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Titan AE

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 2:33 AM

Since Joss collaborated in the making of Titan AE, would anyone agree that AE is Firefly with aliens and a different timeline? There are enough similarities in both stories that one can assume that both are written by the same peeps. Just an observation with probably a few holes. Both are amazing.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 2:40 AM

Titan! Yay! I loved that movie when it was in theatres. Had no clue Whedon had a hand in it until just recently.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 2:41 AM

I disagree entirely and in all possible ways. If I could find a more redundant way to say that I would.

I like the show … movie … thing. But I can not see any ties to Firefly worth talking of.

Firefly is about people who left the world willingly, and have many home-worlds to call their own.
A.E. is about a race (humanity) that has been shattered in large part due to their total lack of a home-world.

Firefly is about surviving.
A.E. is about saving the world.

So on. It’s just a completely different dynamic in my mind.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 2:45 AM

In Firefly, I think humans had to leave Earth. Isn't that why they refer to it as "Earth that was"?

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 3:43 AM

Yes. In Firefly, the resourses of the Earth were depleted to such an extent that the humans had to leave and terraform other planets to make them as Earth-like as possible.

Titan AE--while a good movie(IMHO), that I like very much-- is more about bringing the devistated, hunted, and unwillingly scattered humans to a new home.

There really aren't that many similarities, besides the space/spaceship/Joss connections. Although, some of the characters are similar, now that I think about it. Preed is kind of like Jayne, Stith is a Zoe-esque character, and Gune is kind of a Kaylee-River mesh. Huh.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 3:44 AM

Yes. In Firefly, the resourses of the Earth were depleted to such an extent that the humans had to leave and terraform other planets to make them as Earth-like as possible.

Titan AE--while a good movie(IMHO), that I like very much-- is more about bringing the devistated, hunted, and unwillingly scattered humans to a new home.

There really aren't that many similarities, besides the space/spaceship/Joss connections. Although, some of the characters are similar, now that I think about it. Preed is kind of like Jayne, Stith is a Zoe-esque character, and Gune is kind of a Kaylee-River mesh. Huh.

"and we compleed agreetly about most things..."
--Ani DiFranco

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 3:46 AM

Yes. In Firefly, the resourses of the Earth were depleted to such an extent that the humans had to leave and terraform other planets to make them as Earth-like as possible.

Titan AE--while a good movie(IMHO), that I like very much-- is more about bringing the devistated, hunted, and unwillingly scattered humans to a new home.

There really aren't that many similarities, besides the space/spaceship/Joss connections. Although, some of the characters are similar, now that I think about it. Preed is kind of like Jayne, Stith is a Zoe-esque character, and Gune is kind of a Kaylee-River mesh. Huh.

"and we compleed agreetly about most things..."
--Ani DiFranco

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 3:49 AM

Sorry. Didn't mean for that to be posted twice more than necessary.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 5:54 AM

IIRC: when asked at a Convention if there was a creative thread that ran from Titan AE to Firefly, Whedon replied that he wasn't sure there was a creative thread that ran through Titan AE

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 3:50 PM

While very flawed, I love Titan: AE.
My favourite line was: "Intelligent guard, didn't see that one coming." and that's gotta be all Joss! Didn't know it at the time I bought it, but enough of Joss' imput survived on Titan to make it a much better than average 'toon.


And the dvd is soooo pretty.

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