Have I mentioned the idea for a television series that my father came up with?

[xiphias]

Dad has suggested that a good crime televeision series would be Sir Isaac Newton: Warden of the Mint.

Every week, Newton would match wits with forgers and counterfeiters, as well as saboteurs, international spies, and anyone else who would try to mess with the smooth operation of the English economy.

I'd watch it, personally.

Comments

[tendyl.livejournal.com]

I think it sounds interesting.

[denimskater.livejournal.com]

If I watched TV, I'd watch it.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

See, right there is the potential problem.

I'd watch it, too, if I watched TV.

If this is an idea which appeals to people who don't watch TV . . . well, yeah. "People who don't watch TV" are actually not as desirable a television watching demographic as you might think.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but what if it were a graphic novel (or whatever they're calling comic books these days)?

Or a YouTube series.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

It would be a great comic book, yes.

[ceo]

Have you read Neal Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy? The third volume, The System Of The World, has elements of this (and a lot else besides).

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure many people would like the part where Sir Isaac went to the hangings of the people he'd gotten convicted of shaving silver off shillings. He was something of a bloodthirsty old coot by that time.

That said, he could be portrayed as something of an Elizabethan era Sherlock Holmes. With Edmund Halley as Watson.

[pandoras-closet.livejournal.com]

Ohh, yeah.

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

Fantastic.

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

It would be FUCKING AWESOME!!!!! I've read that book.

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

Does he get to jump out of a bathtub, stark naked, shouting, "Eureka!?" If not, then the show's got competition.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank ya, little one...