Plot Bunny Release part 3
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kerravonsenAnd more of my released plot bunnies.
I fear that there will be few people who have actually seen all three of these universes, but...
#8.
Sentinel/Crossworlds/Blind Fury crossover
Blind Fury was a movie which starred Rutger Hauer as Nick Parker, a Vietnam vet who was blinded by an explosion, but who compensated with his hearing, and learned swordwork from a Vietnamese elder.
Crossworlds was a semi-cheesy SF movie (the concept was cool, the execution was cool, the supporting characters were cool, the leads were vapid) which features multidimensional travel (and a monarchy in exile fighting an evil usurper...) Rutger Hauer plays a gruff experienced fighter/Gifted person called A.T. who wants to be left alone but gets dragged into the fight again...
Parallel universes converge...
Blair arranges for a meeting between Jim and Nick Parker, Nick being one of his subjects with one or two heightened senses (hearing and slightly smell).
Meanwhile, in the parallel universe of Crossworlds, a Blair-counterpart invents a world-crossing device, which crosses parallelities, not dimensions, attracting someone to their counterpart. Chased by bad buys, he gets to A.T. They use the device and get pulled to Cascade.
Mayhem ensues.
Blair and Blair-counterpart touch, and get a psychic shock.
Nick and A.T. wisely refrain.
#9.
(Sentinel/Sliders)
The Alan Parsons Project song "Blown by the Wind" was one that I gave someone else for the "crossover" round of the Sentinel Lyric Wheel, but it also gave me half an idea. What if Jim and Blair got tangled up with the Sliders -- or a parallel solitary Slider who gets killed in Cascade, but whose gizmo ends up in their hands and they accidentally activate it and get dragged into another universe, and then they're wandering the multiverse from then on...
Here are the lyrics in question.
Blown By The Wind
(by Ian Bairnson, Alan Parsons Project, from "On Air")
All along the shoreline
There are footprints by the sea
They head into the distance...
Then they lead right back to me
I made the break to freedom
Now I'm following the dream
You're never going to get here
If you hold the old routine
Now everything that we posess
That fills our empty lives
Is only good for leaving far behind
We are blown by the wind
Just like clouds in the sky
We don't know where we're going
Don't know why
We just ride with the wind
And we'll drive through the rain
We don't know where we'll get to
Or if we'll get back again
Call along the valley
And you just may find us there
I couldn't say for sure
Because we may be anywhere
Head into the sunset
Or just wander out to sea
Wherever your heart leads you
Is the place you're meant to be
And someone who could be impressed
With ordinary lies
Could really use a little peace of mind
We are blown by the wind
Just like clouds in the sky
We don't know where we'll go
But we'll get by
We just ride with the wind
And we'll drive through the rain
We don't know where we'll get to
Or if we'll get back again
Now everything that we posess
That fills our empty lives
Is only good for leaving far behind
We are blown by the wind
Just like clouds in the sky
We don't know where we're going
Don't know why
We just ride with the wind
And we'll drive through the rain
We don't know where we'll get to
Or if we'll get back again
#10.
(Sentinel/Champions crossover)
Notes:
In Cascade, in the 90s, the Champions would be in their fifties, since Craig Sterling was born in 1939, and one would expect the others to be of similar ages. However, I expect them to be a very vigorous and forties-looking fifties (like Cliff Richard).
I wonder whether the Champions or the Sentinel would make the most of their senses? (not counting the sixth sense, which the Champions have to a greater degree and always have) The Champions don't deny what they are, while Jim does. However, Jim
has Blair to push him. But pushing will only go so far. On the other hand, are the Champions liable to keep challenging their limits? Or will they rest on their laurels? Blair, I think, is more driven and has more imagination. Though Richard is more like Blair, with more curiosity about "why?". This much later, I can see the Champions losing their edge - not just stagnation, but age too.
Possible theme: accepting who you are, and testing your limits.
The lemming drug makes a reappearance, and someone is testing it in Cascade. Jim & Blair are assigned to investigate a set of mysterious suicides. Craig Sterling (and possibly the other two) have come to Cascade following the trail. (Are they too old to be still in the field? Well, judging by Robert McCall, they aren't.)
A couple of possibilities:
- they come officially, and liase with Major Crime
- they are investigating completely independently, and are undercover.
I think the latter is more interesting... particularly if Jim stumbles upon them, overhears them or something. I like the bit in "Almost A Sentinel" where Jim zones trying to hear them, and then manages to do so with Blair's help. Obviously I can't use exactly that idea, but maybe something similar.
#11.
Sentinel/Unbreakable
(I'm referring to the movie "Unbreakable" which starred Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson)
What if Elijah Price was transferred to the same insane asylum as Alex Barnes (aka Alicia Bannister), he helped her regain her sanity, be her Guide, and they escaped together?
From his point of view, he's the mastermind, she's the super-hench-villain. It's not like she won't take direction, not if she's grateful. She may even buy into his theory (or pretend to). Sentinels would fit just as well as David did.
I fear that there will be few people who have actually seen all three of these universes, but...
#8.
Sentinel/Crossworlds/Blind Fury crossover
Blind Fury was a movie which starred Rutger Hauer as Nick Parker, a Vietnam vet who was blinded by an explosion, but who compensated with his hearing, and learned swordwork from a Vietnamese elder.
Crossworlds was a semi-cheesy SF movie (the concept was cool, the execution was cool, the supporting characters were cool, the leads were vapid) which features multidimensional travel (and a monarchy in exile fighting an evil usurper...) Rutger Hauer plays a gruff experienced fighter/Gifted person called A.T. who wants to be left alone but gets dragged into the fight again...
Parallel universes converge...
Blair arranges for a meeting between Jim and Nick Parker, Nick being one of his subjects with one or two heightened senses (hearing and slightly smell).
Meanwhile, in the parallel universe of Crossworlds, a Blair-counterpart invents a world-crossing device, which crosses parallelities, not dimensions, attracting someone to their counterpart. Chased by bad buys, he gets to A.T. They use the device and get pulled to Cascade.
Mayhem ensues.
Blair and Blair-counterpart touch, and get a psychic shock.
Nick and A.T. wisely refrain.
#9.
(Sentinel/Sliders)
The Alan Parsons Project song "Blown by the Wind" was one that I gave someone else for the "crossover" round of the Sentinel Lyric Wheel, but it also gave me half an idea. What if Jim and Blair got tangled up with the Sliders -- or a parallel solitary Slider who gets killed in Cascade, but whose gizmo ends up in their hands and they accidentally activate it and get dragged into another universe, and then they're wandering the multiverse from then on...
Here are the lyrics in question.
Blown By The Wind
(by Ian Bairnson, Alan Parsons Project, from "On Air")
All along the shoreline
There are footprints by the sea
They head into the distance...
Then they lead right back to me
I made the break to freedom
Now I'm following the dream
You're never going to get here
If you hold the old routine
Now everything that we posess
That fills our empty lives
Is only good for leaving far behind
We are blown by the wind
Just like clouds in the sky
We don't know where we're going
Don't know why
We just ride with the wind
And we'll drive through the rain
We don't know where we'll get to
Or if we'll get back again
Call along the valley
And you just may find us there
I couldn't say for sure
Because we may be anywhere
Head into the sunset
Or just wander out to sea
Wherever your heart leads you
Is the place you're meant to be
And someone who could be impressed
With ordinary lies
Could really use a little peace of mind
We are blown by the wind
Just like clouds in the sky
We don't know where we'll go
But we'll get by
We just ride with the wind
And we'll drive through the rain
We don't know where we'll get to
Or if we'll get back again
Now everything that we posess
That fills our empty lives
Is only good for leaving far behind
We are blown by the wind
Just like clouds in the sky
We don't know where we're going
Don't know why
We just ride with the wind
And we'll drive through the rain
We don't know where we'll get to
Or if we'll get back again
#10.
(Sentinel/Champions crossover)
Notes:
In Cascade, in the 90s, the Champions would be in their fifties, since Craig Sterling was born in 1939, and one would expect the others to be of similar ages. However, I expect them to be a very vigorous and forties-looking fifties (like Cliff Richard).
I wonder whether the Champions or the Sentinel would make the most of their senses? (not counting the sixth sense, which the Champions have to a greater degree and always have) The Champions don't deny what they are, while Jim does. However, Jim
has Blair to push him. But pushing will only go so far. On the other hand, are the Champions liable to keep challenging their limits? Or will they rest on their laurels? Blair, I think, is more driven and has more imagination. Though Richard is more like Blair, with more curiosity about "why?". This much later, I can see the Champions losing their edge - not just stagnation, but age too.
Possible theme: accepting who you are, and testing your limits.
The lemming drug makes a reappearance, and someone is testing it in Cascade. Jim & Blair are assigned to investigate a set of mysterious suicides. Craig Sterling (and possibly the other two) have come to Cascade following the trail. (Are they too old to be still in the field? Well, judging by Robert McCall, they aren't.)
A couple of possibilities:
- they come officially, and liase with Major Crime
- they are investigating completely independently, and are undercover.
I think the latter is more interesting... particularly if Jim stumbles upon them, overhears them or something. I like the bit in "Almost A Sentinel" where Jim zones trying to hear them, and then manages to do so with Blair's help. Obviously I can't use exactly that idea, but maybe something similar.
#11.
Sentinel/Unbreakable
(I'm referring to the movie "Unbreakable" which starred Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson)
What if Elijah Price was transferred to the same insane asylum as Alex Barnes (aka Alicia Bannister), he helped her regain her sanity, be her Guide, and they escaped together?
From his point of view, he's the mastermind, she's the super-hench-villain. It's not like she won't take direction, not if she's grateful. She may even buy into his theory (or pretend to). Sentinels would fit just as well as David did.
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Date: 2004-11-14 12:33 am (UTC)Did you like Unbreakable? I never could decide whether I did or not.
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Date: 2004-11-14 12:58 am (UTC)Blind Fury is what turned me into a Rutger Hauer fan. I mean, I'd seen him before, like in Bladerunner, but Blind Fury was what made me start paying attention.
Did you like Unbreakable? I never could decide whether I did or not.
I did. It was like a "what if superheros were real" done right. On the level of how it would impact real people, without the spandex and tights. I also liked the way that Our Hero was going along living his life assuming that he was just Joe Average, and then he stretched his wings, so to speak, and flew. I just felt that that was a hopeful encouraging sort of thing. And I liked the twistiness of it too.
Ooooo....
Date: 2004-11-14 08:53 pm (UTC)The Sentinel/Sliders seems more like a series/group project idea than a oneshot story. That'd be fun, a group of writers doing a bunch of stories in that sort of universe. Hee.
Gah. Must go corral some of my own bunnies, which are trying to escape. I need a tranq gun--the little blighters are fast!
Re: Ooooo....
Date: 2004-11-14 10:15 pm (UTC)So would I, but I don't think I could write it either.
The Sentinel/Sliders seems more like a series/group project idea than a oneshot story. That'd be fun, a group of writers doing a bunch of stories in that sort of universe. Hee.
What a good idea! It could be done as a sort of virtual season thing or as a ficathon-style thing. Except that it will never happen because nobody will organize it and nobody will volunteer (sigh). Though actually I think I might be willing to organize it if I didn't have to write for it... but nobody would volunteer anyway.
Re: Ooooo....
Date: 2004-11-15 10:22 am (UTC)*fails*
I'd volunteer. Oddly, I was never a real Slider fan...but this is really appealing to me....
Re: Ooooo....
Date: 2004-11-15 11:45 am (UTC)LOL!
Thanks. However, since everyone is busy this time of year what with exams and Christmas and everything, I figure I wouldn't even think about thinking about it until January...
Re: Ooooo....
Date: 2004-11-17 04:18 pm (UTC)