The I give up meme

[thisbluespirit]

It's been a while (two a half three years), and I'm feeling fed up with never quite getting back to what passes for normal with me these days, so let's do this thing - let's play isurrendered again:

1. Comment to this post with "I surrender!" and I'll assign you the basis of some TV show idea. (Science fiction show, medical drama, criminal procedure, etc...)
2. Create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them.
3. Add in any actor photos, character bios and show synopsis that you want.
4. Post to your own journal.


If you haven't done this one before, it can be brain-eating and leave you pining for never-made (but strangely frequently cancelled) TV series. But it's fun and excellent for story ideas!

Comments

[john_amend_all]

[moetushie]

BEST MEME, Y/Y?

[justice_turtle]

Am I allowed to mix up different eras in the casting? I don't think I know enough actors from any one era to cast a whole TV show. :-)

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, of course! It's entirely up to the all-powerful showrunner of the imaginary show whether you use time travel technology for casting. ;-)

(Are you surrendering, then?)

ETA: If you are, before I forget my inspiration - you have a new SF show to run! And nobody in it is human... ;-D

[thisbluespirit]

Best and biggest meme! ;-)

Make a historical drama series set in any period of your choice.

ETA: I realised afterwards that maybe that was too wide, which is unfair (maybe). Anyway, feel free to take it as is, OR for bonus cookies, make it a very underused historical setting/story, OR if you'd rather something a bit more out there, any Shakespeare play you choose, the big tacky TV Tudors-tyle soap opera version! Take as many liberties as you can.

[thisbluespirit]

Regency agents investigate the supernatural!

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

Oh gods, I shall regret this probably (I still pine for the last one! Blasted BBC, cancelling it before they even made it...). But I surrender.

[thisbluespirit]

Yay! Prepare to walk the plank! (And good luck).

Modern day fantasy show: and then one day the dragons woke up and came out of their hiding places...

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

I surrender!

[evelyn-b.livejournal.com]

Ok, ok. I surrender!

[grondfic.livejournal.com]

I surrender

[shivver13.livejournal.com]

This sounds fun! I surrender!

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

I surrender!!

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

Cool! *thinks thinky thoughts*

Step #1 - Do I go to HBO for funding, so there's big, CGI dragons, or do I go to the BBC, so they're either pipe-cleaners and cotton wool, or semi-animated on a BBC Micro? :D

[graycardinal]

I ran into a variant of this once upon a time, though not in quite this form. Nonetheless, and despite an ongoing schedule of total insanity...

...I surrender!

[thisbluespirit]

The BBC can do CGI these days! But if you don't crack the American market with S1 and make money for them, they'll cancel you straight out of the bat. Mind you, so would HBO or any other channel...

[thisbluespirit]

You get to amke your own Golden Age detective show! (Whether it's original, an adaptation, pastiche, or mash-up is up to you.)

[thisbluespirit]

The Dark Lord of a fantasy realm has been defeated by the heroes - and fled to our world, where he hopes to live out a peaceful retirement. But it's never that simple, is it?

[thisbluespirit]

A historical adventure series with derring do and travels and a mysterious map and maybe even treasure! Who knows?

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I surrender (all the while going what am I doing???)

[calliopes_pen]

I surrender!

[thisbluespirit]

SF series - a smallpioneer group of humans set off to colonise an (apparently empty) planet.

[thisbluespirit]

A music company creates a new pop band - only one of the members has a secret power!

[thisbluespirit]

A Shakespearean era murder mystery series!

[thisbluespirit]

Well, that is the correct way to play, with fear and trembling and an inability to resist... ;-p

Team who investigate mysterious goings on in abandoned buildings and places (which have a power of their own). (For a bonus, they should be based in a building that's grown sentient, but is benign. Mostly.)