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.
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.
I felt slightly embarrassed for the people involved in it.
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.
As
Entertainment Weekly
put it, "There are better things on tonight, but none are called
Mansquito.
The UK Can't Stop the Signal site has some previews for the movie soundtrack:
[link]
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."
Did anyone here see Serenity stuff at ComicCon? I hear it went well, but not from anyone who knew enough Jossy stuff to give me details.
Thanks for that link, beathen...
The very opening notes sound
so much like the music they play over the casket drop-off in The Message
. Neat. Two months. I can do it.
sumi's quotes from that article make me happy.
Note that the file names (not just the link names) of the last 2 samples beathen linked may be slightly spoilerish.
