Firefly to Serenity. . .blessed evolution. . .

POSTED BY: Static
UPDATED: Monday, June 21, 2004 14:10
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GUNRUNNER

Sunday, June 20, 2004 3:28 AM

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Originally posted by makerofpaths:
2. When Serenity powers away from the Reaver ship in the pilot, just where does all that exhaust come from. There ain't nothing there to make that rocket-y smoke, other than the sidepods, which strike me more as manoeuvring jets, although quite powerful. Something on the butt of Serenity has to justify that kind of power. Mind you, the sight of that escape was a thing of beauty. Zoic rules!

There is a engine cone looking things:
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that could have created that full burn explosion. Now according to the DVD extras Serenity has a Fusion Engine IE an "Orion Drive". Now for those who don't know the basic princeable is that a large Nuclear Explosion accures and is focused (maybe by the pannel things) sternwords providing a massave burst of thrust.

Now I assume the "Spinny Part" is some kind of Power Genrator/Nuclear Blast Creator.

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3. When Wash's fingers dance over the controls, it's always over the same controls (the three magic switches, for example) and the setup tells me they haven't established too much of a layout. The designers need to work on that so whatever Wash does in -- I'm going to call it -- Serenity 2.0, the "dashboard" should be a little more convincing. And if you've ever seen an airliner cockpit (I know Static knows his way around a cockpit!), there's an eyeful of switches and gauges, partly because of the need for redundant controls. So there should be a secondary control station on Serenity, say to the right of Wash's.

Well I like the Dash Board the way it is. The Simplicty of it kind of indcates how common place space travel is. The lack of back up displays shows thats Serenity isn't brand new. They've all been scraped for other ships.

Or that other dash board to the Port Side is a back up helm.

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SGTGUMP

Sunday, June 20, 2004 4:38 AM

I LOVE YOU GUYS.

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PURPLEBELLY

Sunday, June 20, 2004 5:10 AM

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Originally posted by Static:
These slight changes have some of our more die-hard and perhaps short-sighted fans up in arms. . .

And let's not forget that the fans' behaviour over Serenity may have an effect on potential investment in other prematurely cancelled TV series. We may be at the start of a consumer revolution, let's keep it positive.

I still want all the crew to die in the movie, but I'm prepared to make sacrifices

FLYINFREE

Sunday, June 20, 2004 6:09 AM

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Here are the things I dislike about (gasp!) Serenity, the ship, and would like to see upgraded or just made more believable.

Joss has stated many times he is not a techie person and doesn't want a techie show. This is not Star Trek, with constant technobabble explainations (that change the next episode anyways). Joss doesn't want the show to be about the technology but about the characters and the story. The ship flies because the story calls for it, the engine works because they said it does, the engine explosion/dustcloud was there because it was dramatic and looked cool, the 3 switches make a good clicky sound, that's all, nothing more. Watch the show, enjoy the action and drama and laughs and quit obsessing over nitpicky little details that have nothing to do with the story.

"...we're still flyin'."
"That's not much."
"It's enough." Malcolm Reynolds and Simon Tam - Serenity

MAKEROFPATHS

Sunday, June 20, 2004 6:39 AM

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Originally posted by FlyinFree:
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Orignially posted by makerofpaths:
Here are the things I dislike about (gasp!) Serenity, the ship, and would like to see upgraded or just made more believable.

Joss has stated many times he is not a techie person and doesn't want a techie show. . . . Watch the show, enjoy the action and drama and laughs and quit obsessing over nitpicky little details that have nothing to do with the story.

We pretty much agree, actually :-) For the Big Damn Movie, though, where the image on the screen is 17 feet (see above :-), Wash, e.g., can't just be grabbing at imaginary switches and buttons. Every detail of the people and hardware is right in your face and so are the flaws. None, of course, will be found in Serenity :-)

Anyway, I certainly prefer Cap'n Dummy talk to Scottie/Jordie technobabbling at me.

THEREALME

Sunday, June 20, 2004 7:18 AM

I will trust in Joss to do the shiny thing.

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BARRY

Sunday, June 20, 2004 10:25 AM

I'm grateful Serenity is flying again but if the movie version has significant changes, it would be nice if fans were thrown maybe just one line explaining that it was overhauled or something.

TRASK43

Sunday, June 20, 2004 12:03 PM

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Originally posted by Barry:
I'm grateful Serenity is flying again but if the movie version has significant changes, it would be nice if fans were thrown maybe just one line explaining that it was overhauled or something.

I agree. Im not one to get too hung up about changes the important thing is we are getting a movie but if there are big changes it would be nice if there was a small mention of it for us fans.

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FLYINFREE

Sunday, June 20, 2004 1:45 PM

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Originally posted by makerofpaths:
For the Big Damn Movie, though, where the image on the screen is 17 feet (see above :-), Wash, e.g., can't just be grabbing at imaginary switches and buttons. Every detail of the people and hardware is right in your face and so are the flaws.

When making a TV show you have less time and less budget so shortcuts are always taken, with a movie you've got the time and the money to do it right. Joss commented on the DVD commentary of the first Buffy episode (his first TV making experience) about the constant shortage of time and money and the many shortcuts they had to keep taking and how different it was from working with movies. Every scene is just so in a movie and is redone many times if it isn't, the things that are wrong in a movie are mistakes made by the editor, etc. rather than shortcuts taken (well most movies anyways, not talking backyard low budget here). I'm sure Joss will make sure Alan is holding the yoke and Morena isn't holding it upside down or anything like that.

"...we're still flyin'."
"That's not much."
"It's enough." Malcolm Reynolds and Simon Tam - Serenity

INARAMAL4EVER

Sunday, June 20, 2004 2:31 PM

well the way i see it i put my faith im the genius of joss he won't let us down and nither will they, you have to rember they want this to be great as much as we do.

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