'The Message' complete script is finally up.

POSTED BY: Haken
UPDATED: Thursday, July 31, 2003 22:54
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JOHNNYREB

Sunday, July 6, 2003 12:11 AM

Gorram shiny! Thanks!

Viva Firefly

DEFENDER82

Sunday, July 6, 2003 5:18 AM

By scripts, do you mean some versionof the shooting scripts or are you talking about transcripts of episodes as they actully aired? I have found the shooting scripts full of interesting details that never made it into the episodes so would be really intersted in seeing those.

KOFFEE

Wednesday, July 9, 2003 7:05 AM

Thank you Haken!!!

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RAYNE

Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:19 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by defender82:
By scripts, do you mean some versionof the shooting scripts or are you talking about transcripts of episodes as they actully aired?

Shooting scripts. I sent html versions of all the episodes to Haken a few weeks ago.

ZIKZAK

Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:09 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by defender82:
I have found the shooting scripts full of interesting details that never made it into the episodes so would be really intersted in seeing those.

Watch out! Spoilers!

You mean like this stuff:

MAL
Okay. We're gonna get up off this
floor, you're gonna stand like a
person, cover yourself, and the
doctor's gonna tend to that gash.

...

This was my question, too:

ZOE
And you believed them? That they'd
put you back together?

TRACEY
Sure. They want you to make as many
runs as you're able. Hell, I met a
fella, he's on his third already.

...

So Independant boy wants his folks living in the Alliance's home base:

TRACEY
A better offer. Another buyer,
willing to pay three times the going
rate. Enough I could get my folks
off that rock they been forced to
live on, set them up someplace nice,
someplace warm, maybe one of the
central planets.

...

Mal says it to us instead of to Womack:

MAL
He's bluffing. He won't want to
damage the cargo.

...

Shooting script doesn't have Wash's awesome "I didn't think of that"

I like the "cop school" in the show, but this line makes more sense than "triangulation":
WASH
< Mother-of-Jesus > [Wuo duh MA]
they're comm' close... They must
have caught a bead on our heat
trail --

...

More on Book:

ZOE
We've seen the man fight, Trace. Seen
him think. And we trust him on both
counts.

TRACEY
Yeah, well, that's just plum
stupid -- but then you two were
always lookin' for someone to spend
your trust on ... Didn't exactly get
your war won, did it?

...

So Womack KNEW Tracey as "Smith"?

WOMACK
Smith? You squirrely little piece a'
go-se, that you?

...

And we hear more about Womack (and learn some about Book, too):

BOOK
But that doesn't bother you. Whole
'verse is your jurisdiction.
Procedure is for stiffs.
(looks him over w/
disdain)
You're on the take, Womack, clearing
routes through your territory for all
manner of black market pirates.

WOMACK
What the hell kinda man of God--

BOOK
Took a little vacation time to chase
down this piece of change for an
extra commission, I'm guessing.

...

And even more:

JAYNE
Either you spent a lotta time
fightin' bad cops... or bein' one.
BOOK
Maybe both.

Ped Xing

DEFENDER82

Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:34 PM

Yeah, like that. Also the one line in the entire series tha haasZoe growing up on a ship was actually cut from the aired version of Heart of Gold.

DEFENDER82

Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:54 PM

Hakken, I have been waiting with bated breath for the promised post of the shooting scripts. Is that still in the works or has it had to be scrubbed? I am anxious to see if there are any other nuggets of unpublished goodness in any other scripts. Eg, the best part of the Message script was the conversation between Zoe and Inara about over booking and the and the "badly faked 'fall'". Never made it to screen. Too suggestive, I guess, but really fleshed out both sharacters in just a few lines. Anyway, any eta?

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