Would you still fly?
POSTED BY: IndependenceSoldier
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 06:53
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why would it have to be a person-for-person reboot? The "feel" that I got from Firefly - small band of folks, out there for their own reasons, small ship, always have to find a way to survive the adventure as the underdog.
I was good with Season 1 of The Expanse when the unintended crew found themselves pulled together on the Roci....had that similar feel...
Same feeling for a short moment in the movie "Solo" with Woody Harrelson's crew or the hint of similar on Riddick with Dahl's mercenary crew.
yeah, I'd be good with a Firefly reboot as long as they don't waste time trying to be replicants of the original Serenity crew.
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It's impossible to bring the show back as it was now. 21 years have passed. I can't see any way of making that interesting.
It could be done with a new cast playing an entirely different crew, although you would lose the interesting River angle and would need something to make up for the loss of that.
I'd love to see something else made in the Firefly universe. But not in the 2020's. At least not in the early 2020's. They'd just ruin Firefly like they've ruined everything else.
A lot of THE RIGHT people need to be fired during this recession, and the "entertainment" industry needs to learn from a LOT of mistakes they've made since 2008.
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I've also said before that I think Joss was heavily influenced by other great science fiction writers from the past when he made Firefly. It's been taken as an insult against him by some super-fans back when this site was much more lively, but I didn't mean it to be. It's almost impossible to ever have a brand new idea.
Two books I can remember now off the top of my head that really made me think could share the Firefly Universe were Legacy of Heorot by Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven, and Steven Barnes in 1987 and The Great Explosion by Eric Frank Russel in 1962.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legacy_of_Heorot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Explosion
In the case of The Great Explosion, which was 3 stories that made up the novel, the 3rd of the bunch "And Then There Were None" has an extremely heavy Firefly vibe to it. The first two stories would be more about how exactly we got to the point where human beings were sent all over the universe to colonize different planets instead of focusing on what life was like after it already happened.
Legacy of Heorot would be the story, specifically, about how the settlers of one particular planet end up in the middle of a Gigeresque nightmare that they unwittingly brought on themselves by messing with the extremely delicate balance of nature on the planet they colonized.
I also just now remembered the name of a third collection of short stories called The Deathworld Trilogy by Harry Harrison in 1987 that I think could be fit into the Firefly universe as well, although I'd imagine more liberties would have to be taken to make it work. It's been a very long time since I read this one though, but I think as it is written now it might be just a little too fantastical to be a believable fit... It might have to be set somewhere in the future of what we've seen of Firefly so far.
https://www.fictiondb.com/series/the-deathworld-trilogy-harry-harrison
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Not only would there be plenty of ways to bring Firefly back and make it a show that original Firefly fans would love to watch while also bringing in a bigger audience, but with a little bit of smart copyright shopping there are a lot of great stories that predate Firefly that could be integrated into the story line with the correct people at the helm of the project.
But please.... Let's not ruin Firfly right now. This diversity/woke/oversensitive/cancel-culture society needs to die off completely first.
Nobody in the world had a single problem with strong black capable female Zoe in 2021, but we don't need a new Firefly to come out gaslighting us that the new lesbian half-black/half-asian, quadriplegic, autistic, little person captain who always saves the day and never makes the wrong decision because she was born perfect and never faced any adversity is the first time we've ever seen a strong female character in media before and if you don't like it that's because you're an evil woman-hating white male.
No thank you. I've waited 21 years for more Firefly. I can wait 21 more if I need to.
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