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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."
There are html, css, and 508 validators.
There should be a slashdot validator for pages: The likelihood that if slashdotted, your pages will take your server down for the count.
"Piter, too, is dead."
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/
symetrix. We are building a religion, a limited edition.
Point yer browsin' gear here for news and discussion, including recent blogs by Nathan ("Mal") and Jewel ("Kaylee") from the set.
And by dint of shameless grovelling the webmaster has just wangled himself a part as an extra on the movie! Kudos.
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!
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
No, it takes place about 6 months after "Objects in Space".
You can't take the sky from me...
Maybe the answer is an entirely new distribution channel like Mark Cuban's HDNet. Whedon should not be burdened with product placements and FOX-style scorecarding.
No power in the 'verse can stop a slashdotting ^^
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me
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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But Shockwave is pretty! It's the PowerPoint eqivalent for the web. I love power point and shockwave so much, I hope the Microsoft People buy the Macromedia people and make a new company callded Macrosoft and make a program called SchockPoint.
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.