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amanuensis1For 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.
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.
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Re: Make sure....
Date: 2005-09-20 12:53 pm (UTC)Re: Make sure....
Date: 2005-09-20 03:31 pm (UTC)DON'T follow the aired order. Fox messed things up. They aired the pilot last.
Re: Make sure....
Date: 2005-09-20 04:20 pm (UTC)Re: Make sure....
Date: 2005-09-21 10:26 am (UTC)Best thing ever is the commentary on Objects In Space. Most audio commentaries drive me mad - with the long pauses and the forced "oh.. that's a cool bit of set. I think something funny happened there. I forget." ..pause.. "Oh, I liked that extra.. I forget his name though." - but Joss Whedon is so animated and he can barely fit in everything he wants to say about the episode as a statement on existentialist interactions. Oh my god.
love.
Re: Make sure....
Date: 2005-09-21 09:19 pm (UTC)