who should be new pilot of serenity?

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FLIPDOG

Thursday, March 23, 2006 7:43 PM

Blasphemy! Never see the 'verse again...for shame.

Anyways, I think River will most likely pick up the slack, with some help from Mal.

However, no one knows if River's being chased by the alliance anymore. The Op simply said that he didn't know. Regardless, it would help the crew if the pilot knew ahead of time that an alliance ship was bearing down on them. I doubt we'll see anyone added to the cast.

In addition, I like the theory that Wash will return at some point as a 'ghost' that only River can see/sense. Joss has said many times that Alan's character may be dead, but that doesn't mean he's fininshed with FF/Serenity for good and he will return in one way or another.

POEANDFAITH

Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:08 PM

I've two directions I'd prefer the sequel going. The first is, of course, a prequel. So we can have the original cast back, maybe something with Book's storyline and why he left, a transport of some amazing swiped cargo into the hands of a new separatist group? I dunno. I don't write fer 'em. But a prequel, yes.

The other idea is set several years after the movie when the Alliance rebellion fever is sweeping the galaxy again, since everyone would be in an uproar over what was revealed...With Zoe settled down for the time on some backwater planet raising Wash Junior, River piloting, since her quick reflexes and instincts would be well suited...with Mal standing over, taking the helm to perform the amazing tricks he learned from Wash, Crazy Ivans and basket-weaving and the like. I don't think any permanent people should be added to Serenity's crew. Maybe some old war buddies who go their own way in the end.

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Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:39 PM

I've been mulling this over, and have come up with this, a character of my own creation:

A young man with the extremely unlikely name of Diamonds Coinspinner will someone join the crew through helping them with a job on Persephone. He is a gambler and kleptomaniac, and is played by Jake Gyllenhall, or some other twenty-something actor. He will become River's love interest.

I think a little chaos is in order.

TROUBLESOMEFOOD

Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:26 PM

I can't imagine this topic hasn't been covered somewhere already, but speaking of a love interest for River, I wonder if it would be a positive or a negative to be involved with a psychic. On the one hand she'd never once misunderstand you when you accidentally say something stupid you didn't mean. But on the other hand... she could read your mind.

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WASHHEAD

Friday, March 24, 2006 3:23 AM

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Originally posted by Shiny1:
I agree that River is the best candidate, but it's the future, can't they just clone Wash? They would have to dig him up first, or maybe use a hair from his hairbrush to clone him.

I love my captain

Thank you for bringing that up cause i have a very good idea for new episodes i was thinking that the alliance to get to Mal, offer a greef stricken Zoe a chance to see her husband by cloning him but by selling out Mal to them to do so, we all know from Niscas space station that she will give up Mal for Wash i a hart beat.. and I have a question on one thing i have been reading in the room, Rivers love interest, why cant it be Jayne? now befor every one gets cray over this think about it, River can hear what everyone is thinking and im sure she hates that but from what i have been seeing Jayne always speaks the truth exsept of course when he is trying to double cross the crew and he knows not to try that again we all know!I am sure she would fall for him because she dosent have to read his mind to find out what he is thinking cause he will just blirt it out any way. So why cant they hook up of corse there is a huge age diffence but come on its Jayne! and we know he dont care and we also know that he wouldent give a rats ass what Simon thought of all this so why can't it happen? even if I am dead wronge on this ya got to admit that whould make a great twist in the series

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NOSADSEVEN

Friday, March 24, 2006 5:02 AM

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Originally posted by GreatBlackthorn:
I think if there is gonna be another series, it will be before Serenity, in order to show how exactly River was captured again, and to continue the Blue Sun storyline.

Just an FYI, River wasn't captured again, the scene was a new view of the 'original' escape from the academy.

As for the pilot - definately River. It would be just like 'unpredictable' Mal to have a crazy psychic flying the boat. It's not logical, not entirely rational, but then neither was naming the ship "Serenity".

Mal knows people; he knows how to motivate people. He would know that River as pilot would not only fill a practical vacancy, but an emotional one as well - helping her to be that whole person, not just a weapon; helping the crew to carry through their ordeal by maintaining what remains of their 'family', moving foward together, without any outside intrusion. Sure, there'd be a certain amount of risk involved (and likely a bit of indigestion), but that's already the life they are living.

Plus, think of the hi-larity that could ensue.

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GREATBLACKTHORN

Friday, March 24, 2006 3:09 PM

You sir, are incorrect, for the following reasons:

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Simon didn't capture River himself, he used money and an underground movement to capture her.

2.
They escape on Serenity, (you can see it fly off from the top of the hatch, with exactly the same method used in "The Train Job") yet they first got on Serenity in Persephone, when River was in her cryo-chamber. Therefore, they were already crew members, so River must have been recaptured.

So there is no reason why any future Firefly projects can't be before the BDM, and can't include Wash and Book.

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ZORPRIME01

Friday, March 24, 2006 3:12 PM

Seems pretty obvious that River is intended to be the new pilot. And it makes sense, considering that she didn't much of a have a role in the crew until that point. Aside from being a crazy killer-woman, of course.

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WHOME

Friday, March 24, 2006 8:06 PM

Me! I should be the new pilot! *zoom*

Okay, River can be the pilot. ("A big chunk of ship is about to fall off." "No it's not!" *kachunk* "Told you so.")

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i like the wash-zoe baby idea! especially if there were flashbacks... surely the baby talk was for a reason!

Y'know, I was thinkin' that meself. They have the doctor aboard, and the crew's something like a big, weird family, and wouldn't River make a great nanny? ("The baby's hungry." "No she's not." *babycries* "Told you so.")
Really, it would be an interesting arc for bad-ass Zoe. I think we'd see a lot of her hidden, complicated layers if she were to find out that she got pregnant the last time she was with Wash. ("I can do this! It's my job!" "Zoe, you're 8 months pregnant." "So what? Here, hold my laser gun while I use the bathroom.")

NOSADSEVEN

Friday, March 24, 2006 8:13 PM

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Originally posted by GreatBlackthorn:
You sir, are incorrect, for the following reasons:

1.
Simon didn't capture River himself, he used money and an underground movement to capture her.

2.
They escape on Serenity, (you can see it fly off from the top of the hatch, with exactly the same method used in "The Train Job") yet they first got on Serenity in Persephone, when River was in her cryo-chamber. Therefore, they were already crew members, so River must have been recaptured.

So there is no reason why any future Firefly projects can't be before the BDM, and can't include Wash and Book.

*sigh*

Well, there is not much point in arguing what is fact, but you're new here (Welcome, BTW!), and your interpretation is not unreasonable or uncommon (edit: though it is wrong).

From an Aussie Q&A session:

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Question: Hi Joss. I was just wondering, a bit of a discrepency I might have noticed in the series and in the film. In the series, it is implied that River was smuggled *to* Simon in that chyrogenic box, yet in this movie we've seen him rescuing her. Is that just something you had to put in the plot to make it make sense to people who have never seen the series or did I just--

JOSS: -- Man, I haven't even noticed that (laughs). It is the one place where I broke cannon, because I started to write the movie with people we have never met, breaking the material out, and I thought "My God, this is uninvolving" and realised I had to switch it for the movie to make it Simon himself who broke her out. So. My fan wank goes out as follows, he was lying about when he said other people broke her out, and I haven't gotten why yet... Im working on it.

source link:
http://www.serenitymovie.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=766

But I totally agree that there's no reason (beyond Joss's own preferences) that future projects cannot take place prior to the BDM. In fact, the next comic book run is supposedly to be set during that period.

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