Daily Pilots Post: Crossover Craziness
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no_takebacksFirst, just a reminder that the DPP Party Train NEEDS YOU! If you'd like to sign up for a week of pilots posting fun, there are still plenty of slots open for the next few months over here.
Now, on to our DPP. I think most K/L shippers would agree that the chemistry between Katee and Jamie as Kara and Lee is pretty incendiary and incredibly rare. I was talking to someone (Cheryl?) recently about how it's too bad that the studios don't really use repertory like casting nowadays (as they perhaps did in the 1930s and 1940s, casting the same actors against each other again and again in multiple roles). To that end, what other film or movie roles would you like to see these actors tackle, either as themselves or even funnier maybe, as some crazy sort of crossover/transplanted Kara and Lee?
Here's a few examples to start you off:
The Cutting Edge -- Most of you already know I'm taking pilots and putting them on ice for my PilotsBigBang fic coming up. Kara as the cocky, charismatic Olympic Hockey Player whose dreams of gold get crushed by an unfortunate incident that ends her career. Lee as the prissy, uptight figure skater who hasn't been able to live up to his father's expectations or retain a partner thanks to that impenetrable chip on his shoulder.
His Girl Friday--This is my favorite classic movie starring Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant as bantering exes. Insert Kara instead of Roz as Hildy, the hotshot news reporter whose about to chuck her career to settle down with the pleasantly unassuming Bruce for a quiet life on New Capr--- uh I mean the countryside. ;) Her ex/editor Walter (lol, that's almost as bad as Leland right?) can't bear to let her go, so he assigns her one last case to cover the execution of a convicted murderer (Baltar? With Six as the girlfriend? HEE) and soon Hildy is so caught up in the case, she forgets all about Bruce and rides off into the sunset with Walter to get remarried and keep chasing hot scoops. (It all has a kind of buddycops tinge to it, don't it?)
Buffy Starbuck, the Vampire Slayer?--What if Kara's chosen (a bit later-in-life maybe, say college?) to be The One who vanquishes the vamps/demons/cylons/creatures of the night? How about Lee as a younger version of Giles, her uptight watcher whom she clashes with (and occasionally romances) at every turn? Imagine those training sessions! Hee. Who would be her Scooby gang?
Alias--This one might be too easy/close already, but Kara as the young super-secret spy working for the CIA, or whom she thinks is the CIA!, until they kill her fiance Zak and she goes to the real CIA and becomes a double agent with Lee as her handler. (Would he still be Zak's brother in this verse? Does she go to him, not knowing he works for the real CIA, and confess her fears about what happened to Zak, and he takes her in to the real CIA? But can he forgive her for getting his brother killed, even though it wasn't her fault?) OOh the intrigue! The drama! THE ANGST IN HIGH HEELS. Throw in a little Tigh and Papadama and Roslin and maybe Leoben (as someone obsessed with her as the Rambaldi prophecy girl, right?) as the parental/boss figures and it could be all kinds of crazy!
The possibilities are endless. So who/what crazy crossover do you think should star Kara and Lee or Katee and Jamie? Or what original premise straight from your own brain would you like to see them star in next? Hit us up with your hot crossover/recast ideas and maybe someone will even be inspired to write some fic!! ;)
Now, on to our DPP. I think most K/L shippers would agree that the chemistry between Katee and Jamie as Kara and Lee is pretty incendiary and incredibly rare. I was talking to someone (Cheryl?) recently about how it's too bad that the studios don't really use repertory like casting nowadays (as they perhaps did in the 1930s and 1940s, casting the same actors against each other again and again in multiple roles). To that end, what other film or movie roles would you like to see these actors tackle, either as themselves or even funnier maybe, as some crazy sort of crossover/transplanted Kara and Lee?
Here's a few examples to start you off:
The Cutting Edge -- Most of you already know I'm taking pilots and putting them on ice for my PilotsBigBang fic coming up. Kara as the cocky, charismatic Olympic Hockey Player whose dreams of gold get crushed by an unfortunate incident that ends her career. Lee as the prissy, uptight figure skater who hasn't been able to live up to his father's expectations or retain a partner thanks to that impenetrable chip on his shoulder.
His Girl Friday--This is my favorite classic movie starring Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant as bantering exes. Insert Kara instead of Roz as Hildy, the hotshot news reporter whose about to chuck her career to settle down with the pleasantly unassuming Bruce for a quiet life on New Capr--- uh I mean the countryside. ;) Her ex/editor Walter (lol, that's almost as bad as Leland right?) can't bear to let her go, so he assigns her one last case to cover the execution of a convicted murderer (Baltar? With Six as the girlfriend? HEE) and soon Hildy is so caught up in the case, she forgets all about Bruce and rides off into the sunset with Walter to get remarried and keep chasing hot scoops. (It all has a kind of buddycops tinge to it, don't it?)
Alias--This one might be too easy/close already, but Kara as the young super-secret spy working for the CIA, or whom she thinks is the CIA!, until they kill her fiance Zak and she goes to the real CIA and becomes a double agent with Lee as her handler. (Would he still be Zak's brother in this verse? Does she go to him, not knowing he works for the real CIA, and confess her fears about what happened to Zak, and he takes her in to the real CIA? But can he forgive her for getting his brother killed, even though it wasn't her fault?) OOh the intrigue! The drama! THE ANGST IN HIGH HEELS. Throw in a little Tigh and Papadama and Roslin and maybe Leoben (as someone obsessed with her as the Rambaldi prophecy girl, right?) as the parental/boss figures and it could be all kinds of crazy!
The possibilities are endless. So who/what crazy crossover do you think should star Kara and Lee or Katee and Jamie? Or what original premise straight from your own brain would you like to see them star in next? Hit us up with your hot crossover/recast ideas and maybe someone will even be inspired to write some fic!! ;)
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Re: MORE CLASSICS!
Date: 2010-03-11 07:48 pm (UTC)I have to admit that I'm more interested in crossovers where they still have a bit of gender-switcharoo going on. Or at least expected gender-ROLE switcharoo.
That's an element that I think is really important to their relationshp and without it I'm not sure their dynamic works as well for me. (Or at least specifically without Kara being as strong as a man...and Lee being somewhat more the emotional woman.)
Re: MORE CLASSICS!
Date: 2010-03-11 07:52 pm (UTC)I think I'm more interested in the opposite/same dynamic within the relationship. There's so much tension and difference but also similarity between them and I really like exploring that.
Re: MORE CLASSICS!
Date: 2010-03-11 08:05 pm (UTC)I think Kara is such a rare heroine because she's allowed to have the independence/lack of sentamentality (mostly)/mind-on-the-mission outlook that a man would. I'm having a tough time putting it in words but I do appreciate that they never reduced her ever to a girlfriend role on BSG.