Firefly Show Bible?

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PURPLEBELLY

Monday, June 28, 2004 9:17 PM

Well LaiLing, I think you're going to a special Hell - the one with booze and dancing girls

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Monday, June 28, 2004 9:25 PM

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Originally posted by CaptBaggytrousers:
Anyway, Ellison's orignal script is available in book form, with lengthy diatribes about how the episode came about, the changes that were made to it, and how he was so unhappy with the version that finally aired he wanted his name taken off and his psuedonym Cordwainer Bird ("giving them the Bird") used. His script is vastly superior to the episode that aired, and it's my favorite episode of Star Trek.

And of course, its his script and not the episode that won the Hugo (though the fact the filmed episode didn't turn out too badly probably helped a great deal).

"I threw up on your bed"

SCOTTISHBROWNCOAT

Monday, June 28, 2004 11:49 PM

You know, in certain Orthodox Christian traditions(Russian or Greek or some other autonomous Orthodox body, I can't quite remember)
Judas and Pontus Pilate are saints who are seen merely as those who followed Gods will and who did the "dirty work" of betraying the Messiah (Judas) and sending the Messiah to the cross(Pilate).

RELFEXIVE

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 9:42 AM

There's just so much stuff that's mistranslated, revised, added, adapted, reinterpreted and misquoted that once you start you might never stop...

And it's funny how most of the wrong/changed/reinterpreted stuff is to the detriment of people the Church doesn't like, or just to people's happiness and free will in general, while greatly benefiting the Church itself.

Handy that.

And Satan/Lucifer as "The Devil" was, of course, created in the Middle Ages as a way to scare peasants into doing what the Church wanted them to do.

SUPPLEMENTAL: Oh, and a show bible for Firefly would be cool, too, but I doubt it exists outside of the people in charge. If it was on the net somewhere we'd all know by now.

Mal: "We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so... very... pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die."

LAILING

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 7:57 PM

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Originally posted by PurpleBelly:
Well LaiLing, I think you're going to a special Hell - the one with booze and dancing girls

As a bi-sexual woman, I thank you. (Though I'm not much of a drinker...

)

"They've gone to *plaid*!"

PURPLEBELLY

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 8:28 PM

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Originally posted by LaiLing:
As a bi-sexual woman, I thank you. (Though I'm not much of a drinker... )

'K. I'm sure they got boy-whores, too.

LAILING

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 1:59 AM

Shiny - 'cause...sometimes you feel like a nut...sometimes you don't!

"They've gone to *plaid*!"

YT

Friday, July 30, 2004 3:06 AM

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Originally posted by Misguided By Voices:

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Originally posted by CaptBaggytrousers:
Anyway, Ellison's orignal script ...(snip)...

And of course, its his script and not the episode that won the Hugo (though the fact the filmed episode didn't turn out too badly probably helped a great deal).

"City On the Edge of Forever" won for Dramatic Presentation, meaning the episode -- not the script. The script would not have been eligible for a Hugo that year, as it had not been published in book form during the previous calendar year.

Ya, I know they gave the award to Harlan, but this was only the second year for a Dramatic Presentation award, things were still a tad ad hoc, and Harlan was a big name (he won two other Hugos that year). Still, according to the rules on the ballot, it was the aired episode that was nominated.

Keep the Shiny Side Up

Wutzon: Dark Star Orchestra, "Estimated Prophet", from "Thunder & Lightnin'"

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Saturday, July 31, 2004 8:48 PM

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Originally posted by YT:
"City On the Edge of Forever" won for Dramatic Presentation, meaning the episode -- not the script. The script would not have been eligible for a Hugo that year, as it had not been published in book form during the previous calendar year.

My fault - mixed up the Writer's Guild Award, which was based on the original screenplay.

"I threw up on your bed"

NOVA

Friday, September 3, 2004 12:15 AM

The only Bible I've found relating to a show is the Babylon 5 spinoff Crusade, unfortunately it was in Russian and I've yet to properly translate it.

A Firefly Bible would be good to see. I'd laugh if it said "by the way, don't include anything in the way of Western stylings".

It would most likely include possibly synopses for episodes for the end of the first season. We may have seen resolutions to a couple of storylines, and maybe found out where River was going, or where Book came from.

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