SERENITY Part II. Your thoughts?

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UPDATED: Saturday, October 12, 2013 01:20
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Book has a cyber eye that records everything he sees.

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Since I found that out I've thought that's a perfect way to carry the ramifications of Book's life beyond his death. Maybe he saw something else besides what happened in Shepherd's Tale, something top secret.

The past never stays buried. They visit the graves one day to find them disturbed, and seeking to recover the bodies to restore them to their proper repose, the crew finds themselves knee deep in some brand new plots. It'd be very western.

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Hey Two, I missed your follow up idea. That would also be a good one.

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Originally posted by SKull:
Any sequel would need a new theme, or premise to develop, . . .
Without this it might easily be a repeat of what was done with the Matrix trilogy; the first movie had a strong allegory in it but it was basically fully developed in that movie. The sequels therefore had a certain redundancy to them and didn`t really add much.

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The story could return to the massacre at Haven. River had the foresight to take the gun camera from fighter plane that killed all the town's people. Every bullet hitting every child is recorded, with pilot and crew commentary, “You shot mother and her baby with one bullet. Way to go, Gunnie!” Or is that too much like Mal and the recording from Miranda? The government apparently was able to shrug off Miranda because it happens long ago to people far away. Maybe the Haven massacre will more widely register than Miranda on the public's mind because it happened last week.

And the Alliance military killing children as a game where they have to murder everyone in Haven to win? That will spark more outrage than a video of old human bones lying in the sunlight on Miranda.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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You Americans are living with this right now with the anarchist takeover of the federal government, sending public servants home.

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Whoa now. There's a difference between our Tea Party "libertarians" and your libertarians. I know that libertarians everywhere else is synonymous with anarchist, but here, "tea party" means "neo-conservative."

As an anarchist, I refuse to be put in that same category as the Tea Partiers. The politicians we have right now on BOTH sides are self-serving morons who are mostly putting on a show to appeal to their base so they can continue to bring in boatloads of money and play their corporate cronyism games and be reelected. Meanwhile a lot of people suffer for that. I have zero tolerance for that horse puckey.

I want a society and sense of community that WORKS and a more humane economy. I happen to believe that comes from removing the corruption in the system. I'm an anarchist because I will go so far as to scour the system clean and level its foundations and start over completely from scratch if that becomes necessary - but I will not do so unless the rest of the public becomes willing and able to do so.

For that end, I participate in grass roots community organized efforts at health and welfare in the hopes that if something does happen to our government and our economy, such efforts could potentially step up and replace those functions in the interim.

As for the Alliance and Blue Sun... They're kinda... EVIL. They're evil as hell, with a few good things they do. They might have healthcare and law and order, but if your government torches whole planets of civilians and renders them inhabitable, I kinda don't really see that as different as the Death Star. Then there's the fact that they're secretly complicit in a system wide slave trade and awful human experimentation. Joss tried to make a nice and fluffy Federation, but that's really not something Joss can do with his anti-authoritarian tendencies.

Maybe the coreworlds need the Alliance (and Blue Sun?), but the rim didn't want them and fought a war to try to keep them out. Much like the completely unnecessary nation building wars America has fought in the Middle East. I want to see a Firefly story where their power takes a hit and they lose their grip on the rim, because their imperialist propaganda that lead to the rimworld takeover was also, in my opinion, evil.

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