The Guns of Firefly?

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Well, I was fairly familiar with the plot of the TV show going into the movie (thank you, Wikipedia). So I wasn't completely lost, as someone who knew nothing of the show might have been. But I will definitely try and get my hands on Firefly. :)

There was one deleted scene where Mal is kind of contemplating in the shadows, and Inara sees him. He kind of pulls himself together and they have a very to-the-point yet meaningful conversation. I understand why Whedon cut it, but he himself said that it was his favorite piece of acting from the film. That one scene, I think, would have added a lot to the movie.
 
Just because FOX owns the rights to Firefly, and won't sell it, doesn't mean that a TV continuation of the story is impossible.

They could just call it 'Serenity: The Series'.

In the videogaming world, this was recently done when Monolith changed publishers from Sierra to Warner Interactive. Sierra still owned the rights to the game 'F.E.A.R.', so they renamed F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, to simply 'Project Origin'.



And on the note of Firefly and Serenity.... I plan to get a Marlin 336 in the somewhat near future. Then I intend to put a synthetic stock and an XS rail forend on it, and put a green laser on the side, and one of those 'world's most ergonomic flashlight adapters' on the bottom rail. Then I'm buying a brown coat to go with it.
 
for those who don't own it yet, the 4 disc set of the series is a "must have"

my only disappointment was that they never resolved the storyline for Sherpard Book
 
(QUOTE) "Sherpard is an alliance inner circle politico man on sabbatical to see the worlds."

Not necessarily, though that's not a totally unreasonable assumption. When his ID was scanned by the alliance guys when he was wounded, they obviously gave him the VIP treatment, but he could have just as easily been the son of someone important, or one of those elite roaming assasins like the guy in "Serenity". There's also no reason to assume he was on some "sabbatical" with intentions of returning, in fact he usually sounded like he'd become disillusioned with where ever he'd come from, and who he once was.
Personally, i thought it was cool how they left it un-resolved. We got enough info to take decent guesses,while never shattering the interesting mystery of his character. Any other TV show would have spelled it all out leaving nothing to the imagination, and had the hero get the girl, and all primary characters live happily ever after. I can't fault them at all for how they left things.
 
Book may have started out that way, but if so, he must have up and quit the Alliance by the time of the events of Serenity, since he was the one who shot down the craft that attacked his colony on Haven. If he was simply on vacation, he wouldn't have done that, I don't think.
 
I loved that series and the film "Serenity"...I STILL can't figure out why the execs at FOX killed it.
Nathon Fillion and Gina Torres should definitely get more work;I used to like seeing her in "Alias".SUmmer Glau , MOrena Baccarin and the engineer ( help ,anyone?) all deserve more work than they have got.
Whats the statue of ' The Sarah Connor Chronicles"? IIRC, Summer was the cyborg in that one...
 
Fox killed it for a very, very simple reason.

Reality TV is more popular at a fraction of the cost.
 
Blue Sun is the corporate face of the Alliance. It's kinda hard to figure which is the true control. Apparently Blue Sun ran the Academy where River Tam was weaponized.

Shepherd refused to explain his past to Mal in the movie; some mysteries work better as mysteries, and should not be explained.

Four years and going is not too long for a series this good.
 
I know what Blue Sun /IS/, they just never had a chance to expand on it, and they were obviously going to be a crucial part of the entire series.

The Hands of Blue were particularly ominous.
 
Bought the series last night (thanks for the heads-up, JN01). Should be delivered Tuesday.

Mmm... guns in space.
 
Reality TV is more popular at a fraction of the cost.
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I don't really buy that whole excuse. Personality and internal conflicts play a major role as well. The NBC chiefs kept Jerry and George on for three seasons while the ratings were in the gutter because Jerry knew everyone personally and was an old friend of the network. In Whedon's case it sounds like he had huge conflicts right off the bat and the FOX TV brass hated everything about him and his show. They had started hacking it before it even aired, and constantly cancelled and rescheduled it. Pretty much doomed it in order to get rid of the thing. The cost issue is nothing to these guys if they think something's the latest hotness or they're buddy buddy with the creators. This, in fact, is why Whedon still has ill will towards them. They never gave it a fair shake. He would have been much better off operating out of some cable TV channel or in syndication, if he had been able to get the $$ together for that sort of thing.
 
Actually, Cosmoline, you are more correct than you know. If you look at the history of another favorite sci-fi series of mine, Babylon 5, during it's first four years it was syndicated and the writing was good, even though they never really knew from one season to the next if they would be back. It got picked up by a network (TNT) for the last season, and they messed around with it a bit much, then continued to fool around with what could have been a very good sequel and ran it into the ground in pretty much the same what that FOX did with Firefly.
 
Does anyone know what kind of sling it is that Jayne uses for his SMG in the film--Serenity? It allows his gun to completely separate from the sling, or pull away while being connected with a wire or cord. Kind of like one of those things you put your work ID on, the one that clips to your belt and lets you pull the ID to the scanner without disconnecting it from the clip.

Am I making any sense here?

The search continues...
 
woot ;) this thread is still alive ;)

firefly ;) the one staple dvd set that never goes out of rotation when i travel ;)

now.. anyone know where i can pick up a good mare's leg? ;)
 
Ah, Cosmo, you're right. That too. Watching the bonus material on the DVDs I can see how Whedon and the producers seemed to clash a bit.
 
Wow, I just discovered this thread. I never would have thought Gun Geeks and SciFi Geeks roamed in the same areana. I thought I was the only outcasts in this area. Man, Was I wrong....

I loved that show when it first came out and actually got the wife interested in the show well enough that she actually wanted to go with me to see it when it was in theaters.
 
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