Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 15:46:00 GMT
Feb 27, 2017 1:52:02 GMT @graham said:
I'd like to see a new Firefly series.But DO NOT bring Wash back to life! That would be such a total cheat on the audience. If you establish that people can come back from the dead in your universe, you instantly wipe out the tension from any dangerous situation - "We might die!" say the characters. "Well so what if they do, they'll just come back like Wash did" says the audience.
Look at Buffy. They established that you could come back from the dead, and then spent years tiptoeing around that. "Oh, well, it's only if you died a magical death. And, um, you can only do it once. And..." Because once death is not permanent, you just can't write a series properly any more.
Now if you want the actor back, then say the Alliance cloned him from tissue samples and have a clone come back. Only make it a completely different character! Not necessarily evil, but different.
But only one of them was a magical death.
But while I hear what you are saying, I'm not sure I agree that it necessarily cheats the audience in any way -- but like I said, it would have to be believable and in a 'verse without magic, that's a lot tougher sell. Of course, coming back from the dead isn't the only option to bringing back a character. Flashbacks are a possible approach -- whole stories have been told in flashback -- but admittedly, it is a limited tool. Another approach, though it would have its own difficulties, is to tell the story from a different point in the timeline, before the events of "Serenity". The series was largely episodic, anyway, and the primary long-running arc -- the hunt for River Tam -- wasn't exactly resolved, so it doesn't really serve as a spoiler for episodes earlier in the timeline. The big problem is that the actors will be older than they were in "Serenity" and that won't get better with time so there would always be a bit of a disconnect there if they were to take that approach.
The trouble with doing flashbacks or prequels is that all the actors are now more than a decade older than they were in Serenity, and nearly 15 years older than they were in Firefly. It would lack a certain plausibility to have them playing the same characters twenty years ago.