Was there a voiceover in the broadcast episodes?

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 05:29
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CHRISISALL

Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:44 PM

I read tell of a voiceover at the beginnin' of the show, having only seen the dvd, I never heard it. What did the voiceover say, praytell?

Curious Chrisisall

RIVERGIRL

Thursday, June 30, 2005 3:02 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I read tell of a voiceover at the beginnin' of the show, having only seen the dvd, I never heard it. What did the voiceover say, praytell?

Curious Chrisisall

BASICALLY it Nathan & Ron did a leaving earth type of expanation

I dont remember it --has anyone put this on line?

Also, I can kill you with my brain.

RHUTTNER

Thursday, June 30, 2005 3:17 PM

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Originally posted by rivergirl:
Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
I read tell of a voiceover at the beginnin' of the show, having only seen the dvd, I never heard it. What did the voiceover say, praytell?

Curious Chrisisall

BASICALLY it Nathan & Ron did a leaving earth type of expanation

I dont remember it --has anyone put this on line?

Also, I can kill you with my brain.

I posted this awhile back but I can't find the thread, so here is the text of the narrations and the episodes they were in:

ttj - book
bw - book
omr - book
jt - book
oog - mal1
sd - mal1
safe - mal2, followed by previously
ariel - mal2
ws - none, starts with a previously
ois - none, starts with a previously
serenity - none

scifi uk airings:
hog - mal2
tm - none, starts with a previously
trash - none, starts with a previously

Mal : Here's how it is: Earth got used up, so we terraformed a whole
new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with the new technologies,
some not so much. Central Planets, them was formed the Alliance, waged
war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight
it, among them myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of Serenity. Got
a good crew: fighters, pilot, mechanic. We even picked up a preacher,
and a bona fide companion. There's a doctor, too, took his genius
sister out of some Alliance camp, so they're keeping a low profile.
You got a job, we can do it, don't much care what it is.

Mal : Here's how it is: The Earth got used up, so we moved out and
terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with the
new technologies, some not so much. The Central Planets, them was
formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a
few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds,
captain of Serenity. Shes a transport ship, Firefly class. Got a good
crew: fighters, pilot, mechanic. We even picked up a preacher for some
reason, and a bona fide companion. There's a doctor too, took his
genius sister out of some Alliance camp, so they're keeping a low
profile, you understand. You got a job, we can do it, don't much care
what it is.

Book : After the Earth was used up, we found a new solar system and
hundreds of new Earths were terra formed and colonized. The central
planets formed the Alliance and decided all the planets had to join
under their rule. There was some disagreement on that point. After the
War, many of the Independents who had fought and lost drifted to the
edges of the system, far from Alliance control. Out here, people
struggled to get by with the most basic technologies; a ship would
bring you work, a gun would help you keep it. A captain's goal was
simple: find a crew, find a job, keep flying.

CHRISISALL

Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:01 PM

rhuttner, you're our hero! Thanks heaps! Bein' a relative newbie, this is a real discovery, of sorts. I had no idea, why didn't they include it in the dvd's? Not like I needed it to get the show, but it surely sounds cool.

Explorin' the unknown (to me, that is) Chrisisall

BATMARLOWE

Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:37 PM

Thanks, Rhuttner, I had completely forgotten about those intros. I guess it's okay they're not on the DVD's. I kinda got tired of hearing "Into every generation...yada yada yada" at the beginning of every episode of Buffy for the first couple of seasons.

AUROTER

Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:44 PM

hear hear! Agreed. Into every generation, we already know what happens so shaddup!

Big help on t he voiceovers though. Nice backstory to help people understand what's happening.

For some reason, I recall someone having told me that when they watched it on TV, something had been mentioned about how the only two surviving civilizations were the Chinese and USA. I know a lot of people that I've showed the dvd to that I've had to explain that to myself, but I never recall ever being informed of that by the dvd's themselves. Am I forgetting something? Is it somewhere in the commentary? Or was it on TV to begin with?

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you can't take the sky from me

RHUTTNER

Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:53 PM

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Originally posted by Auroter:
hear hear! Agreed. Into every generation, we already know what happens so shaddup!

Big help on t he voiceovers though. Nice backstory to help people understand what's happening.

For some reason, I recall someone having told me that when they watched it on TV, something had been mentioned about how the only two surviving civilizations were the Chinese and USA. I know a lot of people that I've showed the dvd to that I've had to explain that to myself, but I never recall ever being informed of that by the dvd's themselves. Am I forgetting something? Is it somewhere in the commentary? Or was it on TV to begin with?

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you can't take the sky from me

It was never explained in the show itself. There were things about the concept and characters of Firefly that were on the net before the show premiered. The merging of China and the US was explained there. It is also mentioned in the commentary by Joss in either Serenity or The Train Job.

RAT

Thursday, June 30, 2005 6:47 PM

Mal 1: http://www.wavsite.com/sounds/70605/0105OutOfGas/theft.wav

Mal 2: http://www.wavsite.com/sounds/70605/0107Safe/01x07-01.wav

Book: http://www.wavsite.com/sounds/70605/0101TrainJob/01x01-38.wav

Rat, Acquisitions Officer - Uss SereniTREE.

CALLMESERENITY

Thursday, June 30, 2005 6:55 PM

Oh Rat, thanks for those! I'd never heard them either, but now I have. Shiny! I do wish they'd been on the DVDs just so I would have known what it was like. Oh well...

"Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us." ~Jerry Garcia

CHRISISALL

Thursday, June 30, 2005 8:37 PM

Rat! You are THE MAN! That was so cool!!!
Can't believe they left it off the dvd's, y'know, like in the special features...

Much obliged Chrisisall

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