For your consideration, ANIMATED FIREFLY

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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2009 07:20
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BYTEMITE

Thursday, May 7, 2009 2:14 PM

What about... Do these people have an e-mail address to contact them with?

ADS

Saturday, May 16, 2009 4:12 AM

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GARSTANSINILLIAM

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 7:43 PM

An animated version of the Those Left Behind comic would be glorious - it's characterful, funny and action-packed.

Plus it's a nice little prequel that, if no other series ever happened, could be bunged on Serenity as an extra.

BYTEMITE

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:13 PM

You know, that's a good idea to try to float to the broader (more reluctant) fanbase to show what could be done with this medium.

From what I recall, the people who didn't like Those Left Behind wasn't because of the writing, which I thought had excellent series worthy dialogue and writing, but because of imperfections in the art style. It tried to retain the realistic look of Firefly/Serenity, but also went kind of too comic book super hero, and the characters didn't look like their actors at times. To be fair, I think the artists were in the process of getting the hang of it, because in Better Days the the fidelity of the character designs improve quite a bit.

There will always be some people who won't accept anything less than live action with the original actors. I think the effort will stick in their craw less if the characters are still identifiable, but perhaps significantly stylized. Just like the example of Those Left Behind, faithful renditions of real life people in comic books and cartoons can be mixed results, so I suggest side stepping that quagmire completely.

And hey, I've been saying for about nine months now that there's hints that some new live action stuff may not be impossible. Maybe if they had that, animated Firefly wouldn't seem like a step down to them?

ADS

Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:56 PM

Not getting live action is always going to be a bummer. And watching animation would rub salt in that wound for sure. And at the same time, its perfectly acceptable that some fans wouldn't want to give animation a chance. A part of me sort of feels the same way.

But then I think that since it wouldn't need as many viewers, its not really neccesary for all the fans to be open to it so its not really that big a deal(although it sure would help).

Thats a good point too about how hopes for a live action continuation might stop people settling for animation. But I think its important for fans to think about it in terms of all of us just showing support for this as an 'option'. I highly doubt supporting animation is going to actualy hinder any chances of getting live action. I would think if anything it might possibly help it. But what it would do for sure is just give the 'verse one more possibly way in which to survive.

I'l try a Dollhouse metaphor too. Firefly is my ultimate favorite doll but an evil agent, lets call him Fox, steals the body. I want to hire Firefly out again(fourteen times is not enough!) but I can't wait till Ballard saves the body. So I just get the personality imprinted onto a pretty but not as beautiful doll. And if he can't save my favorite at least I still have half the perfect partner. Which nowadays is still much better than anything else I am going to get.

DEWCREW919

Sunday, May 31, 2009 3:20 PM

While I think the comics are great, it's a shame that "Those Left Behind" didn't end up as an animated direct to video movie like originally intended. I can't help but wonder why Universal didn't go through with it, or at least revisit the idea. Getting the original actors in a studio for a few hours to record their lines couldn't be too hard or expensive (they could come in when their schedules allow, it wouldn't have to be all at once). It's too bad they, or even Dark Horse, haven't taken the idea and run with it.

ROBEDITS

Sunday, June 14, 2009 5:26 AM

On June 13--

ADS-- Nice Dollhouse metaphor.

I could have sworn that I saw the last few seconds of an animated Firefly on USA a month or so ago. I'm sure it was Alan Tudyk's voice. Haven't been able to find anything about it. Was I experiencing some sort of incredibly realistic TV hallucination?

Also, everyone is adamant that it would suck if Joss didn't write it. It WOULD suck if Joss wasn't involved, but remember, Joss didn't write all of the episodes of the original, and that guy who wrote the freeshare online novel with the Firefly characters did a pretty damn good job.

ADS

Sunday, June 14, 2009 2:01 PM

Man. I want whatever drugs your taking. Cept I will take ten times as much so I get to watch a full episode :)

Yeah it would be killer to have Joss on board and he wouldn't even really have to write any of it(although that would be preferable). Even him just giving the writers some guidance could produce a killer show.

And the groups over 700 now. We are working on convincing one of the other facebook Firefly group admins to send a message to her group members which I am 90% certain she can do. If she does we will get over twenty thousand Firefly fans aware of this cause. Pretty much our biggest challenge is making fans aware of this and giving them the chance to make a decision. Unfortunatly I cant afford to pay Facebook to advertise us. Although I am in a 40 million dollar lotto draw next week so we will see what happens :)

If even half of the 'regular' style Firefly fans support animation we are really in business. Because those ten thousand fans can and likely will send an invite to all their friends and if they can just bring one person each on board the pattern will continue and support would grow by the thousand instead of by the hundreds.

I sent her a message the other night and we have our fingers crossed she isn't a Firefly purist.....

Will keep you guys updated.

ROBEDITS

Monday, June 15, 2009 6:53 AM

My apologies for not joining, but I just can't do the Facebook thing. It's like a Unibomber style paranoia with me, which is weird cuz I'm nearly as far from being a revolutionary as it is possible to get. But I don't even use store discount club cards because I hate the idea of being in another database somewhere where they're tracking my purchases and building a "consumer profile" of me.

Not that I would mind if a few data mining cos. had it that I was a Firefly fan--maybe that would help our cause.

ADS

Sunday, September 6, 2009 7:20 AM

Nothing significant happening recently. Numbers are still growing though.

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