Joss Whedon

Faith

Spun off from: Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Who’s in it? Faith Lehane, a Vampire Slayer who went Dark Side. And then some.

What’s it about? One-time bad girl Faith has had a helluva few years, from discovering her vocation as a Vampire Slayer (explaining her wicked-fast reflexes and exceptional strength) to almost being killed by her best friend to battling to save the world. But now she’s free to explore her own destiny and sets out on a hard-hitting road trip to find peace: killing anything with fangs along the way, of course…

Why do we want it? There’s no doubting that Faith was a dynamite character, surely one of Buffy’s finest creations. And while Eliza Dushku has starred in other shows since (Tru Calling, Dollhouse) she hasn’t managed to successfully show us that spark again, so it would be nice to see her finding Faith once more.

There’s one big problem with this concept, however: Faith was only really lava-hot and super-cool when she was bad. This show might need to have her slipping into her old ways quite a bit to keep our interest up, but hey, it never hurt Angel whenever Angelus came out to play, did it?

My Name Is Early

Spun off from: Firefly

Who’s in it? Jubal Early, a Boba Fett-style mercenary who made each hunt a game… but that’s about to change.

What’s it about? Early lived a life of wickedness, skullduggery and villainy, travelling the ’verse to hunt down targets not only because he was paid to do it, but because he enjoyed it. But after an encounter with the crew of an aptly-named ship named Serenity, Early found serenity of his own.

Left floating in space with no hope of rescue, he had an epiphany: do good unto others, and you will be saved. He resolved to change his ways and, as a karmic reward, he was rescued by a passing ship piloted by a young woman named Saffron. Perhaps she wasn’t the best person to set him on his new path – having a rather troubled past herself, to say the least – but with her occasional support as he makes his way across the ’verse, Early sets out to do some fixin’. One day he might even run across the Serenity again, and he’ll have some grovelling to do…

Why do we want it? He may have been left as an “Object In Space” in the final episode of Firefly, but all is not lost for Early. “Oh, I know he survived,” Joss Whedon told MoviesOnline a few years back, and all we can say is: “Yay!” Because Richard Brooks made Early magnetic to watch, philosophising like a crazy priest one minute and ruthlessly violent the next; a true renaissance man.

He couldn’t be a hero unless he had an epiphany, of course (just ask Angel and Spike), and we can’t think of anything better than him reassessing himself while lost in space. Think of him as a reverse Gully Foyle from The Stars My Destination.

Ripper

Spun off from: Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Who’s in it? A bookish, mild-mannered librarian by the name of Rupert Giles who has led a secret life as a Watcher for an ancient society dedicated to fighting evil.

What’s it about? Recently returned from helping a former cheerleader save the world in a small town in California, Giles finds himself back home in Blighty, staring out at the countryside and wondering what to do with himself while cleaning his glasses repeatedly. Supernatural forces are at work even in our green and verdant land, however, and soon Giles – nicknamed “Ripper” – finds himself drawn into solving unexplained cases and protecting the innocent. Who knew Somerset could be a hub for such spooky adventures?

Why do we want it? Because Joss Whedon and Anthony Head kept talking about it, cruelly whetting our appetites; there were actual conversations with the BBC about producing it; we love Tony and want to see him as Giles again (his work on Merlin notwithstanding); and because librarians need something to do now that the government’s closed all their workplaces.

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