Did you watch Firefly on Scifi?

Morphy · Forum Ogre Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 3858

I'm trying to stay away from trailers and previews of Serenity because I think the less I know about it coming into the more the more I might be able to enjoy it. I watched one of the first trailers and saw more than I should already. I've pieced together an imaginary plot that mainly involves River. In the TV show, River was a broken helpless person.... the trailer makes her out to be completely different. I'm not sure I like this character change.

Lindley · **Sat Sep 03, 2005 3:22 pm**

She wasn't helpless in "War Stories". Or "Objects in Space". Remember those?

IntrepidIsMe · **Sat Sep 03, 2005 3:52 pm**

SciFi is airing one of their "Inside Look" things for the Serenity movie later this month. Should be interesting.

Morphy · Forum Ogre Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 3858

Lindley · **Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:48 pm**

True enough.

Theresa · **Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:29 am**

"If someone tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back". Yeah, maybe I shouldn't let this line totally turn me off,

(Though it has so far).

Lindley · **Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:55 am**

The Delta Flyer · **Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:14 am**

I always liked the way in which River's character was unpredictable. Whilst you had expectations of the ways other characters might react to situations (Jayne: Violence, Wash: Wit, etc.), River was constantly changing from the quiet, frightened girl at the start of the series to an increasingly confident one at the end ("No power in the 'verse can stop me"). And going by what happened in "War Stories", I think River could have been capable of anything - including bar-fighting.

Lindley · **Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:53 am**

I don't think River was saying that with confidence. She thought it was a game, and she was just echoing the words Kaylee said when she reclaimed the apple at the beginning.

The Delta Flyer · **Mon Sep 05, 2005 12:42 pm**

Yeah you're right there - confident was probably the wrong word. More that she is...becoming more able if you like. It's hard to put into words. In my mind, you can see her behaviour changing and 'evolving' if you like.

Sam Kenobi · **Thu Jul 27, 2006 1:56 am**

AAAAAAaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Wuh duh ma huh ta duh fung-kwong duh wai-shung doh! We need more Firefly! I have a faint feeling that the 14 episodes and the movie won't last as long as they should in my rerun-watching-ness.....

So many questions left unanswered!!!! And now we'll never know. there's got to be some way to get it back. Even a mini series on SciFi would be sweet. The missing sixish months between the end of the show and the movie?

ILoveHarry · Admiral Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 7909 Location: Houston

You are so right, Samster! God damn this was an amazing show. I don't see how it was cancelled when it has so much of a following.

TrekkieMage · **Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:16 am**

^It was aired on Fox. Need I say more?

They aired it out of order for starter which confused a lot of people, and then just yanked it. Idiots.

Sam Kenobi · **Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:21 pm**

yeah... stupid *beep* at FOX. But we're figuring... hey... now that it's on DVD and with the movie... it's a kind of comeback... so.... new show The Life and Times of Malcolm Reynolds? I think so.

ILoveHarry · Admiral Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 7909 Location: Houston

Yeah, it says a lot for the show to have a movie. It's rare that t.v. shows ever are made into movies. Esp. ones that were cancelled. So I say, "Suck it, FOX!"

Lindley · **Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:02 am**

Sam Kenobi · **Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:21 pm**

ILoveHarry · Admiral Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 7909 Location: Houston

The syringe was for basic inoculations (sp?) all companions are required to take.

Sam Kenobi · **Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:28 pm**

Nope, that was a different syringe. Its the one in Serenity part teo that she takes ot when they're passing the Reavers. In the commentary Joss says that everyone thinks that it's some Companion suicide drugs, but he said he had something else in mind for what it really was, but doesn't feel like telling anyone.

ILoveHarry · Admiral Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 7909 Location: Houston

Ahhh... that's right. Well of course there's some mysterious resson she lefft her house position... I do wish we could have found out what it is. I also always wanted to know the deal with Book. He was rather mysterious as well. Perhaps if we knew more about him, he wouldn't be as boring.

Sam Kenobi · **Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:35 pm**

We figure, my friends and I, that he was just some operative with the Alliance, like the guy in the movie, but before the war started is when he went to the Abbey, and he was there the whole duration of the war, which is why he still thinks that the Alliance is good... because when he left them, they were. I don't know... It hink I'd still find him boring then.... unless he had some way cooler story. I've always been most interested in Inara's past.

ILoveHarry · Admiral Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 7909 Location: Houston

I think Book's past MUST be way cooler. Otherwise he's just... lame. And Joss dosn't do lame.

Yeah Inara fascinates me.

TrekkieMage · **Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:03 pm**

Both Inara and Book had pasts that were far too unresolved for my liking. I really really want to know what he was planning. And now I'm going to have to go back and watch those episodes to find those hints o.o

In other news, I now have the DVDs of the series and movie ^-^

Sam Kenobi · **Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:31 pm**

Moi aussi. And I'm being a nerd and getting the comic book so I know what happens in between.

We're cool.........

Lindley · **Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:52 pm**

I think the Operative's story is Book's story.

He used to work for them, believing the evil he committed was in the service of a greater good; at some point, his eyes were opened to the truth, and he retreated to the monestary at that point.