What They Shoulda Done: Downton Abbey

SPOILERS.

So Matthew inherits some money that could save Downton since Lord Grantham was suckered into investing in some bogus Canadian railway... but because it's money from the father of his dead fiance whom he had betrayed by kissing another woman, he felt he didn't deserve it.

So this goes on for much much too long... until Matthew receives another letter stating that the dead girl had written a letter on her death bed which somehow said something or other, that I swear, if I tried to sort out in my head, would make my brain hurt.  It's all become very much like a bad, very bad, extremely bad soap opera.

But then the money issue is resolved and Downton is saved.  But Poor Edith (that's her official character's name from now on) is left at the alter when Sir Anthony takes everyone's advice and runs off.

But what they shoulda done is: cut to Edith's wedding.

Sir Anthony and Edith are about to take their wedding vows, when.. Lavinia appears. The formerly dead Lavinia Swire appears at the church and approaches Matthew and Mary as women faint and the priest blesses himself.

She says to the wedding party, "You thought I was dead.  But my illness only made me appear to be dead.  Isn't that correct, doctor?"

"Yes, it's possible," the good, well, bad Dr. Clarkson agrees.  "She could have only appeared to be dead. To someone with a nineteenth century medical education, I mean.  This sort of thing happens."

And then the doctor addresses the crowd. "Sometimes someone appears to be be dead when it is just a slowing of the heartbeat.  And other times, someone appears to be alive, when they have in fact, been dead for several days.  Sir Anthony suffered a heart attack just last week and was dead, but I declared him fit to attend this wedding."

Just then, Sir Anthony's eyes become white and foam appears on his lips and he moans like a zombie.  And he grabs Edith and bites her as she screams and he begins to eat her brains.

At seeing this zombie attack, the doctor adds, "This happens more often than one would like."

That's what they shoulda done.

What They Shoulda Done: The Artist.

Spoiler alert.

Now, I don't know if this would have made a better movie, but they shoulda made George's silent world overlap or interact more with Peppy's talkie world.  Did you ever see Pleasantville?  Where the black and white world becomes "infected" with color? That's sort of what I wanted to see in The Artist.

Like when George is trapped in the burning house, it would have been interesting if he called for help, but no one could hear him.  But yet, when the dog left the house, we heard street sounds and heard the interaction with the cop when the dog barked at him.

And then, when George is saved and brought to the hospital, still unconscious, the doctors would not be able to hear his heartbeat; they could find a pulse, but no heartbeat could be heard through a stethoscope. 

And as the doctors were about to rush George into surgery, Peppy appears to prove George is alive and well by listening to his chest and making his heart display a "Thump, thump. Thump, thump." intertitle card on the screen.  Then Peppy pulls the card from the screen and shows it to the doctors to prove that George's heart is beating.

But seems like most of you like the movie the way it is, so I guess there's no need for change.  But that's what they shoulda done.

WHAT THEY SHOULDA DONE: SUPERNATURAL

At the start of Season 7 ("Meet the New Boss") in the television show Supernatural when Castiel releases all of the souls back into Purgatory, what they shoulda done is make Castiel also damage the flow of time itself.

So that for part of the season, these distortions in time catch Sam and Dean and they could time-travel and fight Nazis and dinosaurs and just have fun with the episodes. 

And on one episode, they could end up on the bridge of the USS Enterprise. 

And DEAN would say, "Oh, Sam, I think this is the ..."

SAM: Don't say it.

THEY EXIT THE BRIDGE TO A HALLWAY

DEAN: No.  This IS ...

SAM:  Don't say it.  This cannot be the [gestures to everything].  Because that's not real.  That's just a TV show; it's not real.  So if we were there, then that would mean that we weren't real, that we're a TV show.  And that's not true because we're real.

A FEMALE CREW MEMBER PASSES IN STANDARD StarTrek:TOS MINI-DRESS UNIFORM

And the usual sexual double entendres follow. 

That episode would have been a blast.

WHAT THEY SHOULDA DONE: 30 Rock

Since the NBC television show 30 Rock is ending soon, it's too bad they never included this scene.  But this is what they shoulda done:

Tracy should have won a Nobel Prize so he could wear a chain with a pendant that says NEGROT (Nobel, Emmy, Grammy, Razzie, Oscar, Tony) and be proud while Liz is appalled.

LIZ: Do you see what that says, Tracy?

TRACY: Nobel. Emmy. Grammy. Razzie. Oscar. Tony.  N-E-G-R-O-T.  Damn.  The "T" is silent, isn't it,  Liz Lemon?  Damn.

LIZ: Yes, Tracy.

TRACY:  As I already had my other awards, it just shows that the Nobel Committee is racist.

WHAT THEY SHOULDA DONE: Game of Thrones

I understand that someone has probably already proposed this, but this is what they should have done on the HBO television show Game of Thrones:

When Daenerys Targaryen was given the wedding gift of the three dragon eggs, they should have been eggs from the movie Alien.

Then later, when Drogo was in his comatose state, she could have put the eggs with him, the witch (Mirri) and herself.  And as the eggs hatched to release the "facehuggers," they would attach to each of the three characters.

Then at the final scene of Season 1, the first two Alien would burst from Drogo and the witch's chests and crawl over to Daenerys just as her chest explodes.  And as her Alien creature emerges from her chest, she cries out, "It's a Queen.  I am The Queen!"

So the dragons in Game of Thrones would be Alien creatures and whichever army has them would be considered invincible.  But since we know that these creatures can't be controlled, the rest of the series would have been very short.  And a total bloodbath.

That's what they shoulda done.