Due North

[resonant]

If I were going to reboot due South, I'd take the small fish out of the U.S. and put the big pond in Canada.

Say you've got RayV and Stella's youngest daughter. She grows up in a bowling alley in Miami and then starts moving southward until she winds up being a wildlife researcher on one of the tiniest and most sparsely populated islands of the Florida Keys. She's a dark-sky enthusiast and a bit of a hippie with a Southern accent in both English and Spanish.

Then something terrible happens to the wildlife. Suddenly there she is in Canada. Partnering up with some straitlaced, city-bred freshwater lakes expert. Saying, "I first came to Montreal on the trail of the killer of my manatees."

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[china_shop]

"I first came to Montreal on the trail of the killer of my manatees."

Hee! <3

[resonant]

She's occasionally visited by the ghost of Ma Vecchio.

[lemonsharks]

The trail of the killer if her manatee’s father!

[resonant]

Possibly one of Dief's offspring can speak to manatees.

[dine]

you know, I'd watch the heck out of that!

[resonant]

Oh, me too! Of course we'd need cameos from original series characters, and a fun fancast for, like, our protag's older sister and Frannie's kids and Mark Ruffalo's baby from Season 1.

[ride_4ever]

I want so hard for this to be a thing! *loves resonant's brain*

[resonant]

I think to be due South it needs:

- Canada and America
- a small fish in a big pond
- it's not fantasy or sci-fi but at unexpected moments it's ... contrary to fact
- strong affection for freaks of all sorts

[ride_4ever]

All true!

[the_shoshanna]

Je suis premièrement arrivée à Montréal...

[kass]

hahahasnort

[resonant]

"Every episode has to be ninety minutes to allow for bilingual dialog." "That's a human tragedy, Constable."

[fox]

Recommend “on the trail of the killers of my fauna” for the near-homophony, but yes, yes, yes!

[resonant]

I write lol a lot more often than I actually laugh out loud, but I did indeed laugh out loud.

Moi, aussi

[jesse_the_k]

Nailed it.

[writerlibrarian]

I would watch this. ❤️

[resonant]

I would love to have a chance to watch this! Our young Vecchio could be connected w the US Embassy, and they could just find her deeply embarrassing with her Tevas and her tendency to kick up a fuss about invasive species and protected waterways.

[adafrog]

Love it.

[resonant]

And meanwhile our Canadian is not a mountie but she's very law-abiding and spends a lot of time hissing, "You can't go in there! That sign says Employees Only! In two languages!"

[adafrog]

hee!

[spikedluv]

"I first came to Montreal on the trail of the killer of my manatees."

This bit made me bust out laughing, but yes to all of this!

[resonant]

Admittedly I'm very enthusiastic about guest appearances from our favorite characters, but I'm finding that just in the length of this conversation I've begun to long for a show involving the urban wildlife adventures of someone who looks like half Stella and half a REI photo shoot.

[celli]

ah, perfection

[resonant]

For some reason I imagine her growing up addressing Fraser as "Uncle Mountie."