Ya' Know what Firefly was missing?....
POSTED BY: GrayFury
UPDATED: Friday, December 2, 2005 00:01
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You guys and gals are obviously missing the most important aspect of what makes people tune in every week these days (it's not dogs or cats or goldfish).
Here's my plan on how to make Firefly more popular: you start off with a crew of 16, then after every episode one member of the crew gets voted out (either the audience votes or the members of the crew cast secret votes).
The winner gets to keep Serenity and Jayne's hat.
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Originally posted by SameErtia:
You're right.
Awful. A german shepherd would be much too messy to butcher. you'd never be able to keep all that hair out of the meat. Probably was a labrador retriever....
HA!
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Originally posted by bassgravi:
I imagine the dog/cat/gerbil/hamster or any other kind of pet theory would get debunked because, well, it would be harder to care for a pet when you don't know the next time you're getting paid, how would you afford/find food for it? Or vets? Animals/pets require more care than people do, I don't think they'd be good in space.
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The reason that the ship's cat is a naval tradition is straightforward. Cat's eat rodents. And unless you vent the entire ship to vacuum, you WILL pick up mice.
-Caius
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I don't think animals can survive for too long in a space ship. Animals need room to roam around, they need to see the sky, they need to see nature or they'll die. Plus animals don't have the same sense of time as humans, animals who aren't used to a place without a day and night cycle cannot live in such an environment.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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I'm not big on the idea of a pet for the Serenity crew, because it seems like unneccesary added sentimentality. However, if a pet was added it should be a dog and not a cat. This is because dogs are far superior to cats. For example (as my family discussed at Thanksgiving), if a person lives alone with a pet ot pets and dies, the result is different if they had a dog or a cat. Cats will start eating the dead body after a relatively short while. Dogs will often starve to death and leave the body untouched. Or else, wait until they are literally starving. Dogs are much more loyal. They're part of a pack, a collective, a family. They fit better with the crew. A cat could work for Jayne, not the rest.
River: Now we have to be married. I'm in the family way.
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But . . . I thought they had space monkeys on board! 
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Prairie dogs would do quite well in the floor grating of the main holding bay. They'd be able to post watchful eyes for Jayne topside and then pop right under the floor lickety-split!
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They have one on Bebop, which a lot of people think Firefly borrowed a bit from. If there was a dog on Firefly then it would give a bit more ammo :o would still be cool like.
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Food is hard to come by in the verse, folks. Having a pet on board that serves no purpose (other than to be a pet) would use up food. Mal would not allow it.
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Quote:Submariners have had pets for a long time. USS Holland has a mascot dog (that nearly got shot out a torpedo tube once, but that’s another story), as did some boats in WWII. Another boat had a mascot skunk that a crewmember won in a card game. On a sub its constantly “daytime” except in sleeping areas, at least on Serenity there is a day-night cycle of some sort as seen in Objects in Space. Heck on the old 'smokeboats' its been said the roaches were part of the crew, Serenity's got a few (as seen in OIS) so maybe they could have a mascot roach?
Originally posted by Giantevilhead:
I don't think animals can survive for too long in a space ship. Animals need room to roam around, they need to see the sky, they need to see nature or they'll die. Plus animals don't have the same sense of time as humans, animals who aren't used to a place without a day and night cycle cannot live in such an environment.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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