Firefly - Without SERENITY
POSTED BY: THESOMNAMBULIST
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 17:34
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Hey all just a quickie question.
I was just wondering how people would take to Firefly if it were to come back, but say the continuation meant there would be no scope for the crew to be aboard Serenity any longer.
Instead they're just on some planet undertaking odd jobs and generally ending up in bad situations...
Would you all be partial to such things?
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Originally posted by THESOMNAMBULIST:
Hey all just a quickie question.
I was just wondering how people would take to Firefly if it were to come back, but say the continuation meant there would be no scope for the crew to be aboard Serenity any longer.
Instead they're just on some planet undertaking odd jobs and generally ending up in bad situations...
Would you all be partial to such things?
I can't really picture it. Seems like the scope would be significantly reduced. One static setting just doesn't fit the show in my mind.
If they were going to do that I would rather have them follow totally new characters just set in the same verse.
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I don't see it working. Serenity was the glue that brought them together (with the exception of Zoe and Mal) and kept them together.
Jayne might stick around and pull jobs but the rest would have no reason to stay.
Inara, Simon, River and Kaylee, all had reasons or a desire to be off planet and on a ship.
If you pretend there was no BDM. Book might settle in as the local preacher but Wash, beyond comic relief, doesn't bring much to the table if he's not a pilot.
I see it going somehting like this.
Serenity Ranch
"Mal! The cows are out"
"Gorramit! I told Kaylee to mend that fence yesterday. Wash jump on the tractor and see if you can head them off before they stampede off the cliff. Zoe, tell the Doc to grab his bag,some are likely to be cut up going through the barb wire."
"Can't Mal, Doc went into town with River to see Book. They were meeting about the Sunday social."
"I keep telling him I can't keep him off the Allaince radar if he keeps wandering out of the barn."
"I'll go get him. I have a client I need to meet in town."
"In town? What, is the bedroom I rent you not fancy enough to entertain in anymore?"
"The springs on the bed are bit squeeky Sir"
"Stow it Zoe. Where's Jayne"
"Last I saw him he was working in the garden. Said something about the turnip's were ripe for the picking."
"Just once I'd like something to go right on this ranch."
Scenes for next weeks episode of "Serenity Ranch"
"Gorramit I ripped my pants"
"I'll grab my mending kit Captain. Tell me again why we call you Captain?"
"My Gorram ranch , My Gorram rules. They took the sky from me Kaylee... they took the sky"
"It's ok,Captain. It will be alright. Sure wish Simon would rip his pants every once in while."
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Well BookOnboardSystemComputer... I didn't see it working before but I do now!! That was funny!
Ok so it's not Firefly as we know it, but it has some pretty on target characterisations.
:D
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Actually, I could see it working. Assuming we're post movie crew, Inara's the only one who really needs a ship to keep working. But maybe the right planet with the right use for her companion skills could work out.
Safe explored the possibility of Simon working a doctor clinic in a poor Rim town and them sheltering him and River from the Alliance. A migratory doctor might not be bad either.
And Kaylee has always wanted to start up her OWN mechanics shop anyway, and she doesn't need to be on a ship to do so.
Zoe, Mal, and Jayne's storylines where they go on heists and robberies and smuggling don't really need a ship to be true to form. They could also theoretically take part in cattle runs and rustling and the old fights between free range versus the land barons.
If it's a reboot with Wash and Book still alive, Book functions fine planet side, we just get to see a few more abbey scenes and preaching to villagers. Wash can still be useful getting Zoe, Jayne, and Mal team out of any binds and transporting their illicit gains to market elsewhere.
It would end up by its nature being far more Western than Sci-Fi, though, unless there just happened to be a Blue Sun facility on world as well.
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Hey Zeek.
Yeah. SERENITY is such a big part of the show, it would be difficult to envisage. But I must confess to having imaginings (had the show continued for Seven seasons) where at least one season the crew might not have been aboard Serenity.
Just so as to contrive a nifty story where they win her back.
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Hey Byte
What if they were to commandeer a different ship?
How would that sit with you?
R
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Some potential there. It could be a speedy one to two person thing for Wash, the RPG has one like that in-verse.
Or it could be more of an "alleged boat" that's in even worse condition than Serenity.
I read a story once, I think it was by someone named Jiolee, where someone stole Serenity to put in a museum and left them a run down flying brick as compensation. They then have to try to track down the guy in it, land it without dying, and spend the rest of the story on a planet suffering under a heat wave with no climate control trying to figure out how to get Serenity back and get revenge on the guy.
Imagine Mal's reaction, and his likely mood for the whole story, played for laughs.
I'll find you a link later, because it's really worth a read.
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It doesn't have to be that ship (I do like that one though, reminds me of an old pickup I had), it's more of a story telling device. The ship is where the more interesting character studies are explored and acted out, the interaction and conflict between the crew members - different folks pretty much forced to find a way to get along with each other in potentially lethal circumstances. It reminds me of some of the jobs I've found myself working 
but I got to go home every day. I think watching those dynamics is universally appealing. Take that enclosed space away and they are not forced to deal with each others differences and they end up having shallower relationships. Take away the ship and you don't have the shuttles return in Out of Gas. Also, without the ship you could argue you don't even need the science fiction, just make it a western. I'm partial to the science fiction parts more than the western ones though.
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Sounds awesome to me. I like that kind of thing. Though I'm liking the idea that the ship they commandeer is actually way better than Serenity and far more practical (y'know better bunks, better water and air filtration etc) but Mal stubbornly continues to search for Serenity and steals her back.
:D
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