Never has something consumed me so quickly, and fully...
POSTED BY: agirlyman
UPDATED: Monday, February 27, 2006 01:02
VIEWED: 8338
PAGE 3 of 4
The dynamic between The Operative (a believer) and Mal (a former believer) is definately there. Then there is Book (a reformed believer). In a way one of the plots if not the main plot of Firefly/Serenity is Mals evolution from a believer, with faith in god, to a man without faith, and then back again perhaps with a newfound faith in love/humanity even with its imperfections etc...
by Riseagain on Feb. 24, 2006
I couldn't agree with you more. There is definitely a parallel between Book and Mal and believing. I suspect that perhaps even the Battle of Serenity played a role in both losing faith.
I think if JW wanted to continue the story, it would make a great novel series. I'd prefer the novel format to the graphic novel format simple because I'd rather make up my own pictures with my own mind's eye.
Nice to meet you all, btw. I have a similar story. Watched the movie, fell in love, got the series, loved it even more, try to convert as many as I can now.
More comments to come later.
There's no place I can be since I found serenity.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I too was consumed completely. I discovered Serenity almost completely by accident. I was on vacation with a few friends, and we had some time to kill until the next scheduled activity. Being close to a theater, we looked at our options and had only 2 for the timeframe: Serenity or the Wedding Crashers.
We choose wisely! I returned from the trip and saw Serenity twice more in the next week, and ordered the Firefly series, which I watched in 2 sittings!
Now to satisfy myself in the company of more believers until the story resumes...
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
I think if JW wanted to continue the story, it would make a great novel series. I'd prefer the novel format to the graphic novel format simple because I'd rather make up my own pictures with my own mind's eye.
Nice to meet you all, btw. I have a similar story. Watched the movie, fell in love, got the series, loved it even more, try to convert as many as I can now.
Nice to meet you, I just started posting today myself and am finding it very addicting.
Big fan of novels as well, if we can't get another season I'd like to see a novelization. ::crossing fingers for another season:: I'd love to see a D20 game based in the 'Verse as well. It is just the kind of gritty adventure filled enviorment I'd want to take a few brave characters thru.
Quote:
We choose wisely! I returned from the trip and saw Serenity twice more in the next week, and ordered the Firefly series, which I watched in 2 sittings!
Now to satisfy myself in the company of more believers until the story resumes...
The more 'Verse we get the more fans we get. The more fans the better our chances of a new season.
I've worked in product development for a big company and really the exec's try to give people what they want 'cause it means more money and more growth. But they lose "touch" sometimes and they just need to be smacked with a wet fish to see what people want. If a network channel got a few thousand letters in the mail they'd be hard pressed not to take notice again and reevaluate the current fan base potential.
Please Bubba give me another season and a pony.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I am very happy to have found this site.
I never got to see the show when it was aired on F*X, and I am glad I didn't, after finding out that they showed the episodes out of order.
I bought the movie on my brother's recommendation, but he told me that I should watch the series first to get a better appreciation of the movie. So I held off watching it until I bought and watched the series.
WOW!
Seeing them in the order that they were meant to be seen in was AMAZING! I was captivated by it from the first moment.
I am now a devoted fan, and am on my second time through the series. I have also started to spread the word to those who have not seen it yet.
I can't get enough.
"You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. 'Cause as sure as I know anything, I know this: they will try again. ...they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave." - Mal
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Welcome, welcome, welcome to all of the new arrivals. We always like to hear the stories, and relive the experience!
Quote:I take it you haven't seen the Serenity RPG? I know it's not D20 (I think it has its own system - though I'm not terribly familiar with RPGs in general, so I could be wrong). The front page of this site (on the left side) has a link to it on Amazon.
Originally posted by Riseagain:
I'd love to see a D20 game based in the 'Verse as well. It is just the kind of gritty adventure filled enviorment I'd want to take a few brave characters thru.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ain't. We. Just.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
About Early, you can't tell me that he didn't have a remote for his ship, he didn't die in space, he's on another hunt, wondering if everthing seems right to us.
AM I NOT MERCIFUL?!?!?!?
Tee Hee
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
We really didn't get much proof that Early liked to hurt people. Besides him saying he enjoyed it. To me, it seemed as if he said some of that for effect, to make his targets complient. In that same situation, I can see myself saying even worse things, if it helped me get my job done. He could've really hurt Simon on more than one occassion for pulling the tactics that he did. Besides, hurting people isn't worse than killing, so he ain't all that bad of a fella
Unless he likes to torture people, but we already have Niska, so that would be repetitive. But he really could be psycho, and I'm just partial to him I just happen to think some of the more twisted characters in series are very cool (I'm writing a story and my fabe character is my warrior/serial killer). So there may be some bias in my points. Oh well.
The operative reminds me of a religious extremist, killing for his beliefs, but seemed to have the intelligence that the fundamentalists lack. The operative is another guy who easily could've killed his targets had he really wanted to. I think he really wanted to get his points across and be heard.
I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch me soar.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Actually, we do. River herself says that he likes to hurt people. When Early tries to deny it, saying it's part of the job, River says "it's why you took the job".
Originally posted by BlackCollarBrowncoat:
We really didn't get much proof that Early liked to hurt people. Besides him saying he enjoyed it.
Since River, being psychic, knows at least as much about Early as he does himself, I think we can take this as gospel.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I don't disagree on any particular point.
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I know this, but River says many things. A lot of which are non-sensical, but I concede that he does like hurting people. But that ain't so bad. After all Jayne likes hurting folks too.
I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch me soar.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I know this. River says a lot of things, many of which are non-sensical, but I concede the point. But hurting folks isn't all that bad, Jayne enjoys it too
I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch me soar.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME