Guess Who's in Firefly the Movie
POSTED BY: SouthernSlayer
UPDATED: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 14:51
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The problem with the later versions of the Borg was that they took away what made them intimidating- early on, they functioned as one mind, like a distributed intelligence network. They robbed you of your individuality and enslaved your mind, etc etc.
In First Contact and Voyager, they turned them into insects. There was a "smart" queen who was the brains of the opperation, and then the drones were all just easily bamboozeled morons. It became not a collective but a hive/caste system.
Oh, how I hate Voyager- it was the beginning of the end for Trek.
Anyway, I don't want to see a hodgepodge of characters in the movie. Maybe have a cameo by Badger to give them a job or something, but remember: relatively few people have seen the show, and most of the movie audience won't have the introduction to the cast that we do, much less people like Niska, Saffron, or Jubal Early.
A lot of time in the movie will have to go towards establishing the NINE regular characters, and adding a bunch of other people will make introductions and character development short and inadequate, and leave little time for plot development and action that makes sense rather than just being there for the sake of action like a Charlie's Angels movie.
Also, since I've been deprived of a long series run of Firefly, I want there to be multiple movies. Therefore it would be a bad idea to use up all the characters in the first movie... look at the Batman franchise- They used up eight villians in four movies (completely ruining five of them), each of them capable of carrying a movie by themselves. Now the rouges' gallery is starting to run dry.
My preference would be that they spend the first movie fighting Reavers, giving them time to set up characters. They can have River do some spectacular day-saving stuff, and then in the next movie have the Blue Man Group come after her.
Pace yourselves people- I'm much more interested in seeing the franchise succeed because of a well-written story than have a single movie fail because too many characters were crammed in to please the die hard fans.
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yeah, if youve seen star wars special edition, you all know what happens when they go of to please die hard fans...
...too many boba cameos!!!...
...And why did greedo shoot first???...
we want firely too be good, not a 2 1/2 hour joke.
"Oh, yeah. Let's all here it for the good Alliance."
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Originally posted by arcbeatle:
yeah, if youve seen star wars special edition, you all know what happens when they go of to please die hard fans...
...too many boba cameos!!!...
...And why did greedo shoot first???...
we want firely too be good, not a 2 1/2 hour joke.
"Oh, yeah. Let's all here it for the good Alliance."
Not only does he shoot first HE MISSES!!! From 3 feet away.
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Didn't I read somewhere (on this site) that Joss could make a scarier monster out of an ordinary looking human than anything in latex. If you every saw "Manhunter", the orginal movie with Hannibal the Cannibal, you'll see what he means. That Hannibal was exponentially more malevolent and creepy than the over the top Anthony Hopkins in later films. Subtlety can create anticipation that is far more frightening than drooling masks and "wink, wink, see how scary I am" monsters. It's all in the Id.
Always leave 'em wanting more....
Wantmore
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Oh, yeah, Monsters & Creepy's are one thing but the most frightening horror is the darker side of humanity. I guess that's why I never bought into the whole Buffy & Angel shows. (Can you hear the can of worms opening?) No offense Joss, I liked the characters though. That's why I love Firefly. Real characters, sure some sci-fi elements, but they always remain within the confines of possible, even if fantastic. I so loved that quote from Joss I wish I could find it.
Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”
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I'd like to see Jubal Early. Maybe just after he says, "Well, here I am" Early gets picked up by Reavers but he's already kind of insane and he becoems their leader and the crew is hired to help protect a moon from . Or maybe Niska hires him and he catches up with the crew just as they are being run down by Reavers and temporarily joins forces with them. Or...
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MARRRRRK WE need to see Mark
Badger was my all time fav none crew character from the series.
Reavers = we already know theres gonna be something in referance to reavers but for all we know it could be one of the characters has a line with the word reaver in it thats it, maybe we will see them, that would be cool
Early... i donno... maybe
Dear diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy,
Today we where kidnapped my hill folk never to be seen again, it was the best day ever.
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Quote:Great idea, that could get really intense.
Originally posted by Embassy:
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.
Also, concerning Reavers, it's highly likely that one or more of the crew will be captured by Reavers. Who will it be?
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I love Early but, it'd be hard to make hip plausable and I'm not sure he's a movie type villian anyway.
Niska on the other hand is perfectly suited for such a part.
Everyone else would be a cameo at best.
"Why we still discussin' this?"
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The only thing I really don't want is for them to get a bunch of money to use to make the movie. I don’t want celebrity guest stars and for FF to lose some of it's dark, worn in, dusty, real life, we-lost-the-war, we're-broke-thieves, look. Oh, and we've got to have Badger, he was just so cool. Oh, oh, and more shirtless Simon.
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