where's my black widow television show

[mhalachai]

(posted on tumblr yesterday)

okay so we're not getting a Black Widow movie in the foreseeable future. I have a great way for Marvel to save face on that decision and still give us Natasha Romanoff's story:

A Black Widow television show



(this is the face of a woman you want on your TV)

None of this eight episodes of Agent Carter miniseries stuff - give me a 26-episode Black Widow arc, 45-minutes every Tuesday of Natasha Romanoff's life trying to find herself in the wake of the SHIELD/HYDRA disaster, helping to avenge those in need, trying to find out who she is, while simultaneously trying to find out where she came from, in the snowy ruins of her childhood.

Give me tiny Natasha in the Red Room.

Give me the Black Widow burning her way across the globe.




Give me how Clint brought Natasha into SHIELD. Give me what happened in Budapest Hell, give me a low-budget ep where Natasha spends the entire hour in a safe house in yoga pants and a t-shirt, on the phone with Clint (Jeremy Renner guest starts in voice-over) to disarm a bomb or take down a target or something.




If Marvel and Disney are willing to give Agents of Shield a series of running chances, they can pony up for one season on Black Widow.

( I don't know what Scarlett Johansson's stance on television is, but at least someone should ask her).

I've even got a great place for it - post Age of Ultron, Pre Cap3. Nathan Edmonson (nathanedmondson ) already penned the first 6 pages for Black Widow movie, there's your pilot scene right there. Mavel can do this, whip up excitement for Cap 3, for Captain Marvel, and dare I say even AntMan? Make the MCU even bigger than it is now, make it wider. Make people care.

anyway tl'dr: I don't want 2 hours of Black Widow, I want 26 hours. With her back story and absolute centrality to the recent MCU movies, is that so much to ask?

Comments

[escritoireazul]

I need this. I need it so much.

[st_aurafina]

I'd watch that in a heartbeat.

[auburn]

Hell yes. 26 episodes, limited series so there's no horrible loose ends or sudden cancellation leaving everything hanging, all of it leading into Cap3. Throw in some episodes and mentions of more and more encounters with super powered characters, with non-super powered Natasha figuring out to handle them using her brains and skills, to provide a build up for whatever Civil War scenario Marvel means to use in the MCU.

[mhalachai]

Yes. Avengers 3 comes out in May 2015, Cap 3 in May 2016, so we have a WHOLE YEAR for our Black Widow tv show.

(I'm ignoring Ant Man because of reasons)

They can even have a story arc in the second half of the season where the Winter Solider factors in heavily, to get us up to the start of Cap3. Sebastian Stan's done TV in the past, he could just swing on by and do that, right?

[beatrice_otter]

I would be all over that like white on rice.

[eleanor_lavish]

Man, I want this like burning, but can we get a vote on who makes it? because I trust TV writers, like, NOT AT ALL. Even AoS, which I love intensely, has to ramp up tension over and over and causes me heartburn sometimes. I want 26 hours of Natasha written by Marvel fandom where it's not about mortal peril every episode and she gets to be happy sometimes. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?

[mhalachai]

agreed. and some one who doesn't see Natasha as some super-powered spy without any human emotions - I've been thinking who might be able to do it, and it occurred to me that with Natasha's redemption arc (which she really started off at the end of Cap2) would do well in a Xena-type show, where the redemption piece is never swept away but the character also does save-the-day stuff and daily stuff and it's a one-day-at a time.

Also it saddens me that I had to think back to 1995 for a comparator show.

[alee_grrl]

Oooo. This would be fabulous!