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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Originally posted by lwaves:
The end:
The final season is partly our crew doing it's thing and partly an uprising against the Alliance and Blue Sun.
Simon and Kaylee finally agree that they love each other and stay together.
Simon also realises that River needs to be let go and be her own person.
Jayne has changed (a little) and has come to appreciate and respect the crew around him as friends, even River and Simon.
Zoe, ever loyal to Mal, gives her life to save him in the final battle.
River effectively takes over Zoe's position as Serenity's second in command.
Mal catches up with Inara but she won't go back with him. At some point a cure for her illness is found, maybe by Simon.
Mal and Inara agree to bring up Zoe's child between them but stay seperate as a couple.
The Alliance is effectively brought down and Blue Sun destroyed.
Serenity and it's crew fly off towards a sun with Mal remarking that 'It ain't so black out there anymore'.
That's real good...
"Separate as a couple"- very 'Joss'.
The laughing Chrisisall
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And very Inara... Girl, I'ma SMACK you if you keep doing that to the poor guy!
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
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Wow... very poetical. I like it, a lot.
Cheers dude!
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Gwek.
NOW THAT IS A REPLY!!!!!
Brilliant stuff. Thank you so much for that. That's remarkable.
It's not all what I personally would like to see but I think your thought and logic are well applied and I love the design of your contrivances. Nifty stuff.
While I was reading it I was totally against the cloning stuff. Just because in principle I don't like cloning type narratives, however, I gave it some more considerations and in particular Joss' writting of Alien Resurrection and realised this is actually something that Joss would do. It's his kink for sure. So I have to hand it to you for that. Nice observations.
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Gwek.
NOW THAT IS A REPLY!!!!!
Brilliant stuff. Thank you so much for that. That's remarkable.
It's not all what I personally would like to see but I think your thought and logic are well applied and I love the design of your contrivances. Nifty stuff.
While I was reading it I was totally against the cloning stuff. Just because in principle I don't like cloning type narratives, however, I gave it some more considerations and in particular Joss' writting of Alien Resurrection and realised this is actually something that Joss would do. It's his kink for sure. So I have to hand it to you for that. Nice observations.
Glad you enjoyed! :)
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Crikey. Could've sworn I responded to this earlier tonight, but I guess it didn't save. :(
Let's try again...
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Originally posted by PLATONIST:
The idea of Mal and Kaylee bonding over the ship was recently negated in both "Better Days" where Kaylee's fantasy takes place OFF the ship, and in "Take the Sky", where Mal states he would lay down his burdens and give up his fight in exchange for a normal life with Inara. I'm assuming on or off the ship. Canon overrides speculation.
I respectfully disagree. While both stories are canon, everything you're referencing is fantasy. Additionally, in both cases, they fantasies serve the larger story.
In BETTER DAYS, to accomplish the overall arc of the story, all the fantasy have to take the characters away from Mal. That's the point. And even if we accept that what we're seeing IS Kaylee's one and only, pure super fantasy of what she craves... fantasizing and living it are two different things. Yes, her fantasy in BETTER DAYS says that she MIGHT want to leave Serenity, but every other bit of canon we see seems to indicate a different intention.
TAKE THE SKY is, perhaps, a bit trickier. The thrust of the whole story is about what Mal is willing to sacrifice to do the right thing. Happens to be everything, including his life, his love (note that everyone EXCEPT Mal and Inara winds up with a happy ending of sorts), and even his freedom. That willingness defines the boundaries of the story.
Further, Mal's willingness to live a normal life is quite conditional. It requires that Inara give up her vocation (indeed, her identity, really), and that very fact is what dooms their relationship. Also make careful note of the fact that this so-called "normal life" is silent on the matter of leaving Serenity.
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Also, the problem with Mal and Kaylee (based on your argument), beyond being like brother and sister, is that if the ship goes down they no longer have a unifying constant, with little passion or intellectual attraction for each other, there wouldn’t be much to keep them together, the pairing doesn’t work off of the ship.
Could be that you're reading only some of what I'm writing:
1) Nowhere do I have the ship going down.
2) Nowhere do I have them leaving the ship (thus, it doesn't MATTER if their relationship works off of the ship).
On the matter of them "being like brother and sister..." That argument, literature shows us, is very, very weak tea. I can point to, say, CLUELESS, as one of countless counter-examples.
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Wash and Zoe were opposites and they seemed to work just fine, grew together, even made a baby, because they wanted a life together regardless of what they had in common or not.
There is a difference between "opposite" and "complimentary." In the case of Wash and Zoe, their differences compliment each other, strengthening their relationship.
In the case of Inara and Mal, their personalities are actually pretty similar, but their worldviews are incompatible and opposite. And that spells trouble.
Simon and Kaylee (perhaps even more than Mal and Inara) are products of their very different (and opposite) societies. We see in SHINDIG what happens when Kaylee enters Simon's world. She might have a fancy evening, but she doesn't belong there anymore than Mal does. And we see on a regular basis how Simon fits in to Kaylee's world. Ultimately, he fates better than she does, but he's always sacrificing. Kaylee's world does not allow Simon to use his capabilities to full capacity (and more than Simon's world allows Kaylee to let her light fully shine).
And, see, that's a problem that Wash and Zoe don't have. Despite their different personalities, neither of them appears to have had to SACRIFICE for the relationship to work (well, maybe Wash's moustache), but a Mal/Inara or Simon/Kaylee pairing in the long term would require a significant sacrifice from one or both partners. And that would lead to resentment from the partner who changed, and quite possibly the other partner not being as enamored any
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Some of these sound reasonable to me and some don't, everyone likes different things. I would be okay with clones, though the rest of Weck's story, at least parts of it, don't appeal to me, I think if we were going to do River clones we should have the real River on Serenity and evil clone River leading Blue Sun. It doesn't really matter though, I only bring it up to say that clones are acceptable, even though the concept seems to be becoming more obselete as time goes by, but it could still be cool/interesting.
I'm glad that everyone can imagine their own ending because it wasn't set in stone, Firefly has become so many different things to so many different people that I'm kind of glad it was short so people can imagine it how they like, the possabilities are endless.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
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GWEK, I’m not saying you don’t have the right to your likes and opinions, I just don’t think there is much foreshadowing or justification in canon for either Mal/ Kaylee or Simon/Inara, but that’s just my opinion, plus I like Simon and Kaylee together, they’re cute and Mal and Inara are sexy as all hell together, their banter alone makes me think about love stories, relationships and so forth. I don’t know if the show would have kept my viewership if Mal and Kaylee had hooked up, sounds kind of boring. I don’t have much of an attention span to begin with; see all the Castle episodes I still need to watch on my DVR.
Actually, I liked your clone idea, but I think this could be applied to Inara’s situation as much as River’s.
Something like this could have translated easily to a sequel; hopefully someday we’ll see one.
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1. Zoe with Wash's daughter growing up fast
2. Mal & Inara together, but still bickering like Beatrice and Benedick. Of course, there's Inara's secret to contemplate...
3. River developing/developed into a fighting Sensei.
4. Kaylee and Simon with a pair of twins.
5. Jayne - to his utter and complete surprise and confusion - in love, married and getting sexed up daily by his strong hot wife.
6. An Oriental and a Maori on the crew.
Devout Keeper of Jayne's Lunchbox
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