No Aliens in the Serenity Universe

POSTED BY: Windwalker
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 6, 2007 18:36
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WINDWALKER

Thursday, January 25, 2007 6:30 PM

I noticed that there are no "real" Extraterrestrial beings in the Serenity Universe. The closest to "alien" creatures are the "Reavers"
but they too are human in origin changed by PAX
Kind of a more realistic look at the future of space travel and existence on "other" worlds.
Anyone else notice this and have input?
I like it as a different slant to all the SCIFI stuff out there.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

FOLLOWMAL

Thursday, January 25, 2007 7:13 PM

One of the reasons I like Firefly ( although Mal is the #1 reason! ) is that there are no aliens.

I'm an old Star Trek fan. I got tired of aliens.

I think that Joss' vision of the future is much more realistic and possible than most of the other scifi series that I've seen.

I have to add too that my very cynical daughter who is not usually a scifi fan gave kudos to Firefly for being alien-less.

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IWEN

Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:22 PM

No aliens was a selling point for some of the cast members.

Aliens suck!

Iwen

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GLADIATOR32

Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:27 PM

I was glad there were no aliens, that's for damn sure. Not that I'm against films with aliens, it's just it's TOO common in sci-fi and related genres. Besides, the whole 'alien' thing was perfected by James Cameron in "Aliens"...

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DESKTOPHIPPIE

Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:32 PM

Aliens started out interesting, but it's just too easy for them to become a plot device. Want to write about an issue? Ooh, let's come accross an alien race that personifies it! After a couple of decades that gets pretty boring.

I'm much more interested in people, and Joss is great at writing people. Even when he dealt with demons and vampires and hell gods and whatnot on Buffy and Angel, his primary focus was still exploring the human condition. And as he himself has said, "I can make people that are scarier than anything you can put in latex." *coughNiskacough*

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OUT2THEBLACK

Friday, January 26, 2007 12:52 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Windwalker:
I noticed that there are no "real" Extraterrestrial beings in the Serenity Universe...

Kind of a more realistic look at the future of space travel and existence on "other" worlds.

Anyone else notice this and have input?

I like it as a different slant to all the SCIFI stuff out there.

Yep , this is called " naturalistic " Science Fiction .

I LOVE it ! No " FREAK OF THE WEEK " , No Little Green Men , No BUG-EYED MONSTERS !!!

Wow , imagine THAT , REAL characters in Realistic Conflicts and Situations...No wonder the ' network ' wouldn't buy into it !

ALIENS ? We Don't Need No STEENKING ALIENS !!!

PENGUIN

Friday, January 26, 2007 12:56 AM

People are evil enough...no monsters needed!

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

ASORTAFAIRYTALE

Friday, January 26, 2007 1:31 AM

I liked the whole lack of aliens thing too. I think it is rather unrealistic to think that there would be bajillions of different races and all like there are in Star Wars. Like Joss said, Today we don't have aliens, so we probably won't in 500 years either.

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NCBROWNCOAT

Friday, January 26, 2007 2:06 AM

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Originally posted by FollowMal:
One of the reasons I like Firefly ( although Mal is the #1 reason! ) is that there are no aliens.

I'm an old Star Trek fan. I got tired of aliens.

I think that Joss' vision of the future is much more realistic and possible than most of the other scifi series that I've seen.

I have to add too that my very cynical daughter who is not usually a scifi fan gave kudos to Firefly for being alien-less.

Go to www.whitenoisethelight.net for more info!
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f336/followmal/4
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I'm a old Star Trek fan too and I got tired of aliens also. Even if they are out there they wouldn't look like humans in latex with appendages sticking out at various points on their body.

What I enjoy about Firefly (besides Mal) are the different charcters and their differing points of views to the situations that they land in.

REGINAROADIE

Friday, January 26, 2007 2:20 AM

While I like the "no aliens" policy, I can't help but feel that maybe they missed out on an intersting metaphor. Hear me out.

The show is supposed to be a sci-fi western, right? And there are supposed to be parallels between this verse and the Old West. Well, one big aspect of the Old West was the Native American population and the culture clash between the settlers and cowboys and the Natives. I just think that there could have been an opportunity for some great metaphors and analogies. But I am glad that there was a "no aliens" policy.

What I don't like is Joss statement of "We are the only beings in the universe." Maybe we won't make first contact in five hundred years or so, but that doesn't mean we'll be the only inhabitants of an entire freaking universe.

I side with Carl Sagan when he says that if we are the only beings in the universe, then it would be an awful waste of space. I just think it's incredibly egotistical and pig headed to think that we're the only inhabitants of a galactic spiral thats sixty thousand trillion miles wide, which itself is just a minute part of infinity.

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