Had Firefly done Seven seasons... What ending would have suited you?
POSTED BY: TheSomnambulist
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 6, 2011 08:38
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It's not often a TV has the chance to end they way the creators envisage. Such is the case with our beloved Firefly.
So I'm wondering, in an ideal world had Firefly run it's course of the supposed seven seasons, what finalé can you envisage where you as a viewer would have been satisfied with it's conclusion.
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Great question!
I do know Mal would never die...No matter what. He would always just fly right off into the sunset (or a raincloud!)
Maybe just for me, but that's alright.
NO DAMN ENERGY RIBBONS!
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Cheers.
And yes that's a classic image of Mal flying off.
But what of the others? Are they with him are they gone ? If so where and why and are they old or young still?
I have so many questions...
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Every time I put my two cents in someone jumps down my throat...so I'm skittish...I just wanna come in here to relax.
I see River sticking around, but Zoe preggers changes things a bit there.Book and Wash are done, not much to say there, unless the movie was a halucination. I loved the movie, others didn't. Mal and Inara could only go down so many ways...I think Simon would've cured whatever she had, but I don't see them havin' that "whole passel" of kids Mal talked about. I mean Inara?- with spitup and diapers? I dunno... Either an epic fling or an epic friendship or both, for me...I flirted with the idea of Yo-saff on staff, but I think...no. Jayne, Kaylee, and Simon are soooo up in the air...so many ways that could go...I'd be Ok with whatever they do.
What would you wanna know the most?
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It was all River's imagination. Just like the autistic kid on St. Elsewhere.
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Hey Wish
Not jumping down your throat, just genuinely curious. As there is no right or wrong to this I'd have thought we're all on pretty safe ground.
As you've mentioned there are so many ways that this could have played out that it's a juicy question to put to the masses. So many wonderful interpretations.
Personally I envisage Simon, River, Kaylee, and Zoe finding a life away from Serenity.
Inara I think Joss would have killed off. Most likely just after she and Mal came to some kind of resolution.
Thereafter....
Mal and Jayne I see as a kind of disfunctioning Butch and Sundance and that ultimately their endings would be heroic and ambiguous. The implication is they die in some out numbered last stand, but their deaths would never be confirmed.
Suspicion that they remain alive would later spring from the fact that SERENITY though supposedly scrap in some far off junkyard in space mysteriously disappears from the junkyard never to be seen again.
...and Zoe now a mother and a teacher off world receives in the post a little plastic dinosaur that used to be on the dashboard of Serenity.
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I actually think Inara wants kids, which is why she gets upset by the thought of Mal having them with Saffron. Her condition must be genetic and she's concerned about passing it on. The way she interacts with Kaylee and River, plus her desire to have the shuttle and the subsequent attention to decoration is telling: the woman is subconsciously nesting.
Of course, that would depend on there being a cure. Which, considering how Joss and Tim and everyone are still acting like there's more to the story after Morena spilled the beans, there may very well be.
As for the end... I imagine one last double cross, the crew transmitting a "gotcha" message to the Blue Sun Corp after an epic caper stealing all the damning evidence.
River standing on another building some distance away from the headquarters, light just this side of twilight with a dawn.
And a remote controlled Serenity equipped with ship-mounted weapons taking out the boardroom with all the CEOs inside it.
With Blue Sun, so falls the economic basis of the Alliance. We get an epilogue scene or episode suggesting the rim and core have all gone back to post-apocalyptic levels dealing with the aftereffects of the Alliance and Blue Sun pacification efforts (creating more zombies and Reavers), but humans and life in general is finding a way, as symbolized by Kaylee and Simon's kids.
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Quote:Wow... very poetical. I like it, a lot.
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...and Zoe now a mother and a teacher off world receives in the post a little plastic dinosaur that used to be on the dashboard of Serenity.
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It is a certain bet that seven seasons of Firefly would have brought us story lines that we can't even imagine. There is no reason to assume that the cast wouldn't have gone through multiple changes over that time, and not only because Joss likes to shake things up with character drama and death.
Remember how Charisma's pregnancy altered a story line in Angel Season 4? Any number of things like that could have shaped Firefly over the years, including people getting the chance to be on another series. We might say they would be crazy to leave Joss, but we have no idea where their character arc would be at that point. And by that time Joss might have created another show (or shows) so Tim or Jane might be the show runner then.
There are only two characters that I am sure would have survived the entire ordeal, Mal and Jayne, but that doesn't mean Jayne would still be on the crew. As for the finale, I can only hope for something as brilliant as the end of Angel.
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