Whedon discusses future Firefly hopes, says he turned down SW 7 for Avengers 2.

[BuffyGirl]

I'm thinking if it were to happen at all, continuation with mostly new characters is the way to go...

Firstly if you pick up after Serenity, Wash and Book are dead. That changes the group dynamic seriously right there.

I think it would be far more interesting to keep Serenity (the ship) the constant, pick it up ten years or so down the road, and follow new characters with the originals coming back in guest or recurring roles as older and wiser (ok, Jayne will probably just be older ) versions of themselves (as actor availability permits).

Am I the only one who doesn't see Mal giving up Serenity to someone else? He's the kind of guy that will go down with that ship.

I'm against a reboot because of what the show means to me. It is fine if some of you are okay with new cast members. Good for you, seriously. For me, the current characters with the stories told are far too important to me to brush them aside and start anew. I prefer the show to stay gone, rather than come back and be something different.

There's a new show called Defiance starting, maybe those of you who want a new Firefly can go watch that.

 

[darthviper107]

Yeah, that's one problem I had with the short stories from the third Firefly companion book. They had Mal giving the ship away and living out his days on a ranch. I always saw him as eventually getting himself killed, I don't think he could stand a solitary life.

But still, I'd like to see a new set of characters in the same universe, maybe even do something completely different rather than a crew on a ship they could figure something else out and do a different type of story.

I am looking forward to Defiance, it looks pretty good.

 

[Dr Daystrom]

I'd like to think over a decade or so, Mal would see some growth towards happiness and have put some of his demons to rest, or at least reached a truce with them.

I think that's why I liked B5 so much, the characters actually experience changes in their lives and shifts in their viewpoints.

 

[Kamandi]

Yeah, that's one problem I had with the short stories from the third Firefly companion book. They had Mal giving the ship away and living out his days on a ranch. I always saw him as eventually getting himself killed, I don't think he could stand a solitary life.

Whoever wrote that doesn't understand Mal.

 

[BuffyGirl]

Whoever wrote that doesn't understand Mal.

That's how I felt. "keep flying"

 

[Kamandi]

"keep flying"

Damn right

 

[Mad Old Lu]

I can't expect Joss and the entire gang to be able to get together to continue as a TV series. But I can see them doing maybe two more movies. I think now that Joss has some clout in Hollywood, he can make it happen. He just has to be committed to doing it and he'd have to start planning now in order to get all the ducks in a row just to get the movie going in a few years.

What I would REALLY love to see is Joss re-do Alien 3 exactly how he envisioned it, and with the Firefly cast. Well, maybe not Alien 3 per se, but a thinly veiled version of Alien 3. But no producers interfering, and no dumb re-writes.

 

[binky]

The comics for all the Whedon shows are a generally a hot mess. They've all been mostly mediocre with hit-and-miss art and in some cases, the characterizations from the new writers, like you guys have noted above, seem off. Serenity, OTOH, was good enough to please the old fans and get new ones too (my brother for one), so obviously, it can go both ways. But, I'm glad to have the choice of reading the comics if I want, even though I think they've been disappointing so far.

It's kind of like marriage equality. Gay folks being able to get married (and divorced) won't affect the strength (or lack of) of straight marriages now and in the future, so why do we need DOMA again? Oh right. We don't. Live and let live.

 

[ShadowX81]

Yeah, that's one problem I had with the short stories from the third Firefly companion book. They had Mal giving the ship away and living out his days on a ranch. I always saw him as eventually getting himself killed, I don't think he could stand a solitary life.

Yea, I read that story too. So depressing. Basically everyone resigns themselves to living in thier own private hell.

-Mal lives by himself on a ranch, stewing in his own alcoholism and depression.

-Zoe lives on Serenity by herself, visiting Mal once every few years. Also spends much of her time stewing in her own depression.

-Jayne embraces the fame that came with exposing the scandal on Miranda (a concept that in itself feels wrong) and gives in to the deepest depths of his own hedonism, until the day when he comes back from a party drunk and accidently blows his own head off with the gun he keeps under his pillow.

-Simon and Kaylee get married and have two children; a boy and a girl and live on one of the core worlds.

- River is still crazy and spends her days playing with the Tam children. Something tells me that the burdon of having to care for a mentally ill woman will be alot less cute as River ages and she isnt as physically attractive anymore. And as the Tam children age, River will slowly transform from that awesome adult that likes to play with them into thier disturbed aunt who becomes the source of many deep seeded issues that will eventually require therapy to deal with.

-Inara is still liviing the aloof-compaion lifestyle. Mal eventually cut off contact with her as he would always get his hopes up every time she came back into his life, and it became too hard to deal with the pain that came every time he had to face reality.

 

[darthviper107]

And that was written by one of the series writers too, I can't remember which one.

 

[ProgMatinee]

Once Castle winds its way down, which it will, Nathan's credibility and star power will be at an all time high, he could then return to Firefly, Fox or someone will want to reestablish the show with him as a big star and with the now bigger name of Joss behind it as producer.

Then they can go add whoever else from the original series wants to return. And those that don't they can find new and unique, ie not copy cat characters in their place.

You know, as long as the same care is put into any new characters as there was in the originals, they might be cool in their own right.....right?

To say that the series would need to be stagnant and exactly how it was when it left is pretty shallow perception of all that went into it.

Tv shows add and take away characters all the time and still continue on.

 

[Mad Old Lu]

Wow. Those stories sound horribly depressing. I almost wish I hadn't read that post!

 

[darthviper107]

It's OK, it's not an official story, it was fanfic

 

[ShadowX81]

But it was in an official companion book.

Keep in mind this is Joss Whedon we're talking about here. A man who loves to build a house out of character's relationships with one another, and then just when that house starts to get cozy, tear it the hell down.

Maybe the only reason Firefly never ended up as a depressing mope-fest like some of his other shows is because he never got the chance too tell the full story. We already know from Joss that if the show had gone on, it would have been revealed that Inara was not long for this verse. In that sense cancellation might have been a blessing in disguise. Who knows? All I know is that I loved the hell out of what we did get.