And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains  

Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 05, 2005 9:57:52 am PST #238 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

Sadly, I only got to catch a few episodes before it moved to too late at night for me to be able to stay up.

Different forces, same effect: me, too. I missed them the first time round (by the simple device of being born too late) and am so far failing to catch them in repeats, mainly because they aren't repeated very often. Unlike Python.

I thought that was bile.

Some children's books have exactly that effect on me, actually.


Astarte - Jan 05, 2005 10:05:08 am PST #239 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.

I thought that was bile.

A not uncommon misconception.

In certain lights they ARE hard to tell apart.


dcp - Jan 05, 2005 1:18:47 pm PST #240 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Frankenbuddha, I have the Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister DVDs, if you want to borrow them.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 05, 2005 4:20:06 pm PST #241 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Frankenbuddha, I have the Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister DVDs, if you want to borrow them.

dcp, Thank You! That's a generous offer, but I was sorta joking/sorta wistful. The sad truth is I've got too much stuff on DVD I haven't gotten to yet that I own as it is. If I borrower them, they'd just sit around. I really long for the days when I seemed to have enough time to go see three movies and watch 7 episodes of good television. Which I probably never did as much as I thought I did (if at all), but it's a good memory, so I'll keep it.

But, seriously, thank you.


Mikey - Jan 06, 2005 5:02:30 pm PST #242 of 10001
All this time, I thought Hunter was a bitch. Turns out she was just hungry.

If I remember correctly, part of the episode includes Gay Boys in Bondage presented as one of Gilliam's inimitable animations.

Y'know, somebody's gonna turn that into a musical.


sumi - Jan 07, 2005 4:09:30 am PST #243 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Scifi Wire talks to Summer Glau. Slightly spoilery in the middle so here is the piece w/o the middle:

Glau: Firefly Secrets Revealed

Summer Glau, who reprises the role of the mysterious River in the upcoming Firefly movie, Serenity, told SCI FI Wire that fans will finally learn some of the secrets behind her character. In the short-lived Fox SF show Firefly, on which the movie is based, viewers knew only that River was a genius who had been surgically altered by mysterious forces for unknown reasons.

"We were setting up all the characters," Glau said in an interview. "We were going back into the past and trying to set up each storyline for each character. And my character was just getting started. And now, in the film, you're really going to see an explosion of what's really going on with River. It’s going to be exciting."

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Even so, Glau admitted that it took a moment to reacquaint herself with River and the Firefly universe, which is set 400 years in the future. "I was very nervous," she said. "I hadn't played River for a year and a half. I was so close to her in the beginning and through the whole series, and then when I came in for my first readthrough with the entire cast, I was shaking and sweating and I was really scared. And then after the first few days, it felt like I'd never left." Serenity, written and directed by Joss Whedon, opens Sept. 30. The film is being released by Universal Pictures, which is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM


ChiKat - Jan 07, 2005 7:28:29 am PST #244 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

I was shaking and sweating and I was really scared.

She is so cute.


Liese S. - Jan 07, 2005 8:24:39 am PST #245 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I heart this whole cast.


beathen - Jan 07, 2005 8:29:41 am PST #246 of 10001
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.

Ditto


beathen - Jan 07, 2005 8:33:33 am PST #247 of 10001
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch:

Is it bad when, if I miss an evening without seeing an episode of Firefly, I go into withdrawl from the show?

t addicted to Firefly