If you could change one thing in Firefly...

POSTED BY: Wulfhawk
UPDATED: Thursday, July 24, 2003 04:02
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WULFHAWK

Thursday, July 17, 2003 3:41 AM

Ok, we can't change that Firefly was rudely, evilly, ignorantly cancelled, but if you could have changed one thing about the Firefly-that-was, what would that be? A plot point? character point? something in the technology?

If I coulda changed sumthin, it woulda been maps. Course charts. Papers all over the bridge, pencils rolling about, flying while trying to refold a map. The potential for humor alone boggles, much less the fan implications of having a map of the 'verse.

Take my love
Take my land

INMYBUNK

Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:04 AM

Um...

I always thought the "Two by two.. hands of blue" thing was kinda lame. Why blue gloves? And Telepaths wearing gloves.. too much like Babylon 5 for me.

I'd have made it "Two by two.. EYES of blue." As if something in the Alliance's genetic/ scientific tampering ALSO activated the recessive gene of BLUE EYES... think about the CREEPY contact lenses the actors could have wore.. PALE blue eyes... scary!

"I'll be in my bunk..."

NOOCYTE

Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:42 AM

Two highly shiny ideas there, Browncoats (though I think the 'flimsy' display technology would eliminate the need for folded maps and pencils).

Me, I'm gonna go out on an uber-geeky limb here (and I don't think I'm alone in this) and say that I'd do a hard tweak on the agreement between the interior and exterior of Serenity (engine room's too high, front corridor's too short, yadda-yadda. Several whole threads on that score), as well as re-do some scale shots (like that otherwise-LOVELY shot at the end of OiS, where Mal and River are WAAAY to big with respect to the ship).

And maybe I'd change the 'synthy' sound for the laser in HoG (better an angry hiss and crackle of super-heated air), but that's almost too small a nit to pick.

Oh, and I'd change the entire corporate staff at fox ()

Keep flyin'

Department of Redundancy Department

SWITCHY

Thursday, July 17, 2003 5:04 AM

I've got to agree on the "two by two, hands of blue" thing. Just a little corny. That said, we didn't find out enough about them for me to really mind. I also happen to think a little corn goes a long way. Especially on a show with this healthy a sense of humour and great writing in general. I also think the show came back a bit too often to the "crazy" River show. We didn't need an update every week. Probably necessary from the point of view of keeping the episodes flexible in terms of airing order but in a perfect world it would have been nice to just show us some of her developement without always talking about it.

JLP

Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:57 PM

More nekkidness.

jp

CULTTVGIRL

Thursday, July 17, 2003 3:04 PM

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Originally posted by jlp:
More nekkidness.

I like the way you think!

Book: “A duel?”
Wash: “With swords?”
Simon: “The Captain's a good fighter, he must know how to handle a sword?”
Zoe: “I think he knows which end to hold.”

SPARRONI

Thursday, July 17, 2003 5:37 PM

I suppose the one thing I'd change is really nitpicky as well. The Alliance hat-ranking system. All the Alliance officers wore a different style hat that I assume signified their rank. Every gorram hat that they came up with was just plain goofy. I think it's the one of the only times that they dropped the ball ever so slightly in terms of design.

That and Book should have had more lines per episode. And more nekkidness. That's a good idea too.

"Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people."

JAVIDRHO

Thursday, July 17, 2003 5:49 PM

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Originally posted by SPARRONI:
That and Book should have had more lines per episode. And more nekkidness. That's a good idea too.

Do you really want to see Book neked? Really? No offence to Ron Glass, but really?

We already had Mal walking around showing his buns off in Trash, while Inara only showed her back once in Serenity. Call that fair? Let's just get everyone into the shower, men and women together, like in Starship Troopers. Now, that would bring the non-believers in to see the Firefly movie...

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SIMON: What happens if they board us?
ZOE: If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing
and if we're very very lucky, they'll do it in that order.

KOFFEE

Thursday, July 17, 2003 5:59 PM

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Originally posted by JavidRho:

We already had Mal walking around showing his buns off in Trash, while Inara only showed her back once in Serenity. Call that fair?

You wanna talk about fair? After how many years of seeing womens breasts in movie after movie, with no man backsides (or frontsides for that matter

) in site....I'd say we women are still owed quite a bit of male nakedness.

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JAVIDRHO

Thursday, July 17, 2003 6:24 PM

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Originally posted by Koffee:
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Originally posted by JavidRho:

We already had Mal walking around showing his buns off in Trash, while Inara only showed her back once in Serenity. Call that fair?

You wanna talk about fair? After how many years of seeing womens breasts in movie after movie, with no man backsides (or frontsides for that matter ) in site....I'd say we women are still owed quite a bit of male nakedness.

So, we agree that my idea of the group shower scene, involving all cast members, would make everyone happy, right? At least we can all have our interests "peaked"

at the same time. Also, since there are more men-folk then women-folk on Serenity, you still come out ahead.

The only question is; what legitimate plot point would require all of the crew and passengers to jump into a shower together? Since we have not seen a shower on Serenity, maybe they don't have them. So, they find a nice little lake on one of the warmer back worlds and they all decide to take a bath. -- Okay, I'm spending far too much time on this whole neked subject – what would my dear wife think of all this?

Someone else take over. (I'll be in my bunk)

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SIMON: What happens if they board us?
ZOE: If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing
and if we're very very lucky, they'll do it in that order.

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