Aw, man. I want to go to Edinburgh anyway, regardless of Firefly premiere. Doesn't anyone want to lavish plane tickets on me?
What'd you all order a dead guy for?
Jayne ,'The Message'
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.
Emily - Jul 16, 2005 12:23:46 pm PDT #3603 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
tommyrot - Jul 16, 2005 12:24:21 pm PDT #3604 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
P-C is partially right.
JenP - Jul 16, 2005 2:45:31 pm PDT #3605 of 10001
Who else just read P-C's post and thought "MANSQUITO!!!" ?
Just me?
Not just you.
Kalshane - Jul 16, 2005 6:02:27 pm PDT #3606 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
From Whedonesque, the opening credits for Mosquito, which looks to be a pretty well done Firefly spoof. I don't know whether they're going to make an actual episode or not, but the credits are amusing.
Eh.
I don't know whether that's my unreasonable love of the show talking, or the quality of those credits or possibly just the fact that I really don't think there's been enough Firefly to make it a worthwhile subject for parody, but that just looked dumb to me.
Of course, I could just be Mr. Crabby Pants right now.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 17, 2005 6:39:17 am PDT #3607 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Joining you in the crabby wardrobe - I clicked it off in embarrassment within seconds of the startup. And I usually love seeing parodies of shows that I enjoy.
tommyrot - Jul 17, 2005 6:43:52 am PDT #3608 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I felt slightly embarrassed for the people involved in it.
Gus - Jul 17, 2005 7:33:26 pm PDT #3609 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
There are people among my online peeps who have watched Mansquito, because they chose to ignore the title warning.
These people are my peeps because they are willing to give a thing a chance, against all their initial instincts.
Lords of COBOL, Bless my peeps.
tommyrot - Jul 17, 2005 7:46:22 pm PDT #3610 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
As Entertainment Weekly put it, "There are better things on tonight, but none are called Mansquito.
beathen - Jul 18, 2005 6:17:38 am PDT #3611 of 10001
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
The UK Can't Stop the Signal site has some previews for the movie soundtrack: [link]
sumi - Jul 18, 2005 12:14:07 pm PDT #3612 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
From an article in the Scotsman about hot ticket sales for the Edinburgh International Film Festival:
However, the biggest draw on the opening day for ticket sales was the sci-fi film Serenity, the first feature by Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon.
Most of the tickets to the world premiere of the film, about an intrepid band of space mercenaries, including its world premiere, were sold after just a few hours.
Whedon will also talk live at the festival in one of a series of interviews with industry players, and tickets for that event are expected to go almost as quickly.
A festival spokesman said: "There were queues winding out of the doors at Filmhouse when we opened the box office, and there was a real buzz of excitement.
"The world premiere of Joss Whedon's Serenity attracted much of the attention, particularly with online sales.
"The website was hit very hard by an enormous number of people trying to buy tickets as soon as it opened with a staggering total of 40,000 page views in the first hour.
"Unfortunately, this did cause some problems and some people will have had difficulty trying to book early on, but we have managed to get it up and running again fairly quickly."