Special Inside Edition of Firefly DVDs

POSTED BY: Mort
UPDATED: Thursday, May 6, 2004 21:54
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ASTRIANA

Thursday, May 6, 2004 7:54 PM

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Originally posted by AnotherFireflyfan:
Well if that is true, that is REALLY annoying. If it just went one episode longer!! Just one!!

Somehow I doubt it though. They were cancelled while still working on The Message. I think we would know if there was even a 15th script, and we hadn't heard anything about that. I'd like to see the 15th script if there is one, of course. ;)

Actually, there IS another script - It's called "Dead or Alive" - the focus is pretty much on Mal/Zoe.

Personally, I think someone is yanking our chains (I'm more apt to think the "connection" than the poster...). No way would Simon ever do what the spoiler suggests. Watch the scene in Ariel in the holoimaging suite again.

~A~

...I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.

ANOTHERFIREFLYFAN

Thursday, May 6, 2004 8:22 PM

Dead or Alive was not a 15th script, it was a canned script. Supposedly, it would have come in around Jaynestown. It's an interesting story, but not all the kinks were worked out, and they ended up borrowing much of it for later episodes.

Keep flying

JERSEYBROWNCOAT

Thursday, May 6, 2004 9:54 PM

The production number on the "Dead or Alive" script would place it as the episode whose place Jaynestown took. It's interesting to look through and see what elements made it into later episodes. I'll have to do a re-read, but I kept getting "Message" flashbacks while reading it. There was a conversation here a while back mentioning that several more scripts (up to three or four) had been ordered by Fox before they dropped the axe. None of them have leaked out as far as I know, but it makes sense. A television writing schedule is generally a couple weeks ahead of production, so since the cast and crew were notified while "The Message" was filming, there would undoubtedly be other scripts out there.

As for unseen episode 15 footage, it is *possible*, as a show as complex to produce as Firefly would likely have some overlap in its shooting schedule for the more technically complex scenes, so they could rushed off ASAP to the CGI folk. I doubt there would've been more than a few pages of a script's worth that had actually been filmed, though.

Still - interesting to ponder...and desire...but as a wise man once said, "If wishes were horses, we'd all be eatin' steak."

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