TODD: Imagine if you will, a television show along the lines of Desperate Romantics. ONLY.
TODD: Following the lives and (mostly fictionalised due to necessity) loves of Aeschylus and Euripides. And Sophocles.
TODD: Mainly Sophocles and Euripides. With old man Aeschylus shaking his fist at these young upstarts and shouting "I FOUGHT AT MARATHON DAMMIT!"
karenhealey: Hah!TODD: It could be the greatest show ever.
karenhealey: For people exactly like us.revena: The audience would be small, but fervent.karenhealey: OH. WACKY NEIGHBOUR ARISTOPHANES NEXT DOOR. karenhealey: Euripides is like, I HATE THAT GUY. Stop inviting him over, Sophocles! All he does is make Aeschylus and I fight!revena: This show needs a slave character that says all the most famous quotations as a running gag, leading the main characters to hurriedly scribble down whatever-it-was.TODD: YES!
karenhealey: Most people agree it jumps the shark after the second season finale when Alcibiades turns up and seduces Euripides. But loyal fans insist the show is just getting deeper.- Current Music:Good Luck - Basement Jaxx Feat. Lisa Kekaula
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Also, it should be narrated by Homer.
Gods, yes. That'd be awesome.
SLAVE GIRL CLIO: Better get dinner on. Fetch me an axe, that I may kill a chicken!
SOPHOCLES: Oh god. Oh god YES.
EURIPIDES: I JUST HAD THE BEST IDEA.
"YOU GUYS! I JUST HAD THE BEST IDEA!"
Clearly it should be funded by making it a law that a Very Rich Person ets made its funder for each episode, and can only get out of it by a) buying a warship b) Claiming that someone else is richer than them.
Cut to Athens before the victory parade where a quiet young boy called Sophocles is chosen to lead the Procession of the Youth.
As the parade moves through the streets we focus on two spectators in the crowd:
Spec. 1: Say, where's your wife?
Spec. 2: She should be here..unless -
Sec. 1 & 2: THE BABY!
*Sligtly slapstick chase through the streets of Athens, bursting through the door as Euripides' first cries echo through the house*
DUDE: Um?
ALCIBIADES: I am so sorry. SO SO SORRY. Whip me, beat me, do whatever you want to me!
DUDE: Aw, you're so humble
and hot. I totally forgive you.ALCIBIADES: Really?
DUDE: Really. Here, marry my daughter.
ALCIBIADES: Don't mind if I do!
TRUFAX. Or at least as trufax as Plutarch gets.
Edited at 2010-04-19 11:47 am (UTC)
So, not exactly, but same general family.
I SO WANT THIS SHOW.
And then throughout season three Alcibiades seduces *everyone*. It's like, even in episodes where he has no lines, there will be a shot of him coming out of someone new's bedroom at some point.
Curse this mundane world!
At least until Karen takes over the world and I ride on her coat-tails, gaining enough influence to make this idea (which was initially mere essay procrastination) a reality and thus make this world a little less mundane. Shouldn't be too far off, really, knowing Karen.
And it has Classics arguments in it too! Yay!
And in my head, Alcibiades is played by John Barrowman