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Comment by warpspin

8 days ago

My wife used to fall for every Firefly season 2 hoax on social media in the past because she wished it to be true. It was very funny when I could come to her to announce there will be a season 2.

Mixed feelings about it being animated. The older I become, the more I have trouble relating to painted characters, no real clue why, so I couldn't even enjoy things I should have enjoyed like Arcane.

Also, of course, no Shepherd Book :-(

Anyway, I hope I'll like it. Really loved season 1.

They can probably get a Shepherd Book voice actor much easier than a Ron Glass doppelgänger for a live show.

  • With AI they good probably replicate it perfectly. For good and bad.

    • Just bad imo. No reason to do that when there are many talented voice actors out there who will do just fine.

The way I see it: I'd rather have animated characters than everyone looking like a fossil. Really put a damper on Star Wars Ep. 7 for me (among other things), but Harrison Ford didn't look or feel like Han Solo. I'm glad they're not doing the played-out "aging crew" trope with Firefly. If it's animated, the characters can still run as far and jump as high as they could 20 years ago.

> will be

This is just an announcement that they want to make it. Nobody has signed up to make even the pilot. It's not even a kickstarter.