MY continuation of Serenity- At the End of the 'Verse by chrisisall

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MY continuation of Serenity- At the End of the 'Verse

POSTED BY: CHRISISALL
UPDATED: Monday, September 20, 2010 08:02
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Sunday, September 19, 2010 10:30 AM

The Finale In synopsis form:

Serenity IV: No Going Home

Zoe's son Dash & Jayne Cobb come home in victory from the 2nd War of Unification, bringing her replacement parts for her synth-legs.
The Alliance has been defeated from within, and a fragile stability is returning to the core.
Captain Tam flies Serenity back to it's owner, Malcolm Reynolds, back on Shadow, with her crew mostly intact.
Inara, now ill after presumably being cured on Persephone in Serenity III, faces a grave choice- a slow goodbye to Mal, or a curt death in the black, alone.
Simon & Kaylee are still at their chosen task, upgrading the health & Capisin 38 vehicles on the rim worlds when they get the wave: A last rogue Alliance-that-was general has developed & weaponized an Ultra-Pax derivative to re-activate the NewReaver programme.
A weak Inara steals Serenity for a last farewell alone, and is surprised by Mal, who has stowed away, and tells her of their last intended mission.
Together, they make a suicide run on the general about to damn Persephone to Hell & start the Reaver terror all over again.
Funerals ensue as the 'Verse celebrates Mal & Inara's sacrifice.
Dash sees the birth of his girls.

*****
Universal, 143 minutes
Directed by Joss Whedon & Tim Minear
(c) 2019 Mutant Enemy Productions
PG-13 (Some Reavers not suitable for children: parental discretion severely advised)

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Sunday, September 19, 2010 9:12 PM

THESOMNAMBULIST

Big 'C' - did I miss parts II and III ? If so where can I read those?

Liking the idea of Zoe's son being called Dash :D but sad that beautiful woman no longer has her legs! Those were Washes favourite parts :D

Cartoons - http://cirqusartsandmusic.blogspot.com

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Monday, September 20, 2010 3:28 AM

DMAANLILEILTT

Wait, how can Inara be ill after being cured? That doesn't make any sense.

Incidently, Mal and Inara sacrificing themselves in one final heroic act is also how I imagined the series would end.

"I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?"

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Monday, September 20, 2010 4:00 AM

BYTEMITE

Zoe and Jayne, huh? Unusual, but not impossible.

Towards the end of Serenity, Mal laments that the broadwave they sent was mostly ignored, so I've always been dubious about whether a second war for independence would be fought. There might be a few groups to rally, but seeing how they probably couldn't get near the numbers the first war got, not only would it fail dismally, but small groups having to resort to tactics like the dust devils would make calling it a war a little generous.

The new independents wouldn't manage a whole lot, and the crew of Serenity probably wouldn't get involved in such a conflict... However, the crew would still have their own battles to fight, against Blue Sun, and in that way they'll be more instrumental in toppling the Alliance than either of the Independents factions ever were.

Blue Sun is clearly the economic backbone of the Alliance. Turn the people against Blue Sun, you ruin the economy, and as more scandals connecting Blue Sun to various members of parliament come out, you'd get revolution in the streets on the Core Worlds. Desperately trying to restore order, some idiot in the Alliance higher ups (Or maybe as Blue Sun goes down) does a "If I can't have it no one can!" and has the Core bombarded with Pax. Civilization in the Core is destroyed, there never was much civilization in the Rim, but both basically become post-apocalyptic survival scenarios.

I suspect Dollhouse was a way for Joss Whedon to get out the conclusion he wanted to write for Firefly. The parallels are fairly explicit: a small band, lead by a crazy escaped science experiment able to surf personalities/memories for any field of expertise, save the universe by taking on an evil corporation. Rossum = Blue Sun and River = Echo (with also a little bit of genius fix-it-all Topher thrown in). The broadcast frequencies used to wipe the entire population of the earth in dollhouse have suspiciously the same results as Pax, where some people become roving gangs of hyperviolence and some are wiped to a passive doll state.

Simon and Kaylee (Victor and Sierra) fast forward in the future and have settled on a planet with a little victory garden and children, but Kaylee is dismayed that Simon still wants to fight the powers that be over what they've done to River.

I'm not sure who Zoe and Jayne are copies of exactly. Mal seems to be basically the Ballard character, with maybe a bit more of a mentor relationship than Ballard had with Echo (don't want to say Boyd because of what happens with Boyd). Or maybe not, depends on what happens with Inara, if she's not around, Mal/River could be possible.

Anyway, that's what I think. If you want to know what the future storylines for Firefly were, and how it was going to end, look no further than Dollhouse. River sacrifices herself to mass-cure a paxified and reaverfied population. Mal probably dies in the last episode helping River release the cure, and reunites with Inara in some kind of death-dream thing.

If Joss Whedon still goes ahead with writing the story, he'll probably tack on a twist ending where it turns out Mal got shot towards the end of the Battle for Serenity Valley, and has either been dying or in a coma for the entire series. The dream him reuniting with Inara could then be him actually waking up and seeing his nurse (or maybe she's still a companion, but volunteers at a hospital in her free time). Mal then goes on to buy a Firefly and puts together a crew composed of the people he's met, for reals this time. Everyone is there, alive and well.

After that Joss'll just switch the entire thing over to an adventure serial, not kill any more characters, milk it for money, and the fandom will rejoice.

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Monday, September 20, 2010 8:00 AM

CHRISISALL

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Big 'C' - did I miss parts II and III ? If so where can I read those?

I just jumped to the end...

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sad that beautiful woman no longer has her legs!

She's got 'em, just better, stronger, faster is all. Well, once Jayne replaces the servos damaged in Zoe's last confrontation with Purplebellies, anyway.

Honestly, it all came off the top on my head on a whim, 10 minutes to type it out last night.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Monday, September 20, 2010 8:02 AM

CHRISISALL

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Originally posted by dmaanlileiltt:
Wait, how can Inara be ill after being cured? That doesn't make any sense.

A cruel twist of Joss-like fate...

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Incidently, Mal and Inara sacrificing themselves in one final heroic act is also how I imagined the series would end.

That part seemed the most natural to type.

The laughing Chrisisall

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