musesfool: the middleman and wendy watson (let the loving come back to me)
i did it all for the robins ([personal profile] musesfool) wrote2023-06-16 07:47 pm

looks like a conscious change

I saw this around and while I am probably not going to do the whole thing, I did have an answer for the first two questions from the June Something:

Day 1: What show or movie original cast would you like to see reunite for an update - where the intervening time has passed and we're getting a view of where they are now along with glimpses on how they got there?

THE MIDDLEMAN. I don't even know where I would envision them being so many years later, but I want at least one more adventure. Maybe MM retired and Wendy is the main Middleman now but she goes missing and he has to come out of retirement to find her? Maybe Lacey and Noser track him down because they know now what Wendy's job is but Ida is stonewalling them? But I also don't want Wendy to be a Macguffin in her own story, so maybe she's undercover? Idk idk but I would love to see them all again, but only if Javier Grillo-Marxuach is in charge.

Day 2: What show or movie would you like rebooted? Same premise and storylines, but all new actors, showrunners, writers, technology, and social awareness?

Firefly. Get rid of the confederate rhetoric and racism, make the cast mostly Chinese, fix all the weirdness around Inara and the Companions, and don't let Joss Whedon anywhere near it.

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[personal profile] kore 2023-06-17 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Aww, I'm loving everyone's replies to this one.
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[personal profile] gloss 2023-06-17 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
I can't believe I didn't think of Middleman, but it is the best, possibly only, answer!
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[personal profile] marginalia 2023-06-17 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
I love all of this; also my friend recently returned my Middleman DVDs & I feel a rewatch coming!
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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2023-06-17 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
I was debating saying _Firefly_ and here you've said absolutely everything I was thinking of.
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[personal profile] celli 2023-06-17 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Today is Middleman's fifteenth anniversary! JGM said something on twitter and I was GOBSMACKED.
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[personal profile] petra 2023-06-17 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
I would watch both of these shows SO HARD, as long as the showrunner sitch was precisely as you describe.
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[personal profile] lilacsigil 2023-06-17 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
MIDDLEMAN! Yes! Maybe Wendy and Ida could be doing some dangerous Middleman thing and we see that cut with everyone else trying to find them!

In Firefly, I did like what Companions were supposed to be, just that Whedon and co couldn't get their heads around that actually working in practice and instead constantly slut-shamed AND this was mostly backed up by the narrative. Ugh.
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[personal profile] shallowness 2023-06-17 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
ITA about Firefly. Whenever I read fic or whatever, and it's on my mental list of shows to rewatch, the lack of Chinese actors screams out at me, however soft my spots for the original cast.
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[personal profile] lunabee34 2023-06-17 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes to Firefly.