Zoe: Jayne. This is something the Captain has to do for himself. Mal: No! No, it's not!

'War Stories'


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.


Nilly - Aug 07, 2005 4:09:07 am PDT #4089 of 10001
Swouncing

I'm pretty sure they never call her by name, not through the whole episode.

They don't. I've never noticed it before (probably due to watching the pilot first, as it was meant to be), but you're right, they don't.

They mention clients and Compantions and that the shuttle is hers and her respectability when compared to the rest of the crew, and emphasize that later when she comes in all her dress-up to save Mal and Zoe, but not her name. It runs along with how they try to characterize the relationships between all the characters right in the beginning, I guess - captain, losing side, "sir", wife, piloting, job, and all that spoken information right before the opening credits, between all the hitting and the visual information and the ship itself.


§ ita § - Aug 07, 2005 6:27:52 am PDT #4090 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Did I hallucinate that post about the Serenity ad before Wedding Crashers? I can't have -- I mean, I went into the movie hoping I'd see one, but now I can't find the post that tipped me off.

Mikey's deleted one, perhaps?


Mikey - Aug 07, 2005 1:43:23 pm PDT #4091 of 10001
All this time, I thought Hunter was a bitch. Turns out she was just hungry.

'fraid it was--some overhurried clicking. Don't think the ad's tied to a particular movie BTW--just in the rotation at AMC.

As for the pilot. I agree with Nilly, but I make recommendations based on what I know about the people to whom I loan my DVDs.


smonster - Aug 08, 2005 5:30:29 am PDT #4092 of 10001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

ETA: First chapter of the Serenity novelization is online.

Huh. Not too bad, really.


Nilly - Aug 08, 2005 5:38:18 am PDT #4093 of 10001
Swouncing

but I make recommendations based on what I know about the people to whom I loan my DVDs.

The one thing that sold it to my mother? The French dubbing on the DVDs. She enjoyed the possibility of watching a show in her mother tongue so much, that she didn't even notice the things she usually dislikes (say, violence).


Tamara - Aug 08, 2005 7:43:09 am PDT #4094 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.

Nilly, please email me your address so I can send you a package. Thank you.


Kevin - Aug 08, 2005 11:46:37 am PDT #4095 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

UK screenings of the movie, here:

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The amount of hassle these have caused me is unreal. So, enjoy, if there's any UK people here. Oh, and if you're in London, tough at the moment: Vue West End are being a bit retarded and refusing the sell the tickets for some unknown political reason.


Nilly - Aug 08, 2005 8:42:11 pm PDT #4096 of 10001
Swouncing

Tamara, I would love to (yay! package!), but I can't e-mail you, since you don't have any address specified in your profile.


Jars - Aug 09, 2005 12:22:20 am PDT #4097 of 10001

Yay, Dublin screening!

All my complaining about nothing ever happening in Ireland clearly pissed someone off enough to shut me up. Woo!

ETA - Except that apparently karma has an hysterical sense of humour, since I've tickets to a Weezer concert that night. Crap. What's a girl to do?


Allyson - Aug 09, 2005 6:13:29 am PDT #4098 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Libertarian Firefly

And also, Joss wrote it all and held the boom, too. What a stallion.