Make Your Own TV Show

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The other alternative was paying attention to "Rise of the Silver Surfer" while it was on TV last night.

(Hee, totally called Stan Lee's cameo!)

1. Ask and I'll assign you the basis of some show idea.
2. Create the characters you need, including the actors who'd play them. Photos optional but recommended.
3. Come up with a general synopsis of the premise.

havocthecat requested a superhero TV show. I've always been a Marvel girl, but I hope there will be crossover with aj's Gotham. :)

This was hard for me, because I really love superhero stories and I've read a lot of them and, you know, some of them are really, really clever (really, everyone should go and read "Rising Stars". It's probably the greatest thing I've ever read. I cried like a baby even though I was on a very crowded train. It was awesome).

And...here we are!

Donor is the story of what happens to Chelsie Garrity as she scours the globe looking for the heart donor who saved her life when she was thirteen. It's also the story of Victor Goran, whose daughter was not so lucky when she was waiting for an operation. Wealthy, ruthless and more than a little obsessed with medical miracles, Goran tracks Chel across the globe, hoping that when she finds her donor, she'll lead him to more. Chel, in searching for her Donor, finds a whole pile of other people with extraordinary powers and sends back semi-coded messages to her friend Laura about them, all while dodging Alex, whom Goran has tasked with apprehending her.

(There's mostly a rotating cast in this, with only the four main principles from week to week.)




Zoë Saldana, as Chelsie Garrity

Chel was born with an incurable heart defect, but that didn't stop her parents from spending every penny they had on treatments. When she was thirteen, she received a heart transplant, but the donor was never disclosed. Soon after her surgery, she found herself changing. She was stronger, faster, and people started to notice. Once she graduates from college (she attended UNC on a full basketball scholarship and majored in a program called ECHO, which is about ethnicity and its relationship to health), she begins searching for the donor. She disappears, and we follow her as she looks.



Victor Garber, as Victor Goran

Victor Goran is a multi-billionaire who, due to a series of personal tragedies, is obsessed with so-called "miraculous recoveries". Though he makes his money in tech, he donates quite a bit to various high profile hospitals, the better to monitor their recovery rates. When he finds out about Chel, he watches her. When she disappears, he hires someone to find her...and whoever it is she is looking for.


Reed Diamond, as Alex Harrows

Alex was hired by the Goran Corporation to track down Chel after she disappeared. He's more than a little skeptical, but after she beats the crap out of him a couple of times, he'll probably come around.


Grace Park, as Laura Dickens

(Dude, it's hard to find pictures of Park that are, uh, SFW. I finally had to take one where she was in costume.)

Laura has been Chel's best friend since they met in the Children's ward when they were seven. Laura's leukemia was cured with a bone marrow transplant and she has never relapsed. She's a lot more free spirited than Chel is, but she has six fewer years of time spent in hospitals so it's understandable. While Chel was in college, Laura was out in the world, backpacking everywhere she could. Chel sends her postcards, and at any given time, Laura knows more or less where she is, particularly when stories about about people being saved by a strange woman crop up every place she gets a card from.

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John Cho will definitely guest star, as a "Freak of the Week". And probably also Katee Sackoff, Tahmoh Penniket, Alyson Hannigan, Christopher Eccleston and Tony Todd. But a lot of them will be people from India, Northern Africa and the Middle East, and that's a place where my knowledge of actors is thin. I my mind, the Donor is a super-powered Heidi Klum (but not a blonde one), and she will narrate things on occasion, but I am still working that part out.

I may or may not have done this specifically so that irony_rocks can ship Uhura and Lawrence Dominic. :)

Comments

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Alex was hired by the Goran Corporation to track down Chel after she disappeared. He's more than a little skeptical, but after she beats the crap out of him a couple of times, he'll probably come around.

OMG, I want this show on my TV now!! LIKE, IMMEDIATELY.

Alas, that picture of Dominic does not do him justice yo.

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Yeah, I know. There are some truly terrifying ones from the late 90s.

Edit: OMG, he was in Journeyman with Kevin McKidd! I think I just died of HOT.