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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1302995" data-attributes="member: 3649">I think that show would be a mini-series <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I think there are lots of good books out there that would make excellent shows but they would need to be done as mini-series because they involve changing circumstances. Almost all TV is done with the assumption that the basic circumstances will not change (and I can understand somewhat the idea behind this; it's easy for someone to start watching, say, Friends or ST: TNG in the middle season 4 and never be aware at all that has gone before). The idea of a series that has a definate beginning, middle and end is very appealing to me.  The idea of a series of series that share the same universe is also very appealing.  What would I create, if given a magic wand of money? Batman. Doing Batman as a totally straight series concentrating on detective work, crime fighting, and the occassional supervillain would be great. One part action, part CSI, use over-arching plots and meta-plots like Law and Order.... You have a small cast of main characters with all these wonderful people on the sidelines; combine with normal types of crimes that Batman usualy deals with and once or twice a season have a two or three part major supervillain scene. Batman has, hands down, one of the best series of villains in comics, but they're like spice. Too many and the soup is inedible. You can do almost anything, juggling and weaving plotlines as needed: Batman on the trail of a serial arsonist; Tim Drake juggling his school and girlfriend and family duties with being Robin at night; Commissioner Gordon trying to keep the new Internal Affairs political hack off his back; a corrupt city council dealing with their new silent partner: The Penguin, who promises to bring  much needed money into the city with his new waterfront gambling casino complex; Oracle overseeing everything from the Watchtower... It would actually be a fairly low budget series; most of your SFX cash would go into the occassional explosion and a few low-level Bat-Gadgets. CGI 90% of the mansion and Batcave sets and there you go. Once in a while, blow the big SFX scene with someone like Poison Ivy (the entire park comes to life and tries to kill Batman and Robin), or Clayface (do him like the animated series, with him being a shapeshifter).</blockquote>

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