Just wondering what the pictures are representing / implying? Thanks!
Sorry, I just quickly tossed that together without labeling it.
- Top picture: Weyland-Yutani logo on the Heads Up Display of an anti-aircraft gun used by the Independents (and fired by Mal) at the Battle of Serenity Valley from the Firefly pilot.
Design similarities:
- Second row side by side pictures: Weyland-Yutani terraforming atmosphere processor from Aliens vs. terraforming machines from Firefly pilot.
- Third row side by side pictures: Prometheus vs. Firefly Class similarities - rotating engine pods, wedge shaped forward cockpit, underslung cargo bay/airlock.
- Fourth row side by side pictures: Weyland-Yutani mobile refinery towed by Nostromo vs. Alliance Dortmunder Class starship with similar underslung domes and vertical towers.
- Final four pictures: (Top left) "Earth that was" from Firefly showing the polluted, destroyed Earth that needed to be evacuated at some point in the past..
Other three pics: Earth from the Joss Whedon written
Alien: Resurrection, which was described as a "shithole" that not even the dirty smuggler crew of the Betty wanted to visit. Its surface (including Paris) is barren and destroyed, and no one seems particularly bothered by the fact that the Auriga spacecraft crashes into Africa and the explosion seemingly takes out a third of the continent, implying that there probably wasn't anyone left there.
Joss Whedon wrote the script for
Alien: Resurrection, and the crew of the smuggling craft Betty in that film served as sort of a prototype for what he wanted to do on
Firefly. Not that the characters match up one-to-one, just that the general idea formed in his mind at the time.
