Talk:Firefly (TV series)

Predecessors

The Japanese 1996 Manga Series 'Outlaw Star' (and the respective 1998 Anime TV show) have quite a lot of similarities. It's hard to believe they are just random. Just by date, Outlaw Star should be earlier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw_Star — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.48.169.215 (talk) 03:42, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

With TV show starting 2 years earlier, Gene Roddenberry's 'Andromeda' have some similarities (and again, to Outlaw Star, like a female spaceship avatar). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_%28TV_series%29 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.48.169.215 (talk) 03:58, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

@78.48.169.215: Andromeda did have some passing similarities to Outlaw Star and a number of other series. However, there are a great deal of similarities that are near actual copies between the Firefly and Outlaw Star. The way Melphina and River are presented are uncanny. The number of support actors in both series are the same as are their roles. The plots have a great deal of crossover that can't necessarily be explained as happenstance. According to Wiki guidelines, a section discussing this is well within bounds. Brainplay (talk) 21:24, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Solar system

Article: The TV series does not reveal whether these celestial bodies are within one star system, only saying that Serenity's mode of propulsion is a "gravity-drive".

Several of the episode intros makes it clear it's a single system. Are they not considered? --Steven Fisher (talk) 20:25, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

The voice over intros from the original broadcast of the TV series are actually contradictory on that point. Mal's two intros state that they moved out of the solar system and terraformed a whole galaxy of earths. Book's however states that they found a new solar system and hundreds of new earths were terraformed. Serenity (the movie) is explicit about it being one solar system with multiple suns however. Canterbury Tail talk 21:14, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining. I was thinking of Book's voiceover; I missed Mal's. Current revision makes sense, then. --Steven Fisher (talk) 04:31, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

In the tradition of "Sci-Fi", fantasy is usually born of mystery and fascination. Since much of the mystery of our own solar system has been debunked by scientific fact, the only places that can hold wonder and "speculation is what we don't yet know. therefore the Pleiades Constellation would make an excellent candidate as the "home" of the alliance systems of planets! Not one solar system, but many; with possibly hundreds of planets, and moons. Many of them, ready made "M"-type planets, and others good candidates for habitation. this would fit perfectly in the template of the "vague" explanation. If not the "Pleiades", then the "Lyra" Constellation would suffice, since it's closer to Earth. --146.111.156.100 (talk) 19:20, 23 March 2015 (UTC)Veryverser

Companion Page

The Companion page should be restored.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion_(Firefly)

174.22.11.242 (talk) 04:32, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Serenity (film) improvement to FA

I was looking around at the articles and I noticed that Serenity's tenth anniversary is coming up September 30 (for the theater release), and I thought if it was possible to raise it to FA (it's currently standing at B class and is a delisted GA) it could be possibly nominated to appear on the front page then. I was wondering if anyone was interested in helping improve the article before then. Thought I'd ask here as the edit history is a little more active on this article. ~Cheers, TenTonParasol 18:39, 22 March 2015 (UTC)