I dunno how you’d go about it but putting further distance from the Confederacy metaphor would also be good.
But I’m just glad there’ll be more, honestly.
It’s set in the time before Serenity, so both Wash and Book are still alive. No need to come up with story contortions. Just re-cast for Ron Glass.
Also, animated means they can keep doing more for a long time without having to explain the actors aging and why they can’t do crazy stunts or ride horses.
Win, win.
… As long as it includes YoSafBridge.
I’ll be in my bunk
My days of not taking you seriously are definitely coming to a middle.
My wife, who is super into and out of Firefly fandom is both happy and sad. I don’t know how to feel.
I got into it because of her. She hasn’t revealed how she feels. Think she’s still processing it. I made sure not to say anything until somebody was official because I didn’t want to give her an emotional roller coaster
I’m also into Firefly because of Crackhappy’s wife and she seemed excited when I told her last night
You win an internet.
Another internet? Sweet! Can we not have NFTs on this one?
I think that’s probably how many feel. Happy that there is something that is new firefly, but sad that it’s not live action. Hopefully the one thing will lead to more of the other though, if successful
I think it makes sense, everyone looks visibly older so retroactively putting it before Serenity would be tricky from a marketing perspective, that’s why I always wanted them to full cast the audio books, they all still sound great.
they all still sound great.
Ron Glass isn’t quite his old self.
Shiny.
I’ve always thought an animated series would be the perfect way to continue it, amazing to see it finally happening.
Yeah, it’s really the only way they could have done it at this point. I’m hoping the creators/writers do it justice; I heard that Joss Whedon won’t be involved. Say what you will about the man, but he wrote damn compelling characters.
And the dialogue. If there’s a line you really love from a Whedon show, chances are high he wrote it himself.
Mkay - are we retconning Wash’s demise, or will this be set well enough before that? Because I’m not sure I can commit without him.
EDIT: According to Deadline, it’s set between the series and the movie in timeline. As I recall, that only gives about six months of in-universe time - I hope they can make the most of it.
Since Joss is said not to be involved, maybe they will retcon it. I kinda hope so - even though the movie was mostly good, I think that was a bad mistake made purely for shock value.
I mean, not purely shock value; it ties directly to the philosophical ideas present both throughout the movie and in the last (unaired) episode.
That said…I wouldn’t cry any tears if it were retconnned.
If I were in charge I would pretend Wash never dies. Go right past the movie time period and cover Reaver reveal from a different angle. The movie becomes beta canon and everyone winks at each other when they talk about the death of Wash.
Since this universe has no magic of time travel to magic the problem away I think it’s best to just wink and nod.
Also the concept art looks great! It’ll be animated by the studio that did Bojack Horseman (though they’re probably more known for their stop-motion animation on Adult Swim like Robot Chicken)
Kaylee?
Edit: And Simon, of course.
Convenient that they’re the two not there, doncha think?
Maybe they are in their bunk.
Hey, now - “their bunk”?!? Let’s not get ahead of where the new show is starting off from, eh?
Will full cast? Y’all forget about Ron Glass?
Book is dead?? What?
Edit. Holy crap, it’s been 10 years, and I just found out. Well… that sucks.
Sheppard Book lives. Alan Tudyck’s star hasn’t dimmed. Ron Glass is dead. Hoban Washburne is a leaf on the wind.
Sheppard Book lives
Didn’t they mount his corpse on the front of their ship to sneak past the Reavers? Pretty sure he was dead at that point.
This takes place before serenity.
Umm, you know a necromancer?
Yes
Well… we’re waiting!
They said they knew one, not that they could get them to do it - let alone afford it. Too bad we couldn’t get him to Miracle Max while he was only mostly dead.
Gotcha, gotcha… do you wanna start the GoFundMe or should I?
Don’t you need to have a goal to set first?
Yea the goal is “help us raise funds to resurrect Shepard Book”.
Arise, cicken
Oh good. We’ll need one for Wash too.
We can just cast his brother, Rinse
Don’t forget his other brother dry
nobody ever casts the black sheep of the family, Repeat!
He’s an okay guy, just don’t feed him beans.
Wash will still be there, Alan Tudyk hasn’t passed yet. It says the series will take place in the couple year gap between the end of the series and Serenity!
That couple years was real time. As I recall (it’s admittedly been quite a while), in-universe time between the two was something like 6-9 months.
Gotcha. Yeah I saw the movie once and all I remember is something about River becoming Space Jesus?
welcome to the weekly adventures of the legitimate business ship serenity! (would give us like 25-40 episodes)
Please give it to the same studio that did Lower Decks! They nailed the lore and the humor.
Also they’d better get a different actor to voice Jayne
It’s looking like it’d be ShadowMachine; they did Robot Chicken, Bojack Horseman, and a bunch of other stuff.
Also they’d better get a different actor to voice Jayne
Why, what’s wrong with Adam Baldwin? Or did you mean Shepard Book?
Homophobic, transphobic, racist, anti-abortion, all-around asshole human. He used to say wild hateful stuff on Twitter back in the day, I’m fairly certain he got banned for it
Ugh! Didn’t know. Yeah, that’s a move I could get behind in light of that. Unfortunately, according to the Deadline article he’s already committed to “lending his voice” even though he wasn’t physically there for the announcement.
Maybe we’ll get lucky and his fellow cast members will help him get back to reality a bit - especially considering it’s slowly becoming harder to be anything but the most diehard of a Trump supporter.
He became an alt-right chud.
Did not know. Read my reply to someone else who replied basically the same time as you for details on my thoughts.
Never seen Firefly but you guys are very passionate about it and so I hope this goes well! Might check it out, I am a fan of animated sci-fi.
Picture Star Trek but the Federation is the bad guys trying to interrupt your snuggling job.
Hehe, snuggling job.
I’ll be in my bunk.
If someone interrupts my snuggling they are going to catch hell
Fuck yes! Excited!
This was a good choice I think, both because the actors are much older and it allows for some more wacky funny visuals.
Please tell me Nathan pushed The Button during the announcement.
