What might have been, plot-wise, two to seven years down the line

POSTED BY: TrainBandit
UPDATED: Saturday, August 20, 2011 19:34
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BYTEMITE

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 5:53 PM

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(Although, in fairness, even Mal's fanifc has them together)

The first thing I thought when I read Mal waxing all poetic about the lives of his crew and passengers was "Mal's fanfic" too.

I think that story was more supposed to represent what Mal expects for the futures of his crew and passengers than what will really happen.

But wait'll we get a load of Kaylee and River's fanfics, because you just know they WRITE them, not just imagine them. I have a sneaking suspicion Kaylee is a het/yuri/yaoi/crack pairing fan, and writes fic that ship everyone on Serenity together indiscriminately and without qualification. In the case of Jayne, she probably even extends that to his guns... Though THAT ship may well be canon. :)

As for Simon Kaylee, yeah, Joss does like to mess with happy or innocent couples and break cuties everywhere. But, on the other hand, he let Victor and Sierra end up together in Dollhouse (and have a kid, then break up, then get back together), so just being happy together is not always a death sentence. But I'm sure happy ending is more like 1/10 chance versus tragedy at 9/10 chance.

I've always figured the seasons would be, Season 3 deals with the Academy a lot and they find out about Blue Sun's involvement in many sinister programs including the production of Pax... Which never stopped. Inara's illness becomes obvious, Zoe leaves to give birth and captain the Jet Wash for a while.

Season four, the last or second to last episode would be them infiltrating Blue Sun to disrupt Pax production. Inara's subplot probably gets resolved if they happen to find a cure while they're there, otherwise she dies in season four. If she lives Mal boots her off Serenity anyway because of the danger. Simon breaks up with Kaylee, probably for similar reasons.

Season five: When Blue Sun keeps going after them, the crew decides to go after Blue Sun once and for all.

Season six: In the economic and political instability after Blue Sun falls, an Anti-Alliance terrorist organization starts hitting soft targets. The crew manages to find out somehow that the resistance's next target is to take out Parliament and a good portion of Londinium's citizens. They find the Operative there, who has gone off the other deep end, and are captured by some of the other Academy students who joined the Operative. Zoe makes a big damn heroes moment and kills the Operative in revenge for Wash, but parliament blows up anyway.

In Season seven, everything goes wrong. Blue Sun and some members of Parliament had a contingency plan to take most of humanity out rather than allow civilization to fall entirely. Pax is released from terraforming equipment left on all populated worlds. The crew finds a cure for Pax by confronting some of the Alliance and Blue Sun remnants living high on the hog still. They sacrifice Serenity to crash into the walls of (now abandoned) Parliament and the Citadel, which controls the entire Cortex in the verse. They use the super computer to release a counteragent from all the worlds automated terraforming systems, ending the Pax threat and restoring people to normal. Then they shut down the Cortex because the Cortex was broadcasting some kind of mind control signal.

I also believe Dollhouse may have been a clearing house for Firefly ideas. :)

TRAINBANDIT

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 6:27 PM

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If your planet on The Rim didn't go to war, it didn't sign a peace treaty giving sovereignty to the Alliance.

Now, that is interesting. Although I'd expect the Alliance to try to find a way to control everybody, treaty or no treaty, so the spying angle you mentioned would be a good way to do it.

Mal as starship captain...could be Mal finally coming into his own in a big wyay. It would be sad, bittersweet. Because all the chaos created by Mal's dissatisfaction and chosen lifestyle (seasons 1-7) would settle into the promise of a new, even better adventure. Seems a fitting ending to the series, since Mal triumphs.

Little souls...

TRAINBANDIT

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 7:27 PM

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Jayne needs something. Not sure what. Maybe some new recruit to the crew for him to clash with.

Or maybe a woman who would at long last be the one who won't take any of his crap, a really tough browncoat girl or summat.

Little souls...

TRAINBANDIT

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 7:32 PM

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I've always figured the seasons would be, Season 3 deals with the Academy a lot and they find out about Blue Sun's involvement in many sinister programs including the production of Pax... Which never stopped.

Which would explain why the threat of Reavers still continues, since I've always assumed Reavers don't, or won't, breed. The Pax just keeps makin' em.

Little souls...

IMNOTHERE

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 8:30 PM

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Originally posted by ecgordon:
I was waiting for the episode in which Saffron marries Badger. HIlarity would ensue.

Yes. Narrative causality demands that.

Also, Saffron and Inara need to be forced to work as a team at some stage.

As for endings (nb: this owes something to various other people's suggestions in this thread... and BSG... and Dollhouse...)

A new civil war ensues, and our BDHs spend a season or so fighting for the independents. Sadly, its a hopeless cause, the Alliance mounts a massive purge against the rebels. River disappears, and the rest of our surviving heroes, along with thousands of political prisoners and refugees are shipped to a labor camp on a remote, barely habitable moon on the fringes of the system, way beyond the range of most civilian ships. Our BDHs could break out, but there are no ships, nowhere to go, and they could only survive for a few days outside the camp.

All is looking grim until a massive spaceship enters orbit and a flotilla of landing craft descend, led by Serenity, piloted by River. She's found the last surviving colony ship, kept ready by the Blue Sun execs lest they need an escape route, and "borrowed" it. Action ensues as the BDHs lead the prison break and lead the prisoners to the landing craft. They escape to the colony ship, but in the chaos, Serenity is left stranded on the moon's surface.

Mal begins to plan his revenge on the Alliance but River discovers something in the ships computers - there is another star system with colonization potential. Its a 300 year trip, but they have cryocapsules for everybody and a hold full of terraforming equipment.

So, Mal leads the independents out into the blackest black, to build their own 'verse where everybody can be free. Fortunately, they have to swing round the sun to scoop fuel, otherwise they'd have had to sail off away from the sunset, and that just wouldn't do.

Some time later, a small group of dropouts and malcontents are scouting the rim of the 'verse for wreckage from the civil war to salvage, but they crash on a deserted moon when their engine fails, stranding them. Luckily, the signal they were investigating turns out to be an abandoned Firefly-class transport - easily repaired with parts from their old piece of junk and full of convenient nooks and crannies for "unofficial" cargo. A wonderful find - with the Alliance in turmoil after the financial collapse there's plenty of work for someone with a ship and a relaxed attitude to the law. Still, its a mystery why someone has painted flowers on all the walls, there's a frilly ballgown hanging up in the engine room and what looks like a plastic dinosaur jammed down the back of the pilot's seat...

TWO

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 8:48 PM

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Originally posted by TrainBandit:
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If your planet on The Rim didn't go to war, it didn't sign a peace treaty giving sovereignty to the Alliance.

Now, that is interesting. Although I'd expect the Alliance to try to find a way to control everybody, treaty or no treaty, so the spying angle you mentioned would be a good way to do it.

The Maidenhead Bar on Beaumonde could be equivalent to Rick’s Café in Casablanca, a place for off-world secret agents to go for a drink. The running joke will be the bouncer is afraid of tiny River, but not of Mal, Zoe or Jayne. Don't ever cross River.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

IMNOTHERE

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 8:57 PM

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Originally posted by two:
Don't ever cross River.

You can't cross the same River twice.

:-)

TRAINBANDIT

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 8:59 PM

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Mal begins to plan his revenge on the Alliance but River discovers something in the ships computers - there is another star system with colonization potential. Its a 300 year trip, but they have cryocapsules for everybody and a hold full of terraforming equipment.

So, Mal leads the independents out into the blackest black, to build their own 'verse where everybody can be free. Fortunately, they have to swing round the sun to scoop fuel, otherwise they'd have had to sail off away from the sunset, and that just wouldn't do.

Of course they need to head off into the sunset. What else could happen?

I also loved the dinosaur and the dress part. Nice work, with the continuation of the "naughty men" tradition at the end. And like I said in response to Two, Mal needs a BIG triumph at the end, and I think you nailed it.

Little souls...

TRAINBANDIT

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:08 PM

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Also, Saffron and Inara need to be forced to work as a team at some stage.

Yes, tag-seducing some Alliance higher up. It could work, and maybe we'd discover some of Saffron's history in the process.

Little souls...

THESOMNAMBULIST

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 10:33 PM

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Originally posted by Mendur:
"Trapped but defiant Mal and Jayne held off a two hundred man alliance onslaught, that had them pinned down for two days. Last that was heard, Mal and Jayne made a last ditch effort to break free.... "

Which one's Butch and which one's Sundance?

The Codex Menduri: http://mendur.blogspot.com

I always saw Mal as Butch and Jayne as Sundance. One of the best westerns out there and a great ending, and one of those enduring true stories

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