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: 2005-09-26 03:32 am (UTC)no subject
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!*