Dead city of Miranda/modern American high school - Firefly&Serenity

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April 18 2006

Dead city of Miranda/modern American high school. OK, this is arcane, but I got a hoot hearing about how the campus of Diamond Ranch High School (chosen as a perfect place for the cold dead city on Miranda) works as a living high school that can help students be "open and creative".

Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, California, served as the set for the ultramodern exteriors for the street scenes on Miranda in Serenity. The radio show "DNA: Design and Architecture" had a story April 18 on the architecture of high schools which featured a visit to Diamond Ranch. The high school story is the first in the broadcast, and the Diamond Ranch part begins at 5:35 in. I actually enjoyed the whole show--worth a listen. FYI: If you want more info about the school, here's one article.

ThereUR | Firefly&Serenity | 19:19 CET | 15 comments total | tags: miranda filming location

Here's a sattelite view of the place.

jam2 | April 18, 19:41 CET

How very shiny! Thanks so much for sharing that with everyone. Especially the Browncoats!
CA

cmndraverhart | April 18, 19:57 CET

Do you think Joss made Nathan run laps everytime he flubbed a line?

I think he would.

Who do you think would win a race between the BDH's and who would come in last?

RavenU | April 18, 20:05 CET

Cool. I really don't have much to say, I just wanted to post something because I'm finally a member! I've been trolling here since September or so, and I can finally post! Woohoo!!!

jmaze | April 18, 20:18 CET

That would be "lurking," jmaze. Lurking is quite a bit more acceptable than trolling around these parts. Welcome!

jclemens | April 18, 20:30 CET

Well, my own opinion, but I think this is a terrific W link - arcane, yes, also a little off-the-wall (and therefore interesting), illuminating, and well presented and described. Kudos, ThereUR. Good stuff.

SoddingNancyTribe | April 18, 20:47 CET

Who do you think would win a race between the BDH's and who would come in last?

Pre-Miranda, Zoe would have won the race; post-Miranda, well, you finish that sentence! Jayne would try to fix the race, get caught in his own trap, finish last, but forever believe that he won on a technicality, with the reasons for his victory increasing every time he retold the story to a different ~~mudder~~ ~~companion~~ ~~drunk at a bar~~ peer group member. ;-)

billz | April 18, 20:53 CET

SoddingNancyTribe said:

...I think this is a terrific W link...

Thanks a lot! I was actually a little worried about the reaction :), but then I thought, hey, *I* liked it, so, what the heck...

ThereUR | April 18, 21:11 CET

More aerial views can be found here, including birds eye views from all 4 directions.

Okkay | April 18, 22:46 CET

Do you think Joss made Nathan run laps everytime he flubbed a line?

Of course he did. Why else would Nathan have those buns of steel.

clarkie | April 18, 22:52 CET

I agree with clarkie. And I'm sure there is video somewhere, or pictures possibly available for stuffing into the Big Damn Book. I think we should all write to Joss and Nathan about it and demand that they included.

Assuming they know what the heck we're talking about. Fortunatly by this time I think they've realized that the Browncoats are ALL irrational hysterical loonys.

BrightShiner | April 19, 00:47 CET

My cousin actually went to school there and remembered the setting up of the school for the Serenity shoot. They also filmed Orange County there as well.

BlindHawkeyes | April 19, 00:52 CET

Jayne would try to fix the race, get caught in his own trap, finish last.

But if that makes jayne dick dastardly, who's muttley?

-geekmafia(newly delurked)

Geekmafia | April 19, 03:19 CET

who's muttley

Badger.

gossi | April 19, 06:18 CET

Haha! That's really neat.

I wish I went there...

UnpluggedCrazy | April 19, 07:38 CET

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