Firefly Episode Discussions

If you could add an extra scene...

POSTED BY: JLin
UPDATED: Sunday, March 11, 2007 15:10
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JLIN

Monday, January 8, 2007 7:52 PM

OK, I know what I'm going to suggest is probably too much of a give away for the first season, but since we never find out....

I would like to see Innara's doctor's visit in Ariel. Maybe with just a few clues as to what her story is about.

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REDLAVA

Monday, January 8, 2007 8:39 PM

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Originally posted by JLin:
I love all these ideas. I'm imagining them hauling Jayne down the stairs right now.

I was also thinking, in the Train Job, I would like to see what happened to Niska henchman who took Mal's deal after he pushed the first one into the engine. Do you think he actually returned to Niska with the bad news or was too afraid and took of on his own???

Probably the reason Wash and Mal got abducted in War Stories. Niska never got his money back cause that guy turned tail and ran.

I would have like to have seen Kaylee's reaction to Mal giving her the dress and telling her she gets to go to the party with him in Shindig.

Or Jayne's reaction and resulting argument in having to go back for Simon and River in Safe.

MSG

Monday, January 8, 2007 8:39 PM

OH so many to choose from

I'd like Jayne to get a scene with Kaylee after she's shot

Mal kissing Inara

Zoe realizing she's pregnant in Heart of Gold

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HEWHOKICKSALOT

Monday, January 8, 2007 8:58 PM

Not to beat a dead horse, but in my screenplay endeavor, I touched a bit on River's training at the Academy. I always wanted to see how she learned her amazing martial arts ability.

Also, to see the discussion between Zoe and Mal when she tells him Wash proposed. (or did she propose to Wash? She is a tough woman...)

"Not everybody gets me and Zoe at first glance."

Rob O.

SCARECROW866

Monday, January 8, 2007 9:57 PM

Oooh so many great ideas! The scene I most would like to see, in the Serenity pilot episode, is what happened between Jayne and Kaylee after Jayne makes that crude joke about her and the doc and before she gets shot. You could see them entering the cargo bay together. I've always been curious about that. Did they just happen to bump into each other? Would Jayne apologize at all? that's the scene I would add...

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DONCOAT

Tuesday, January 9, 2007 12:09 AM

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Originally posted by Redlava:
I would have like to have seen Kaylee's reaction to Mal giving her the dress and telling her she gets to go to the party with him in Shindig.

Or even just a quick shot of her scrubbing her face, desperately trying to get the engine grease off...

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SIMMY

Tuesday, January 9, 2007 1:11 AM

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Originally posted by HeWhoKicksAlot:
Not to beat a dead horse, but in my screenplay endeavor, I touched a bit on River's training at the Academy. I always wanted to see how she learned her amazing martial arts ability.

I was thinking the same thing just yesterday! I wanted to know how the Academy coerced her into that kind of training, or what kind of state she was in during the physical training. Can't just program flexibility, can ya?

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SIMMY

Tuesday, January 9, 2007 1:13 AM

Oops! I put my thoughts in the quotey part. Teehee.

Let me repeat, then, that I'm totally curious about River's physical training. OR just see above. How embarrassing!

ASARIAN

Tuesday, January 9, 2007 1:49 PM

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Originally posted by JLin:

What episode would you add it in?

I'd like to voice some caution in adding deleted scenes. :)

For instance, the cut scene from Our Mrs. Reynolds, where River wants to marry Simon, it's hilarious. ;) But I can readily see why it didn't make the final episode. Because the relationship between Simon and River is brilliant: it's Love, to the utmost; but it's not sexual. In fact, that's what makes it so brilliant: it's not your typical romantic Love (it's Love, Jim, but not as we know it). I think the last thing Firefly really needed, is to sully that relationship with some half-incestuous story-interjection (however funny it was; and it was; lol). I mean, marry? That's just not something brothers and sisters do. I mean on some planets, but only pretty bad ones.

Oftentimes also the absence of the deleted scenes add subtlety. Like it's interesting to hear Zoe would kill Simon if Mal asked her (deleted scene pilot). But the loyalty Zoe has for Mal is best evinced throughout the series, instead of being bluntly told upfront. And I think they did well to leave it out.

Same deal with liking to have seen Kaylee's reaction to Mal giving her the dress and telling her she gets to go to the party with him in Shindig. I think it would have detracted from the subtlety of things. When Mal comes to the engine room to call Kaylee for a job, we are still clueless (and assume Mal is still, too). It's only when "Kaywinnit Lee Frye" is introduced in the ballroom, that we realize, heart-warmingly, what he did for her. Better this way.

As is the case with the deleted scene from OiS. Or, rather, I should say, the scene that was originally aired, but never made it to the DVD, where Inara and Mal talk in greater detail why Inara is leaving. The reason -- to my shock, I must admit, as I found out -- is actually more financial ("This is the first planet where I can find decent clientele.") I like it much better the way Joss intended it: without that scene. Because now it seems the reason Inara is leaving is directly related to the incident in HoG, where Mal slept with Nandi, and Inara rudely awakened to the fact that what was between her and Mal (or rather what they kept dancing around all the time) really wasn't there. Well, afterwards things get okay between them, of course, in the BDM. But for the Firefly sequence of things, leaving that scene out really sold the subtlety for me.

Anyways, just my two coppers.

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SHAMBLEAU

Tuesday, January 9, 2007 6:20 PM

Umm, the scene originally aired in OIS talked about why Inara was leaving? But HOG hadn't aired at all, so viewers didn't know that she had decided to go.

I think Inara talking about finding decent clientele was seen at the time as just a complaint, not as a reason for her departure, since that had never been mentioned. I should go look, I guess, but I'm pretty sure that's true.