Fannish 5: Five fandom lies you wish were true.

[selenak]

1.) Patrick Stewart guest stars in season 4 of New Who. Err, I think there were rumours about him being Davros or something like that a few years back? Anyway. I wish. Not necessarily Davros (though any Patrick S. would have been fine!), but oh, I wish. (Especially since I've seen him and David Tennant together on stage.) (I'll never stop boasting about this.)

2.) JMS (that's Joe Straczynski to you, non-Babylon 5 people) does a remake of Blake's 7. Because he's the only one of the current crop I'd trust do one that gets core elements of the original and comes up with a spin of its own. Mind you, there would also be the usual JMS weaknesses (watch out for characters with the initials J.S.! Operatic speech! Someone at some point quotes the "never start a fight, but always finish it!" staying!), but it could be really really interesting. I tend to be sceptical of remakes/reboots, but now and then they surprise you in a good way. This one would have great potential. Alas, I don't think it was ever more than wishful thinking.

3.) Elves get it on more than once a millennium, or whatever the Tolkien-approved time span was. Not that I'd go to the opposite end of the spectrum as much fanfiction does, but come on. No species deserves that little of a sex life.

4.) The Double Quickening at the end of the Comes a Horseman/Revelation two parter in Highlander has left Duncan and Methos with the ability to recognize each other beyond the general Immortal buzz. This was a popular fanon I was fond of back in my HL days and shamelessly used myself in fanfiction, despite the fact it's actually disproven by the show (in Forgive us our Trespasses, Duncan at one point feels an Immortal approaching and assumes it's Keane until he sees Methos).

5.) Various members of the Beatles have the ability to time-travel. At least judging by the sheer number of stories that let them do this, usually, but not always, to prevent John's death, it seems to be a popular conviction. Well, they did appear on Doctor Who once...

Comments

[andraste]

I live in hope that Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen appear in Doctor Who some day. With the length and depth of their careers it's criminal that neither of them have been in it!

And I would love to see a JMS remake of Blake's 7. I don't think every show needs a remake, but it would be very interesting to see a modern take on the terrorists/freedom fighters in space idea that could proceed without some of the constraints of the old series. (Not so much the wobbly sets as the lead leaving half way through. This lead to some great plots in its own right, mind you, but I'd be interested to see how the story played out if the actor had an iron-clad contract and no immediate desire to run off and join the RSC.) And it would be fascinating to see another take on B7 in particular because of the spector of Gauda Prime - everyone who cares knows how the show ends, and I'd be interested to see how the writer(s) would handle that.

(This is the second time tonight I've had to edit a comment on your journal; sorry for the repeated fail! Don't mean to spam your inbox.)

[jesuswasbatman]

I think the rumour was that Stewart would be playing Borusa in "The End of Time". The Davros rumours were that it would be Ben Kingsley.

On Elves: maybe it was a mistranslation and they actually do it for a millenium?

[selenak]

but it would be very interesting to see a modern take on the terrorists/freedom fighters in space idea that could proceed without some of the constraints of the old series

Yes indeed, and word on the iron-clad contract of the lead. :)

Here's hoping for the hottest duo of septuangarians on DW then!

[selenak]

Ah, okay then. Damn, Borusa!Stewart would have been great.

Elves: well, if you go by fanfiction...