What If?
POSTED BY: MrShinyVerse
UPDATED: Saturday, May 26, 2007 15:21
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If the unthinkable ever happens and we don’t get a Big Damn Trilogy or the series never takes flight again (blasphemy, I know) in which format would you most like to see the verse continue?
1) Comic book miniseries like “Those Left Behind” & “Better Days”
2) Script format like the Visual Companions & Virtual Firefly (Still Flying)
3) Novel format
4) Another format (please explain the format and why you have chose it)
I think I’d have to go for #2. The script format allows for more character interaction than the comics whilst also offering the option of having drawings / sketches. It also allows the writer to introduce their episode / film / story and make any side notes explaining certain aspects of their e/f/s.
As a bonus after each story some of the crew could write a short analysis of the e/f/s (a bit like Jewel did in Finding Serenity) or explain how they would have played out certain scenes. It’s not as good as the return (that will happen) but as a fall back I think it would be great.
What would you all prefer & why?
MrShinyVerse
P.S. – Another added bonus could be each issue could come with a small book or couple of pages detailing each of the BDH’s and smaller DH’s past (I must know about Book and Inara)
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Hey as long as i get something i'll be happy
A novel or comic will be shiny, but what i want to happen is....... Firefly as a traveling show 
It'll be great, get Joss and the crew and have them travel around and put Firefly on as a traveling show. It could work.
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Hey as long as i get something i'll be happy
A novel or comic will be shiny
I'm with Blindoutlaw, I would be happy with any continuation of the story if it was done by Joss or at least approved by Joss so it was considered canon.
If I had a choice, I would prefer novels as I love to read and to me full length novels, or a series of such, would be the perfect fit for the story.
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I'm the same as Blindoutlaw, I'd be extremely if we got anything but I was just wondering what people would prefer if we were ever given a choice.
It would be interesting to hear how the traveling firefly would work. Sounds like a right laugh,
MrSV
EDIT: What type of animation did you have in mind DONCOAT? Can you give a current series as an example?
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Out of the options you give, and currently lacking an idea of my own, I'd say 2) Script format.
Though, really, almost anything but 3)!!
Novel format would be the most limiting in terms of character interpretation for the reader, and has the greatest dangers of putting people off in plot-UNrelated things like narration style. It's the medium furthest away from Joss's way of story-telling, so that ought to be avoided.
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Forgotten Realms format
Novels + expansions for the tabletop RPG
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I'd really like to see novels, or novellas, written by Joss and/or other writers of Firefly eps. I don't really care to read script format. I know it's great for filming, but it's really not interesting to read a script I haven't seen performed. Even when I've seen it performed it can fall flat (although it gave me an immense appreciation for how much interpreting work an actor needs to do) I prefer true books. Comics are okay, but you just can't put in all the details, despite it being a visual medium, because of size restrictions. But if Joss and Co. were to write short novels, something very akin to script only in a novel format and with a few more details of setting added, that would be perfection. Even though I know comics are much more likely, as it's Joss. I can dream, right?
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EDIT: What type of animation did you have in mind DONCOAT? Can you give a current series as an example?
Don't know what Don's answer would be, but I would have thought along the lines of Samurai Jack, but darker. It's tempting just to say anime style, but I just don't see it capturing the essence of Firefly.
How about Firefly: The Musical
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