Also, Hi Nilly!
waves at Nilly!
Sorry, Captain. I'm real sorry. I shoulda kept better care of her. Usually she lets me know when something's wrong. Maybe she did, I just wasn't paying attention...
Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'
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.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 13, 2005 7:33:53 am PST #388 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Nilly - Jan 13, 2005 7:37:46 am PST #389 of 10001
Swouncing
t Waves back at Frank
the worst of it was the first half of the first season
Well, I'm at the first half of the first half of the first season (how does that tie back to all the post who talked about infinities?), so that's what it is for me, now. However, Suela warned me about that, so I will continue watching regardless (um, when this semester ends and I return to being able to find the time, that is).
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 13, 2005 7:50:08 am PST #390 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
Because I've recently got a tape of the beginning of the first season, and the relationships between the characters keep seeming to go back and forth for no apparent reason. I would prefer an episodes-order explanation much more than a writers-not-paying-attention one.
That's probably what's at fault, though as the most recent airing of Lost shows, airing order snafus aren't always required for character interaction to be all over the map.
Una - Jan 13, 2005 8:04:16 am PST #391 of 10001
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
Huh. I'm going to have to fight beathen for Inara's clothes. That might be tricky.
(Also on the liked-Inara train. But I loved Train Job, too. So clearly I'm strange.)
Jars - Jan 13, 2005 8:31:45 am PST #392 of 10001
If y'all divide up Inara's clothes between you, does that mean I can have Inara naked?
Also hey Nilly! Let's all have a 'We Love Inara' sing-a-long, shall we?
Inara! You don't have to put on that red light...
Okay, maybe not. But still, yay Inara!
reequeen - Jan 13, 2005 9:59:54 am PST #393 of 10001
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball
I've always liked Inara, although never much impressed by the prostitute-as-priestess-as-counsellor trope.
If anyone recalls, it was done by Cassiopeia on Battlestar Galactica, although not nearly as well.
Anyway, I think Inara's attitude towards her calling walks a fine line between truly believing in what a Companion is meant to be, and coming up against....parochial male attitudes towards women in general, and women who sell sex in particular.
Edain - Jan 13, 2005 10:15:25 am PST #394 of 10001
"Being hungover is like winning the lottery, except they pay you in regret!" - T-Rex
(Also on the liked-Inara train. But I loved Train Job, too. So clearly I'm strange.)
Don't think it's strange to have liked the Train Job, particularly if you saw Serenity beforehand.
Liese S. - Jan 13, 2005 10:16:40 am PST #395 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Still there, still there, except for not actually hating the actress.
Yeah, prolly shoulda said, "hated Inara and thought Morena was a terrible actress." Still, wasn't a lotta love there. And yes, almost definitely an airing order issue, imo.
beathen - Jan 13, 2005 10:51:05 am PST #396 of 10001
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
I'm glad I watched them in the DVD order. Things make more sense that way. Although it does seem to make parts of "The Train Job" a bit redundant, it was not too bad.
libkitty - Jan 13, 2005 11:40:10 am PST #397 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Liked Inara. Didn't love her like, say, Mal or Kaylee or Jayne or anyone else, but I liked her. And she really did have it down when she found Mal in OMR.