If Joss brought back Firefly in 2013....

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UPDATED: Saturday, September 10, 2011 00:54
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PIZMOBEACH

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 2:42 PM

If one considers the acting career path of the original cast and not our own *selfish* desires, would we really wouldn't want them to return in a Firefly relaunch? It's a great fantasy for us, but if I were them I'd want the next acting challenge, onward and upward, not falling back on something I'd already done, no matter how great the memories were.
New stories, new cast - Joss can exec-Produce to insure his voice and guidance - for me it's time for some new, hungry group of talented writers and actors and technicians to show us what they can do in the 'Verse.
And I have no problem with HBO - the nudity is over much (did I just type that??), but they have a proven track record of high quality tv. And when was their last scifi series? Ever?

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BYTEMITE

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 4:40 PM

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I was disappointed by all of them. That is until I got over the fact that they didn't reveal anything new about the characters and rewatched them a bunch of times. Now I like them all just fine. I'm pretty sure any new episode would suffer the same fate.

You mean on the first viewing? Because I think some of those provide a lot of character insights for Simon, Kaylee, Mal, Inara, and Book.

Not so much for Jayne, Zoe, Wash, or River though.

In any case, if there were new episodes, and some were weaker than others, I would agree that they would still find some fans and that they would probably at least be watchable.

BYTEMITE

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 4:45 PM

Pizmo: they say they like Firefly too, so if they WANTED to do it, I don't think it'd be selfish of us to encourage it.

After all, maybe third time's the charm. Maybe it would be a breakout hit this time.

But, I wouldn't mind a complete reboot either, if it came to that.

ZEEK

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 4:53 PM

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
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I was disappointed by all of them. That is until I got over the fact that they didn't reveal anything new about the characters and rewatched them a bunch of times. Now I like them all just fine. I'm pretty sure any new episode would suffer the same fate.

You mean on the first viewing? Because I think some of those provide a lot of character insights for Simon, Kaylee, Mal, Inara, and Book.

Not so much for Jayne, Zoe, Wash, or River though.

In any case, if there were new episodes, and some were weaker than others, I would agree that they would still find some fans and that they would probably at least be watchable.

Yeah first reaction after the episode ends type of thing. Which is what the internet would get flooded with after any new Firefly. I'm guessing the feeling would be along the lines of "nothing happened. that was lame". Let's face it that's kinda how most of the Firefly episodes were. It's just when something gets hyped and you don't get big plot advancement it kinda doesn't sit well.

That's why I think any new Firefly would probably come off as a disappointment initially. Which as we know can lead to near instant cancellation.

BYTEMITE

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 4:59 PM

I see. :)

As for cancellation, maybe that's why Joss should put together his own studio and broadcast regular webisodes.

(Awesomeness can't be expressed verbally. Stand by for best-day-dream-ever mode)

PIZMOBEACH

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 5:14 PM

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Pizmo: they say they like Firefly too, so if they WANTED to do it, I don't think it'd be selfish of us to encourage it.

I don't think they could really say anything else in public, yanno? In a room full of Firefly fans or just to any reporter - it would get out - they aren't mean, they know the fan base lives for it. It would be dissing Joss too and they certainly don't want to do that, but "good for my career path?" Eh, I'm doubtful.

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OLDGUY

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 6:49 PM

it's a show and a premise that deserves the oppty to try new media formats.

I would love to see some rendition of Firefly back on broadcast, but i'd be even more impressed if someone figured out how to do webisodes that somehow interacted with an online gaming verse...
perhaps the wedisodes would setup story lines for the next level of games that week or that month...you don't have the overhead of holding an entire series of cast on a productoin lot...you can have a wedisode where Jayne is the focus along with some unknown characters...a seperate scene set can be shot with Nathan and maybe Zoe...but then the balance of the webisode is Jayne and some bit actors and plenty of CGI....they set up a mission a planet or base station location in the verse and the games take it from there.

look, I love my firefly, but they've done the series now, they've done the movie...take it to the next level...somebody figure it out, get some money behind it, bring back some familiar faces and introduce fresh actors into it as well..most importantly...create a new genre

RIONAEIRE

Wednesday, August 10, 2011 4:21 AM

I'd prefer a spin off series in the verse but with a whole new crew, that way Joss et al can't mess up things for our BDHs and our rose tinted view of what we'd like them to be. Just my opinion.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

VERASAMUELS

Wednesday, August 10, 2011 9:24 AM

The only BDHs who have regular, solid weekly work at the moment are:-

Nathan in Castle.

Adam in Chuck.

Chuck will probably stop filming around November [ish] and be over unless there's an amazing miracle.

Castle has a full season. TPTB are unlikely to keep the 'will they won't they' going much longer. Unless there is some spectacularly clever writing, the show could be done at the end of next season.

So slating a 'start filming' for next year is a distinct possibility. They could even do episodes in which Mal is in prison/in hospital/lost/captured by hill folk/doing a mysterious side job until Nathan is able to join in full time.

Vera

Devout Keeper of Jayne's Lunchbox

BRUCEPLUTO

Wednesday, August 10, 2011 11:36 AM

Having Joss start a new season of Firefly is so appealing to me. I pointed this thread out to my spouse the other day and she said she didn’t think it should happen. Not that she doesn’t love the show, she does, and she loves Nathan. Still she thinks she’d come away disappointed. Well, this is one area I have to disagree with her, and I don’t debate her often because usually she wins.

Anyway, to quote Jimmy Stewart in Shenandoah, “ If we don’t try, we don’t do, and if we don’t do, well we’ll never know how good it coulda been…..and I want my Firefly season 2!”

Maybe not an exact quote, but I think you see where I’m coming from. As long as Joss is involved in some way and keeps the production values to his standards I think we’ll be Ok. Even if a second season were to flop, what would we have. Well, we’d still have the best season 1 show of the greatest tv series ever to run. That one’s in the bag.

BPZ, We hold for more!

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