Possible Serenity Spoilers from Nathan Fillion at Buffistas.org

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OUTLANDER

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 1:10 AM

This was posted at Buffistas.org

http://www.buffistas.org/showthread.php?thread_id=8&post_id=549

I was working with Nathan Fillion who plays the captain of the firefly. He told me some really cool stuff that is being done in the movie.

(MAJOR) SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!

1. I don't watch the show but Nathan told me you can expect to see what the bad guys really look like. Apparently you've only heard, but never seen them in the show.

2. It is super action oriented. In one scene, straight out of The Searchers, the villians are destroying a local town and killing everyone. There is a small boy and mother running for their lives and the crew of the Firefly have to leave without them. As they pull away in there landspeeder. Nathan pulls out his gun and shoots both the mother and the boy to keep them from tortured.

APEMAN61

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 1:25 AM

neat

That little man loved fire.

RKLENSETH

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 1:56 AM

Reavers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mal shooting a kid and mother?! Joss did say he wanted to explore the darkness in Mal during the movie.

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BEATLE

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 3:46 AM

I wonder if he asked him about Book being in the movie.

SWITCHY

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 5:54 AM

unbelievable!! I usually hate myself for giving in to the spoiler but that bit o' tasty really got my blood going. Very dark. soo exciting

DEANNAMAY

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 8:38 AM

I don't know about Mal shooting mother and child getting past the screening process. I am sure the test audiences will feel it makes Mal too dark and unsympathetic. While we know it is perfectly within his character. Death is preferable to Reavers, period.

JARED

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 10:38 AM

id hope they wont even think about removing that scene if its true. i can imagine that scene and what follows from it. the tortured look while making a decision like that within seconds. the continued torture when you ask yourself if there really wasnt another way to safe them. id expect even mal to be haunted by that for a while.
and what about inara? would she be shocked enough to kick him while he's down? comments like "no wonder you lost the war if you just kill your own people" come to mind. though maybe she'd surprise him by being understanding and comforting him? would be a good chance for them to get at least a little closer.

*sigh* could 2005 hurry up a little and get its behind over here?

JESIAHBLACK

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 10:52 AM

I agree; i really hope for sure that the scene will be in no matter what.

HARDWARE

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 2:51 PM

No way could they just do that. Dropping that on an audience blind WOULD make Mal seem unsympathetic. However, if you dress it up and make it dance a little first...

I can only imagine what Joss is going to do with the Reavers in a motion picture. He had what, 2 minutes to prep us for the Reavers in the pilot? Quick shots of those that could preparing to fight for their lives and others watching the big Reaver ship prowl on past. Any body remember how tense that scene felt?

Now imagine that blown up twice as big as life on the screen. Reavers being shot and still coming. People being held down and killed slow. Folks being set on fire, running, screaming until they drop still struggling. Brave grown men detailed to hold back the Reavers as long as possible dropping their weapons and running for the only safety possible, Serenity.

Now imagine the barely controlled chaos on Serenity. People crowding into the cargo bay carrying their few meager treasures in a bundle on their back. Refugees from the horror on the rim of civilized space. Mal, Zoe, Jayne Inara and Book barely keeping things under control. Simon treating injured in the medical bay. River entertaining some kids in the lounge. Serenity is stuffed beyond capacity. Kaylee in the engine room is worried the atmo might not hold up. Wash is on the bridge figuring how Serenity is going to handle with all this weight on board, one eye on the scope, keeping tabs on the Reaver ship. A twitch, the screen clears and the Reaver ship is on the move.

Wash calls down to Mal with the bad news. Mal orders Wash to lift off, but leave the ramp down. He wants to give every soul a fighting chance to make it. A few more people shove past him. And then the woman and her child appear. Too far away to make it as Serenity lifts. The Reavers right behind them.

Mal knows what is going to happen. The only mercy he can offer them is a quick death, cold comfort.

Joss said he wanted Firefly to be about the people history stepped on. It really does have a civil war feel to it. And during the civil war if a man was gut shot the only mercy their friends could offer them was a quick death. Indeed, in the original version of the pilot Mal may have had to shoot several of the men under his command since there were no doctors to treat someone who was gut shot.

It fits perfectly. Brilliant.

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BROWNCOAT1

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 3:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by outlander:
This was posted at Buffistas.org

http://www.buffistas.org/showthread.php?thread_id=8&post_id=549

I was working with Nathan Fillion who plays the captain of the firefly. He told me some really cool stuff that is being done in the movie.

(MAJOR) SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!

1. I don't watch the show but Nathan told me you can expect to see what the bad guys really look like. Apparently you've only heard, but never seen them in the show.

2. It is super action oriented. In one scene, straight out of The Searchers, the villians are destroying a local town and killing everyone. There is a small boy and mother running for their lives and the crew of the Firefly have to leave without them. As they pull away in there landspeeder. Nathan pulls out his gun and shoots both the mother and the boy to keep them from tortured.

I think we should err on the side of caution and question the veracity of this information. A person at Buffistas is posting what they pulled from an unnamed source from a site they did not bother to name. So this information is what, 3rd hand info from an undisclosed source? Not the most reliable.

For now let's labor on the assumption that this information is reliable. If that is the case, I am not sure that actually showing us the face of the Reavers is such a great idea. The thing that makes them so creepifying and boogey-man like is the fact that no one knows what they look like, none that have lived.

Face it, the scariest part of a horror movie is the creepy music and that fleeting shadow of movement in the dark background as the killer stalks the unsuspecting hero. It makes our imagination work to give that evil a face, and what we imagine is not normally the same as what the thing is we imagined.

Perhaps if they did the aftermath of a Reaver attack, of course that would be rather bloody on the big screen.

As far as Mal shooting a mother and child they are forced to leave behind, to prevent the Reavers from taking them alive.....I could see Mal doing that if there were absolutely no other choice, but only if all other options were exhausted. I think he would try to zip back in and rescue them before shooting them.

It could give us a glimpse into the darker side of Mal, but would the crew or us Browncoats recover from such a shocking action by our favorite captain? I could see why he might shoot them to prevent their capture, torture, and subsequent death at the hands of the Reavers, but he would be haunted by that action for the rest of his life.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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