The Serenity - What do you think of the design? by Jonwes

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The Serenity - What do you think of the design?

POSTED BY: JONWES
UPDATED: Monday, July 22, 2002 00:27
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Friday, May 17, 2002 3:06 PM

From the pics we've seen so far of Serenity (and it's a bit hard to get a handle on the design) I have to say I'm a bit dissapointed. I'll reserve my judgement till I see a good pic of it, but it looks kind of... blah to me.

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Friday, May 17, 2002 5:54 PM

NOVAGRASS

Originally posted by Jonwes:
From the pics we've seen so far of Serenity (and it's a bit hard to get a handle on the design) I have to say I'm a bit dissapointed. I'll reserve my judgement till I see a good pic of it, but it looks kind of... blah to me.

I like it. It looks a lot different than any other sci-fi space ship I've seen in American sci-fi. Is it true that part of the ship will move independently from the rest of the ship? I like that... maybe that'll explain the artificial gravity or something...

One thing: The special effects rendering of the Serenity from the side view is reminiscent of Power Rangers stuff. Not that that's a *terrible* thing... just a bit odd, I think.

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Friday, May 17, 2002 8:08 PM

JONWES

Hmmm... yeah, I kinda noticed that as well. It did look sort of Power Rangers-ish. But I guess we've just seen a few still pics (it'll probably look different once it's in action), all I can really get a sense of is it's general shape. So while it doesn't SEEM to cut a paticularly dynamic figure, I'll wait till I see the thing properly.

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Saturday, May 18, 2002 2:50 AM

TIEKA

I saw a real short clip of the ship "in action" and it really moves. The engine pods rotate and it looks like they may be used for steering. Of course, it's hard to tell from a 2 second clip.

Since they have a few months until the show is released, I'm expecting some post-production on the images. Perhaps that will get rid of the "Power Ranger" feel.

Tieka

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Saturday, May 18, 2002 10:41 AM

SHUGGIE

I think it's supposed look a little rough. These are the guys on the losing side remember?

Hi everyone by the way

Shug

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Saturday, May 18, 2002 9:11 PM

JONWES

Rough I'm all for. Fakey plastic looking video game graphics like Andromeda - not so much. Guess we'll see. I hope they can keep the production values up, but it is just icing on the cake. Buffy has some rather silly looking SFX sometimes and I don't care (like the purple lightning rays Willow subdued Anya, Xander, Buffy, etc in the penultimate episode of this season)

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Sunday, May 19, 2002 8:25 AM

ANGELICDARLA

I like it. Is that simple. The western/science fiction mix of it works for me.

It has that rough "been in and out of bad situations" kinda feeling. I see it and think off all the stories behind it, past present and future.

IMO Serenity rocks.

PS: how do you put on the emoticons? Newbie silly me.

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Sunday, May 19, 2002 8:29 AM

NOVAGRASS

Originally posted by Jonwes:
penultimate

Hehe... I love that word!

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Sunday, May 19, 2002 9:14 PM

JONWES

Don't I sound smart? heh heh

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Wednesday, May 22, 2002 12:15 PM

RINGWRAITH

I like the design. Hopefully the ship will be dirty, breaking down all the time, maybe even have insects or something on board.

If these guys are on the losing side I'd hope the ship is in rough shape.

As long as they don't have to redirect the transducing modulator hypersphere through the transmogriphying noodleslugger every week.

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Monday, May 27, 2002 5:54 AM

NOVAGRASS

Originally posted by AngelicDarla:
PS: how do you put on the emoticons? Newbie silly me.

Silly newbie, indeed

Anyway... on the left nav-bar, there's a list of emoticons (as you can probably, see

)

To select which emoticon you wish to utilize, simply type in the text to the left of the image, colons and all. For example, if there were an icon that showed a frown face (there isn't, but for my purposes, let's pretend there is :-) ), you'd type

and the emoticon would appear in place of it.

I hope that helped!

Dylan Palmer, aka NoVaGrAsS

Of Star Wars Episode 2: "It's like CSPAN with lasers!"
-The Daily Show Movie Reviewer

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Monday, May 27, 2002 3:21 PM

WOLFRAM

Ugh. The SHIP. The ONE thing I hate about this show.

I keep expecting to hear Mal shout, "SerenityZord Attaaaaack!"

Joss, if I happen to catch a glimpse of rainbow spandex and color coordination...

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Monday, May 27, 2002 4:55 PM

NOVAGRASS

Originally posted by Wolfram:
"SerenityZord Attaaaaack!"

ROTFLMAO!!!

"Go Go Serenity"

--Dylan Palmer, aka NoVaGrAsS--

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Thursday, May 30, 2002 5:29 AM

KEL

I realize that Joss hates having his name attached to it, so I hesitate to bring it up...but are the moving engines similar to the Betty from Alien: Ressurection?

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Monday, July 22, 2002 12:27 AM

COMMONSENSEMAN

Well I have seen the Pilot and I loved the ship design.

It is indeed dirty and more Alien esque than clean.

The main engine of Firefly section rotates as they travel, but they never mentioned anything about artificial gravity.

Some rooms are huge and some are cramped.

The two main drive engines pivot indipendently giving them interesting manuvering options.

And going to Full Boost is a great effect.

This ship is like the Falcon in some was old but more than she seems.

Out.............

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