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Official Firefly Movie Web Site Launched
The Orange Hatter writes "The official Universal Pictures web site for the Firefly Movie 'Serenity' is up. It includes a blog, message board, opportunites to get point for Firefly swag, and lots of other fun stuff. Check it out."
And of course the mods miss the blaitant spam. Submitter is getting points for every slashdot clickthru.
Non spammy link in 3..2..1...http://www.serenitymovie.com/
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But the time travel, unless we are traveling in time and not space, is the overused plot device of the past ten or 15 years. Enterprise sucks because that is the basis of the whole show, and hopefully they can compensate for the mistake. B5 was nearly fatally wounded by it's misuse of the time line.
But Firefly concentrates on the basics. The relationships. The flawed characters. The goal of living life the best you can. You don't have people floating willy nilly in and out of time. You don't have have people going back and forth in time so that the writers can cowardly destroy a ship at the beginning of the episode only to have it resurrected at the end. All you have is a totally unbelievable ship floating throughout a totally unbelievable universe with totally unbelievable characters. Just like real life.
This is also why Battlestar Galactica was so cool.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
That all depends on how many people you want to actually use your site. Note how fast yahoo/ebay/google/etc load (used by tons o' people every day). I hate flash sites, and any site that depends on flash must hate having people visit it, I mean how many people actually sit and watch the flash intro on a site? Excuse me while I go outside and throw a I-hate-flash tantrum.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Seeing it out of order really destroyed the experience for me. My biggest complaint was that it was rather disjointed. I really wasn't a big fan until I watched it on DVD. Personally I'd rather watch the FireFly DVD again than anything Fox is currently showing.
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The series seemed to confuse the NeuroTypicals out there. I read a review in the Oregonian (Portland, OR newspaper) where the critic completely focused on what he felt were technological inconsistencies ("they've got spaceships and bullet trains but most people use horses?") and uterly failed to understand the backstory at all (of a Centralized "galacticazation" trade group that kept the core rich and the outlying planets poor, quite an interesting social commentary there about the power of corporations in cahoots with governments). It just went right over his head. And I know that reviewer, read his TV reviews quite often, I'd put him slightly above normal intelligence; so obviously the great number of boobs who would fall for "Joe Millionaire" and other Fox Reality shows just weren't smart enough to get Joss Whedan. And thus we're stuck watching the idiocy they CAN understand.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
all the relationships are strained and uncooperative
Ywah, that guy and his sister, what a strained and uncooperative relationship! Or the flirty thing he had with the mechanic! Whoa! Thalk about animosity there! Like cats and dogs!
Oh! Or the preacher and the merc, training together, with the talking and joking around, boy, that was brutal! And that married couple? Now there's hate at its purest form! Or the captain and the mechanic, she loves her captain and he treats her like his daughter...I'm surprised they didn't kill each other in the first shows! Etc.
Sheesh.
Plus, you get the added bonus of knowing without a shadow of a doubt that they're never, ever going to kill off a character until they've run a few seasons
When the show was cancelled, Inara had just told the captain she was leaving the ship...
Whedon is the only writer out there not afraid to kill off his characters. Go troll some other thread now.
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