[Edited for finishing a paragraph in the former post. What's wrong with me, can't I post in singles in this thread? Anyway.]

text wins out over authorial intent

"Objects in Space" had a huge (um, much bigger than all the post, I'm afraid) meaning to me, in terms of Orthodox Jewish faith and way of life. I'm pretty sure none of the people involved has anything to do with that, and it's a completely personal way of reading the text, but there it was.

I absolutely *love* seeing long Nilly posts in Firefly again. *Love*

However. Hem. I thought I was over it, that I'd moved on, as had everyone else, until SciFi started the reruns and here we come with the old "horses in space" shite again. People. What show are you watching? There are no horses in space. See? Never were. That would be stupid--how you gonna build a P-suit to fit a horse? There's *no sound* in space. There're horses *on the ground*. Because as no less an expert than Chris Judge says, when asked why SG1 always walks everywhere, "This is *television*. We don't have the budget to conceive and build a new vehicle" every time we touch down on a different planet.

Got it? No horses in space. Horses on the *ground*. Thanks.

Yeah but Mal makes the distinction between the job and the person. He's openly said he considers companions and whores one in the same and has no real respect for all the frou frou surrounding companions--except where/when it can make him a profit. However, that doesn't mean he doesn't respect Inara the female person. The john in "Serenity", the father in "Jaynestown", the Boss Hog in "Heart of Gold", "Ath Wing", none of them respected the female person but they did have a grudging respect for the position b/c they felt it denoted some sort of status to be seen with, or fuck, a companion.

There are no horses in space.

But there are cows.

But there are cows.

True! So why is there no complaining about the cows, huh? Wouldn't you think people who are so averse to "a space western" would complain about *cows* in space, which would imply cow*boys* in space? But no, it's all, "no horses in space!"

Personally, I think it's that shot in the credits of Serenity buzzing the remuda. Just, nobody stops to think that the horses were running on terra firma. Or whateverplanet firma.

So silly. Everyone knows the only animals in space are pigs.

Which reminds me again I need to pick up the Muppet Show 1st season that just came out.

Wouldn't you think people who are so averse to "a space western" would complain about *cows* in space, which would imply cow*boys* in space? But no, it's all, "no horses in space!"

Beverly, I love your rant.

Personally, I think it's that shot in the credits of Serenity buzzing the remuda.

Oh, I absolutely love that shot. The combination of old and new, the technology and the alive, while both of them look alive, in a way. The smooth bow trail of the ship, the flow forward - I absolutely love that shot.

No, there were some cattle in space. . . remember?

I think it's that shot in the credits of Serenity buzzing the remuda.

I always think "people who stampede the stock need shot."

More than people who steal and cheat?