ship, turning the AI against those on board. Babs and the others have to work out how to get control back when they're not entirely sure that returning to homebase is a bad idea. Then Caroline confesses that this is a contingency plan she and Shannon worked out and they're heading for the nearest black hole, and things become deadly...
and if I don't stop there, I'll spend the rest of the afternoon on this, and that would be sad.
So here's The Deal:
You post a comment on this entry.
In return, I will give you a list of seven actors. (I may look at your profile for a refresher on your fandoms, so consider this a perfect time to update your Interests section!)
Then YOU will go back to your LJ and do a quickie show bible. The show bible includes:
If you choose to cast a few more "roles" in your write-up, all the more awesome!
Then you post The Deal at the end of your entry, and for anyone who comments on your post and wants to play, give them a list of seven actors.
tafkarfanfic gave me:Freema Agyeman
Emily Rose
Rachel Luttrell
Michael Trucco
Kari Matchett
Sharon Gless
Ben Browder
And my brain, which is currently fixated on ghosts (even before my "cross-dressing ghosts fighting space zombies" comment, I was thinking about ghosts in other contexts while dreaming about Florida this morning), came up with:
Half-Life
An asteroid mining crew are caught in a terrible accident that leaves them unconscious for more than thirty-six hours. When they wake up, they find themselves able to interact with the world around them in strange ways. After a few walk through walls, and one falls through a floor, they realize the truth: they're all dead, but the energies they encountered are keeping them 'alive' (and habit is keeping them from falling out into space). Some of them just want to die, some of them want to know how this affects their bonuses, and a few are determined to discover how it happened and reverse it. Along the way, suspicions arise that the Company they work for orchestrated the accident to test a new element they discovered.
There's probably also some philosophical stuff about death and life, what makes us 'real', what a soul is, and probably some religion regarding heaven and hell. And some stuff about grief, though that might not enter until midway during the first season when we get a glimpse of the lives of the people they all left behind, and how they're dealing with the 'catastrophic accident' that the Company mourns.
Sharon Gless is Babs Blakely, the crew foreperson who just wanted to finish off her last tour and settle down in obscure retirement, she's brash and cynical, but cares a little for her crew.
Kari Matchett is Caroline Eston the suave and no-nonsense Company rep who got caught along with the rest of them. She spends most of her time pretending it didn't happen and assuring everyone that the Company will see to their burials.
Ben Browder is Babs' second, George Vergis. He's the suicidal one who just wants to die so he can be with his wife--one of the people who didn't make the transfer to half-life. (Babs always said she only chose him for his facility with numbers and accountants' flare, not for his inter-personal skills)
Freema Agyemen is
Emily Rose is Cessy Knevel, a pampered Family brat who wasn't even supposed to be there. She spends most of her time trying to call home and clashing with Caroline, since they went to school together. She has a few hidden piloting skills that only come out during the episode with the Sirens.
Rachel Luttrell is Irene 'Renie' Dellast. While she's Kim's partner in all things geology, none of the others suspect that she was the Company plant who brought the element with her. She finds herself befriending Cessy for reasons she can't quite fathom, especially since they dislike each other intensely.
Michael Trucco is David Melton, the quarter-master/cook. Of course, since they're not really alive anymore part of his job is utterly pointless. He occasionally hallucinates his old flame, something that Kim believes is a side-effect of their situation.
Guest cast:
Tricia Helfer is Shannon diGuerra the head of the Company, with more agendas than even she's certain of. The only thing she's clear on is that the Element wasn't supposed to do that, but it doesn't matter: the Company image comes first. Always.
Katee Sackhoff is Cordelia Knevel, Cessy's fraternal twin sister. She ran away from the Family at sixteen and made her own way through the world. She and Cessy don't share much outside of their piloting skills (rumor has it, Chuck Yaeger was a distant ancestor). Cordelia is trying to find out what happened to the sister she thought she knew.
Naoko Mori is Motoko Stannis Kim's bff from college (they used to compete until they realized they did much better besting everyone else in their class), and a good geologist in her own right, and all she wants is answers about the loss of her friend. Shannon keeps giving her the run-around.
Andrea Parker is Mara diGuerra-Knevel, Cessy and Cordelia's mother (and Shannon's aunt), and she doesn't care what happens as long as the sanctity of the Family and her reputation is preserved. Her little drug and alcohol problem might make that hard, though.
Idris Elba is Morton Jones, an ambitious member of the Company's board with his fingers in everyone's pie. Motoko and Cordelia go to him for information which he gives for a price: find out Shannon's agenda, and help him take over the Company.
(and I stopped there, as I could go on for a while)
Episodes one&two (because a double-pilot at least gives everyone extra money for their work if the show doesn't get picked up): After a normal day of mining a new vein of ore, an explosion sends everyone into a deep sleep. After waking, they start walking through walls, but not each other; Renie falls through the floor while arguing with George about a technical issue, and Kim makes the leap of diagnosis. Babs and David make cranky comments about food supplies going bad and their missed pensions. Shannon fields the first Questions about The Accident, and Cordelia gets an anonymous tip about Morton's usefulness.
Episode three: The ship is still operating under low power and voice commands, but Babs discovers that she can touch things if she tries hard; Kim argues with the computer over recent data purges (bad Caroline!). Meanwhile, Mara has a drunken argument at a Family function (she's not grieving over the loss of her daughter. really), and Morton gets another little piece of the puzzle.
Episode four: the problem with being ghosts is that there are other things out there in the universe just looking for things to munch on. Sirens lure them into voice-commanding the ship into an unknown sector of space. Cessy saves the day by flying them back out after Caroline and David break through the hypnosis. Shannon has another press conference and a femslashy confrontation with Cordelia.
Episode five: George and another crewmember discover that direct current will short out the effect of the Element and let them die. Renie tries to talk them out of what's essentially suicide, but the other man is already gone. David, meanwhile, admits to Kim that he's been seeing things.
Episode six: Shannon manages to send a data burst to the ship, turning the AI against those on board. Babs and the others have to work out how to get control back when they're not entirely sure that returning to homebase is a bad idea. Then Caroline confesses that this is a contingency plan she and Shannon worked out and they're heading for the nearest black hole, and things become deadly...
and if I don't stop there, I'll spend the rest of the afternoon on this, and that would be sad.
So here's The Deal:
You post a comment on this entry.
In return, I will give you a list of seven actors. (I may look at your profile for a refresher on your fandoms, so consider this a perfect time to update your Interests section!)
Then YOU will go back to your LJ and do a quickie show bible. The show bible includes:
- A one-paragraph blurb on what the show is about (like you get in TV Guide)
- What character each actor is playing (you don't need character names, but you do need a description
- For extra credit, a sketch of a plot arc or two OR a couple of two-sentence teasers for first-season episodes.
If you choose to cast a few more "roles" in your write-up, all the more awesome!
Then you post The Deal at the end of your entry, and for anyone who comments on your post and wants to play, give them a list of seven actors.
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Paul McGann
Erica Cerra
Gigi Edgley
Chris Barrie
Alan Tudyk
Emma Caulfield
Christopher Judge
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Claudia Christian
Katee Sackhoff
Robbie Coltrane
Sophie Okenado
Sean Bean
Carrie Fisher
David Bowie
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Amanda Tapping
Noel Clarke
Torri Higginson
Karl Urban
Jaime Ray Newman
Karen Gillan
Freema Agyeman
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Mary McDonnell
Anthony Stewart Head
John Simm
Jewel Staite
Lani Tupu
Gina Torres
Amber Benson
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And the touch of having one of the ghosts be the cook/quartermaster! That's BRILLIANT! Just...the logic there...it's totally perfect.
One thing I didn't quite get from what you wrote - can the ghosts communicate with the living?
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I think I inadvertently answered that--if the ship's computer can hear them, I think people still alive should be able to.
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I'll play. ;D
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Michael Trucco
JR Bourne
Grace Park
Daniel Dae Kim
Kristen Cloke
Cliff Simon
Mira Furlan
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*scrolls to find the rules again*
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This is a creepy and delightful show concept, and most importantly? AWESOME TITLE. <3 <3
And if you want to give me a list, I'll play!
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Joe Flanigan
Andrea Thompson
Jerry Doyle
Mitch Pileggi
Annabeth Gish
Jason Momoa
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We can add people, right? Because I might need to throw Nicole deBoer in there to hook up with Jason Momoa. OMG, this is going to be fun.
Seriously, you picked totally lolariously awesome people for me! I must work on this post haste.
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Lauren Graham
Ian McKellan
Mariska Hargitay
Kim Cattrall
J. August Richards
Jennifer Saunders
Anthony Stewart Head
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(and thanks to the recent conversation at Taf's)
Bianca Lawson
Maggie Q
Gugu Mbatha-Rau
Chris Judge
Jasika Nicole
Natsuko Ohama
Elpidia Carrillo
(er, that might have ended up a bit lopsided. Oh well. Throw Yee Jee Tso in there, too, if needed)