'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
Our characters are living, breathing people with all the emotional complexity and contradictions present in quality dramas like "The West Wing" or "The Sopranos."
He apparently never saw B5, Farscape or the better episodes of DS9
Compared to the original BSG, The Anna Nicole Smith Show has emotional complexity.
I think Mega Man was later, P-C.
the better episodes of DS9.I suspect he at least saw those, if he didn't write them himself.
I don't understand the need to parse each line so as to find implied slurs against every work he doesn't specifically pay homage to. I really don't. He's writing to network execs. The point is not to write an annotated history of television drama; it's to briefly convey a concept. Are execs going to be more interested if he refers to low-rated shows from years back, or if he refers to current hits that win Emmy awards?
Christ, Moore totally stole the concept of an in media res opening for "33" from Homer. That thieving bastard!
Christ, Moore totally stole the concept of an in media res opening for "33" from Homer. That thieving bastard!
Yay! I learned a new Latin phrase!
Are you joking, or did you not learn that in high school, or did you not study Homer in high school?
Also, it's in medias res.
OH SNAP.
I don't understand the need to parse each line so as to find implied slurs against every work he doesn't specifically pay homage to.
And, really, what's the point? He was trying to sell his own show! He needs to be selling it as the best thing since sliced bread (in SPACE!).
Are you joking, or did you not learn that in high school, or did you not study Homer in high school?
No. No Homer in high school for me. No Latin either.
No Homer in high school for me. No Latin either.
Same here. Can't remember when I learned in medias res... prolly law school. Or from TV.
(edit: and how much do I love P-C juxtaposing a Latin correction with an atti-snap? THIS much!)
No Homer in high school for me. No Latin either.
Me neither. I think I learned "in medias res" from a movie review that referenced Homer. I don't remember what movie.
Huh. Wow, I thought The Odyssey and The Iliad had always been high school English standards. Wonder when they came into vogue, then. When they teach you The Odyssey, one of the big things they always mention is the in medias res bit. It was kind of funny, though, that we did The Odyssey in ninth grade and The Iliad in tenth grade, even though the latter is chronologically before the former. I don't remember which one Homer actually wrote first, though.
(edit: and how much do I love P-C juxtaposing a Latin correction with an atti-snap? THIS much!)
Heh. Atti-snap? I'm not familiar with that term.
When they teach you The Odyssey, one of the big things they always mention is the in medias res bit.
When they teach you The Odyssey, you mean. I certainly didn't learn the term from there.