Jewel Staite Offers Alternate Firefly Ending

[Jared]

Haha! It could have been intresting - ...just let me near her, please...I know we got her in Atlantis too but ><""

 

[Kavonde]

Gonna get shot here...I know it...

[sub]I didn't really like Firefly - sorry[/sub]

[small]Ok, Christina Hendricks was lush but the rest, meh[/small]

I will never understand why people were so obsesed with this show

Yeah, last time there was mention of Firefly in a news post, there turned out to be a surprising amount of people with absolutely no taste in entertainment who didn't like it. Kind of turned into a minor flame war. So you're not alone. But you still suck.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Yeah, last time there was mention of Firefly in a news post, there turned out to be a surprising amount of people with absolutely no taste in entertainment.

I have quite a good taste in entertainment, but most of Firefly (especially Serenity) I'd seen before. And I'm sort of bored of Joss Wheedon's Ninja Hookers.

Not saying it was a bad show, just that it wasn't as marvellous as some people might think.

 

[Kavonde]

Yeah, last time there was mention of Firefly in a news post, there turned out to be a surprising amount of people with absolutely no taste in entertainment.

I have quite a good taste in entertainment, but most of Firefly (especially Serenity) I'd seen before. And I'm sort of bored of Joss Wheedon's Ninja Hookers.

Not saying it was a bad show, just that it wasn't as marvellous as some people might think.

Crap, you had to take issue with my light-hearted ribbing, didn't you? Everyone get your asbestos bedsheets...

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Crap, you had to take issue with my light-hearted ribbing, didn't you? Everyone get your asbestos bedsheets...

That wasn't taking issue. You'll KNOW when I take issue.

 

[Pariahwulfen]

Yeah, last time there was mention of Firefly in a news post, there turned out to be a surprising amount of people with absolutely no taste in entertainment.

I have quite a good taste in entertainment, but most of Firefly (especially Serenity) I'd seen before. And I'm sort of bored of Joss Wheedon's Ninja Hookers.

Not saying it was a bad show, just that it wasn't as marvellous as some people might think.

It's not that the show was awesomely epic, it's that it had potential and never really given the chance it deserved. I happen to fall into the category of people who were intrigued when it came out, never got to see an actual episode and forgot about it until I saw the DVDs cheap some place. I actually rank it up there with Babylon 5 as far as sci-fi goes. On a side note, it really is too bad that like Firefly, none of the B5 spinoffs either really took off or were given a chance.

 

[Grey_Focks]

Something new has to come out of the show's cult-hit status someday, right?

*sad crickets*

Pretty sure THIS is all you'll ever get-
http://editorial.sidereel.com/Images/Posts/serenity.jpg

Oh, and there's a comic series or something. Never been big on comics....but the movie was good.

 

[Gaderael]

Gods, I hate Firefly threads. They're always so depressing! I miss this show so damn much.

 

[AgentNein]

Gonna get shot here...I know it...

[sub]I didn't really like Firefly - sorry[/sub]

[small]Ok, Christina Hendricks was lush but the rest, meh[/small]

..you best start a duckin' cuz Ima start a firin'.

Mhmm.

 

[Rusty Bucket]

Skip to 0:48

...I'll be in my bunk.

 

[tehbeard]

"And promptly confesses his (other) undying love to Zoe. And she promptly punches him in the face."

God I cried and laughed.

 

[Wakefield]

...I am so in love with Jewel Staite.

Same. I would go gay for Jewel Staite.

 

[Cherry Cola]

And this is why she shouldn't be hired as a screenwriter.

 

[duchaked]

I need to finish watching this series!

 

[oranger]

So what was captain reynolds' gun made of? not brass, but something brass-like, iridium maybe?
Is iridium yellowish?

And its really a shame that mr. whedon never got around to starting his rebellion arc.

 

[Icehearted]

I stopped at Jayne is pregnant.... She's so adorable, and I cherish the series, but the thought of that man being with child... my face just hasn't stopped twitching yet...

 

[zombie711]

still not 100% convinced that they did all they could to get this show on the air again i mean when it was canned by fox scifi would have probably been open to the show it was not a mega budget show by any means, farscape was nearing the end of its run, nm the really bad movie that followed. firefly would have been a perfect fit for scifi and would have garnered an audience out that channels viewers.

You're underestimating the difficulty in getting a canceled show picked up by another network. It happened to a handful of shows, most of which were far more successful in their original run than Firefly.

Whedon's gambit to keep Firefly alive was the movie. It didn't do well enough to justify anybody trying to continue the franchise.

did you just rewrite my entire quote to have a conversation with yourself?

 

[Vzzdak]

I will never understand why people were so obsesed with this show

They're probably trying to compensate for the fact that the show hadn't been marketed well, and its episodes played out of logical order, such that most people couldn't follow the overall story arc. The consequent low ratings then caused the show to be cancelled out of perceived lack of interest.

Essentially, Firefly (including the capper movie Serenity) was a decent portrayal of what it might be like if humanity were colonizing another star system, and much of it was played with Western-style elements (i.e., a frontier-like atmosphere). For a science fiction story, the technology had a used, lived-in feel, and there were low-tech aspects that made sense within context.