Happy or Tragic; how should Firefly REALLY end?

POSTED BY: Wulfhawk
UPDATED: Thursday, July 3, 2003 17:12
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WULFHAWK

Wednesday, July 2, 2003 4:49 PM

Personally, I lean towards the Happy ending, where most (if not all) the folks involved reach some kind of happy resolution of themselves, and a happy place in space.

Mal regains some faith and optimism, becoming a lawman.

Zoe grounds herself, has bunches of hell-raising babies as she runs a flight school.

Wash is the flight instructor and head babysitter.

ya'll get the picture.

tanstaafl

SUCCATASH

Wednesday, July 2, 2003 4:51 PM

Inara will quit whoring. ?

SARAHETC

Wednesday, July 2, 2003 5:00 PM

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Originally posted by Wulfhawk:
Personally, I lean towards the Happy ending, where most (if not all) the folks involved reach some kind of happy resolution of themselves, and a happy place in space.

I'll play.

What if Mal and Zoe become leaders of a new Browncoat resistance that eventually overthrows the evil, cabalistic Alliance? They make their first and last stands back at Serenity Valley on Hera. And this time, in the dark, Wash leads the Independent Angels in shelling the Alliance forces back to Earth-that-Was. Jayne's leading the stealthy rangers. Book's in charge of intelligence. River's an Alliance infiltrator/double angent. Kaylee's running the engineering corps. Simon organizes all the frontier docs. I'm forgetting Inara, as usual. She leaves the Guild for a life of Independence and replaces Serenity as Mal's touchstone. Then, uses all her contacts, Guild and otherwise, to mobilize and advertise public sentiment toward Independence.

Which is not to say that the Intrepid Crew of Serenity singlehandedly overthrows the entire galatic government. They're in the right place, at the right time and find the right people to do the right things.

Call me cheesy if you like, but I don't think I am.

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

JOHNNYREB

Wednesday, July 2, 2003 5:20 PM

Love all around!!

Mal and Inara hook up.
Zoe and wash HAVE hooked up, but they stay hooked up.
Simon and Kaylee hook up.
Jayne and River hook up (after a LONG period of reconciliation and medication.)
And Book keeps on keeping on with the Good Book.

Viva Firefly

CHRISTHECYNIC

Wednesday, July 2, 2003 6:01 PM

I go with Sarah on this one, although I don’t think that has to show the end. Just the beginning would be enough. You know a large turn in the tide of public opinion (perhaps some video of the atrocities the Alliance committed going out over the cortex) a favorable beginning to the war, perhaps with the first fight in Serenity Valley, stuff like that. I have no problem not seeing them win so long as it isn’t used as a excuse to latter do a continuation with the premise “this time they lost pitifully too.”

TRAGICSTORY

Wednesday, July 2, 2003 7:18 PM

Hate to be the one to say it but I think it will have a TRAGIC ending (who would have guessed) something along the line of Cowboy Bebop.

The reason I think that is because the show is pretty realistic and honest. In real life the bad guy wins.

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CHRISTHECYNIC

Wednesday, July 2, 2003 7:50 PM

The truth is that the bad guy wins most of the time, not always. There is nothing unrealistic about a happy ending, it's just that so often we see bad happy endings that there is now a stigma. I have no doubt that Joss can make a realistic and believable happy ending.

KAYTHRYN

Wednesday, July 2, 2003 9:39 PM

I don't think Firefly's ending will be happy or tragic. I think it will be a little bit of both just like the beginning was. Do you guys think the setting of firefly was happy or tragic?

On one side you have Mal, the man with his bought and paid for Serenity, his crew that he loves (perhaps with the exception of Jayne) doing good work, and living free as far from the meddlesome Alliance as they can be.

And, on the other side you have Mal, the man who lost the war, and possibly his faith, and has been forced out to the rim where he has to scratch out a living.

(I just used Mal as an example but it‘s the same with pretty much every character.)

I don’t know if I could peg that down as one or the other, happy or tragic. It moved back and forth between the two.

I think Firefly’s end will do the same. Parts will be tragic-- people may die, fights may be lost, hopes may be crushed, but I bet other parts will be happy-- loyalties may form, loves may be found, and new lives may begin for this crew.

I think it's more intresting when it's not mostly happy or mostly sad, but that's just my take.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

GINOBIFFARONI

Wednesday, July 2, 2003 11:37 PM

I don't think it should end, not for a good long time.

I love some of the ideas, but those are just steps in the journey, three or four huge seasons on TV, leading into the successful movie ( movies )

But if it had to end,

I really like Drakon's vison

http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=199

CHRISTHECYNIC

Wednesday, July 2, 2003 11:55 PM

I think the perfect ending is "still flying ... it's enough" just like the end of Serenity.

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