Shows for other supporting characters?

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2013/10/agents_of_shield_marvel_batman_spider-man_wolverin.php

Most of these seem kinda obvious.... and inevitable. AND like they'd have the same problem the SHIELD show does; they'd look too much like something else, but with superheroes. Sort of.

#1 seems inevitable.... and I think they did it in the comic way back when.

#2 seems inevitable.

I would watch #3 if it was just episode after episode of Wolverine getting drunk and rambling at the other customers. (Maybe the season finale could be a showdown between Logan and John Taffer.)

#4 has been done to death over the years, and setting it in a newspaper would confuse a lot of younger fans (so.... it's an ipad that doesn't move?) and depress older ones once the layoffs started.

#5 will happen when they do the kiddie version.

#6 was pretty much the 2004 series.

#7 was done to death in the 80's.

'Course, I'd love to see a Damage Control series. Or DC do an Angel and the Ape one.... mostly so's they can bring back their greatest villain; Stan Bragg.

Don C.

[madmarva]

The Gordon show that's being developed should be reworked into Gotham Central or Gotham PD. It wouldn't have to show Batman, but "the Bat" could be a topic of discussion. It could show how Having Batman around makes the cops lives more difficult and maybe easier. Few are supposed to ever see Batman anyway. If done cleverly, the batman tease could be appealing but still allow the cops, DAs, politicians to be the stars.

It might not work for more than a season or two, but Marvel/Disney is missing the boat by not using it's super characters in the show. Sure people would complain that it's hero of the week, but it would create some synergy between the books and the show. Is a SHield comic even being produced? If a character really hits, put it in a film.

The fear of mixing TV and films with this type of material is unwarranted. More and More actors are working in both. Plus the audience is teens and young male adults. They are going to attend movies no matter what. There's a ton of lower level marvel characters they could use that will never make it to film.

[Operation:Mego]

1 and 2 would be like a cool Bond serial, 3 a comedy with no overarching story-arc, and 7 as a gritty, hour-long Showtime series.

[sprytel]

I know it wasn't exactly what they pitched for #4, but I really love the idea of a Daily Show-style show covering the plots from the comic universe as if they were current events that were really happening. I could see some nerdy Jon Stewart-type riffing on the story lines, doing little comedy bits, etc.

[ctc]

>The Gordon show that's being developed should be reworked into Gotham Central or Gotham PD.

Y'know.... I don't find either idea real exciting. The Gordon series is just gonna feel like every other cop show from the past 40 years. A Gotham PD series seems pretty obvious, but it'd be like the SHIELD show; moreso since the Gotham police have been shown to be almost entirely ineffective throughout every permutation of every Batman story ever.

>I really love the idea of a Daily Show-style show covering the plots from the comic universe as if they were current events that were really happening.

Bring back Hector Ramirez! THIS is a neat idea, 'cos it's a little different and it does something none of the other ideas do: it adds to the setting. It'd give a whole new take to not only the events of the setting but the ideas behind the setting. The problem with superhero settings.... and most settings for the nerdly arts.... is that they always focus on the big things. The alien invasions, the super technology, the city wrecking fights.... and we never get an idea of what the mundane parts of that setting are like. Sometimes we get hints; usually pertaining to the general public's hero worship/hatred and fear of the main characters, but think about the Marvel universe. What kind of a nightmare would it be if you were a pizza delivery person in Marvel New York? Or DC: imagine what a hellish job PR rep for STAR Labs would be. And how come you never see the kind of stuff the lower end heroes have to do to get by? In a world like DC's where superheroes are accepted and origins plentiful how come you never see a guy with mediocre flight powers delivering pizza? Or the weird, small laws that would come about with the presence of powers and superscience. (Like the EPA in Ghostbusters.)

One of the things I loved about "The Incredibles" was the realism of it all. It dealt with all the small things that nobody else does, and in doing so it expanded the mythos. (Yeah.... where DO superheroes get their costumes from?)

Don C.

[jwyblejr]

It's a long shot but I'd like to see a series set at Massachusetts Academy. Have the focus be on non-famous mutants.