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AuthenticM

Son Altesse Sérénissime
The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
30,142
god I wish that pilot had been ordered to series. It sounded amazing.
 

RetroRunner

Member
Dec 6, 2020
4,927
I need more fever dream tv shows, goddamn did the golden age end just as TV was getting fucking weird enough.
 

fontguy

Avenger
Oct 8, 2018
16,160
I truly do not remember this at all, though I'm positive I read about it before.
 

Wrexis

Member
Nov 4, 2017
21,258
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Such an odd show. Did the pilot air?

EDIT: Nope.
 

ZeoVGM

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
76,219
Providence, RI
The cast was great. But that was a bad script and the series is clearly dead at this point.

It was probably dead before The CW sale.
 

Bigg

Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,641
The leaked script was fucking dreadful. Very mean/cynical and dunked all over the original material.
 
Dec 30, 2020
15,309
All I recall about this was a post-sex scene moment from the script that was shared and it was just...

what.
 

CupOfDoom

Member
Dec 17, 2017
3,163
There is a world where a live action powerpuff girls could work. That script was not it though.
 

Tfritz

Member
Oct 25, 2017
13,308
reminder that the original script that leaked, the one where blossom is dealing with ptsd because she murdered mojojo or whatever, was deemed too campy and light hearted and the network wanted to go darker and edgier
 

Tfritz

Member
Oct 25, 2017
13,308
Did Mindy Kaling write it by any chance?

Mindy Kaling did not create the Velma show, nor is she the show runner, nor is she credited as a writer for any of the episodes.

Don't believe so, but the liberties / changes it took were very similar in spirit to that of Velma.

No, they were very clearly in line with shit like Riverdale, another The CW property. Edit: Actually looking back over the script, it's literally just The CW version of Netflix's The Umbrella Academy adaptation.
 
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Lord Fanny

Banned
Apr 25, 2020
25,953
I could have sworn that I read they canceled this and was going to retool it to be an adult animation show instead but I may be making that up.
 

JayCB64

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,991
Wales
kinda expected this thread to say it was back in production lol

like this was always gonna be bad but it being cancelled robbed me of dove cameron as bubbles, so..
 

Tfritz

Member
Oct 25, 2017
13,308
Huh, given all the criticism levied at her I thought she had greater involvement. My bad for not looking into it more.

It's an easy mistake to make because for whatever reason a lot of folks online act like she's the main creative for the show. she is an executive producer on the show, but "executive producer" can basically mean anything (i do think she was attached as the lead actor pretty early on, and maybe it was pitched to HBO as "Starring Mindy Kaling")

Wait...they filmed a pilot? I thought just the script leaked. I kinda wanna see the pilot...

They definitely filmed some of the very early scenes in the pilot script where the girls are still teenagers and Ms Bellum breaks up with Professor Utonium, because there are photos of them filming it.
 
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