DPP: Which Writer?

[n-e-star.livejournal.com]

While Actors embody the role and Directors bring a look and feel to the setting, writers are the backbone of any show.

So, which writer would you have like to see pen an episode of Battlestar?

Maybe a kick-ass Starbuck centered episode from Joss Whedon?

An off the wall "what was that?" episode from Mel Brooks?

A two conversations at once from Aaron Sorken?

(I'm totally seeing Josh as Kara and Sam as Lee)

Comments

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

You know I'm voting for Sorkin. :)

I also think David Mamet could have done a fantastic job. I think his dialogue style would blend well with the 'verse.

[n-e-star.livejournal.com]

::runs off to IMDb::

Okay, I have seen nothing that David Mamet has done, so I'm gonna have to take your word.

I would have loved Sorkin just for the rambling conversation by minor characters. 'Cus you know that Dee and Gaeta were joking back and forth on the sly while they were on duty.

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

HERSHKOWITZ AND ZWICK!!!!

ALL TV WOULD BE BETTER IF IT WAS WRITTEN BY HERSHKOWITZ AND ZWICK.

PEOPLE WOULD HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH EACH OTHER WHERE THEY WOULD ACTUALLY SAY SOMETHING AND IT WOULD BE AWKWARD AND TENSE AND OH SO EMOTIONAL AND IT WOULD HURT SO BAD THAT YOU WOULD NEED TO MAYBE NOT WATCH FOR A BIT BUT IT WOULD BE HONEST AND REAL AND SHIT WOULD GET SAID

Or, you know, Sorkin's good...

I feel like Stephen Moffat could have done something super interesting and wacky with the Kara coming back from the dead storyline and it would be circular and inscrutable and you would not really understand what it meant but it would be really charmingly done and it would feel like you understood it and everything would seem like it worked and you would be happy with it. That would be cool.

Or, whatever, Sorkin is ok too. (I actually love Sorkin, I really do, but I feel like if he had written BSG you would spend three seasons thinking Kara was really kind of kick-ass and smoky and then you would realise that her entire sense of self-worth and identity was wrapped up in whether a man loves her more than he loves his job and that would make me sadder than I think anything that Rondy and the Eick-man did to make me sad, so I think I wouldn't love it.)

CLEARLY this question gives me feeling. Sorry for all the caps-locks, but I really love Hershkowitz and Zwick and I wish they would come back to tv.

[onlyariana.livejournal.com]

I was just watching this today and thinking how I want Sam Seaborn to write every single thing I have to listen to for the rest of my life. It's a little thing called cadence and it works for him.

I feel like there really aren't a ton of television writers whose names I know. I know shows and if there's the show runner who is the head writer I might know his or her name but otherwise I feel like they're an under-loved but important part of the process.

[n-e-star.livejournal.com]

there really aren't a ton of television writers whose names I know.

You should have seen me trying to come up with examples ;)

[n-e-star.livejournal.com]

Okay, I haven't seen any of H&Z's stuff, but it looks like there are full episodes of Thirtysomething and Quarterlife (which has Scott Michael Foster - OMG!SQUEE!)up on YouTube so YEY!

I picked Sorkin just for the awesome one-liners and asides from minor characters. Sometimes BSG felt like it was the "Starbuck & Apollo Show" (and that's not really a complaint) and I want the love spread around.

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

Well, in case you couldn't tell, I kind of love them. You should check out Thirtysomething, Tim Busfield is in it, and if you're a west wing fan I suspect you will enjoy that. But also Once and Again, which is excellent. They just do family drama really really well and without melodrama. I kind of miss that element on TV.

[kittykiernan.livejournal.com]

Definitely Steven Moffat! That guy can write some seriously dark and scary sh*t when he feels like it.

And maybe Joss Whedon. Most of the time his stuff feels not quite serious enough for BSG to me...but he's proven a few times that he can handle heavier material. (The Season 5 Buffy episode "The Body," for instance.) Buffy's and Kara's respective back-from-the-dead angsts definitely have some similarities, too.