This idea I have had for years and just need to share
POSTED BY: Emmi
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 01:31
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Thanks for the welcome, everyone :)
The age problem, if it is a problem at all, could easily be solved by moving forward in Firefly time as well. Like Indy 4, but less extreme. :) And yes, Whedon should have the rights. It reminds me of the Beatles rights...
But the issue at hand is that the world just needs more Firefly. Fact! Everyone I've ever spoken who knows Firefly actually starts glowing with happiness when I mention it. And I mean this literally! I live in Holland and I've spoken people from many countries - UK, France, Slovenia, Australia, America, Ireland - and they all start beaming as soon as they hear the word Firefly. :D No other series evokes this kind of joy, not even Doctor Who (with David Tennant) or Battlestar Galactica. And bloody hell, the imdb rating for Firefly is a big fat 9.5!!! (BSG got 9.0, Doctor Who 8.8) So how come Doctor Who is onto its 31st season and Battlestar got a full 4 (or 5) seasons?!
Well, a girl can always dream... and possibly bombard Universal with mail when the time is right ;)
- Warning: I'm not of this world
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I had always thought a rather good idea would be to tell the story a little differently...
I hadn't noticed so much at first, but after repeated watchings it occurs to me that while a lot of the stuff in Firefly came from the characters point of view - a great big chunk of it came from what you might call the ships point of view.
And it occured to me that perhaps, we could go and tell the story of the ship, say, found in the scrapyard after Mal and company have headed on to greener pastures, moved onward and upward, and some other poor down on his/her luck slob winds up taking to her, or maybe the story of before it wound up in that scrapheap and drew Mals eye.
The set would be relatively easy to duplicate, the verse and local "world" is already pre-set, and wide enough, variable enough, to always have an unknown, always have a story - and with a careful, light stroke, maybe a touch here and there, a reference to "that whole miranda scandal" or running across a young Patience... so long as they don't take a really *bad* idea from Star Drek and try to tie every plot into ever other one *eyeroll* - but I think Joss knows better.
There's so MANY untold stories in the verse Joss created, all we really *need* is a single viewpoint, just one window, through which to tell them - and the ship is most certainly that, whether or not our BDH's are on it.
Bonus: more BDH's and BigDamnVillains! - always a plus.
-F
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That's actually an idea I floated, that Nathan and the wardrobe department were doing it intentionally for the role.
The problem is, I think they're going too far! Richard Castle is supposed to be, wasn't it #9 on a NYC list of most eligible bachelors? He needs to LOOK it. The friend of mine who I was talking this over with actually called him FAT and said he looked like he has jowls! MUCH too much, if that's the impression the viewers are getting, you know?
And yes, Nathan looks much better in tighter weaves and fabrics. They don't call him Captain Tightpants for nuthin'.
Though that's also a great deal to do with the lighting in the castle apartment set at night being much softer, too, which is more flattering than the harsh daylight facsimile they do in, say, the precinct set. He doesn't look bad in the regular daylight, either, it's the harsh fake stuff washes him out and casts some unflattering shadows.
I'm sure Nathan wants to get some household name actor recognition level out of this, and he really needs to tell his people to make him look good. It's not like they don't have anything to work with, you know, they SHOULD be able to make him look good, as opposed to trying to make him look bad.
Especially since (selfish motivation ahoy) if Nathan LOOKS good, people don't question whether he can do more Firefly...
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Frem: If I have to take a new crew, I'd be happy to, really, though there's enough unresolved tidbits with the regular crew that I still want to see more of what happens to them.
If there has to be a reboot, heck, I'd even take that. But for me, the original actors coming back, no matter how pie in the sky that is, that's the most preferable outcome for me.
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Originally posted by Emmi:
Thanks, I didn't know Fox still had the rights. Seems like a silly thing to me, but then again a lot does.
As I said, it's a Utopian idea, and we don't live in a utopia... But in an ideal universe that would be more or less the way I'd try to organise it. ;)
When it comes down to it, however, all I care about is that we get more Firefly. How it's done doesn't matter too much. :)
I absolutely love the idea, regardless. I'd buy into it.
Bones: "Don't 'rawr' her!"
Booth: "What? she'rawred' me first."
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