Firefly: The Next Generation

POSTED BY: Thrommel
UPDATED: Thursday, May 8, 2008 07:47
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THROMMEL

Friday, April 18, 2008 2:16 PM

Here's an idea...
It's highly unlikely that the show will be coming back or another movie will be made anytime soon. Joss Whedon has other projects and the cast has moved on too other things. So why not try another approach? Bring back Firefly with a new cast, set it ten or twenty years in the future, maybe have the characters be the children of the first crew, or something along those lines. It would be a chance to start anew, and this time make a series that will last.

It's a long shot, to be sure...but consider what happened with Star Trek. Both shows have a lot in common. Star Trek was another scifi show that was a little ahead of it's time, which went off the air far sooner than it should have, and which quickly attracted a large and devoted fan base who remained attached to it long after it was gone. Consider also that the first Star Trek movie did not do well at the box office, like Serenity, but became popular on home video, just as Serenity did on DVD.

It could work. When Star Trek:TNG debuted, it tapped into that large, loyal fanbase of Trekkies and stayed on the air for seven seasons and spawned a whole host of related shows like DS9. Firefly: The Next Generation could have the same potential, there are a LOT of Browncoats out there eagerly waiting for something new...I count myself among them.

Any ideas on how the story should go, who should be in it?

KINROEDARKSTONE

Friday, April 18, 2008 3:38 PM

The title would need sum tweakin'. It's a long shot fer sure. It'll be good to continue with Mal, Zoe, Kaylee, Inara, Jayne, Simon, and River...wait that's everyone left anyway. ok. Flash backs, definately need flash backs.

Here's an idea. The first episode starts with Mal trying to keep up with River as she scurries around the ship doing duties of engineer, pilot, and cook. A far a we can see, they're th only ones on the ship. Then, as they enter the Cargo hold yet again, the rest of the crew come in from the Galley port singing Happy Birthday to Mal...wait I just gave away my idea! Doh!...I'll be in my bunk.

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Mal: Cry Baby cry.
Wash: Make your mother sigh. Engaging the CryBaby.

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Friday, April 18, 2008 3:50 PM

I have thought also, that FF:TNG would be the logical way to proceed. More than a few years have passed now, and, as you say, the cast has moved on, but some kind of blend of the old and the new could be worked out.

I've got a fanfic going, if it ever gets written down to a point where I can post it, with Mal, Zoe, and Jayne, featuring Kathleen ( aka Katie) and Simon Jr. Tam, and DR. Hoban Washburne... River gets a cameo, and, sadly, 'Nara and Badger have passed away.

WHODIED

Friday, April 18, 2008 4:11 PM

Set sixty years in the future, River is seventy-seven and the last survivor of the original crew. Wash and Zoe's daughter is the captain, and Simon and Kaylee's kids, "the twins", are interchangeable as pilots and engineers. Throw in a fat Buddhist monk who can perform miracles with protein, and a mysterious passenger who claims to be the love child that Inara never told Mal about, and you got yourself a crew, complete with flashbacks.

--WhoDied

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I want to meet that child one day.
Period.

NCBROWNCOAT

Friday, April 18, 2008 4:47 PM

If you like Firefly:Almost the Next Generation, you'll love Jane0904's, Hermitsrest's and Slumming's fan fic.

Each is the continuing saga of the crew, but with different results. Some couples have uncoupled and found new partners and in hermitsrest's the ships are intact. But they all add the complication of kids on Serenity or on a planet and the adults getting on with their lives.

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/

THROMMEL

Saturday, April 19, 2008 5:21 AM

I think this path is probably the most realistic way to bring back Firefly in any meaningful way. Fans paying for new episodes
probably won't work, they will never raise enough money, and even if they did it's unlikely anyone involved in the old show
would sign up. As stated before, they've all moved on. Nathan Fillion is on other shows and in movies, Jewel Stait and
Morena Baccarin are on the SciFi Channel, Summer Glau is on the Sarah Conner Chronicles...and so on. Being constantly
associated with a show that was last on almost six years ago might be annoying to them by now (consider how William Shatner,
Leonard Nimoy and the other Star Trek actors struggled against being typecasted.) A new show with new characters would likely
be the best way to go.

FREEBROWNCOAT

Saturday, April 19, 2008 5:26 AM

WHODIED: Now that's an idea! Love the concept. Brady Bunch vs the Alliance if FOX ever hears of it.

KNIGHTREYEDER

Saturday, April 19, 2008 12:00 PM

I like the idea as well but generally I'd think it would be better to spread the descendants around a bit and not have them all on the ship. Kind of like one's got a ship of their own, one's on a regularly visited planet leaving a few on Serenity with some completely new carefully written in characters. Work it more like the way life works, people move on but usually stay connected. That way they could all be used regularly on each episode and make the scope of it a little larger.

Mal's expression in the scrapyard when he first see's Serenity says it all.

SHADOWCAPTAIN

Saturday, April 19, 2008 1:31 PM

i wish they would do a ff TNG also.
maybe they could use some of my 'virtual firefly' charaters and storylines.

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BIGGESTDAMNHERO

Saturday, April 19, 2008 4:47 PM

Don't think that will fly. It hasn't been that long ago. Steer clear from the Star Wars Novels and comics were the offspring (Han and Leia's) are the focus.

"And I'm thinking you weren't
burdened with an overabundance of
schooling"

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