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[amand_r]

Okay if I was….doing an episode run down of funny/awesome sci-fi tropes/themes whatever for a season of Torchwood, what would be fun to do? (Keep in mind this would be a post-CoE fourth season, not a s2 team)

I say this because I am doing one, and I already stole the "everyone has lost their voices" thing from Buffy's Hush episode (though in this case it's just the team and not all of Cardiff). I wanted to use the "this day repeats itself" thing for a Lois Habiba centred episode, but is that too much biting off Buffy?

Other episodes feature a whorehouse, alien casino, the queen of faeries (Jack loves this fucking episode), FAKE TARDISES, a shapeshifter with a heart of gold, an annual review, GhostHub and more.

So any ideas? Is "day in the life" acceptable?

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[beeej.livejournal.com]

"This day repeats itself" was also done on Trek, so I think that's spread out enough to be any fandom, and not just Buffy, so your safe there.

There's body switching, although I know you've already covered that. Reset button, where something happens and there's a reset button that goes back to before the bad stuff happened. Virus or machine that causes everybody to switch sexes. Immortals! Mysterious book that someone's reading and everything that happens in the book happens in real life. Alternate universe where they all meet their dopplegangers. Jack would get two Iantos!

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

agreed -- "This day repeats itself" is common enough to have its own name: Groundhog Day, after the 1990s film. So it is OPEN FOR BZNZ.

Also, second Ianto would need a beard.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Well, Ianto is dead, so no two Iantos. I already did the genderswap thing, But the book thing is good. It should be a civilian or something. LAWL.

I desperately want one of the episodes to be a crossover with either Highlander or Buffy. No matter which one it would be, it would contain a teaser before the credits when Jack and the team would run across the Slayer or Immortal, who would get away, and then Jack would lay there on the ground and stare up. Then he'd mumble, "Slayers. It always comes back to Slayers."

Or, you know, Immortals, as the case may be.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

LOL I know about groundhog day, but I wasn't sure of someone would look at that plot and say, "Jesus, buffy again?" especially in light of the voice stealing ep I have planned.

Buffy subverted some of my favorite gimmicks! damn them! *fistshake* BARROWMAN!

SciFi Season in a Blender

[mtgat]

1. Groundhog Day, which you're considering
2. Evil twins
3. Stranded / couple stranded together on alien planet
4. Body switching (which you've done, so genderswap, without trans!fail thanks to useful meta)
5. Hallucinogen/etc makes everyone crazy/paranoid
6. Thinly veiled social/political commentary episode WITH ALIENS
7. Strange artifact grants/removes superpowers
8. Mind-reading (already canon, so Naked!Invisible!characters)
9. Character is "killed" in the teaser, team mourns but finds out by Act Four that s/he is just held hostage or in another universe (Star Trek: TNG did something like this to every character except maybe Troi)
10. New/old love interest shows up for a character, turns out to be related somehow to Monster of the Week (which you're doing)
11. The musical episode!
12. Part one of episode with bad guys seen previously and not quite defeated so what's the surprise really? Possibly robots involved.
13. Part two, with resolution pulled out of the air / some orifice, with surprise return of characters introduced earlier in season.

Mix and serve cold, possibly with a side of evil laughter.

*watches too much damn TV*

Re: SciFi Season in a Blender

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Aw, does my bodyswap contain transfail? I was so careful!

If I could do 11 I would, but I suck. On the other hand 7 is a fantastic idea.

Re: SciFi Season in a Blender

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

This is because of troi dies no one would care. OH ZING.

[pocketmouse]

I'd suggest a 'trapped in a fake reality' a la TOS' The Cage type of mindfuckery, but, uh, to be honest I doubt I could trust Torchwood to catch on to it...

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I already have something like that, but you have a point about clueless TW!

Re: SciFi Season in a Blender

[mtgat]

I wouldn't know, since I don't know trans issues well enough to judge. (Hell, I did a genderswap with the entire Justice League once. I'm afraid to reread now.)

Doing a musical story is in fact some of the sweetest evil you can ever achieve. If you have a buddy who filks, especially if they can filk ABBA songs, it would be totally worth it.

[pocketmouse]

The X-Files version had them being eaten by a giant hallucinogenic mushroom. TW wouldn't figure it out until they'd already been digested!

Re: SciFi Season in a Blender

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Well, the transfail thing is one of those thing that I'm like, "yeah, I can avoid fail to some extent, but there's a point where you people have to let it go." I didn't fuck wit the pronouns and I didn't make it all about Jack shoe shopping and Gwen cooking outdoors, so I don't get where it'd be in there. Oh well. Then again, until that meta I didn't know what people did gender swap stories in which they referred to the body's gender regardless of the person's gender. That seems...stupid.

My problem with the filk is that I don't care to read it. I'd rather see it, so a written musical ep does nothing for me.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Haahahahahah Jack would be like, "guys, do you remember this happening to us a lot?"

Gwen would be all, "uhm no."

"right. guns out then."

[behindblue-eyes.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see other parts of "armor" found. Just the gauntlets made it through the Rift? I don't think so.

And I wouldn't worry about stealing ideas from other shows. Chances are they stole it from someone else, anyway. ;)

[pocketmouse]

"Jack! Stop that! And put your pants back on." Gwen crossed her arms and turned away with a sigh. "That's his answer to everything."

"He said that yesterday when we ran out of coffee," Ianto agreed.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

hmm... since we're on buffy - is there a "transformation" trope?
i'm thinking of when giles is turned into a demon, but maybe it's a bit of tech that can... i dunno, make the person appear like, or maybe even actually turn them into, an alien (for infiltration purposes or something), but the team doesn't understand how it works and they have to figure... STUFF out!
that's all i got this late in the day

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Oh Jack, you're the reason they have that "KEEPS YOUR PANTS ON" SIGN EVERYWHERE.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Ooooo. There are so many good fanfics out there that have already covered this, I'd be afraid to try. But yeah, what if they got like, the helmet?

[sqyd.livejournal.com]

Lithe young girl (possibly slightly crazy) kicks ass - Joss Whedon's fave (could be alien)
It Was All a Dream
blue-skinned earth-mother type alien (Farscape)
the bashful vampire (ok, I just made that up)
the team switch bodies
everybody's singing (that was Buffy too I think) aka Life is a Musical
everyone falls in love with the wrong person (Midsummer Night's Dream)
a whole episode plays out like a classic black and white movie - maybe a film noir (Xfiles did something similar) they'd have to talk in period style
they get accidentally transported onto the Starship Enterprise in the Tribbles episode

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I wish I had the voice for the film noir one!

[sqyd.livejournal.com]

Ianto really becomes the Wedding Fairy for a day (gets to chat with the other fairies)

[pocketmouse]

UNEXPECTED NAKED JACK HARKNESS IS TOTALLY EXPECTED.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Sorry! Dead Ianto! Wah!

But potential!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

THIS TIMES A BILLIONTY.