On "The Train Job" and Kaylee.
Sep. 25th, 2005 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amanuensis1For all the Firefly people...
I can't tell you how happy I was when, in the teaser, Kaylee got to her feet and walked. What with her "can't feel anything" line and the crew carrying her to the site where she was needed at the end of the pilot, I was afraid she was going to live but be paraplegic from then on. And why should this disturb me so? Well, okay, yes, because she's lovable and I wouldn't wish that on her. But more, it would annoy me to have that fall on the sweet perky "nothing gets me down!" forgiving character--as if she's the one best suited to cope with such a blow. Gimme a break. Cliché-and-a-half.
I can't tell you how happy I was when, in the teaser, Kaylee got to her feet and walked. What with her "can't feel anything" line and the crew carrying her to the site where she was needed at the end of the pilot, I was afraid she was going to live but be paraplegic from then on. And why should this disturb me so? Well, okay, yes, because she's lovable and I wouldn't wish that on her. But more, it would annoy me to have that fall on the sweet perky "nothing gets me down!" forgiving character--as if she's the one best suited to cope with such a blow. Gimme a break. Cliché-and-a-half.
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Date: 2005-09-25 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 12:13 am (UTC)And yes, I give Kaylee one of Wash's lines in this icon. Sue me.
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Date: 2005-09-26 12:17 am (UTC)Ah, unintended suspense....
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Date: 2005-09-26 03:31 am (UTC)These Firefly icons are actually some of my oldest- the first I ever made (besides just cropping a few ratties...)
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Date: 2005-09-26 02:22 am (UTC)It's the only answer, honestly.
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Date: 2005-09-26 04:38 am (UTC)Yep. Fox definitely wanted this show to succeed. Yep.
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Date: 2005-09-26 12:19 am (UTC)http://www.session416.com/mirrors
DON'T GO YET! Wait till you get a bit farther into the series, and start to have some questions about River, but watch these sessions BEFORE you go to see Serenity. You won't understand them at this juncture, but they'll add so much depth to the movie, you will definitely want to see them. In order of release, not numerical order, by the way.
These sessions were released without advertisment on the internet as a sort of viral easter egg for rabid fans to hunt down and squee over. And they have been squeeful indeed. Can't wait to hear what you think!
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Date: 2005-09-26 12:34 pm (UTC)Gah. 641 is apparently my dislexia exerting itself again. I meant 461, as in the number of the first of these sessions released on the internet. It showed up on my flist as an "WTFOMGRIVERBLINGBLING" about a month ago, and I clicked through. Honestly though, beyond these, I've been quite the latecomer to the series myself. If it hadn't been for
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Date: 2005-09-26 01:11 pm (UTC)*drive by smooch!*
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Date: 2005-09-26 01:29 pm (UTC)"If you release me I will return and destroy everything you hold dear!"
"Okay Mr. Man, I love you, bye-bye!"
It's just stupid.
I think Whedon approaches cliches in the show and then does something else instead just to be like, "Now see how stupid it would have been for the show to have had the cliche instead of that?"
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Date: 2005-09-26 02:36 am (UTC)BTW, I'm enjoying reading about you watching the show and re-seeing it thru your eyes.
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Date: 2005-09-26 01:54 am (UTC)And now go watch more Firefly! *shoos you away*
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Date: 2005-09-26 02:37 am (UTC)[Also somewhat hard to believe, but Jewel Staite is actually a little younger than Summer Glau.]
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