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hoperomantic:
The story: A supernatural glitch in your DVR occurs. At first you panic, hitting lots of random buttons on your remote control, but then are RELIEVED to discover that no, your entire series recording of Golden Girls has not been deleted! But then, just as things appear to be back to normal, there's a puff of smoke, and a fairy appears! You have apparently freed the TV fairy from a televised hell in which she was made to watch endless reruns of Are You Hot?, and as fairies tend to be when freed, she is very grateful and wants to grant you magic wishes.
Now, the fairy has only TV-related powerz, and so she offers you the chance to go back in time and retroactively CHANGE the history of your favorite TV shows with 3.5 wishes!
You can go back in time and erase from the fabric of TV history THREE individual episodes of any TV show you want! The rest of the series(es) will not be altered. What do you choose?
1. I'm gonna have to agree withhoperomantic on the subject of the X-Files episode "Home." Because ewww. That was the only episode that ever made me get up and actually turn off the show, I was so disgusted and horrified.
2. And also on the subject of "TKO" of Babylon 5. Because that episode almost made me quit watching the show.
3. Aaaaand... how about the godawful "I defeat the demon by standing in a corner and ignoring it" episode of Highlander. I can't think of anything else that totally deserves to die but wouldn't leave plot-holes if it disappeared.
You can go back in time and revive ONE unfairly cancelled television show and return it to the annals of TV history!* *CHOOSE WISELY, because if you attempt to revive more than one show, the wish will backfire and you'll instead be treated to a whole bunch of crappy made-for-TV "reunion" movies full of replacement actors.
Please. Firefly, of course!
To balance out the historical TV viewing schedule, you now have the power to retroactively CANCEL, at any point during the series, any one show! Alternately, you can wield your destructive might and DELETE one whole entire series from ever having been made.
o_O A whole show? Really? That's tempting, but... honestly? I'd like to just stop the X-Files right before Mulder left. Chris Carter was just being a dumbass when he kept going without one of the two main characters.
LIFE AND DEATH! You can now bring ONE character back from the dead... and, to restore the balance, you must also kill off a character! They don't have to be from the same fandom.
Ooo. So many choices... Okay. Since this is TV and not movies, I'm gonna have to skip Wash (because he never really died, see, because the movie was all a bad dream that Mal had off some really awful food when the crew accidentally let River do the cooking) and... umm... I know this is just me being a dumb fangirl, but I really really really liked Jenny Calendar. So I'm gonna bring her back. As for the death... I'm having some trouble with this one. How about Byron? Can it be retroactive? Like... "Hey, I know where we can all go! We could go to Babylon--" *dies* Yeah.
Bonus tradeoff: you can delete a single scene, relationship pairing or plot arc from any series that gave you hives... AND you can plug in any one [scene, pairing, plot arc] that you never got to see!
Ohgod. I know there must be dozens, but my brain is a total blank. I'll come back to this one later, I guess... I really ought to be writing, but I got derailed by this meme, and by spider solitaire.
hoperomantic: The story: A supernatural glitch in your DVR occurs. At first you panic, hitting lots of random buttons on your remote control, but then are RELIEVED to discover that no, your entire series recording of Golden Girls has not been deleted! But then, just as things appear to be back to normal, there's a puff of smoke, and a fairy appears! You have apparently freed the TV fairy from a televised hell in which she was made to watch endless reruns of Are You Hot?, and as fairies tend to be when freed, she is very grateful and wants to grant you magic wishes.
Now, the fairy has only TV-related powerz, and so she offers you the chance to go back in time and retroactively CHANGE the history of your favorite TV shows with 3.5 wishes!
You can go back in time and erase from the fabric of TV history THREE individual episodes of any TV show you want! The rest of the series(es) will not be altered. What do you choose?
1. I'm gonna have to agree with
hoperomantic on the subject of the X-Files episode "Home." Because ewww. That was the only episode that ever made me get up and actually turn off the show, I was so disgusted and horrified.2. And also on the subject of "TKO" of Babylon 5. Because that episode almost made me quit watching the show.
3. Aaaaand... how about the godawful "I defeat the demon by standing in a corner and ignoring it" episode of Highlander. I can't think of anything else that totally deserves to die but wouldn't leave plot-holes if it disappeared.
You can go back in time and revive ONE unfairly cancelled television show and return it to the annals of TV history!* *CHOOSE WISELY, because if you attempt to revive more than one show, the wish will backfire and you'll instead be treated to a whole bunch of crappy made-for-TV "reunion" movies full of replacement actors.
Please. Firefly, of course!
To balance out the historical TV viewing schedule, you now have the power to retroactively CANCEL, at any point during the series, any one show! Alternately, you can wield your destructive might and DELETE one whole entire series from ever having been made.
o_O A whole show? Really? That's tempting, but... honestly? I'd like to just stop the X-Files right before Mulder left. Chris Carter was just being a dumbass when he kept going without one of the two main characters.
LIFE AND DEATH! You can now bring ONE character back from the dead... and, to restore the balance, you must also kill off a character! They don't have to be from the same fandom.
Ooo. So many choices... Okay. Since this is TV and not movies, I'm gonna have to skip Wash (because he never really died, see, because the movie was all a bad dream that Mal had off some really awful food when the crew accidentally let River do the cooking) and... umm... I know this is just me being a dumb fangirl, but I really really really liked Jenny Calendar. So I'm gonna bring her back. As for the death... I'm having some trouble with this one. How about Byron? Can it be retroactive? Like... "Hey, I know where we can all go! We could go to Babylon--" *dies* Yeah.
Bonus tradeoff: you can delete a single scene, relationship pairing or plot arc from any series that gave you hives... AND you can plug in any one [scene, pairing, plot arc] that you never got to see!
Ohgod. I know there must be dozens, but my brain is a total blank. I'll come back to this one later, I guess... I really ought to be writing, but I got derailed by this meme, and by spider solitaire.
