VIRTUAL FIREFLY: SERENITY FLIES AGAIN by GWEK

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VIRTUAL FIREFLY: SERENITY FLIES AGAIN

POSTED BY: GWEK
UPDATED: Sunday, January 1, 2006 07:56
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 6:22 AM

When I saw “Serenity,” I loved the movie, but it was tempered by a certain sense of tragedy: rather than watching a 2 hour movie, I should’ve been home watching the second or third episode of the fourth season of “Firefly.”

Since the cancellation of “Firefly” three years ago, many folks have wondered what would’ve happened had the show stayed on the air. What secrets does River hide? How about Shepherd Book? Who are the blue-handed men? Will Simon and Kaylee ever kiss? With “Serenity” (the movie and the comic book), Joss Whedon was able to give us some of those answers, but not necessarily in the format he’d originally intended.

The movie raised new questions, and chief among them was this: What would this story have been like if Joss Whedon had been able to tell his tale in 22 episodes rather than 2 hours?

A group of Browncoats have decided to answer that question with a virtual conclusion of Season One of “Firefly” (beginning on December 27th, 2005) and a full Season Two, which will retell the movie the way Mister Whedon might've told it over 22 episodes (beginning in Spring of 2006).

Our story will take you to most of the same places the movie does, but the path along the way will be a little different, and a lot longer.

We’ll see some old friends and more than a few old enemies. We can’t promise that we’ll entertain you as much as Mister Whedon would have, but you should know that this project has been put together by those who care about the show, and we’re taking this bird up out of love.

Beginning on Tuesday, December 27th, one week after the release of the “Serenity” DVD and three years and one week after the airing of the final episode of “Firefly”, our crew will fly once again. We will post the last 7 episodes of Season One as episode-length scripts on fireflyfans.net.

If you would like them mailed directly to you as pdfs, please e-mail me at gwek@optonline.net.

In early 2006, these episodes will be housed on a Web site and collected into a “virtual DVD set”, including special features.

So, come December 27th, take yourself back to a time when we hadn’t yet visited Haven and The Operative hadn’t heard of River Tam, a time when the story ended with “Objects in Space,” and you were dying to know what the next episode would bring.

We can’t show you how Joss Whedon would’ve done it, but we can tell you…

“Here’s how it might’ve been…”

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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 8:19 AM

CITIZEN

bump

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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 8:45 AM

DIGIFICWRITER

* bump *

Take my love
Take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care
I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell 'em I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I've found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me

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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:14 AM

HAZE

Can’t wait.

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Who do you suppose is in there?

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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:29 AM

GRAYFURY

Sounds intriuging.... Dont know about the scripts for season 1 but I sure do wanna see what your recconings are for season 2.I'll clip my e-mail addy to your post....Thanks.

"Smellin' alot of IF comin' offa' this plan!"

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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 10:42 AM

ETHAN

Can't wait to see what you come up with!

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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 11:32 AM

ZOID

GWEK:

Sounds pretty cool. Just remember that Firefly is copyrighted material. I hope you've gotten permission to do this, beforehand, and aren't planning on making money off of it. That's fer sure gonna be a non-flyer.

Unless, of course, you've got better lawyers than F*x, Universal and Joss have got... Technically speaking, even fanfic is susceptible to legal action. Most artists just see it as harmless (i.e., not-for-profit) and even beneficial to building their own fanbase.

A large production like yours might attract some "Imperial entanglements", though. Hell, even some Firefly online t-shirt vendors have run afoul of (alleged) copyright infringement. Ask the guy who was a seller on zazzle.com until his store got shut down...

Advisedly,

zoid
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"I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDBOF'

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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 6:32 PM

DIGIFICWRITER

Hey Zoid. Joss, unlike others, has given his official blessing to those who write fanfic based on his characters. Back after BtVS went off the air, someone asked him what the fans should do to cope with not having more seasons of the series, and his reply was (roughly paraphrased): write fanfiction'. I don't see any reason why he would feel any differently about Firefly, but, to be safe, we'll be including a disclaimer on our website (which will be constructed sometime after the first of the year) that lets everyone know that we're not making any profit off of this project whatsoever (just to cover our butts in case Universal doesn't see things the same way Joss does).

Take my love
Take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care
I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell 'em I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I've found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me

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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 6:38 PM

CHRONICTHEHEDGEHOG

There's no way a person or company can stop fanfic projects (unless you're making money of course, but who'd ever try to charge for fanfic?).
The only person who's ever managed to get fanfic removed from a website was JK Rowling and you know how she did it? She asked nicely.

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Money is Jayne's scooby snack.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 7:09 PM

GELASSENHEIT

Ann McCaffrey also does not allow fanfic relating directly to her characters and specific stories.

Gelassenheit means Serenity

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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 8:23 PM

DIGIFICWRITER

Quote:
Originally posted by chronicthehedgehog:

The only person who's ever managed to get fanfic removed from a website was JK Rowling and you know how she did it? She asked nicely.

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Money is Jayne's scooby snack.

Hadn't heard of JKR coming down on people who write fanfic. Can you contact me privately and provide specifics?

Take my love
Take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care
I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell 'em I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I've found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me

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Wednesday, December 21, 2005 4:42 AM

GWEK

So I think we're okay until we get to the episode with the showdown between River and Hermione Granger...

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Wednesday, December 21, 2005 8:05 AM

CITIZEN

Oh yeah, that episodes great!

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
Remember, the ice caps aren't melting, the water is being liberated.

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Wednesday, December 21, 2005 8:07 AM

SERENYTY

Quote:
Originally posted by GWEK:
So I think we're okay until we get to the episode with the showdown between River and Hermione Granger...

Oh yeah, that one's great. And then we add Yoda into the mix.. well, that's a copyright hazard waiting to happen.

By the way, I have the teaser written. Just got out of school, so I now will have more writing time.

~A message from Serenyty~

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Thursday, December 22, 2005 5:58 AM

GWEK

Hey, folks. Just wanted to send a quick message to thank the Browncoats who've shown interest in this with their responses or requests to have the scripts mailed to them. I hope you enjoy what we've done, come next week!

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Thursday, December 22, 2005 9:05 AM

HAZE

Im sure we will.

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Who do you suppose is in there?

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Friday, December 23, 2005 6:45 AM

GWEK

Head writer here shamelessly keeping this thread alive for them as might be interested. :)

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Saturday, December 24, 2005 7:57 AM

GWEK

Shameless holiday bump.

Happy holidays, folks!

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Sunday, December 25, 2005 1:37 AM

CITIZEN

Just seen the pre-release draft for the episode going out on Tuesday.

Looking pretty good!

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
Remember, the ice caps aren't melting, the water is being liberated.

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Tuesday, December 27, 2005 12:36 PM

GWEK

Greetings, folks. The teaser and first act of our first episode ("The Big Stick"). Are available in the Blue Sun Room. The remaining three acts will be posted later tonight or tomorrow.

Meantime, those who've requested the pdfs should have recieved them. If you have not, please e-mail gwek@optonline.net and let us know.

If you like what you see in the Blue Sun Room, please consider requesting the pdfs. They're so much prettier'n the pure text version.

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Wednesday, December 28, 2005 9:15 AM

GWEK

Hey, folks. The entire episode is now posted in the Blue Sun Room. Hope you enjoy.

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Wednesday, December 28, 2005 2:52 PM

BELACGOD

The episode is, and all subsequent episodes will be, also posted on livejournal at http://www.livejournal.com/community/virtual_firefly> gorramit, the link doesn't work.

We're looking for someone to prettify up the lj community--once we have them, we'll switch to a paid community and let them have fun with web design.

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Wednesday, December 28, 2005 4:10 PM

CITIZEN

Fixed link:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/virtual_firefly
FFF.net's link formating can get a little screwy sometimes...

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
Remember, the ice caps aren't melting, the water is being liberated.

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Wednesday, December 28, 2005 5:40 PM

BROWNCOATER

Found em.

"What'd y'all order a dead guy for?"
Jayne Cobb

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Thursday, December 29, 2005 11:22 AM

BELACGOD

Thanks, Citizen. Can you show me the code you used?

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Thursday, December 29, 2005 11:25 AM

CITIZEN

FFF.nets linking engine can go screwy with trailing characters. I removed the >. It sometimes helps to add something like #e to the end to stop that.

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
Remember, the ice caps aren't melting, the water is being liberated.

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Friday, December 30, 2005 2:20 PM

LEXIBLOCK

You could always buy the game "The Movies" and shoot your own episodes :)

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Friday, December 30, 2005 8:16 PM

GWEK

Very interesting idea, Lexiblock... :)

FYI, a bunch of folks have asked for the pdf today. I'm away from my "real" computer right now, so expect it tomorrow.

Thank you all SO MUCH for your interest! I hope you enjoy the current and future episodes!

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Saturday, December 31, 2005 7:09 AM

THEACCOLADE

The next ep should be out soon! Keep your eyes open for it or join the super cool mailing list! :) Oh and while I'm here...bump...:) Happy New Year!

*~*@*~*
Right!...Because teenage pranks are FUN when you're about to die!

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Sunday, January 1, 2006 7:56 AM

GWEK

Hey, folks. If you've requested the pdf of 1x16: "The Big Stick" and have not recieved it, please let me know (gwek@optonline.net).

If you have gotten in, please post your thoughts here or in the Blue Sun Room!

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