Dead or Alive Best Script Ever!!

POSTED BY: SniperJac
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 8, 2006 09:29
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SNIPERJAC

Friday, June 11, 2004 7:58 AM

I just read dead or alive and it is gorgeous. The bits with Jayne and the turtle are just so cute. I imagine Jayne doting over a fluffy turtle he won and it just cracks me up. It is so Jayne. He won it so its his. Doesn't matter if its girly, still his.
It's one of those scripts that has everything. The quintisential bits with River and Simon. I love the fact that Simon admits he's not sure if he did everything he could to save the alliance guy who found out his secret. The bits where River barely a child herself comforts the children.
The hilarious bits with Jayne. Cudos for the bit where he leads the other bounty hunters into the scrub.
The bits where Mal has to admit hes not right on everything.
The emotional bits where Kaylee is the heart and soul.
The gentle mothering bits with Inara. The most obvious nurse of the bunch.
The Zoe and Wash having their little arguement bit. In this one is probably a nasty since its wash dissing an old army buddy.
Admittedly not much play for Book. But he's not one of my fav's. He plays at bein all nice but has un unmistakable darkness about him. I really think he's a monster who has tried to conform. Which will obviously not work because he's using the bible to conform which is warped and evil in itself.
Anyway. I will simply say if this had been made it would be on my list of favs.

SPOOKYJESUS

Friday, June 11, 2004 10:18 AM

The version we "have" is probably so early it didn't even get any of Joss' little finishing touches that he does to all the scripts - just to polish them and make them ring truer.

But - yeah - I enjoyed this episode, I've only seen it in my brain - but my brain's got 7.1 surround sound so that's ok.

ORCBLASTER

Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:28 PM

Where can I find the script of Dead or Alive?

NEDWARD

Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:34 PM

http://www.fireflyfans.net/feature.asp?f=45

MCFLY

Thursday, July 29, 2004 3:20 PM

Wow, not really a 'feel good' ep. is it?

Except maybe Jayne's turtle...

Hack the planet!

KERNELM

Thursday, July 29, 2004 5:04 PM

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Originally posted by Captain:
Perhaps we'll see bits and pieces of this script in the upcoming film(s), which would be a nice little wink in our direction by the production team.

Ideas from the script were already used for some of the later eps in the series, most notably "The Message".

EMBASSY

Thursday, July 29, 2004 6:19 PM

I asked Joss about this script and he said, essentially, that they didn't shoot it because "it wasn't ready."

Finishing it made little sense with "the Message" in the can. It'd be like Old War Buddy of the Week.

Finally, I read the scene with Simon and the Alliance officer as Simon letting him die because he's a threat to River. Am I the only one who sees it that way? Simon was caught in a conflict between his oath and his sister, and he chose his sister, but it cost him.

KERNELM

Thursday, July 29, 2004 6:27 PM

^ If you look at the production number on the script, it was meant to be around the middle of the series.

And yes, that was definitely Simon going to a _very_ dark place. Which might be part of the reason why it wasn't shot... Joss didn't feel they had earned going to that kind of place at that time.

SPOOKYJESUS

Thursday, July 29, 2004 7:21 PM

I agree - I mean it suits his character in a way, adds to his mystery and romance in a creepy kind of way. But it would be to early to play that game at this stage in the series.

I'd say there was also an element of worry the fact that, at about this point in season 2 of Buffy they did a bit of an evil Giles that didn't really do a whole lot except open up his backstory.

RIJPE

Thursday, July 29, 2004 9:44 PM

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Captain wrote:

It was quite a drastic turn of events for Simon as it proved that even he could show a bit of ruthlessness to save River, which to me, as others have already said, opens him up more.

I don't think that we see "ruthlessness" in Simon, exactly. I think that he was working towards saving the Alliance officer's life, except that he may have stopped paying attention to his patient when he had what looks to me to be a sort of panic attack.

I think that Simon tries to be very honest with himself. When Book questions him about the incident, he realizes that he had reasons for not wanting to save the officer's life, and doesn't trust that he did everything he could have to save his life as he would have if it had been River he had been trying to save.

I absolutely love the script. I have read this so many times, and it is so good (Kaylee's role does not quite seem right) that I actually feel like I have seen the episode.

Check out "The Summer Tree" by Guy Gavriel Kay if you like this sort of self-questioning moral dilemma. Damn good book.

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