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

[fabularasa.livejournal.com]

So far I've only seen The Train Job and bits and pieces of others, but I am completely sold. On Mal/Jayne, actually. What I love most: Whedon's imaginative play with the future in which characters curse in Chinese, and in which idioms have drifted, so that it's like listening to Welsh sometimes -- you're going, oh, I get that -- wait, what? Sly? Huh? And the re-arrangement of sexual mores -- prostitutes are honored high-class citiczens! Hee! It's like, some bizarre Canada, where everyboody mroe or less speaks the language, but the culture is upended. So much love for this show. And I'm a sucker for ex-soldiers of a Lost Cause, so yum, Mal.

I hope the upcoming movie means there will be more episodes. Some of the characters annoy me -- Simon and River I could take or leave, and that preacher fellow. But Kaylee and Mal and Jayne and Zoe and Wash. . . yumness. So glad you like these too! I spent a night recently trawling for good Mal/Jayne, but alas.

[dien.livejournal.com]

You may change your mind on Book (the preacher) after 'Safe' (maybe) and almost definitely on 'War Stories.' Plus, River is seriously amazing. *repeats* War Stories.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

It's like, some bizarre Canada,

I hope Canada knows we mean that as a deep compliment.

I'll let you know which pairings start to leap out at me!