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ffuturesOne of the things I've been working on is a "Five Things" story for Captain Jack - minor spoilers for Utopia onward follow:
We know Captain Jack got thrown back in time to the 1860s. I want to write a story spanning that period, each chapter a crossover with something appropriate to the period.
1870-80s - a western of some sort - one of the Clint Eastwood films, I think.
1890s - the Buffyverse, Spike's encounter with Dracula and the reason Dracula owes him money. I think that this will be a poker game, or some other card game. Or possibly rat-baiting or similar.
1920s-30s - not sure yet, maybe something set in America e.g. The Grapes of Warth / The Great Gatsby / Thoroughly Modern Millie, but Cabaret might be fun if I can find a plot handle. Or Indiana Jones for that matter.
1966 - Lois & Clark (or Superman Returns for those who prefer that) - Kansas in the 1960s and the arrival of a small capsule from the planet Krypton. I've already written that, but I don't want it to be the first part of the story.
1970s-80s - one of the classic cop shows. The Sweeny? Kojak? Miami Vice? or take it a little later and make it Columbo or Hill Street Blues?
So, suggestions for all of the above (apart from 1966) would be appreciated.
We know Captain Jack got thrown back in time to the 1860s. I want to write a story spanning that period, each chapter a crossover with something appropriate to the period.
1870-80s - a western of some sort - one of the Clint Eastwood films, I think.
1890s - the Buffyverse, Spike's encounter with Dracula and the reason Dracula owes him money. I think that this will be a poker game, or some other card game. Or possibly rat-baiting or similar.
1920s-30s - not sure yet, maybe something set in America e.g. The Grapes of Warth / The Great Gatsby / Thoroughly Modern Millie, but Cabaret might be fun if I can find a plot handle. Or Indiana Jones for that matter.
1966 - Lois & Clark (or Superman Returns for those who prefer that) - Kansas in the 1960s and the arrival of a small capsule from the planet Krypton. I've already written that, but I don't want it to be the first part of the story.
1970s-80s - one of the classic cop shows. The Sweeny? Kojak? Miami Vice? or take it a little later and make it Columbo or Hill Street Blues?
So, suggestions for all of the above (apart from 1966) would be appreciated.
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Date: 2007-07-02 09:58 am (UTC)1870s -- Crossover to Wild Wild West (either version) & use one or other of the Lovelesses.
1890s -- either Buffy, or alternatively the Fu Manchu schtik :: Limehouse, opium, muscular young coppers, Ripper-esque prostitutes, higher-class Victorian courtesans, delicate daughetrs of nobility, and repressed governesses. I can see Galahad and the Castle Anthrax here. (Yes, I know you don't write porn, but we're talking Jack (If It's Got A PostCode) Harkness here !!!
1920s-30s cries out to be Bulldog Drummond vs Carl Peterson (though without casting Carl as an avatar of the Master). Jack would fit in totally with the demobbed adventurer line, and he'd be facing Nameless Evils (especially if you could work in Dread Cthulhu). Alternatively, a Doc savage rip-off might be extreme fun.
1966 -- alternative suggestion is steal Nick Fury from Marvel, and do a "Jack On The Helicarrier" (possibly by nicking the 1970s DW line of creeping infection).
1970s/80s -- My vote would be for Hill Street, because of the dissonance between clean-cut hero!Jack, and the somewhat chaotic and often scummy Hill Street precinct.
I don't know -- I find I like your stuff better the wilder you go ... somehow you carry off repressed insanity better than most authors I can think of.