Guys and girls very rarely do I get an idea that's so strong and so original that I just have to start writing about it that very second. Well today is one of those days because for no reason what so ever I started thinking about a live action version of Sailor Moon and then I got to thinking about what an American live action version of Sailor Moon could be and what it could possibly look like and so here we go and i'm going to apologise right now if this post seems all over the place i've not really thought this post through all the way and so i've not really organised it at all if i'm being freaking honest.
PLOT
For the sake of my own sanity i'm going to be using the English names for the cast just because those are the names that alot of people are going to know them by. My idea for the plot would basically follow that of the first season of the show with Serena gradually meeting up with the other Sailor Scouts altho this time to avoid the fact that her transformation involves her being naked and wearing a short skirt all of the scout will be aged aged up and will be going to the same college and will take the same approach of The Flash with a new big bad every season with Queen Beryl being the first big bad.
I feel that for the first several episodes we shouldn't have the sailor scouts come together just because it would be a bad move in terms of developing their characters and character traits. Instead each of the scouts will be fighting crime on there own but each of the villains that they face will be connected to Queen Beryl who is trying to destroy the earth and she won't just be attacking this ne city either she'll be attacking the whole world with more Sailor Scouts from all over the world defeating her and i'll explain more about why there's some in the same college soon.
CHARACTERS
Now I said that there's going to be more Sailor Scouts well that would make the series feel more epic and how they find out about each other is through telepathy. In other words they can talk to each other using mental abilities and it goes without saying but the same characters from the anime / manga will be in this show and there names would be unchanged this show will also see the debut of Sailor Venus who shall be given the name of either Kate or Sarah.
Since I haven't watched the original dub of the show I can't say what there personalities are like and so I can't say if they'll be changed or not. However I do think that for the first season at least the team shouldn't work well together with there personalities clashing with each other all the time which could lead them into more deadly citations and will force them to work together and thus the character development could come more naturally.
SIDE CHARACTERS
Now what i'm about to say will make more sense later on when I mention what network I think that this show should air on. There will be side characters in this film ranging from both students and college professors alike who will form team Sailor Scout each of these characters will have an ability that helps the team out in one way or another and each of these side characters will have there own subplots that will converge in the finale.
This is the one case where the setting actually allows for a team of friends to help the main heroes out while at the same time not taking away from the main heroes or main story. I personally wouldn't go down the route of having one of the professors have a relationship with one of the students just because that's cliche as hell to do instead a romance would be hinted at however the student will be to call it off after the professor is nearly killed due to there actions and that's when we have the moment that all superhero shows and films have where they realise that they have to make sacrifices in order to save the ones they love.
NETWORK
Now I know that this is going to put alot of people of but I honestly feel that the best place for this show to air is honestly The CW. Simply because there record with producing superhero shows that are very high quality on a TV budget is really good and that's what each season of this would be a superhero movie but done as a TV show , plus there superhero shows always have great effects which a show like this is always going to have there's just no getting around it.
The only real drawback that I can see is that they would want a romance angle which is something that I would want to try and avoid. Simply due to the fact that not all shows need a romance however if one was to come up naturally through story and character progression then I wouldn't be opposed to seeing it happen but I wouldn't want a romance just for the sake of having one in there and yes this does mean no Tuxedo Mask / Serena romance at least not for the first few seasons at least.
AMOUNT OF SEASONS
Since this is The CW you know that this show is going to last for quite a while since they renew every show they broadcast the trouble is when do you call a show like this quits. Well for me the answer is simple you do it when there's no more character development left to do so if that means it gets cancelled after three seasons then so be the story and development of the characters should always come first and if that means ending a show at it's peak then so be it that's when it ends.
Speaking of the amount of season that the show could have the amount of episodes is also fairly key as well since you couldn't really this a twenty two episode per season show. So you'd have to cut it down to about twelve per season since then you could make the best twelve episodes of that season instead of making several OK episodes which is something that alot of shows don't seem to do yes there are shows like Doctor Who which only make a handful of episodes per season but then there are shows like The Flash which make only a handful of good episodes and several OK episodes.
So there we go guys and girls that was my idea for an American produced live action Sailor Moon show yes I know alot of what I said isn't going to go over well with people but given the costumes and how short the skirts are as well as the characters being naked during the transformations alot of changes had to made. Again i'm sorry for my thoughts being all over the place but that's only because I had to get this idea out there and so I didn't have the time to collect my thoughts and organise them and I also wouldn't make this show woke at all both men and women would be treated as equals.