I know I propose these ideas because I think they’d never work in practice, but I actually, genuinely want to see a Muppet Show take on a Game of Thrones style medieval political drama. There’d still be indecipherably complicated politicking and betrayals within betrayals and a billion viewpoint characters and a story split up between half a dozen different geographic locations that the focus keeps pinballing between whenever there’s a risk that a plot point might actually get resolved, but the stakes are all PG-rated horseshit, and nobody ever gets maimed or killed as a result of those ridiculously brutal fights, the loser just gets put on time-out in the dungeon for a while. Kermit is wearing an absurdly tiny crown. Thog is there.
(To be clear, the reason I think this one wouldn’t work in practice is that in order to do a proper job of it, it would need to be permitted to run for at least three and ideally as many as five seasons for the plotting to attain the required level of senseless intricacy, and that would definitely never happen.)
all the dragons are chickens
and the skies are gray
I love this. It need to happen and at some point one of the character’s schemes get so conduluted that they manage to dramatically double cross themselves.
The token human is played by Sean Bean, who keeps ending up in predicaments that seem like certain death, except later on he shows up perfectly fine, and how he managed to survive is never directly discussed. This happens on at least five separate occasions.
