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Serenity Comic Book Series
stoolpigeon writes "CBR News is reporting that Dark Horse will be publishing a 3 comic series to provide material that bridges the gap between the Firefly T.V. show and the Serenity film. From the press release: 'The plot of the comic book series centers on the crew members of the ship known as Serenity, who once again find themselves broke and on the wrong side of a number of very large firearms when a heist goes awry, and some old enemies catch their scent. After facing one failure after another, Malcolm Reynolds becomes the target of a conspiracy between government and mercenary forces, and a tense and divided crew must try to unite behind their compromised leader...'"
If the film does well and with DVD sales going strong (currently ranked #48 on amazon, not too shabby), is it possible that the series will come back to TV?
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
..will there be explosions? what about a grizzled cigar chomping bad guy with a heart of gold? Nekkid chicks?
oh! and what happens on page 23?
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Age old question: How can you tell if the movie/show you're watching is science fiction or fantasy?
Easy. If it's fantasy, there will be dwarfs and men with beards in the cast.
If it's sci-fi, the script will talk about mercenaries a lot. If it calls them "mercs," it's a dead giveaway.
Breakfast served all day!
Since the press release neglected to mention it, I looked up the release date of the first issue on Dark Horse's website.
Issue #1 hits July 06, 2005 at a cost of $2.99.
In Fantasy, the hot chicks are scantily clad because you want them to be.
In Science Fiction, the hot chicks are scantily clad for a reason central to the internal logic of the universe.
Remember kids, any sufficiently advanced Science Fiction is indistinguishable from Fantasy.
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I hate Buffy. And Angel. Pure rubbish. I even tried to watch it after Firefly was canceled, to see if my opinion had changed. It hadn't, it's still rubbish.Firefly, though, was excellent. It was good on TV, and GREAT on DVD.
For example, how big is the Firefox universe? Is it a galaxy? A group of star systems? A single system?
The Firefox universe consists of Firefox, Mozilla, Thunderbird, Bugzilla, and Camino...
I think if you manage to think of her as more than a "whore" -- which is what Mal and other use as a put down -- and instead think of her as the companion she is, you will see that there is precedent in real life in the Geisha.
As always in Firefly, western and eastern culture meet somewhere...
Belief is the currency of delusion.
If the blue sun is a main sequence star (and not a supergiant), then it's stellar mass will be around 50 and it's biozone range (the range where liquid water can occur) would be between 500-750 AUs. That's freaking huge. It should be enough to fit in the hundreds of planets that livable range.
However, don't take the science too seriously.
I'll state right off that I watched all of Firefly recently, and I loved it.
Firefly kind of reminds me of a cross among the two anime series Trigun and Cowboy Bebop (both originally released in Japan in 1998) and old post-Civil War setting westerns. Trigun can be classified as a sci-fi western. Bebop doesn't lean quite as heavily on the western genre, as it's all over the map as far as influences go, but the world as presented seems similar in nature to that of Firefly.
Firefly resembles Cowboy Bebop in that you have a ragtag crew of misfits and folks with questionable intentions travelling in an old beat-up secondhand spaceship going from job to job trying to make money wherever they can, in some cases only enough to keep the ship running. The ship Serenity even kind of reminds me of the Bebop somewhat in how it is designed. Also, Cowboy Bebop's settings involve various terraformed planets, but most of them have a reasonably near-future level of technology apparent. In Firefly, the settings are mostly old Western in nature on the border worlds, like Trigun's world in the apparent far future after human extra-planetary colonization goes horribly wrong. The firearms used are sort of like both, in that both current and antiquated weapon designs are used with a little futuristic flair to jazz things up.
Yet more proof that you want the rewards without doing the work. To wit:
You have been told exactly how you go about achieving your goals.
You go to where the industry is: this is not a matter of luck, this is not a matter of "Gosh darn, that guy was just SO FORTUNATE to have decided to move to LA and sleep in the gutter until he manages to get work." This is How. It. Works. Unless you manage to build a writing career elsewhere that makes them sit up and take notice - and that means makes someone a fair chunk of money - you go to LA. Period.
You send printed scripts in the format that the agencies and script editors demand. If you can't do something as basic and as simple as that, then you're more trouble than you're worth to them, and they won't bother with you. The writing staff of any series want to find people - and according to the people in the industry I know, some of them are pretty desperate to find people - who will make their jobs easier, not harder. Reading a script on-line is hard, because it's not the way the industry is set up. Expecting them to print your scripts is hard, because a: printing takes them *time*, and they're already working eighteen hour days - when they have work at all, and b: it costs them money, and they don't know you from Adam, so they have zero reason to spend the money. You might be broke - but you want something from them, and they don't particularly want what you've got to give them, which is attitude. Your post basically screams that you think that "I'm So Talented That Everybody Must Adjust To Me." Which, quite frankly, is an attitude they have enough of in the industry, and they don't need to be bringing any more in.
Your scripts might be good. I don't know. I don't especially care, because I *do* know that the people who sign the checks want to know that they're likely to make their money back and then some. To *know*. To be able to go to the stockholders and say, even in the case of failure, "We did everything we could to make sure we weren't wasting our money."
You aren't willing to give them that. You aren't even willing to make the most basic of concessions to them. "I'm so talented that someone with eighty million dollars to invest in a TV series should come to my website and print out my scripts because I'm too fucking lazy to print and mail them myself."
It's always easier to cry and claim that if it weren't for these immense hurdles that you'd show them, show them aaaallll than it is to actually try to surmount those hurdles, isn't it?
It's not luck in your case, Sparky. You're convicted by your own words. You're just lazy. Face facts.
Except for the pilot, each episode was prefaced by a video montage to cover for the fact that the pilot hadn't even aired. And the montage had a voiceover:
"Here's how it is -- the Earth got used up, so we moved out, terraformed a whole new galaxy of earths. Some rich and flush with the new technologies, some... not so much. The Central Planets, them as formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule. Few idiots tried to fight it -- among them, myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of Serenity. She's 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."
There's your setting, and the central premise, too.