Spoilers for the pilot episode below the cut.

[amanuensis1]

For those of you who said I'd love Firefly?



You were right. Oh! I just watched the pilot this weekend--how can I not love a story where the main character won't shoot an unarmed man, will shoot one who's armed and threatening another without a second thought because there isn't time to argue, won't stand to hear religious claptrap at his table (it's his table, dammit), has a Josselin/Phedre relationship goin' on, and isn't offended that some of his crew would sell him out if the price were high enough?

Actually the show sold itself to me as soon as the salvage-team-in-space blew a ship's hatch with explosives...and it was soundless. And the ships don't go WHOOSH! Migod, I think that's the first television or film since 2001 I've seen to do that. I was open-mouthed with joy.

And that's the best "yes we really killed off this beloved character no wait ha ha we didn't" I can remember. Those usually piss me off and I was laughing like a loon over this one. Whedon, I'm pwned.

Now I'm torn between watching all of these as quickly as I can so that I can see Serenity right away versus parceling them out nice and slow.

Comments

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

I find it utterly impossible to have a favorite episode, because they all have moments.


River is my favorite character, but oh man, the things Jayne says...


Sit yourself down and have a gorram marathon. You won't be sorry.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

And now I know where you guys are getting "gorram" from! I thought it was just someone's compromised Brit-esque spelling of goddamn--which it IS--but now I know its origins! And I will use it all the time.

[dien.livejournal.com]

And then you'll start saying Shiny too.

And possibly cursing in Chinese. Dong ma?

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

But I've been saying "Shiny!" for a couple of years now! The person I got it from had no idea where it came from either. ^_^