Idea for a television show (steal it and I'll kill you.)

Baron Mordo · Post by **Baron Mordo** » 2003-08-08 02:12am

Okay, the idea's about a trader caravan that travels throughout a swords-and-sorcery fantasy world. The people attached to the caravan are mostly desperadoes and reprobates in search of adventure/honest living. During the show, the characters will encounter hostility and conflict, within and without, since they have to travel through untamed lands and make a profit.

Sometimes there will be detours to stop a roving gang of orcs or annihilate an evil sorcerer. I want to take the "Band of Brothers" approach to this, so some of these encounters will end in injury, defeat or even death. That also means some characters might leave or be otherwise replaced. People will come and go, people will change.

Any thoughts?

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-08-08 02:39am

So long as the ship has a mage... more power to you

Baron Mordo · Post by **Baron Mordo** » 2003-08-08 10:30am

It's going to be a cluster of wagons, but yeah, there will probably be a mage or two.

Majin Gojira · Post by **Majin Gojira** » 2003-08-08 11:29am

You might get idiots asking you to "bring back" various characters, What is your plan on dealing with them?

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2003-08-08 11:33am

Isn't that basically Xena and Hercules with all the reoccuring characters in weekly episode roles?

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-08-08 01:23pm

Baron Mordo wrote:It's going to be a cluster of wagons, but yeah, there will probably be a mage or two.

I think of Caravan in a fantasy world as a maritime caravan...

dworkin · Post by **dworkin** » 2003-08-08 01:59pm

Majin Gojira wrote:You might get idiots asking you to "bring back" various characters, What is your plan on dealing with them?

Unless you have full control (you won't) then you can't. At some point people will request that 'Dave the Barb' be brought back "because it can happen, with magic you can do anything". Then the execs will 'suggest' it since "It happened in Xena, Hercules and Buffy, why can't it happen in this show, it's the same right?" and before you know it 'Dave' will be back in some spectacular 2 parter.

If, by some miracle you have full control then make it plain right at the start that dead is dead is dead.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-08-08 02:37pm

Hm....Firefly with swords and magic then?

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2003-08-08 09:07pm

It'll be somewhat difficult to explain why a caravan sometimes detours to attack evil sorcerers, but it could work.

Baron Mordo · Post by **Baron Mordo** » 2003-08-08 10:15pm

Master of Ossus wrote:It'll be somewhat difficult to explain why a caravan sometimes detours to attack evil sorcerers, but it could work.

Not neccesarily. Let's say they get a tip in a town that there's a powerful and malevolent wizard nearby. Wizards usually have lots of scrolls/magical books/steam-powered robots lying around. They defeat the bastard, save the town, and make off with the magic loot. Nice work if you can get it.

Alyrium Denryle wrote:I think of Caravan in a fantasy world as a maritime caravan...

Yeah, there will be times when they need to take to the sea.

dworkin wrote:If, by some miracle you have full control then make it plain right at the start that dead is dead is dead.

I don't want to make a typical television show. If someone dies, they're dead. Magic won't be a cure-all problem-solver. It's going to have consequences. Sometimes dire ones. For example, one of the characters I want in the show will be a necromancer, tortured by the souls he's ruined. The three-fold law, you know.