# If Firefly were resurrected, which of these scenarios would you prefer? \[question contains spoilers\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-firefly-were-resurrected-which-of-these-scenarios-would-you-prefer-question-contains-spoilers/546145 "2010-07-09T20:06:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-firefly-were-resurrected-which-of-these-scenarios-would-you-prefer-question-contains-spoilers/546145/61 "2010-07-12T16:10:36Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > Are you sure about that? I will have to watch it again (I believe it’s available as an “instant play” at Netflix), but I distinctly remember she and her brother showing up at the ship, and the people at the ship saying “why would we take this young girl on board, everyone will be looking for her?” It sure seemed like she was someone totally new to them. > P.S. I will have to find out what you call that kind of typo, where your brain and/or your keyboard comes up with a different (but similar) word). There’s a great deal of expository dialog at the beginning of the movie, to remind fans of the show of what’s going on and to fill in newcomers. They basically recap the whole series in words. That may be what you’re remembering. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-firefly-were-resurrected-which-of-these-scenarios-would-you-prefer-question-contains-spoilers/546145/62 "2010-07-13T00:36:45Z")
Reluctantly, option 1. It has its flaws, but you can’t just undo it. I would like to see that maybe River expended the vast majority of her power during the movie, and is back to be a relatively normal person with some difficult-to-control quirks rather than a Slayer. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-firefly-were-resurrected-which-of-these-scenarios-would-you-prefer-question-contains-spoilers/546145/63 "2010-07-13T00:38:35Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > rather than a Slayer. Did Buffy do stuff like that? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-firefly-were-resurrected-which-of-these-scenarios-would-you-prefer-question-contains-spoilers/546145/64 "2010-07-13T00:39:28Z")
Stuff like what? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-firefly-were-resurrected-which-of-these-scenarios-would-you-prefer-question-contains-spoilers/546145/65 "2010-07-13T00:41:23Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Stuff like what? Slay hundreds of Reavers (substitute Vampires or whatever Buffy slew) with a club or bone or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-firefly-were-resurrected-which-of-these-scenarios-would-you-prefer-question-contains-spoilers/546145/66 "2010-07-13T01:16:55Z")
A stake? They’re vampires, dude. And, no, there was not slayage on that scale in the series, except in the finale and … she had a little help, then. River taking out the Reavers was more of an action movie cliche than a result of Joss’ waif-fu fixation, though. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-firefly-were-resurrected-which-of-these-scenarios-would-you-prefer-question-contains-spoilers/546145/67 "2010-07-13T01:21:16Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Joss’ waif-fu fixation, though. What does it mean, “waif-fu”? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-firefly-were-resurrected-which-of-these-scenarios-would-you-prefer-question-contains-spoilers/546145/68 "2010-07-13T01:26:41Z")
Hundred pound girls throwing 250 lb men around with reckless abandon. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-firefly-were-resurrected-which-of-these-scenarios-would-you-prefer-question-contains-spoilers/546145/69 "2010-07-13T01:40:26Z")
Waif-fu, I like it, sounds like something Joe Bob Briggs would say. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-firefly-were-resurrected-which-of-these-scenarios-would-you-prefer-question-contains-spoilers/546145/70 "2010-07-13T06:23:46Z")
What is the difference between 2 and 3? ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-firefly-were-resurrected-which-of-these-scenarios-would-you-prefer-question-contains-spoilers/546145/71 "2010-07-13T10:28:18Z")
In one, we’d have some time to do what we want and set up the events of serenity, but that stuff would all have to happen. In the other, Joss could go anywhere he wanted and not be bound to eventually end up at the events of Serenity. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-firefly-were-resurrected-which-of-these-scenarios-would-you-prefer-question-contains-spoilers/546145/72 "2010-07-13T10:58:44Z")
Option 1 with flashbacks to fill in some of the bigger gaps, especially Book’s story. No objections to a pregnant Zoe but the idea of a River/Jayne hookup makes my head esplode. ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-firefly-were-resurrected-which-of-these-scenarios-would-you-prefer-question-contains-spoilers/546145/73 "2010-07-13T13:54:15Z")
Gotta go with option 1. Some time passes since the movie and there’s a couple of new faces to round out the crew…it looks like they’ve been around for a while, yet are still kind of new. Maybe Amy Acker plays one of them. We start to learn about the new guys as we also learn some things we didn’t already know about our familiar characters. Then, just as things hit their stride and start to get really interesting, we learn the show has been cancelled and the roller coaster really starts to steamroll down at breakneck speeds. It’s revealed that one of our characters has been betraying everyone all along…someone else dies…the show goes out on a somewhat rushed, very depressing yet ultimately kind of cool, bang. On second thought, let’s just leave it alone. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-firefly-were-resurrected-which-of-these-scenarios-would-you-prefer-question-contains-spoilers/546145/74 "2010-07-13T14:04:51Z")
I am not terribly fond of the movie and Wash dying just pisses me off and I’ve never really forgiven Whedon for it. I say ignore the events of the movie entirely. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-firefly-were-resurrected-which-of-these-scenarios-would-you-prefer-question-contains-spoilers/546145/75 "2010-07-13T14:55:58Z")
Well, I already voted, but if they started up again, I’d still stick with option 1. They have enough people in the crew right now, they don’t need to add any. I’d like to NOT see River as being this ongoing waif-fu (love that!) Terminator in the series. The Central Government should not leave them alone, but neither should it allow someone like the Agent to cause mass devastation trying to bring them down. Instead, let’s just have them as “wanted” and not “Hunted by the most shit the government can throw at them”. For the season 3 (second season of the new run) cliffhanger, the agent that chased them in the movie can return, no longer an agent, and you don’t know where he stands and the crew most definitely doesn’t trust him. He can have a 2-3 episode recurring role in season 4 with the same deal - he seems to offer help, but they don’t know if they want to trust him and perhaps they don’t take him up on it because they don’t. Other than that, I don’t know where they should go with it. They tied up a series long arc in a movie. They need new ground. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-firefly-were-resurrected-which-of-these-scenarios-would-you-prefer-question-contains-spoilers/546145.md?page=3)