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First Clip from Firefly Movie to be Shown at Comic-Con
Snaller writes "It's almost a tradition. At Comic-Con a few years back, Joss Whedon showed a stunned audience the first clip from Serenity, the pilot for his new show Firefly. Although the movie isn't due to open until April 22nd next year, Whedon is ready to show the first clip from from Serenity, the motion picture based on the Firefly series. He'll do it this weekend at Comic-Con, also present will be the cast from the series/movie (all 9 actors), editor Lisa Lassek, special effects guru Loni Peristere and producer Chris Buchanan.
It will take place on Sunday July 25th, 1-2pm, Room 20, afterwards there will be a signing session in room 28DE.
This was reported on what used to be the official Fox board, by the user 'AffableChap' which has previously been confirmed to be Chris Buchanan."
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.
It's the movie of the Firefly TV series, which was a cowboys-in-space sci-fi show that got canned after one series. It's made by Joss Whedon, the same guy behind Buffy and Angel.
Had nothing interesting. I think the characters were interesting, and that was enough to make me watch; after all, there are a lot of very popular shows where the characters are the only thing even approximately out of the ordinary.
No proper storyline. How many episodes did you watch before coming to this conclusion?
Call it a symptom of Attention Deficit Disorder - on the part of Fox and the poster you're replying to.
It didn't help that Fox juggled the order of episodes, but the show needed time to breathe. Time it didn't get. Many viewers expect shows to hook them within one or two episodes, whereas Whedons shows sneak up on you over time. Watch how well the show is received by people who watch it on DVD - in the order they were intended.
I'm not quite sure where to start with this. How about just a quick list of the many things you've got wrong. ONE - I never said that Vera was any kind of Glock. However, for the people (like you) who don't know how firearms work, this was an example illustrating the fact that firearms don't require environmental oxygen to work. TWO - Virtually no firearms today need to have an explosive charge. Gunpowder is not an explosive. It is, IIRC, a class B flammable solid, meaning that it supplies its own oxygen and will burn very fast even without environmental oxygen. In doing so, it releases large quantities of gas that propel the bullet. There is NO explosion. THREE - What makes me think that Vera wouldn't need air is that Vera is clearly an AR-pattern semi-auto rifle. Those don't need air today and it just strikes me as supremely wrong that a space-faring race would adopt technology more backward that wouldn't work in space if they didn't have to.
I could go on, but I hope I don't have to.
Despite all the deep thinking going on around here about cultural and philosophical stuff, the notion that multiple levels of technology can exist side-by-side where they are appropriate is the reason I thought the old west settings were being used. IOW, the outlying planets look like the old west because that's the level of technology they can self-sustain, given the way they're so poorly connected to the central planets. So if Vera looks like a given level of technology, why would that technology have undergone such a regressive evolution as to require environmental oxygen to function? It just makes no sense.
I for one will go see the movie.
Recently a friend loaned me the DVD set, so I got to watch them all in a row in the correct order.
Due to the time slot, I only saw one or two episodes on TV.
Sure there are problems with the show (later episodes gathered more and more) but I was genuinely entertained by it.
Plus, you gotta think that any show placed in the far distant future that shows Windows XP as the operating system running a dumpster is pretty cool.
[The "steal the laser" episode where Sapharron makes her second appearance. The dumpster they highjack to get the loot has windows on it's screen.]
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