Let's Speculate Wildly About the Prologue of "Serenity"
POSTED BY: magus3d
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 8, 2004 21:00
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How does "Serenity" begin? How does Joss introduce the characters to a new audience? And then get on with the movie?
Here's my thoughts...
River. Ain't no two ways about it. She's the best way to tell the story of "What's Happened So Far"... River's an experiential character. She's there to remind us of who we are and what we want to protect. She's the innocent in a den of thieves and cutthroats. She's the freedom we seek. She comprehends, but she does not understand. She's mostly impartial. She IS the third person.
What better way to begin the story, than with River's voice over. Not some stupid crawling text prologue crap... Get right into the heart of the 'verse with a "diary entry" about her "family". Throw in some suitably poinant "deeply intuitive" comments on each of the characters, and their relationship to each other. Talk about the war, and what it meant to those that were in it. Talk about the Alliance, the Reavers, the 'verse -- Talk about the perplexing life of crime...
...Then go straight to a Bank Job!
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LIGHTWAVE... JUST RENDER IT!
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I hope there isn't a prologue. I hope Joss finds some fantasticly creative way to throw us into the action, and inrtoduce all the charchters to the 'browncoats to be,' without some prologe voice over thing.
That or Wash's dinosaurs doing it.
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Four out of five dentists reccomend calling Ebo a girl.
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Ebo! Nasty girl.
Mal-licious
Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell
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Hey! That not what I ment! You got a smutty mind!
I ment it should open with Wash playing with his dinosaurs, and in their little dinosaur voices they could talk about the crew and do the introductions.
It would be strangly poetical and fitting too (cuz thats how serenity the episode started)
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Four out of five dentists reccomend calling Ebo a girl.
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ebonezer wrote:
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Hey! That not what I ment! You got a smutty mind!
Yes, she does. The Lucious 'Licious is very much like the capital of Hungary: Half 'Budy', half 'Pest'...
v/r,
-zed
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Zoid! How the HECK did you know I am of Hungarian descent?? Weird.
Ratio should be more like 40-60, though, wouldn't you say?
Mal-licious
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I think Mal just hijacked another thread. Are you making notches on your mouse now or what?
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Ooops. Yeah, I think I'm up to like "4 billion hijacked" by now. I can't help it! (begins to whine) I think I have ADD or something. Oh! a new clubhouse thread.....
Mal-licious
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Okay, I'm taking a stab at resurrecting this thread. I was just watching Big Red (yep - OLD movie), and the opening has the music merge into the music from a little boy playing a harmonica as he walks down the dirt road.
I got chills down my spine as I imagined instead the opening of Serenity, with Mal as a child walking down a dusty road on Shadow, near his mom's ranch. At a neighbor's porch, an old man is playing the theme song, or something similar, on his guitar; as Mal smiles little boy-like at the old man, a shadow falls from overhead. The Alliance has arrived...
Whad'ya think?
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Well, if I were given the uneviable task in having to explain the series and what's happened before to a new audience, I'd have something like the last scene in the Objects in Space episode. Just a long shot showing the interactions and personalities of each of the characters. In their sparring dialogue, all the past history and back story would be explained subtly. And of course, there would be some sort of event happening that could help catch up what the crew's been up to lately for us diehard fans. Like maybe a wedding on ship between Simon and Kaylee (of course I'm plugging my own fanfic here, so bear with me on that.)
They should actually go back to THE TRAIN JOB for inspiration, because if it was the "second pilot", then they did a masterful job explaining the situation and the characters in an incredibly short time.
"NO HAI ES BANDAI. THERE IS....NO.....BAND. AND YET....WE HEAR A BAND."
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