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A Year Later...
Monday, December 5, 2011

Joss Whedon did such a great job of writing "Serenity", blending in history and carrying forward the tale, bringing in subliminal popular concerns for this New World Order and US Constitutional Democracy, and, likewise, actor Nick Fillion as he plays Richard Castle keeps the character Mal alive and well...

how about some brainstorming for a next two hour episode of Serenity to move Joss Whedon ...and perhaps even universal ... mutant enemy... 20th c. fox ... ???

I think Andromeda replaced Firefly ...but since andromeda's well and truly done, and TNG is done...and STUniverse didn't make it ...

but Firefly was put in suspended animation in its infancy

here's a start ...

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"SERENITY, THE ONGOING SAGA: CHALLENGES"

...A YEAR ON...

After the payroll heist encounter with reavers, Mal said "...a year from now, there won't be any more jobs..." and so, nearly a year on, the Alliance in political turmoil and the verse in more than the usual chaos, business is 'tuff' all round, and Serenity is in financial jeopardy, debts owed at all the refuel/repair stations, and Mal is more introverted than usual under the pain of
maybe losing the firefly and the crew who have become his family ...especially Inara who had left the companion life to be with him ...

Inara realizes Mal's distress over Serenity finances and ponders how she could make use of her old companion contacts to help out without going back to "whoring" and without hurting Mal's pride...

Having taken some of Shepherd's stuff after his death, Jayne is rummaging through the things he scavenged and stowed away in the wall of his room, wondering how he might make money out of it, and seeing Shepherd's ID card, he remembers the effect it had upon the Alliance military when Shepherd needed medical care for the wound he received from the cattle smugglers shootout, i.e., "the immediate respect the ID card conjured and the way it moved the Alliance military to action to get the best immediate medical care, ..." and Jayne wondered what other doors that ID card might open, ...

and Zoe, never fully recovered from her loss of beloved husband Wash, but ever vigilant and watchful of Jayne, passing his room and seeing Jayne holding Shepherd's ID card, reprimands Jayne for stealing Shepherd's personal effects and takes the ID card from him, arousing Jayne's ire, but ever respectful of Zoe, Jayne demands to know what she is going to do with it and suggests he and Zoe investigate Shepherd's secretive history as a remembrance of his death, ...Zoe needs to think about this suggestion, knowing Mal is preoccupied with the dire finances of Serenity ...

Kaylee talks with Mal about personal stuff, a rare occasion... Kaylee asks Mal if she can visit her family, ...and Mal can't help but wonder if his best firefly mechanic, enamoured of Simon, isn't in a family way...

Simon, realizing that he and River will always have to watch over their shoulders, if not Alliance politicos then for business cheats both of whom were always wanting advantage through psychic capability, Simon asks Mal if he could set up an advanced research facility and travelling clinic to providing "specialized medicine" for clients who have lots of money to pay, ...

River, long in love with Serenity, has added technological enhancements to extend intelligence gathering capability using bits and pieces she found while exploring after Mr Universe's death...and with her extended range of seeing/hearing plus her loving heart, River is secretly helping people in need with locating food and water resources, and is secretly supporting a network of agriculture engineers converting the Alliance's deserted planetary nemesis Miranda into a food production and warehouse to supply a network of food depots across the remote planets, ... and is wondering how to transport water to planets experiencing serious water shortage ...

COMMENTS

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 3:16 AM

BRUCEPLUTO


Sounds like a very, very well planed story you’ve got here Morrison. You could try fleshing it out in even more detailed in fan-fic stories. I’m thinking you should give it a shot.

Also, I’m glad that you had Zoe take the Shepherd’s secret ID badge away from Jayne. He might have “maxed” that card out at the next three brothels Serenity came across…..am I thinking right, or am I being to tuff on the mercenary?

BPZ (smiling)


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