Firefly: The Next Generation

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

Monday, May 5, 2008 1:59 AM

I don't think that starting over with entrely new characters would work. There has to be some connection to the old series for it to have any meaning, But difinetely there should be more about Saffron, she was a cool character.

Who else do you think should be in such a show?

ZOSOJACHIN

Monday, May 5, 2008 5:49 AM

...i have an idea... forming in my brain. The ideal would be to use the same cast, but the original cast has moved on with new projects which does pose as a problem. A new approach would be essential. Maybe an animated sequel to Serenity the movie using the voices of the original cast. Not a manga animation, tho. Something like 'A Scanner Darkly' but more realistic and refined. More or less, a tribute to the old school Ralph Bakshi animated films. Bakshi used live footage to cut budget costs. I'm sure these old and new techniques combined with CGI would make for a new visual experience. Expense would be low and easily scheduled around the original cast's busy schedule. Straight to DVD with hopes of enough fan support that a third, but live action film, would be put into production.
for the record, i have most of the storyline worked out. so, somebody, let's make it happen.

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MACQYVER

Monday, May 5, 2008 8:30 AM

the animated idea is something new, and I kindof like it. of course, I would prefer the origanal cast, but we can't have everything.

I was thinking though, could we, the fans, do the animation and sound and put it together and air it on public television?

Its not much, but enough to keep us flying.

suposing we were able to launch this show, it might broaden the fanbase enough and create enough interest to get a second movie off the ground. That would be gnarly, especialy if we could have an episode with jane, wash and simon stranded on a raft (which is wht my new fanfic is about, sortof)

I like all the creativity in the room, and I am constantly amazed at the level of inteligence and resourcefullnes you guys have.

Love Yall

I have been chased by large birds, run on logging trails, been on adventures and faced trials and hardships. You would think that after all that, finding a nice girl willing to go see a movie would be a piece of cake!

SPACEANJL

Monday, May 5, 2008 12:10 PM

Just the title of this thread frightens me.

Either we get the continuation, same ship, same crew, or we move onto something different. I couldn't bear to watch someone else trying to wear the tight pants and browncoat with the same dash and verve as NF.

And say no to space-spawn, people. The whole 'and all the crew settle down and have kids and their kids all play together in the ship' makes me beyond nauseous. Anything that becomes the bastard spawn of Roddenberry and McCaffrey should be taken out and shot.

Of course, we could end up with a future series that has the love-bots rising in revolt...oh, yeah, we did that (*sings*starbucking across the universe...)

SMAUG

Monday, May 5, 2008 5:13 PM

A spin-off or continuation of the universe with other characters could work. Ultimatly I want our BDH's back.. but I would take anything we can get.

I can't take credit for this.. other people thought of it long ago when trying to come up with an idea to write story's not about the orignal crew but something else set in the Firefly universe. I don't think it ended up goign anywhere.. but there were some good ideas people had thrown into the ring.

And the ONE thing that could tie Firefly to another story is Serenity herself. Remember... Mal wasn't the first owner of Serenity.. and he may not be the last (Rememeber that firefly's last forever with a mechanic half awake ). Although I don't like the idea so much of jumping into the furture to see another owner and crew of Serenity... there could have been untold number of people that owned her BEFORE Mal. So I can easily see a series that comes BEFORE Firefly where the story is about the captains and crews that called Serenity (or whatever the name of our beloved ship may have been called by that captain) their home.

So there's nothing saying that if you only go back in time a few years.. that Mal and crew are still out there (they just necissarily haven't met each other yet) so our BDH's could actually be guest/recurring characters of this new show!

MACQYVER

Monday, May 5, 2008 10:57 PM

I like this idea of looking at the past

On a slightly different note, I think a "Young Adventures of our BDHs" would be pretty good.

I would love to see Mal and Jayne when they where kids, It wouldn't surprise me if Wash was kindof like 'The Fonze'

Not to rip off other shows, but it would sortof be like "THe young adventures of INdiana Jones" and bananza. I think it would be great if we could somehow have Mal and Jayne run into eachother during thier late teen years.

I am not a redneck. I fish, shoot a bow and arrow, and am obsessed with firearms, but I am not a redneck!

by the way, anyone have any ideas on how someone between the ages of 18 and 20 could legaly carry a pistol?

but Im not a redneck. (I apologize if this was offensive to anyone)

SPACEANJL

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 11:21 AM

Oh, god, no...NOT a 'Young Adventures of...'

The ship, yes, the crew, no. (And teen Jayne would be, well, have you seen 'My Bodyguard'? Says it all.)

The whole thing I liked about Firefly was dropping into people's lives when they already had history. Seeing some of the backstory gradually revealed is great. But I don't particularly want to watch a version of 'All the Pretty Horses'/'Lonesome Dove' with a moody teen Mal.

And Wash - you know that the fry-cook opportunity he got fired on had to be a Mooby's...

I prefer the version on the back of my eyelids to anything else out there.

FLATTOP

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 12:17 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MacQyver:
... by the way, anyone have any ideas on how someone between the ages of 18 and 20 could legaly carry a pistol?

Sign on the dotted line & Uncle will gladly equip you with not only a pistol, but a rifle & maybe some high explosives. 'Course it's an eight year hitch (no matter what the recruiter tells you), and if you're clever enough not to die, you'll get to spend all of it in the sand...

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ALLIETHORN7

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 7:13 PM

I've said it before, I'll say it again- Stories of the War. I found the idea- a Solar System spanning war- rather intriguing. And Mal and Zoe were in there as well- AND Tracy, AND Monty, AND most likely Jayne'd fit in there somewhere. And normal, non-Brown folks like wars, mostly. And Big TV knows that, so I believe that it would fit the bill for that "Action Drama" that F*X wants.

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Red light, can't stop, so I spin the wheel,
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Feel an Angel lift me up,
And I open Bloodshot eyes,
Into fluorescent White,
Flip the Siren, Hit the Lights,
Close the doors and I am Gone
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HIXIE129

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 10:16 PM

In a lost age, the world is divided into four nations: the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads. Within each nation, there is a remarkable order of men and women called the "benders" who can learn to harness their inborn talent and manipulate their native element. Bending is a powerful form combining martial art and elemental magic. In each generation, only one bender is solely capable of controlling all four elements. That bender is the Avatar.

The Avatar is the spirit of the world manifests in human form. When the Avatar dies, it reincarnates into the next nation in the cycle. Starting with the mastery of his or her native element, the Avatar learns to bend all four elements.

Throughout the ages, the countless incarnations of the Avatar have served to keep the four nations in harmony. Then, the firebenders attacked. Just as the world needed the Avatar the most, he mysteriously vanished. A hundred years later, the Fire Nation is near final victory in its ruthless war of world domination. The Air Nomads were destroyed, the Air Temples ravished, and all airbender monks eradicated. The Water Tribes were raided and driven to the brink of extinction. The Earth Kingdom remains and fights a hopeless war against the Fire Nation. Many believe the Avatar was never reborn into the Air Nomads and the cycle is broken.

In the desolated South Pole, a lone Water tribe struggles to survive. It is here that the village's last remaining waterbender Katara and her warrior brother Sokka rescue a strange 21-year-old girl named River who has been suspended in hibernation in an iceberg. The Water tribe soon discovers that River is not only an Airbender--the extinct race no one has seen in a century--but also the long lost Avatar. Now Katara and Sokka must safeguard the Avatar in her journey to master all four elements and save the world from the Fire Nation.

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