How would you have changed or ended your favourite media? - A thread on what you would have done if you were in control of a show/movie/other franchise, avoiding shark jumps and other pitfalls.

[Registration]

Devilman - expands the events in the real world and other devilmen and expands the state of world in the ending.

Fat/ stay night - ayako route, yeah I am crazy

 

[Oats12345]

Highlander: Just ends with the first movie, no need for any more shit

District 9: Add the text "the pawns never came back" at the end

The Departed: Remove the Rat at the end

Terminator Dark Fate: I would have changed it so it was all about Sarah Connor hunting the Terminator that killed her kid, taking place over the years while he becomes more human and she becomes less human. Skynet would have stayed beat and they would be no replacement for it, I would not undo saving the world.

The Dark Knight Rises: Recast Catwoman or remove her from the movie, make Batman closer to the comic none of this him giving up shit, remove "robin" and remove the plot line about him losing the company or least redo so it makes some sense.

Ghostbusters 2: Make it different from the first movie, was no reason for them to start off at the bottom again as all it does is mean the movie fell like it is repeating too many steps from the first one.

Bram Stoker's Dracula: Replace Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder with actors who can least do the accent they are meant to.

The Godfather Part III: Pay Robert Duvall asking fee, also find a better actress than your kid.

Zack Snyder's Justice League: Edit it down to closer to 3 hours, remove all the future stuff and anything with Martian Manhunter to start with.

Breakfast at Tiffany's: Remove Mr Yunioshi, don't care about the racism part just the character is painfully unfunny and doesn't fit with the tone of the rest of the movie.

Under Siege: Replace Steven Seagal with someone that has least some charisma and acting ability.

Hey I like Under Siege that's the only movie that Steven Seagal is good in

 

[Calandrino]

• Twin Peaks: Change what Laura Palmer said to "20 years" so the revival airs 5 years earlier and includes a bunch of the cast who died just before/during the time the revival aired, like the log lady, Miguel Ferrer and David Bowie. Also let us see the real Dale for a longer period of time instead of "Dougie" the retard who inhabited his body for the entire season.

The only actors I really missed were BOB, who's been dead since the 90s, and Harry Truman, who's alive and well and just didn't want to come out of retirement.

I'll do you one better: it ended at Terminator 2. Cameron came back in the late 90's/early 00's to do a Terminator 3 but it was entirely set during the future war and ends with Kyle Reese (played by Michael Biehn) going back in time to protect Sara. Then the series came to a complete end.

I kinda wish they'd left the time loop from Terminator 1 as it was, but maybe that wouldn't have been a satisfying ending for T2. I'm glad they kept the series going, though. If I ignore one shitty sequel, I feel like I'm coping, but ignoring a bunch of shitty sequels that contradict each other feels completely natural. Same with Halloween and TCM.

An animated Netflix Terminator series is supposed to be on the way.

 

[RiceofSkywalker]

The Walking Dead comic: End it after Rick jails Negan. Maybe add a three-parter epilogue showing the communities holding some World's Fair with post-apocalyptic technology to end on an optimistic note.

The Walking Dead show: Just let Frank Darabont do his original idea for season 2, having one to three episode short stories that come together in the season finale instead of the boring and cheap shitshow that this franchise became.

Star Wars - Hand of Thrawn Duology: Great books, but just let Tierce be an Imperial Guard instead of the "he's Thrawn's clone" asspull. Why ruin an original character who could very well stand on his own just to further prop up your favorite OC?

 

[Hummingbird]

Alf: Why did you have the government capture Alf? I didn't even know that TV movie existed where he's freed. How many people saw that when it aired? Maybe they thought they'd get another season if they ended with a cliffhanger. But that's super risky. Especially when you put the lead character in dander of being vivisected by NASA.

I would've had it where the Alf's rescuers decided to make contact with the earthlings instead of ditching him. There are culture shocks (with the whole cat-eating thing), but overall, the two races find that they get along fairly well. It's not the most realistic ending, but Alf/Gordon deserves a happy one.

Like Water for Chocolate (both novel and movie): I was never convinced that Tita and Pedro were a good couple (Pedro is downright toxic). I would've played more with Tita's empathy-based cooking powers, maybe she could secretly help out at a bakery (living through the happiness of the people she makes goodies for). Of course her bitter bitch mom and Pedro wouldn't like it, but with the love of the family doctor and the people who enjoy her baking make her realize she doesn't have to be Cinderella to her mom and her real prince was the doctor, not Pedro. I'd also make Tita's second sister a more tragic and less strawman character.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Can't quote because reasons @Becky McDonald

"

• True Detective: Let Pizzaman write his original story involving elite pedos without having certain individuals SHUT IT DOWN and put some talentless hacks in his place."

Do you have a source for this?

 

[Becky McDonald]

Can't quote because reasons @Becky McDonald

"

• True Detective: Let Pizzaman write his original story involving elite pedos without having certain individuals SHUT IT DOWN and put some talentless hacks in his place."

Do you have a source for this?

"Ahead of True Detective's second season, the press publicized rumors that creative differences had fueled personal hostility between Pizzolatto and Fukunaga; the former denied the rumors, while the latter declined to comment.[31] Pizzolatto retained control of the writing process but Fukunaga left, and the second season's eight episodes were instead variously handled among six directors."

This is all I could find in the official Wikipedo article, but it was quite big news at the time. I like how they use a lot of weasel words here, even though it's plainly obvious there was some friction behind the scenes. From what I recall (provided this isn't a Mandela effect), Pizzolatto's original plans were to prominently feature a relatively well-known abandoned underground city in Season 2 as the place where the villains would conduct their business of child trafficking. Before it could be produced however, Pizzolatto suddenly "changed his mind" and we got the generic story we ended up with.

FOUND IT: https://collider.com/true-detective-season-2-occult-aspect-dropped-new-posters-revealed/

Just as I was about to hit post.

“There’s definitely bad men and hard women, but no secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system. That was a comment from very early in the process, and something I ended up discarding in favor of closer character work and a more grounded crime story. The complexity of the historical conspiracy first conceived detracted from the characters and their reality, I felt, and those characters are ultimately what have to shape the world and story. So I moved away from that.”

 

[BrunoMattei]

"Ahead of True Detective's second season, the press publicized rumors that creative differences had fueled personal hostility between Pizzolatto and Fukunaga; the former denied the rumors, while the latter declined to comment.[31] Pizzolatto retained control of the writing process but Fukunaga left, and the second season's eight episodes were instead variously handled among six directors."

This is all I could find in the official Wikipedo article, but it was quite big news at the time. I like how they use a lot of weasel words here, even though it's plainly obvious there was some friction behind the scenes. From what I recall (provided this isn't a Mandela effect), Pizzolatto's original plans were to prominently feature a relatively well-known abandoned underground city in Season 2 as the place where the villains would conduct their business of child trafficking. Before it could be produced however, Pizzolatto suddenly "changed his mind" and we got the generic story we ended up with.

FOUND IT: https://collider.com/true-detective-season-2-occult-aspect-dropped-new-posters-revealed/

Just as I was about to hit post.

I heard season 2 wasn't any good so I didn't bother. Was season 3 as good as season 1?

 

[Product Placement]

Battle Royale: Movie was a huge hit so they went back and made a longer version of it, while I think the original cut is a better movie I'm not against the DC existing, but am against all the cgi blood they added.

Dodgeball A True Underdog Story: Keep the original ending where they lose, much funnier than the cookie cutter ending they used instead.

The Last House on the Left: Remove the comedy, not only is it not funny but really does gel with the tone of the rest the movie.

Peter Jackson Docs/ Remasters of old movies: Stop with the fucking digital noise reduction, it looks awful and at worst makes stuff unwatchable. Nothing wrong with film grain and stop pretending there is.

Django Unchained: Quentin Tarantino isn't a good actor, and in this movie he give your truly worse performance doing painfully bad Australian accent. Just hire someone else to do that little role or if ego won't allow stop him, then use his normal voice.

Prey: Should have filmed it in Comanche rather than do a after the fact dub.

Apocalypto: Shot the movie on film or least what they could have, watched the blu ray of it not long ago and visual the early digital look is very outdated and just looks cheap. Many early digital movies have this issue but Apocalypto is the best of those early movies which is why I said that rather than Attack of the Clones.

Twilight Zone The Movie: John Landis having some moral fiber. Also would not have done Kick the Can, don't care that Steven Spielberg wants to do it, that part is a slog however looking up John Landis is also to blame for that. Spielberg originally planned to do The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street however however after the fatal helicopter accident, as it involved nighttime filming with children and special effects, so instead he switched Kick the Can which he also shot in 6 days as he wanted to get out of his contractual obligation as fast as he could.

Another thing to blame on John Landis is the fact it never got any follow ups, despite making money and the original plan to make follow up, that all came to an end due to him.

Lethal Weapon 3: This is where the series became too comedic, while past ones always had comedic elements they balanced them well.

The Many Saints of Newark: 2 hours was not enough time for what the movie tries to do, it would have worked better a mini-series or having it be two movies with first movie covering 1967 and second one 1972. 2 hours run time just makes everything under developed.

The Wire: Fake serial killer plot was awful, and if they didn't have anything better for McNulty to do in the last season then they should have just not had him do much of any thing. I don't think many people would have minded a pivot away from the main character of the show at this point, as clearly show became bigger than him a long time ago.

 

[Becky McDonald]

24: Five seasons in Los Angeles were enough, S6 should have happened in China and detailed Jack's escape from the Wulag. Maybe set it over a period of 24 days or weeks rather than hours, as that's what the original concept of the programme was about. Redemption was great but too short and too cheap, should have been a theatrical production like the fourth Rambo was. S8 was clearly rewritten mid-way through, it was supposed to be a lead-up to the big, overarching conspiracy that Mandy (Mia Kirschner) was hinted as being part of from the very beginning and would have been spread across multiple seasons.

Live Another Day was great, but again made under the expectation he'd do another one, so ends on a cliffhanger.

Dexter: Keep Lumen as his girlfriend, and don't introduce Hannah. S7 is the season where the Big Reveal happens, and he spends most of the subsequent season on the run with his sister. Alternately, New Blood didn't end the way it did. My piss boiled when it slowly dawned on me the ending had been fucked for a second time, and with the original scriptwriter at the helm no fucking less.

 

[Chester Rigby]

AI: Edit. The. Movie. Better.
And WTF was with the aliens at the end? It was like the beginning of a whole different movie. Except it was the end.

Alf: Why did you have the government capture Alf? I didn't even know that TV movie existed where he's freed. How many people saw that when it aired? Maybe they thought they'd get another season if they ended with a cliffhanger. But that's super risky. Especially when you put the lead character in dander of being vivisected by NASA.

Those weren't aliens, but veeeeery advanced robots. Regardless, I can't blame you. I thought they were aliens too when I first watched AI.

And about ALF... A good idea would be to make an entire new season, with ALF living in a military base (maybe Area 51), where he spent the last three decades. Say the TV movie was a psyop to silence all the rumours that has been circulating since he landed on Earth ("They even got Martin Sheen, for credibility points. And I didn't get the chance to meet him!" -insert canned laughter-). A good twist would be to introduce ALF's friends, those who were trying to pick him up in the last episode. They are in the base too because their spaceship was taken down by the Air Force the same night ALF was caught.

I wouldn't know what to do with the Tanners. Maybe they were relocated in, let's say, Alaska, received new identities and are under constant surveillance?

It would be like District 9 meets The Odd Couple.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Those weren't aliens, but veeeeery advanced robots. Regardless, I can't blame you. I thought they were aliens too when I first watched AI.

And about ALF... A good idea would be to make an entire new season, with ALF living in a military base (maybe Area 51), where he spent the last three decades. Say the TV movie was a psyop to silence all the rumours that has been circulating since he landed on Earth ("They even got Martin Sheen, for credibility points. And I didn't get the chance to meet him!" -insert canned laughter-). A good twist would be to introduce ALF's friends, those who were trying to pick him up in the last episode. They are in the base too because their spaceship was taken down by the Air Force the same night ALF was caught.

I wouldn't know what to do with the Tanners. Maybe they were relocated in, let's say, Alaska, received new identities and are under constant surveillance?

It would be like District 9 meets The Odd Couple.

You're probably not going to see an Alf revival any time soon.

 

[Shining Wit]

Could probably write a thesis on improving Symphogear despite my love for it. A few major improvement points

- In S2, when Hibiki gets her arm bitten off by the Nephilim, its regenerated by Gungnir, as a hint towards how the relic is taking over her body. When Gungnir is erased from her in the series climax, her arm should have been erased too. Not only does it give her decision to throw everything away for her friend more weight, one armed martial artists are a sick character archetype

-In S3, make Garie shut up when dying. No need to make the twist blindingly obvious 4 episodes before the reveal and drag the second act out

- In S5, make Noble Red less schizo. The point is they're a bunch of inept disasters but for a group of people stuck in a hard place willing to do anything to survive and become normal again, they flipflop between cackling villain and sad loser too much. Also tone down the body count at the concert, 70,000 dead is absurd
-Also in s5, make it more clear that Hibiki hijacked the hive-mind of humanity Shem-Ha made to power up

 

[Becky McDonald]

If anything, TWD and GoT are lessons in why you DON'T write a show by committee.

I think everyone would rather have had 50 episodes spread out over 5 seasons carefully structured by one or two central writers who know what they're doing, rather than the 100+ episodes/10+ season model of letting shit run on for as long as possible. TWD really sank once the makeup artist became its lead director after Darabont left.

Being brutally honest, GoT was made under the assumption GRRM would finish that fucking book by like 2012 at the latest so the showrunners would know how to end it. As the years rolled on, it became blatantly obvious that wasn't ever going to happen. And they choked, hard.

 

[Trombonista]

The Godfather Part III: Pay Robert Duvall asking fee, also find a better actress than your kid.

That was supposed to be Winona Ryder, but she dropped out at the last minute.

 

[TV's Adam West]

Sons of Anarchy

Jax rides his bike leading the entire police force on a wild chase. Everything continues as plays out in the show, Jax slamming intobthe truck, but instead of the trucker having a horrified reaction, it cuts to the interior. It's Sean and Gus from psyche, Sean slams on the breaks
"That guy came out of nowhere!"
Guys sighs and hits Shawn with a "Come on son. "
They stop the truck and talk to the police. There's 6 more seasons of Sons Of Anarchy, which is now just psyche. The final episode Shawn and Gus visit Jax Tellers grave and give a unified "SUCK IT" and it fades to black. A country cover of the psyche theme plays as they continue their adventures.
Post credit scene.
The last thing we hear is a police report about blue crystal meth. Shawn looks at Gus
"You thinking what I'm thinking? "
"Absolutely not Shawn, we're not DEA!"
"Don't worry. I know a guy. "
Smash cut to Hank from breaking Bad as highway to hell plays.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Pokemon: Stopped watching shortly after Orange Islands, last thing I really remember is the 3rd film, but I hear he lost up until recently. I'd have him become Pokemon Master on his second attempt and end his story there. Series can follow a new protagonist like Digimon did.

Attack on Titan: Erase Eren's convoluted and retarded plan, just have him genocide the gay Earth that wants his nation dead. Eren loses and the entire nation gets enslaved and genocided.

The Walking Dead: Same ending except Rick lives. They just killed him off out of obligation.

 

[Safir]

Galaxy Express 999 (the series):

No free tickets. Not for commies, not for refugees. Are you a child sacrifice? No? Cash up front, bitch. Stowaways get chucked into space. Is your planet exploding? Thank you for the information, we'll be sure to update the route for next year, btw your currency is now worthless, get fucked. No money, no ticket, no exceptions.

None of that "the customer is always right" bullshit. (I know the phrase had a different meaning originally.) If you do have a ticket, you're more important to the Administration than any fuck on-planet, but you aren't more important than the Administration itself. It's a faceless bureaucracy, it can't be threatened, only tricked - and use that sparingly, stick to tricking the engine. Trick the engine once, then there's a real accident and it doesn't believe you, trick it again. As the railway accident episodes build up, the protagonist will make a friend of the engine, but the Administration (and the deadline) will remain the worst enemy - as it should be, welcome to adulthood, suckers!

Drop that comic relief episode near the end in favor of a three-parter final. Replace the throwaway npc with Menou from the books, she's the only element of continuity in the story. And more sexy swordfights in general.

 

[Varis]

Twin Peaks: Change what Laura Palmer said to "20 years" so the revival airs 5 years earlier and includes a bunch of the cast who died just before/during the time the revival aired, like the log lady, Miguel Ferrer and David Bowie. Also let us see the real Dale for a longer period of time instead of "Dougie" the retard who inhabited his body for the entire season.

I suspect that most of Season 3's budget was blown on the NIN cameo. All of the guest bands could have been cut, as they added nothing to the story - or maybe I'm just not intelligent enough to understand Lynch's vision.

 

[Retard Jotaro]

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Specifically Part 2)

Instead of

Spoiler

Sending Kars' whore ass to space,

Joseph should have quit being such a little faggot about Ceasar and got Kars to suck his dick for all eternity. He'll still eventually stop thinking but instead he'll just be too busy sucking off Joseph. We all know that's what he did for ACDC for like 100,000 years anyways. Actually scratch that, Kars and ACDC should have just become porn stars. The end.