If the series continues...

POSTED BY: Bastaroid
UPDATED: Friday, December 30, 2005 23:37
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WHITEFALL

Friday, December 30, 2005 9:31 AM

I think, if the series were to continue, and Joss willing it will someday, we would all have to treat it, as Joss would, as a Whedon TV series.

(buffy s2/angel s1/serenity spoilers)

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People die in whedon shows. I'm only into season 5 of buffy and 2 of angel, but... people die and are replaced, in terms of function and number of cast members. You don't belittle death, you never forget it, it is always a threat, part of the buffyverse, since the murder of jenny calender it has always been an issue. And it makes for better drama. The series could continue given the chance.

Just keep in mind that, had Firefly continued, Wash or Book, like doyle before them in Angel, might have died near the end of the first season. And life would have gone on. It is only because of the cancelation that we came to identify Firefly with these nine (ten) characters only, whereas we would have soon learned that all things are impermanant if the show had continued. Someone new might have joined, or not, but as proven by episodes like The Body, the aftermath of death is more drama than the occurance of death.

Firefly is not dead, and never will be, as long as the 'verse lives on.

I survived a day in Whitefall and all I got was this lousy signature!

Terrifying Space Monkey of Destiny

FLIPDOG

Friday, December 30, 2005 9:36 AM

yeah, but theres enough time between Objects and Serenity to make a hefty bit o story. And since Firefly is character driven, I think it would be great. I'm not saying bring anyone back, just finish what would've been done if the show hadn't been canceled and lead into the BDM.

WHITEFALL

Friday, December 30, 2005 9:40 AM

true, true, but... well, if the show continued, it would only confuse viewers expecting a continuation of the movie (because, let's face it, we have a LOT of fans of movie first, firefly second, by nature of the wide release) and as such, while Post-Objects to Pre-Serenity would be cool, it would be hard to explain unless we ran the original eps, then the new ones, and by that time it has been a long enough time to run Serenity the movie on a TV channel....

All in all, it'd be too confusing. :-\

I survived a day in Whitefall and all I got was this lousy signature!

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FLIPDOG

Friday, December 30, 2005 9:46 AM

I agree with that to some extent. Most of the people I know around here liked the movie so much that they've gone out and seen most of Firefly because the movie was so good.

But there's ways around that confusion. For instance: "Last time on..." Or simply re-air part of the original season. There's many ways in scriptwriting to get around that problem.

Besides...it won't matter. I'm winning the lottery and going to buy the rights to the show and find a way to bring it back. Fox can eat me.

SIC

Friday, December 30, 2005 5:14 PM

Hm. I wonder how many months would go by before anyone won if all the browncoats started buying all sorts of lottery tickets.

Browncoats are zany enough to just give the price away anyways, and... how many of us are there?

Probability and human nature are against us of course, but it would be an interesting experiment.

That, or just get Bill Gates hooked on the show.

BWARE42

Friday, December 30, 2005 6:14 PM

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Originally posted by Sic:
That, or just get Bill Gates hooked on the show.

Let's send him copies of the series and movie!! Him and the Walmart people. Although since Walmart is generally the real life equivalent of the Alliance, or Blue Sun, they may just squash us!

Bring the Big Damn Heroes back!

MOOSE

Friday, December 30, 2005 7:52 PM

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I think she'd prolly fill in for both...she seems like the type that could handle it.

I don't know...it would be a bit hard to do a "Grand Entrance" if the pilot is in the barfight.

Then again, if River's in the barfight...they really wouldn't need a "Grand Entrance", huh?

MIKAMOM

Friday, December 30, 2005 8:33 PM

It would be easier to get through the copyright problems if NBC or Sci-Fi produces Serenity: The Series. Fox only controls the rights to Firefly.

I'm not a copyright expert, so I can only guess.

PBI

Friday, December 30, 2005 11:37 PM

I wouldn't like to see the series continue from where the BDM left off. Not that I particularly minded how things turned out in the movie, but they were sprung on us without enough context or warning. I felt absolutely nothing when the deatsh occurred because I wasn't watching Firefly, I was watching something which felt vageuly similar but that's it. Now, if we ended up with the end point of the BDM after 2-3 seasons more of Firefly, then, no problem. As it stands now, though, reviving Firefly from Serenity would, and this is very early day I grant, feel a lot like trying to revive WKRP; the magic's gone.

If you can survive death, you can probably survive almost anything.

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