Firefly back , what?
POSTED BY: zzetta13
UPDATED: Monday, April 3, 2006 20:43
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Ok I know its saturday and lots of people and Browncoats are outside doing their "real world" things.
I was outside too. Mowing the lawn when I was hit with this contemplation.
What if Firefly came back! Yep they wanted to start it up again next year.Would we here at FFF.net like that? No,we'd....L-O-V-E it.
Heres the catch( yes theres always a catch)understanding the corporate world as I do. It's all about money. Making it and saving it too. All the main characters are back in play (suspend the Wash and Book thing for now) Some of the actors,well lets say the company doesn't really agree to that last money figure on their contract.
question to you: Do you still watch the show even thouogh some of the characters are to be replaced with other actors ( a certain death if you ask me) or do you say "Gorramit, back to the FF dvd."
second question (yep that too) which actor(s)IYO can not be replaced. Give me the "have to stays" and the "throw aways".
with me its pretty much all-back or the hay-sack.
Just how I see it.
"How can a man get so wrong.Cuttin on his own face 'en all." Jayne
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I agree whole heartedly and to anyone who wants to replace ANY of the original cast 
you get my piont
I am NUT and I go from
to 
in 10 seconds flat:tongue
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I understand your line of thinking, but I can also see how some wouldn't agree with you.
Firefly is such a character driven show, it would be hard for many fans to adjust to new actors. Joss really hit paydirt finding the people he did. It would be hard to find actors and actresses that could portray our Big Damn Heroes like they did.
At last.
We can retire and give up
this life of crime.
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zzetta13:
Personally, I think all the cast would take a pay cut just to do Firefly again, with the possible exception of Tudyk. I get the distinct impression that he never wants to be identified by a single character in any work he performs as an actor. Many actors are obsessed with not getting type-cast, while others are smart enough to know when they've got a golden goose (and know better than to kill it).
That having been said, if a wholesale recasting were done by Joss Whedon, and the stories were written by Joss, Tim Minear, et al, I would watch Firefly if it starred "Guywhowantsafireflyofhisown" as Mal and "zzetta13" as Wash and Zoe (since your Profile lists this user name as "an older couple").
As an obscure writer once penned: "The play's the thing."
Hamlet-ly,
zoid
P.S.
I wonder how many people stopped going to see the plays of Shakespeare because Larry Olivier died and was no longer available to play the parts?
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If they can't get the original cast, then they should just create new characters. Firefly The Next Generation.
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Aww, Zoid, I see your point I really do, but this crew IMHO is irreplaceable.
If Joss replaced them and wrote the scripts, I'd be tempted to look... but I think I'd cry.
Our Serenity without Mal.. who loves her.. no, I just can't do that.
No Mal, no Zoe, no Kaylee, no Jayne ( well, Jayne....j/k folks!)= no show for me.
Especially couldn't watch without our beloved Captain..
" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal
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First of all thanks to everyone for their posts. I do so enjoy getting all the feedback.
Guy----ofhisown: my feelings on this are pretty much the same as youself.
Deepgirl187: the thread is to see how many fans will stay will a new series even if it means some very big changes. Looks a bit lopsided so far and I say that in a good way.
Zoid, thanks. I can't speak for Guy----ofhisown
but as for me having a meaty part such as Washs. Well, the idea is to bring in new fans, not scare them off. I ain't got those movie-star looks
Also although Mrs.Z is a great woman and my true companion (I do make jokes about Serenitys pretty girls though) Well I'm afraid shes not into the verse like I am. I've tried to get her join me. Shes just a bit shy with all of it.
Mattcoz,the next generation cast of Firefly? I wouldn't mind seeing that.Only hope that it would be some time down the road.
FollowMal, I knew your answer even before I posted the question
I'm pretty certain that Joss and Tim feel the same.Lets keep our fingers crossed.
Z
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reckon people would be loyal as long as even some of the originals remained. if all the cast were to be changed then not all that much point in calling it Serenity though, perhaps it'd be better to start a new series based in some other setting. we the fans are big enough in heart to accept new members of the crew to the ship but would hate to lose anyone, everyone is needed to make the thing work as well as it did/does, so Book and Wash just going to have to get themselves undeadified somehow. (Wash! Come back! Don't care how, just come back! Can we have a Ghost Wash piloting Serenity?)
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FollowMal:
And I see your point, too. I certainly would want the entire cast back. More to the point, I'd also like the past four years back, retrofitted with full seasons of Firefly...
Even though Nathan is on the brink of stardom (*keeps fingers crossed for whole cast to have cinematic success*), I think he'd return to TV and do movies on the shooting breaks. This would work especially well with how SciFi Channel manages their series *nudges Vivendi-Universal in the ribs, painfully*.
But that wasn't the question posed by zzetta13.
So...
While I care for neither "Buffy..." nor "Angel", I gotta give props to Joss for finding good actors and then making his dialogue fit the individual actor. Why do you think Firefly's actors love their characters -- and working for Joss -- so much? Because he writes for the actor playing the part as much as for the character or the storyline. That's what makes his shows so 'real', so invested.
Long story short, I'm saying, "In Joss we trust."
Respectfully,
zoid
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"I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDBOF'
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Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:
Even though Nathan is on the brink of stardom (*keeps fingers crossed for whole cast to have cinematic success*), I think he'd return to TV and do movies on the shooting breaks. This would work especially well with how SciFi Channel manages their series *nudges Vivendi-Universal in the ribs, painfully*.
I agree with you here most definitely. In an interview I watched today, his eyes still light up when he talks about "being" Mal.
And Vivendi-Universal are you noticing the nudging? Cuz I'm doin' it too!
I also trust Joss..Zoid, but I love Mal.. I guess we'll have to respectfully agree to disagree.
*bows with great respect to Zoid whose opinion she always enjoys hearing*
" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal
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