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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Originally posted by TrainBandit:
Wow, Somambulist, I like it. I like that a new war will break out. But I would want to see Mal and Inara get together before she passes, or did you mean that was implied? Anyway, the "bodies never found" works great, since it leaves room for so much more. And that tiny dinosaur...sniffle. Really, I mean sniffle!
I envisioned another version of River and Simon's after Miranda life: River is working in the Alliance government on Ariel as a higher up, but she's really working for the people, so to speak, as a spy. Simon and Kaylee live on a little moon, much like you said, and they are in touch. Mal, who's been incommunicado for a while, contacts River out of the blue, he needs her help, and she is raring to go back out there. Drama, etc, ensues.
Little souls...
Thanks TrainBandit. I wish I could remember my old post about this... (I'm sure I had something about them marooned on some planet for a stint...?)
It was implied that they established some kind of a relationship. I think a very awkward one, as a conventional relationship just doesn't fit them really.
River being recalled into action I must admit sounds like a very Joss thing. I reckon the chances of that were the show to carry on, most likely.
You've had some good ideas from folk eh? I swear there's a writing team on this here board for sure!
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I always have to laugh when people have Simon and Kaylee living happily ever after. I assume they're not really familiar with the works of Joss Whedon. :)
I don't think it's that we're not familar. It's just this is one aspect of Joss' work which I always find a bit trite. So for the purposes of this thread I'd contest that usual direction.
To me, the last season of Angel was bogged down with Wes and Fred's impending doom and when it eventually came I was thankful because finally the story could developed some legs.
I didn't know about Tommy Lee Jones being considered for Jayne's Dad. How awesome would that have been!
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They sacrifice Serenity to crash into the walls of (now abandoned) Parliament and the Citadel, which controls the entire Cortex in the verse.
Nice! The death of SERENITY. Would be epic!
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Originally posted by TrainBandit:
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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.
I toyed with the idea of Jayne developing an intense relationship with River. Not a physical one, but a protective one and it's when she is reclaimed by the alliance that his shift for caring happens. She is the catalyst that brings him around.
Maybe at this stage Simon is off SERENITY with Kaylee on that moon and River remains aboard...?
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I always have to laugh when people have Simon and Kaylee living happily ever after. I assume they're not really familiar with the works of Joss Whedon. :)
I don't think it's that we're not familar. It's just this is one aspect of Joss' work which I always find a bit trite. So for the purposes of this thread I'd contest that usual direction.
To me, the last season of Angel was bogged down with Wes and Fred's impending doom and when it eventually came I was thankful because finally the story could developed some legs.
I didn't know about Tommy Lee Jones being considered for Jayne's Dad. How awesome would that have been!
While it's fair to disagree with one of Whedon's common tropes, I doubt we would ever see a couple romantically linked for seven seasons of any Whedon show. Not enough drama in it. Great in real life. BORING in a TV show (even Wash/Zoe, the "good married couple" was designed with Wash fated to die before two or three seasons passed).
I also find it intriguing when people pick Simon and Kaylee as the couple to "draw the line"--They have their cute moments, but they're really a pretty terrible couple, with very little in common (and not in a good "opposites attract" way, but in a dysfunctional "our goals, agendas, and life experiences are so different that we're never going to do anything but hurt each other in the long-run" way).
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Originally posted by GWEK:
I always have to laugh when people have Simon and Kaylee living happily ever after. I assume they're not really familiar with the works of Joss Whedon. :)
I don't think it's that we're not familar. It's just this is one aspect of Joss' work which I always find a bit trite. So for the purposes of this thread I'd contest that usual direction.
To me, the last season of Angel was bogged down with Wes and Fred's impending doom and when it eventually came I was thankful because finally the story could developed some legs.
I didn't know about Tommy Lee Jones being considered for Jayne's Dad. How awesome would that have been!
While it's fair to disagree with one of Whedon's common tropes, I doubt we would ever see a couple romantically linked for seven seasons of any Whedon show. Not enough drama in it. Great in real life. BORING in a TV show (even Wash/Zoe, the "good married couple" was designed with Wash fated to die before two or three seasons passed).
I also find it intriguing when people pick Simon and Kaylee as the couple to "draw the line"--They have their cute moments, but they're really a pretty terrible couple, with very little in common (and not in a good "opposites attract" way, but in a dysfunctional "our goals, agendas, and life experiences are so different that we're never going to do anything but hurt each other in the long-run" way).
Oh I doubt it too Gwek, but this is a little bit of fun. If you attach boundaries to this kind of speculating then you'll render the post redundant. Having these 'flights of fancy' is the joy in a queation like this. I find it fascinating to read peoples ideas. I'm not really interested in how accurate people are in predicting what Joss might have done in the future.
I would say it's a pity you think that a working relationship on TV would be boring. With clever writing this kind of thing should be possible. Perhaps mainstream TV needs to challenge itself more.
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Byte, I think even Kaylee has a moral standard, so I don't know that she would imagine as many dirty ships as you for some reason think. Sure the idea would occur to her, things occur to most people, but I don' think she'd ever write certain ones down if they were too nasty. Sure she'd love anything where Mal and Inara get together, and some other matchups, she might even think about samesex matchups, but there are some things that even lil' Kaylee wouldn't entertain too much.
Gwek, are you talking about what's called Virtual Firefly? Because I actually like what I've seen of that so far, someone is revamping it into novel form elsewhere and I'm thoroughly enjoying it in all actuality.
I'm just thankful for fanfic, that way the verse can continue on in an infinite number of ways and I can read the ones I like and ignore the ones I don't like. Its great and everyone wins and no one is let down.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
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I don't imagine them being nasty, more like silly. Though the realistic pairings she might decide to add some detail.
>_> I just think we see so many times in the series and the movie that she's a little shameless, and not hung up at all about anything like this. There's no reason to think she WOULDN'T write crazy fanfic pairings.
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Or he sent it to himself, to maintain his facade.
Devout Keeper of Jayne's Lunchbox
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To quote Jayne from the movie, "Shepherd once told me; if you can't do something smart, do something right." That and his witnessing River the Reaver hunter at the end have ALREADY demonstrated that he's family with the crew.
Devout Keeper of Jayne's Lunchbox
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