How to bring back the firefly series after the major events from the movie - SPOILERS!!!

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UPDATED: Monday, October 24, 2005 18:43
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JASONZZZ

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 10:23 PM

River as a spin off would be interesting...
But they've really got to bring those martial arts hand-to-hand combat sequences a little tighter. The bar fight scene just look odd, awkward, and slow - it just wasn't that good. They need to bring in a good choreographer like Yuen Wo Ping and get them to do lots and lots of practice.

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ZEEK

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 10:23 PM

Personally I don't think either of them should come back. However, I think Book's past is the easiest way to bring him back.

Book could have been anything. For all we know he was a clone to begin with. He also could have been a time traveler. Maybe instead of old Book, now we have young Book.

For Wash it would have to be something way too scifi like a transfer of his mind into a clone or something. Just doesn't fit the world and I think it would turn off any fan who just couldn't suspend reality enough for it.

JASONZZZ

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 10:26 PM

Nah... Wash's evil twin falling for Zoe and chasing them half way cross the system would be just as good of a drama without having to resort to all kinds of Scifi stuff...

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SAMWIBATT

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 10:32 PM

Personally,

a) I doubt the series will come back. I'll support the effort, and I've been pimping the movie like mad and think that sequels are a possibility, but still.

b) I'm willing to trust Joss. Joss has created a jillion interesting characters in his career and that well hasn't dried up. I will miss Wash and Book terribly - I mean, I dressed as Wash for the premiere and FELT it when he bought it - but if the show goes on Joss will not have any trouble filling their shoes. He'll come up with new people, and as others have pointed out in this thread, the deaths open up new storylines.

As far as the unannounced spoiler thing goes - for one, I agree that "major events from the movie" in the subject line is a pretty good indication of spoilers, but the actual word SPOILERS should have been there in the first place. Also, I've avoided fff.net for the last month because I knew enough people had seen advance screenings that spoilers were going to spill out no matter how well-intentioned the posters. Amazingly, I made it all the way to opening night without knowing about the surprises, and believe me, that took some effort.

DELUSIONALRAYNE

Monday, October 17, 2005 10:46 AM

I agree with the general consensus, though Wash was cool, he's done now. Same thing with Book, cool but done. That's not to say you can't see them again, with some creative storytelling you can open up each characters history via flashbacks to essentially "brings them back" without actually having them back. For instance, Mal could be having a conversation with Zoe about an event that the audience has never heard of, such as how Wash and Zoe deepened their relationship and eventually got married. Through exploring Zoe's past you could easily recruit Alan back into the series without resurrecting or cloning him.
Again, same thing with Book. Doubtless that Book had conversations with the Crew on the long journeys and doubtless he impacted many more people than just the crew of Serenity, he must have numerous people they could encounter that would know more of his past than the crew does. Anyway, that's my two cents.

DUOSHEILDS

Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:36 AM

I admit that bringing back Wash and Book would be nice, especially if Joss explores the time frame between the show and the film. I'm not going to shoot down your cloning ideas, but I will say that it is popular belief that clones *do not* possess their former self's memories and would need to learn it all over again. Your ideas did seem interesting enough however.

INSANITYLATER

Monday, October 24, 2005 5:30 PM

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Originally posted by DuoSheilds:
I admit that bringing back Wash and Book would be nice, especially if Joss explores the time frame between the show and the film. I'm not going to shoot down your cloning ideas, but I will say that it is popular belief that clones *do not* possess their former self's memories and would need to learn it all over again. Your ideas did seem interesting enough however.

The clone would work if it was a blank slate and River convinced his ghost to pop back into it.

PHOEBE

Monday, October 24, 2005 5:53 PM

Theory #6: Let dead dogs lie, and don't bring back Wash.

SPINLAND

Monday, October 24, 2005 5:58 PM

Just think of the opportunities for comic/snarky/tense moments when River did something from the pilot's seat that made perfect intuitive sense but which in Serenity's case turned out to be just wrong. Scripting field day!

Too bad this is all "wouldn't it be cool if?" fanwanking.

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INSANITYLATER

Monday, October 24, 2005 6:43 PM

I really do like the idea of River as the pilot. I was just tossing out a thought that popped up. I will miss Wash... Hey, maybe if we lock onto his spirt and his dead body with the Transporter and run it thorugh a neo-dilithium quantum phase demultiplexer while performing an ancient Vulcan ritual, that might do the trick!!

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