| Ssenkahdavic said:
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I think 5-10 years ago the TV show could have continued and still been just as awesome (the Verse had such potential I think another 2 or 3 half-seasons [13 eps] before it might begin to feel 'samey')
Now however is just too late, I don't think there is any way for the story to continue with live action satisfactorily. The cast is too much older even if they could get them all back together, and it wouldn't be the same if it was a whole new crew/spin-off type thing.
What would have been awesome (apart from the show not being cancelled in the first place) is if they picked it back up straight after the Serenity film.... essentially continuing on the plot from the end of the series up to the beginning of the film (which as nothing is specified could have been years)
As it is, I think Serenity is a good film, but I think Whedon was trying to tie up too many loose ends from the series in too short a screen time, with another couple of series all the stuff about River being a weapon and secrets behind the reavers etc could have been revealed more naturally. There was also the usual stuff with films in that it had to be able to stand on its own (so some background stuff had to be repeated even if you had seen the series) as well as being too focussed on action scenes. Plus the fact that in the series Simon payed men to extract River, whereas in the film he was suddently all superhero.
Having said all that though it was a good way to end the story when there was such a slim likelyhood of revisiting the series.
So IMO, it's too late for any kind of live action revisitation to the Serenity crew... and a spin-off with a new crew would have to be outstanding to avoid fan backlash. I don't have much interest in MMOs (especially not on the iPhone) so my vote would have to go with a single player game, linearish and story driven could work well and would probably be easiest to pull off, but a mass effect-like RPG would be awesome.
