thread: 2012-08-13 : Another Interview
On 2012-08-21, Vincent wrote:
Charles: It took me some thinking but I remember precisely why I was glad. It's that for season 2 to make good on season 1, Inara has to be off the ship and out of Mal's life, or else they have to be married. I was and remain pretty sure that neither were going to happen, and that what we'd get instead is an erosion of the characters into static relationships and static versions of themselves.
I rewatched the series last summer I think with Sebastian and Elliot, and it didn't stand up very well. It reminded me how much better television has gotten in the past 10 years.
But, like, basically I'm a big fan of Firefly, not a hater, and also coincidentally a big fan of good endings. I didn't want it to go the way Buffy went, grinding out to an ending that didn't remember what we were here for and why. Better to give it a good ending with mysteries and loose ends than a bad ending with all the loose ends resolved.
Ville: 3:16 kicked my butt with what it had to say and how it went about not saying it. (What's the Kubrick quote?) It inspired not just the brainer, but Apocalypse World, whole and immediate, in the form of this is what I want to say, and this is how I want to not say it.
And oh, no, I wasn't familiar with post-apocalyptic fiction and I'm still not. At the time, Luke Crane had been working on a post-apocalyptic game too, and we compared our research notes. He'd been doing serious reading, a survey of the genre. I'd watched Doomsday.
