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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."
I didn't watch any of the episodes on Fox because I hadn't even discovered Buffy yet. 6 seasons of DVD Buffy later (waiting for the 7th), we buy Firefly's DVD set and were really impressed.
Firefly, the series, has the usual Joss Whedan good characters interacting in interesting ways.
Apparently they didn't show the pilot first on Fox and I can't imagine how that could have worked. The 2 hour pilot (also called Serenity) is a must see and its CGI special effects are surprisingly good.
15 episodes (pilot + 13) + extras.
Strongly Recommended!
See title. All the summaries seem to point to that but that seems odd.
I'm not sure how I feel about that, either way.
Offtopic: I haven't looked at the Firefly web page, but you definitely should grab the "Ghost in the shell 2" trailer.
Take my love
Take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care
I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out
To the black tell 'em I ain't coming back
Burn the land
And boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
Have no place
I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me
This is one of the catchiest show songs I have heard in a long time. I remember thinking it was kind of a weird song for a space show the first episode of Firefly I ever saw. Pretty soon I found myself singing along.
I can't wait to see the movie!!!
Yeah, to bad the show got canned before they could get around to what his deal was. "How's a preacher know so much 'bout crime?"
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
I think you have it all wrong. This was simply one of the best shows on TV period. Not simply best Sci-fi show, best show overall.
/. but I had to on this. Go see this movie. You won't be sorry.
I made several other people fans of the show by just letting borrow my DVDs. These are female, non-geeks who hate anything sci-fi who simply love the show and were shocked that it had been cancelled.
I don't know if you actually watched the show but it was the western motiff was just a small part of the show and only played a part in some of the episodes.
The dialog cheesy and cookie cutter characters? Come on!! The dialog is great and very original. The characters were also unique. We had a legal prostitute, former military soldier (low rank, not a general of anything) turned business man, gorgeous amazonian warrior, not entirely loyal hired muscle, former minister looking for his way, very feminine female mechanic, dorky, talented pilot who landed the amazon and a weakly, gifted
doctor who risked everything to save his sister.
I don't know about you, but that is an extremely original group of characters thrown together in a very plausible way. I have never watched Cowboy beebop so I can't comment on that. What I can do is comment on is the quality of this show.
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To me the issue is when a writer stacks contrivances to force a story, rather than just letting the characters or action develop naturally, and, as result, have excess plot devices present in the story.
Certainly many good time travel stories exist, and the ones you name are good examples. I will part with you and say that The City on the Edge of Forever was a good story. And, if there is some self depreciation, as in Sheep in the Big City, the excess and literal plot devices can become an asset. But really that is a clever exception and not a rule.
I was at Universal Studios Hollywood on Tuesday. During the studio tour (where you drive around on the busses) we went through a "quiet zone" where they were filming several movies. Right beside the Jurassic Park ride was the set of Serenity, and who was right outside the set? None other then Nathan Fillion, the Captain himself.
Although I don't subscribe to the obsessive-fan mantra, being a huge fan of Firefly and seeing him, dressed in his usual captain garb, was the highlight of the day for me.
I really hope the new movie does well, but either way, we've kept flying.
There were a number of anachronistic things (e.g. "Comes the Inquisitor", "A Late Delivery from Avalon", Garibaldi's Daffy Duck poster and motorcycle) which were not results of nonsequential time travel, as well as some episodes which took place over odd timelines (the "camera" going years after the rest of the series) but which had no time travel per se ("The Deconstruction of Falling Stars", "Sleeping in Light")
There was precognition at many points, though, and lots and lots of foreshadowing and glimpses into the future. What time travel there was also implied some amount of predestination. Was it the predestination more than just the time travel which you found objectionable?
Yeah, to bad the show got canned before they could get around to what his deal was. "How's a preacher know so much 'bout crime?
"That's no preacher." I figure he must be an exile from Blue Sun who sided with the browncoats, but for some reason is still considered untouchable.
I've gotta say, I've listened to all the actor's commentary on the Firefly DVD series, and I'll be damned if that's not Alan Tudyk ("Wash").
"Space-torture-plex-thingy"? "If Nathan Fillion was any more charming he could turn a straight man gay. I'm just sayin' is all."?
Who else could it be?
Random and weird software I've written.
Yeah, City on the Edge of Forever was cool. I took the original poster to be complaining about the new Enterprise stuff, not the classics
The "Companion" thing is a little bit strange. I think the idea is that it is a cultural thing that has spread from Chinese, or possibly Japanese, culture, but it still doesn't quite make sense.
In traditional Japan, Geishas (who should not be confused with prostitutes) were and are revered members of society. They basically act as hostesses, and their special talent was conversing with men in a culture where men's and women's lives did not intersect and where men and women did not talk together. They are also entertainers, performing traditional music and dance. The word means something like "artist." And yes, some of them do/did have "special" men friends, but the relationship is earned by the man, not bought. If you want to read an explanation of this that has not been sensationalized into soft porn, I recommend Geisha by anthropologist Liza Dalby.
In China, also, there were courtesans of varying status. Some were little better than prostitutes, but others-- the especially lovely and talented-- were of very high social status indeed. It is important to understand that the culture was not like our puritanical one. A girl would be chosen for a life as a courtesan when she was very young and would spend years training for her job. Becoming a courtesan was not something they had a choice about, and so being a courtesan was not associated with immorality as it would be in our culture. A really high-class courtesan would be supremely well educated, and again, a major part of her job was to be a hostess and an excellent conversationalist.
This idea is not limited to Asia. In ancient Greece (a culture in which men would seal the door of the house with sealing wax so as to be certain that their wife did not go out and talk to anyone while they were gone), married women were basically owned by their husbands and were not allowed to learn to read or write. One of those ancient Greek guys, I can't remember who, made a remark that homosexual love was normal because how could you have anything in common with the incredibly uneducated women of their culture-- he found all women unlovable because of their lack of sophistication. (To avoid overgeneralization, remember that the Spartan women were better treated and had higher status.) However, there were "Hetaera," who again were educated courtesans who enjoyed social freedoms denied to most women. Like Geishas, they were hostesses, and would wind up as the mistresses of powerful men who spent no small effort winning their affection.
However, even though courtesans with high social status like the "Companions" in Firefly have existed in history, they tend to exist in cultures where there is a big gap between male and female society and very well-defined gender roles. But the world of Firefly is very egalitarian, it doesn't make sense. I thought perhaps only the border worlds were egalitarian, but that society in the Core planets tended to keep its women in harem-like seclusion. But once we see episodes involving Core planets, that theory is blown out of the water. The only thing that I can think of is that perhaps in the world of Firefly, the art of "companionship" has developed to the point that people seek out those who are really good at it just as we seek out people who play musical instruments or sing really well so we can see them perform. Could "companions" be superstars of a kind of performance art? It's the only thing that makes sense to me.
Sorry for long post.
"That's no preacher." I figure he must be an exile from Blue Sun who sided with the browncoats, but for some reason is still considered untouchable.
"I don't give a damn if you're innocent or not! So where does that put you? Hmmm?"
I don't think he sided with the loosers, I think he was a high ranking official who suddenly realised that the ends did not justify the horrible means he was using. He's obviously trying to atone for his sins.
Though I think we'll curse his sudden but inevitable betrayal when he realises that the Alliance needs River (possibly to defeat the Reavers).
You can't take the sky from me...