StillFlying.net... but only until early January

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GWEK

Monday, June 3, 2013 12:32 PM

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Originally posted by clockwork1328:
This work is literally amazing. Quick question, have you ever pitched trying to get the Firefly Crew to do anything with it? Like either recognize it, or even do a read through of one of the episodes? These are pure gold!

Aim to Misbehave
-Clockwork1328

Glad you enjoyed! It's very tough to get any sort of acknowledgement for something like this. I imagine if we'd had a broader fanbase, something might have been possible.

If I recall correctly, when we were writing it, one of our gang attended a con with 2-3 of the stars and was hoping to get them to do a read of a single scene, but it never happened.

GWEK

Monday, June 3, 2013 12:58 PM

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Originally posted by jkrfan7:
:( Can you tell us what was going to happen in Season 3?

I can talk a little about Season Three. I still plan to post more detailed notes some day... First, I need to give a little context. We tried very hard to get general consensus on what we wanted to do, and as a group, I think we'd gotten most of the broad strokes down. However, we had a few different possible versions. What I'm going to discuss was my personal vision of it, in which we'd filled out at least the basic idea of almost every episode.

The first episode would have opened with a close-up of Mal's face, eyes closed, head bowed, offering up thanks along the lines of "Lord, we offer up our thank for this plentiful and extravagant bounty which we are about to receive."

Then he pauses, looks up, grins, and asks, "What? Too much?"

He's not at a table at all. He's at an altar (in fact, in the church that we saw townsfolk abandoning in Season Two). Zoe is with him, stuffing golden candlesticks into a sack.

Yep, they're robbing a church.

When they're ready to leave, they find themselves in a gunfight with another crew of scavengers and we see that Zoe has gotten reckless to the point of borderline suicidal. (The sequence largely underscores how Mal and Zoe have switched roles in the wake of Season Two: having regained a measure of his faith, Mal has something to live for, while Zoe, having lost everything, has nothing left to lose).

A chase/fight follows, with Mal calling ahead and finding that the ship (which has been having trouble since the new Alliance upgrades have been put in) hasn't been repaired yet. Inara is in the pilot's chair, and says that River and Nico (who you may recall from our Season Two) have gone to look for a replacement. (Note: Although Mal gives piloting duties to River at the end of Season Two, I found it ridiculous that he was let her pilot the ship while she's still as crazy as she is, so to replace both Wash and Jayne -- who stayed on Haven at the end of Season Two -- they've hired Nico).

Nico and River have stolen a ship part from the ship of the other scavenger crew, so they ALSO return followed by bad guys. However, we see the crew working in concert as Mal, River, Nico and Zoe hold down the fort while Simon runs the missing part to Kaylee, who installs it in time for Inara pilot the ship in a shaky lift-off.

Mal closes the hatch and breathes a sign of relief, Nico runs for the cockpit, Kaylee and Simon kiss, Serenity breaks atmo... and we cut to credits.

*****

So that was how it was going to begin.

Season Three was going to end on a cliffhanger that ends something like this:

Most of the crew, including a drugged Kaylee and a dying Jayne, arrive at a hangar second ahead of the authorities to find Serenity gone -- stolen by Saffron. (They should never have trusted her!) Meantime, Simon ponders how to hide the fact that he's just murdered Jubal Early from his sister.

Cue end credits.

****

When time permits, I'll give a little detail on the road we would have followed to get from one scene to the other.

DIGIFICWRITER

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 5:16 PM

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Originally posted by jkrfan7:
any plans on bringing Wash back because I have a great idea!!

No, we never discussed bringing back Wash, as we didn't want to 'undo' anything that Joss had done. Our general approach was to remain as close to the actual style and feel of Firefly canon as possible, even going so far as to actively try and 'channel' Joss and other writers whenever possible, which was actually rather easy given that we had a boat-load of actual material from which to draw.

MOOSE

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:55 PM

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Originally posted by jkrfan7:
Wow, it sounds great! I wish it could've continued!!!

Also, any plans on bringing Wash back because I have a great idea!!

Well, lets hear your idea!

GWEK

Thursday, June 20, 2013 9:42 PM

It's an interesting idea, although I have to wonder why the Alliance would bother with Wash specifically. I have to assume that they have no absense of access to corpses that they could reanimate, so why a dude with a gigantic hole in his chest?

I like the reveal and the idea of bonding with the kid(s). I suppose we wind up with Franken-Wash: "Reavers bad."

BTW, although I have also heard rumor that if there were a sequel, Joss was considering having Wash in it, my understanding was that this would likely be through some movie trickery (flashbacks, Zoe dream sequence, etc) rather than actual resurrection.

We did, at one point, discuss the idea of Zoe being haunted by Wash, either for a single episode or a series of episodes, and playing with the question of whether there's life after death in the Firefly universe or if Zoe is just becoming increasingly unhinged.

MOOSE

Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:52 PM

Not a bad idea.
Could be a way for Parliament to get at Mal and crew without being "too" public about it.
"He isn't an Operative, he is an obviously disgruntled former crewmember...dead? He obviously wasn't dead...no one has the power to bring back dead people."

Could be a way to bring back Book, too.
Shortly after Serenity leaves Haven, an Alliance ship arrives to investigate the loss of the ship Book shot down. They run Ident checks on the bodies they find (I like to think Mal didn't actually strap Havenites to Serenity's hull, not when there's a dead Alliance crew just sitting there) and realize who Book is.
And since he is just "mostly dead", they throw him into cryo to transport to a definitive Med facility...

TENTHCREWMEMBER

Thursday, June 20, 2013 11:42 PM

Oh wow. StillFlying.net has been one of my staple sites I saved. Often going there for screencaps for Caption Tightpants among other projects. It'll be a shame to see it fade into the Black. This is the only place I've ever participated in regular forum activity, but I think I speak for all Browncoats when I say StillFlying.net is somewhat of a "landmark" (netmark? versemark?) for us, the same as FireflyFans.net is.

Maybe there's someone out there willing to save it for its historical and academic value? Anyone? I would if I could... :/

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WISHIMAY

Tuesday, November 26, 2013 9:20 AM

Bump ^

GWEK

Wednesday, November 27, 2013 8:21 AM

Not quite sure what "returning" means yet, but it's exciting that we've been getting the band back together.

I suspect what we're going to do is "re-release" our episodes with some commentary and historical info. After that? Who knows?

I can't speak for others, but as I've said earlier in this thread, I have a pretty solid idea of what Season Three might have looked like, and I'd love to have a place to reveal some of those details, even if they're summarized rather than actually written.

AVALONSMOMMY

Thursday, November 28, 2013 11:12 AM

Why not right here? The episodes could certainly go into the Blue Sun Room, couldn't they? This site is still flying, with new fanfic all the time, despite the fact that it's been almost twelve years since Firefly went off the air as a first run series, so it would all definitely be read, and happily!

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