Are the Browncoats to blame for Serenity's lack of success?
POSTED BY: telewill
UPDATED: Friday, November 4, 2005 07:33
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Quote:Some fans tried.
Originally posted by telewill:
Why didn't the word get back to TPTB that this was not a good ending.
After the very first screening, one fan started this website: www.savewash.com . Scroll down to the bottom.
Quote:Obviously, it didn't work.
Please, Joss, reconsider your decision to kill Wash. You have almost five months before the movie will be released to the world. You have time to fix this.
Can't Take My Gorram Sky
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I think the best part about the series, though, was that people did get hurt. The bad guys weren’t gunned down with impunity; they got their share of bullets into Mal and his crew. Mal gets: stabbed, shot (multiple times), punched, electrocuted and tortured. Re-watching the series, it seems that in almost every episode, Mal gets hurt, most of the time badly. Firefly, to me, was the solution to Star Wars Syndrome, a condition where the storm troopers seem to have a magnetic draw to lasers and the good guys seem to be wearing shields.
Losing an important member of the crew in the big, apocalyptic battle was very important to be (although not very pleasant). If all eight of them had escaped alive, that wouldn’t be very realistic in the Firefly sense. Little battles = little injuries, big battles = death. I’m just glad everyone else survived.
Just so you don’t think I’m a Reaver, life without Wash isn’t the same. I have to bring tissues to even watch the show sometimes, because I look at him and go, “Oh my God, you’re so ALIVE, I can’t believe you’re going to die” and then he’ll say something cute and I’ll get worse. One of my friends who I brought to see the movie watches the series now and tells me she gets so sad whenever she sees Wash.
RIP Wash, I'll miss you.
"I don't murder children"
"And as you can see, I do."
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When i finaly got to go see the movie i wasnt surprised that they killed Book and Wash. Joss mayed a realistic future world and in real life, shit happens. Not everyone makes it alive in life and Joss knew it, so he decided to put that realistic touch to it. They fly threw a shit load of ships blasting the crap out of each other and they made it threw, well that was unexpected another corny ass movie where everyone makes it alive. But then wham! Wash gets a huge spear threw his chest. OH, these guys are actually gunna die. I think Joss made the right move and im confident that he did. When i was leaving the theater i remember hearing a older guy (i knew he had never seen firefly say) that was a good movie, and he was right. Just because your favourite character dies doesnt mean that Serenity is going to turn out to be the next Geli.
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i gotta say, i tend to agree w/ MSCKAREN and pheobe. far as im concerned, we got serenity made, and if we keep trying, we'll get a sequal/continuation, sooner or later. way i see it, as long as joss and all 9 of the ACTORS are alive, theres plenty of hope to see all nine of them again.
so lets keep hoping and fighting
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Serenity was a good movie, but I wouldnt exactly call it a masterpiece.
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After the shock of Wash's death, and later, after Zoe went down, and Simon got shot and Kaylee got poison-darted, I was sure that this was it! They were all gonna die!
But River saved the day, and the show ended well. it wasnt a masterpiece of a show, but it was a good show.
It did leave open possibilities for River's position aboard the ship; she seemed not to be crazy anymore, and I think she could serve to be the ships pilot. A pyschic pilot is the best pilot if you ask me.
Also, it does leave an opening for two more new crew people that just might fit right on in there with our Serenity crew; thats a good thought.
If they won't make us a new movie, or give us another, new tv series, then I will settle for a whole bunch of novels.
Star trek has about a billion novels written for their universe by a whole bunch of talented writers, so does Star Wars, so why not Firefly?
I did some searching and so far the only books I found for firefly was Serenity the movie novel....whats up with that???? FF's been out since 2002 and no ones written any novels??????
Some fans you are.
You all better be glad I'm really not River
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Quote:
Originally posted by telewill:
There were plenty of people who saw this over the summer in plenty of cities. If they thought the movie was fine as it was, or if they said nothing, they are every bit as much at fault for the failure of Serenity as Joss is.
Anyone else find this amusing in light of Joss's recorded introduction to the Advance Screenings?
Quote:
Highlights from Joss's message to the Browncoats:
[...]
It is, in an unprecedented sense, your movie...which means, if it sucks, it's your fault.
[...]
If this movie matters to you, let somebody know. Let everybody know. Make yourselves heard. If you don't like the movie, this is a time for quiet, silent contemplation.
[...]
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Ain't. We. Just.
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man, people are so shallow!
its all like "Wash died...boo hoo...movie sucked"
Movie was great, ive done my part in getting that big damn sequal...
This board used to be optimistic, happy, hopeful.
Now its sad and negative....
BE HAPPY!! WEVE COME SO FAR!
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"There is a sense that this is still not over. It's hard to put a finger on what's so special about this project and about this group of people, but it's just one of those things you have to trust in, and relish. I am very, very proud."
---Jewel Staite on "Firefly" and "Serenity" in "Finding Serenity" (essay collection by Jane Espenson)
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until this point i have avoided writing responses to topics such as these, because they would just be angry. now, i am just going to say that those of you who are "blaming" joss for the death of wash (HIS character) are just the same as those who called him a lesbian hater when tara died. also, you wouldn't have lasted a season watching buffy.
~lissa, retired spwhore
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