Guess Who's in Firefly the Movie
POSTED BY: SouthernSlayer
UPDATED: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 14:51
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Hey. Joss has mentioned that the movie will feature both new and familier faces. Which characters wold you most like to see return to the firefly universe for the film?
Rot in hell Fox, you bastards!
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What I'm wondering is if we're see any of the Buffy and Angel cast making cameo appearances.
Otherwise I want to see the Reavers in the flesh (so to speak).
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My first reaction is "oh hell yeah: reavers for sure"
but OTOH, isn't somehow...more creepy that we just know them as these twitchy, malevolent blipverts-for-evil that roam the 'verse in lethally-radioactive ships?
From when I still thought ST was fun, I was totally disappointed when the Borg where shown,a nd especially when these supposedly big-nasties were these lumbering idjits. Sorta like the Cylons from BG: too damn slow to take seriously.
the last 'cool' alien that I saw on Enterprise before I gave it up entirely were some insectoid nasty that robbed the ship of power and were roaming with disruptors or something. No latex Hu-Mans, just nasty...and largely shown just as confusing glimpses. My Kind of Bad. 
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but OTOH, isn't somehow...more creepy that we just know them as these twitchy, malevolent blipverts-for-evil that roam the 'verse in lethally-radioactive ships?
Firstly, I think the pseudo-reaver we saw in Bushwacked was pretty darn creepy.
Secondly, think Alien and Aliens.
Reavers could be very much a similar feel, and you know Joss can't wait to take another crack at the claustraphobic creepy alien style, to further redeem what happened on alien4
Keep them in the darkness, we don't have to see much of them, only glimpses, and when they attack there will be only chaos, we won't be able to keep track of 'em even if we can glimpse them; the fear can still come more from our team's (or other character's) reactions than from seeing them "in the flesh".
Thirdly, i think we really need to face these reavers and capture just what this "insanity on the edge of space" is all about; i think that's fundamental to the show's concept and its intent, and the whole idea of "wilderness vs. civilization" etc., and so it's important that we take a closer look at that (though that doesn't necessarily have to entail looking at a reaver close-up in the light, of course). And also, it's not as if one could sit down and have a conversation with a reaver; i think anything about them will be frightening, even if they're in the light, because on the one hand they will have very raw human features and mannerisms, but on the other they'll be so completely insane.
Any way you slice it, i don't think we can lose on this one.
p.s. I have to disagree about the Borg though; the whole reason they were scary is that they are slow and represent machine indifference, and the fear of looking at their bodies which are mechanized humans etc. I agree that later versions of the Borg took out the fear, though (eg. First Contact was a big joke, and some of the later episodes had a more benign version of the borg, which was interesting in its own right, but admitedly not scary).
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Nailed it right on the head Lennier. The very first thing I thought of was Alien, specifically. You don't actually see the beastie until the very end. (And it's slightly disappointing when viewed with the modern eye, because the model is very clearly a model.)
If you took a vote on which guest characters from the show people wanted to see in the movie, I'd wager myself that it'd come down to Badger and Early as the favorites.
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If you took a vote on which guest characters from the show people wanted to see in the movie, I'd wager myself that it'd come down to Badger and Early as the favorites.
Definitely Early.
Early + Reavers = insanity beyond imagining.
And let's throw Niska in for good measure.
Let's put all our creepy apples in one big creepy basket.
If i had to pick a single character I wanted to see again, though, I'd have to go with Saphron (sp?). But then, I haven't seen "Trash" yet.
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I want to see BADGER more than anything. No contest.
I do like Early. He's so different. He's all philisophical and yet kinda bad too. I wouldn't be surprised to see Niska though because they've set him up so well. The only episode I haven't seen is Trash, so I don't know about Saffron yet. I think we already KNOW that Reavers and Blue Sun are going to be in the movie.
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River's Academy surely had more than one student.
River escaped, but perhaps the others didn't. Perhaps the Alliance got what they wanted out of them.
Imagine if you will a person with all of River's intelligence, insight, and skill, working for the Alliance.
Imagine that person coming for River.
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one thing I'd like to see is more of the chinese influence. What is the history that led to that influence and maybe some characters of asian lineage. just curious..
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I just hope its not too much of a horror movie. Nothing would be worse than to have Firefly revived but as something different than what it originally was.
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