Fandom Dispersal Draft

[dlgood]

Was having a random conversation today about sports, the draft, and so on with soundingsea when I had a weird thought...

What if our favorite TV shows could make trades? Can you imagine how that might go?

You might trade actors around to fill major gaps in the cast, or stockpile talent. What if Veronica Mars could just sell off characters to get under the CW cost caps.

Like, would you trade the Vengeful Ghost of Don Lamb off to Grey's Anatomy in return for Addison Montgomery and Cash Considerations?

Or what if there was some arbitrary dispersal draft. Pretend the existing shows all got axed, and we could sit and draft any cast among existing primetime lineups to put our programs together.

How crazy would that be? Anybody want to throw out some hilarious ideas for general amusement. I may have to develop this more, later on...

Comments

[bastardsnow.livejournal.com]

Does Supernatural or Grey's have dibs on Jeffrey Dean Morgan? And does the loser of that get a compensatory pick? In what round?

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

I think you have to do it by the Character, don't you. In case of character who appear on multiple shows, you just declare them property of whichever show they appear on most frequently.

So he's both Denny and John. Maybe you could trade Denny for John and a coma patient to be named later.

[bastardsnow.livejournal.com]

That's a fair point. But would Dead!Denny necessarily be more valuable than Dead!John? What is that value based on? Money? Hotness of consort? (cuz, Kat Heigl.... ::drools::)

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Dead Denny was really, really rich. That's probably worth something.

What would be real amusing, would be to see the show run by the Hollywood Equivalent of Dan Snyder, where they go bonkers unloading every valuable minor character to stock up on washed-up overrated former TV mainstays.