Firefly Opening Narration

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P1NKISPUNK

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 6:58 PM

Those of us who have only seen Firefly in DVD form have never heard the opening narration..I think I heard it starts "Here's how it was.."

Would someone be able to post a transcript of it?

"Ok..I'm confused..I'm angry..and I'm armed"

SNIPER

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 7:10 PM

IMDB has the quotes I think, under their firefly page.

RHUTTNER

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 7:55 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by p1nkispunk:
Those of us who have only seen Firefly in DVD form have never heard the opening narration..I think I heard it starts "Here's how it was.."

Would someone be able to post a transcript of it?

"Ok..I'm confused..I'm angry..and I'm armed"

Here are the 3 openings, and a listing of which episodes had which version:

ttj - book
bw - book
omr - book
jt - book
oog - mal1
sd - mal1
safe - mal2, followed by previously
ariel - mal2
ws - none, starts with a previously
ois - none, starts with a previously
serenity - none

scifi uk airings:
hog - mal2
tm - none, starts with a previously
trash - none, starts with a previously

Mal1 : Here's how it is: Earth got used up, so we terraformed a whole
new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with the new technologies,
some not so much. Central Planets, them was formed the Alliance, waged
war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight
it, among them myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of Serenity. Got
a good crew: fighters, pilot, mechanic. We even picked up a preacher,
and a bona fide companion. There's a doctor, too, took his genius
sister out of some Alliance camp, so they're keeping a low profile.
You got a job, we can do it, don't much care what it is.

Mal2 : Here's how it is: The Earth got used up, so we moved out and
terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with the
new technologies, some not so much. The Central Planets, them was
formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a
few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds,
captain of Serenity. Shes a transport ship, Firefly class. Got a good
crew: fighters, pilot, mechanic. We even picked up a preacher for some
reason, and a bona fide companion. There's a doctor too, took his
genius sister out of some Alliance camp, so they're keeping a low
profile, you understand. You got a job, we can do it, don't much care
what it is.

Book : After the Earth was used up, we found a new solar system and
hundreds of new Earths were terra formed and colonized. The central
planets formed the Alliance and decided all the planets had to join
under their rule. There was some disagreement on that point. After the
War, many of the Independents who had fought and lost drifted to the
edges of the system, far from Alliance control. Out here, people
struggled to get by with the most basic technologies; a ship would
bring you work, a gun would help you keep it. A captain's goal was
simple: find a crew, find a job, keep flying.

ZOL

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 8:07 PM

I thought somebody did wome wav files of these openings, but I can`t seam to locate them.

Anyone?

Thanks.

Zol.

ZEEK

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 8:19 PM

There were two btw. "Here's how it is" was the start of Mal's intro. Book had one to. His starts "After the Earth was used up" IIRC.

edit: Guess I got that post in a bit late. lol

MONTANAGIRL

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:13 PM

Thank you! I didn't even know that there had been opening narration (having only seen Firefly on DVD) until I came here and other people mentioned it. It's nice to at least be able to read what the intros were and which eps they went with.

Now if someone only had a wav file, that would be really shiny.

Packer fans welcome.
All others tolerated.

WILDBILL

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:12 PM

Got 'em. Try " http://www.wavsite.com/television.asp" Book's is under "The Train Job" and Mal's under "Safe".

CAITE

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:15 PM

Well you learn something new everyday! I had no idea that there was ever an opening narration. I wonder why it's not included in the DVD version. Anyone know?

PBI

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:27 PM

It wasn't included because the DVD has the shows in the correct sequence and the voice overs were done on the insistence of Fox so that viewers during the broadcast run (which was not in the corretc order) wouldn't get 'confused'. Which state they would not have been in had Fox broadcast all the shows and in the proper order.

Having said that, I too, wish they'd included at least Book's voice over, as I thought (and still think) that it meshes very well with the overall theme of the series. As for liking Mal's, well, not so much, personally :)

If you can survive death, you can probably survive almost anything.

MONTANAGIRL

Thursday, January 27, 2005 3:20 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by wildbill:
Got 'em. Try " http://www.wavsite.com/television.asp" Book's is under "The Train Job" and Mal's under "Safe".

You rule!

Packer fans welcome.
All others tolerated.

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