<!--quoteo(post=1585915:date=Dec 9 2006, 08:04 AM:name=Supernorn)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Supernorn @ Dec 9 2006, 08:04 AM) [snapback]1585915[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> This was a good show. But if you are expecting this to be anything but a half-assed piece of crap then I think you are going to be disappointed. It sounds like they are just outsourcing the development to some third party of nobodies. If that doesn't raise alarm bells then what the hell does. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It actually sounds like the company sought out the rights from Fox, not the other way round. I'm pretty sure Fox is laughing all the way to the bank now. They killed the series halfway and they're still making money off of it. The gorram rutters.
To think of it though, they projected their completion date to be 2008. I'm not sure if I like the idea of them only taking one year or possibly even less to complete the game. Meep.
The company doesn't even exist as game developers. They just make the engine: they're going to hire developers to make the game for them. I have a sneaking suspicion that they wanted Fox to pay for a tech demo of their engine, and Firefly's rights were the cheapest. That and they want to cash in on the nerds all over who purchase things with the Firefly name on them just because they say Firefly. Like me.
<!--quoteo(post=1585778:date=Dec 8 2006, 12:14 PM:name=ZeroByte)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ZeroByte @ Dec 8 2006, 12:14 PM) [snapback]1585778[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> I'm rather okay with killing off the first character since I didn't get too attached to him although the plot hints that were dropped in the movie were rather tantalizing. I hated the second kill though. For one his role really got the short shrift in the movie, I don't see his death affecting non-fans at all. Also, didn't it almost feel blasphemous that the "others" in the movie got buried alongside the two major roles that were killed?
And I thought the music for Firefly was pretty good. Not the best thing evar but the music in "War Stories" did get to me.
Also, check out this real shiny fan project, <a href="http://www.intotheblack.ca/node/41" target="_blank">Into The Black</a> <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well, it's not so much the attachment, though he was a really cool character. It's just that they dropped so many hints about him and got you curious throughout the series and up until his death in the movie, and then he was just dead for very little reason at all.
The way they killed off the second character was pretty dumb, but it <i>will</i> work well for the story. Because now one of the characters has nothing really to lose anymore, and their attitude may change entirely.
Haha, that's a pretty neat project. But if it ends up being anything like some of the Star Trek fanseries... Well... Uh. "Lieutenant, get the crowbar! I need to be pried out of the Captain's chair again!"
<!--quoteo(post=1585915:date=Dec 9 2006, 12:04 AM:name=Supernorn)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Supernorn @ Dec 9 2006, 12:04 AM) [snapback]1585915[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->It sounds like they are just outsourcing the development to some third party of nobodies. <b>If that doesn't raise alarm bells then what the hell does?</b> <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Getting it outsourced to Sony Online Entertainment instead? :3
<!--quoteo(post=1586043:date=Dec 9 2006, 03:08 PM:name=CForrester)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(CForrester @ Dec 9 2006, 03:08 PM) [snapback]1586043[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Well, it's not so much the attachment, though he was a really cool character. It's just that they dropped so many hints about him and got you curious throughout the series and up until his death in the movie, and then he was just dead for very little reason at all.
The way they killed off the second character was pretty dumb, but it <i>will</i> work well for the story. Because now one of the characters has nothing really to lose anymore, and their attitude may change entirely.
Haha, that's a pretty neat project. But if it ends up being anything like some of the Star Trek fanseries... Well... Uh. "Lieutenant, get the crowbar! I need to be pried out of the Captain's chair again!" <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The way the first character was killed was annoying, I wasn't overly fond of him but I was very curious about his background. I imagine if they do a sequel to the movie, we will find out more. Only one way to be sure - write Fox and tell your friends to buy the DVD of firefly and serenity. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
As for the second character death, as much as I hate it, it did serve an incredible purpose. Watching the movie, once you saw the second character die, someone you thought could never die, you wonder... is Joss Whedon going to kill everybody else off as well? I believe that was his documented purpose for doing it, sad though the character's death is. =/
<!--quoteo(post=1586048:date=Dec 8 2006, 11:15 PM:name=emperor_awesome)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(emperor_awesome @ Dec 8 2006, 11:15 PM) [snapback]1586048[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> As for the second character death, as much as I hate it, it did serve an incredible purpose. Watching the movie, once you saw the second character die, someone you thought could never die, you wonder... is Joss Whedon going to kill everybody else off as well? I believe that was his documented purpose for doing it, sad though the character's death is. =/ <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> That's true, too. I hadn't really thought of that, but now I am wondering if he's gonna kill them all.
It did work in the short-term story, too. It sort of set you up for the savagery coming up right afterwards...
<!--quoteo(post=1586169:date=Dec 9 2006, 10:11 PM:name=Supernorn)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Supernorn @ Dec 9 2006, 10:11 PM) [snapback]1586169[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> There was no second character death. Only one of the main cast dies in the movie. I'm confused now. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The more I think about this, the more depressing it gets. The press release doens't even mention getting Joss Whedon's involvement. Sigh. While this is such a nice dream to have I think it's better that this MMO didn't even exist at all. Unless they get Whedon involved, all this will be is a way for Fox to milk more money out of the fans of a show Fox doesn't even care about.
I can see your point about the second character's death now emperor_awesome. It did set up the rest of the movie for "omgwtharetheygonnalive". It also does make sense for the "realistic" feel of Firely. They're just regular folk, criminals even, not big damn heroes (unless you count Jayne <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />). When they take on two foes that big, theres bound to be death on the crew. Just so damn sad that the second character had to die.
Come to think of it though I did get rather curious about the first character's background especially at the last ep of Firefly *sniff*. The movie just amplified that curiousity even more. I think the purpose of his death was to let Whedon explore a side of Mal that he wanted to show on the series but couldn't. Mal's character turn astounded me. You kinda knew it was under there in the series but it was something he kept under control. The events in the movie let him just unleash it because he could do nothing else.
Serenity was a mixed pleasure for me. After I'd seen the series on DVD, I thought "whoa, more of this please!" After seeing Serenity, I thought "okay, this was nice, but now it's over. Don't bother trying to continue the series NOW after making such a definite conclusion to it."
Well as already said, there's something before the Tams join in (although the Sheperd would also be out of the picture), and to be honest I'd rather enjoy it without a psycho screaming around a spaceship.
Ad you could always redo the "Those Left Behind" comic on screen (it's the story that goes on between the end of the series and before Serenity)
<!--quoteo(post=1586353:date=Dec 9 2006, 01:26 PM:name=Testament)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Testament @ Dec 9 2006, 01:26 PM) [snapback]1586353[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> I'm just curious to see what happened to the Alliance and humanity after the end of the movie. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<!--coloro:black--><span style="color:black"><!--/coloro-->The Operative kind of hinted that the Alliance wasn't too happy about the Reaver stuff, but that they would survive and basically go back to normal. People would be pretty ###### but nothing really big would happen, especially considering most of the people willing to fight against the Alliance already tried it once and lost, bad.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
<!--coloro:black--><span style="color:black"><!--/coloro-->The Operative kind of hinted that the Alliance wasn't too happy about the Reaver stuff, but that they would survive and basically go back to normal. People would be pretty ###### but nothing really big would happen, especially considering most of the people willing to fight against the Alliance already tried it once and lost, bad.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--> <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--coloro:black--><span style="color:black"><!--/coloro-->They lost because the guys making the decisions were pansies. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":angry:" border="0" alt="mad-fix.gif" /><!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
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This was a good show. But if you are expecting this to be anything but a half-assed piece of crap then I think you are going to be disappointed. It sounds like they are just outsourcing the development to some third party of nobodies. If that doesn't raise alarm bells then what the hell does.
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It actually sounds like the company sought out the rights from Fox, not the other way round. I'm pretty sure Fox is laughing all the way to the bank now. They killed the series halfway and they're still making money off of it. The gorram rutters.
To think of it though, they projected their completion date to be 2008. I'm not sure if I like the idea of them only taking one year or possibly even less to complete the game. Meep.
I'm rather okay with killing off the first character since I didn't get too attached to him although the plot hints that were dropped in the movie were rather tantalizing. I hated the second kill though. For one his role really got the short shrift in the movie, I don't see his death affecting non-fans at all. Also, didn't it almost feel blasphemous that the "others" in the movie got buried alongside the two major roles that were killed?
And I thought the music for Firefly was pretty good. Not the best thing evar but the music in "War Stories" did get to me.
Also, check out this real shiny fan project, <a href="http://www.intotheblack.ca/node/41" target="_blank">Into The Black</a>
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Well, it's not so much the attachment, though he was a really cool character. It's just that they dropped so many hints about him and got you curious throughout the series and up until his death in the movie, and then he was just dead for very little reason at all.
The way they killed off the second character was pretty dumb, but it <i>will</i> work well for the story. Because now one of the characters has nothing really to lose anymore, and their attitude may change entirely.
Haha, that's a pretty neat project. But if it ends up being anything like some of the Star Trek fanseries... Well... Uh. "Lieutenant, get the crowbar! I need to be pried out of the Captain's chair again!"
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Getting it outsourced to Sony Online Entertainment instead? :3
Well, it's not so much the attachment, though he was a really cool character. It's just that they dropped so many hints about him and got you curious throughout the series and up until his death in the movie, and then he was just dead for very little reason at all.
The way they killed off the second character was pretty dumb, but it <i>will</i> work well for the story. Because now one of the characters has nothing really to lose anymore, and their attitude may change entirely.
Haha, that's a pretty neat project. But if it ends up being anything like some of the Star Trek fanseries... Well... Uh. "Lieutenant, get the crowbar! I need to be pried out of the Captain's chair again!"
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The way the first character was killed was annoying, I wasn't overly fond of him but I was very curious about his background. I imagine if they do a sequel to the movie, we will find out more. Only one way to be sure - write Fox and tell your friends to buy the DVD of firefly and serenity. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
As for the second character death, as much as I hate it, it did serve an incredible purpose. Watching the movie, once you saw the second character die, someone you thought could never die, you wonder... is Joss Whedon going to kill everybody else off as well? I believe that was his documented purpose for doing it, sad though the character's death is. =/
As for the second character death, as much as I hate it, it did serve an incredible purpose. Watching the movie, once you saw the second character die, someone you thought could never die, you wonder... is Joss Whedon going to kill everybody else off as well? I believe that was his documented purpose for doing it, sad though the character's death is. =/
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That's true, too. I hadn't really thought of that, but now I am wondering if he's gonna kill them all.
It did work in the short-term story, too. It sort of set you up for the savagery coming up right afterwards...
I'm confused now.
There was no second character death. Only one of the main cast dies in the movie.
I'm confused now.
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Check your PMs.
I can see your point about the second character's death now emperor_awesome. It did set up the rest of the movie for "omgwtharetheygonnalive". It also does make sense for the "realistic" feel of Firely. They're just regular folk, criminals even, not big damn heroes (unless you count Jayne <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />). When they take on two foes that big, theres bound to be death on the crew. Just so damn sad that the second character had to die.
Come to think of it though I did get rather curious about the first character's background especially at the last ep of Firefly *sniff*. The movie just amplified that curiousity even more. I think the purpose of his death was to let Whedon explore a side of Mal that he wanted to show on the series but couldn't. Mal's character turn astounded me. You kinda knew it was under there in the series but it was something he kept under control. The events in the movie let him just unleash it because he could do nothing else.
Ad you could always redo the "Those Left Behind" comic on screen (it's the story that goes on between the end of the series and before Serenity)
I'm just curious to see what happened to the Alliance and humanity after the end of the movie.
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Spoilerish:
<!--coloro:black--><span style="color:black"><!--/coloro-->The Operative kind of hinted that the Alliance wasn't too happy about the Reaver stuff, but that they would survive and basically go back to normal. People would be pretty ###### but nothing really big would happen, especially considering most of the people willing to fight against the Alliance already tried it once and lost, bad.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
Spoilerish:
<!--coloro:black--><span style="color:black"><!--/coloro-->The Operative kind of hinted that the Alliance wasn't too happy about the Reaver stuff, but that they would survive and basically go back to normal. People would be pretty ###### but nothing really big would happen, especially considering most of the people willing to fight against the Alliance already tried it once and lost, bad.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
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<!--coloro:black--><span style="color:black"><!--/coloro-->They lost because the guys making the decisions were pansies. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":angry:" border="0" alt="mad-fix.gif" /><!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->