Holy Hannah. I had to turn my volume all the way up to catch the quieter bits, and then the louder bits happened and it scared the crap out of me.
Fred: Oh my God! Angel, you're…cute! Angel: Fred, don't! Fred: Oh, but the little hands! And the hair! Angel: Hey! You're fired.
'Smile Time'
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.
Mr. Broom - Aug 29, 2005 9:59:43 am PDT #4558 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Nora Deirdre - Aug 29, 2005 10:09:23 am PDT #4559 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I've been working through the DVDs, and we just watched "War Stories" last night. I'd sort of been dragging my feet about it, 'cause of the torture.
Now, I've always been hot for Zoe. But Oh My God, War Stories is just... she... I... uh. She rocks it. Gina Torres' work in that episode was just fan-fucking-tastic. In fact, strong performances from Fillion and Tudyk as well. The scene when they're both being electrocuted and Mal is trying to keep Wash from going under by baiting him about Zoe was dark and funny and scary and facinating as well.
War Stories is interesting for many reasons. 1) the failed appeal to FOX with the "hey, we can have two hot women make out too, ya know!" and 2) the steady emergence of Book as a total badass. "The Bible is... fuzzy... on the subject of kneecaps." Good, good episode. Also, Simon really seemed to come into his own after the hospital heist in Ariel. More confidence. More like part of the team.
I've been a slow poke... haven't watched these eps since they originally aired and am now coming up on the unaired ones, so that's something to look forward to.
Anyway, sorry for the squee...
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2005 10:17:11 am PDT #4560 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was just thinking about War Stories. I'm lending the DVDs to another friend, and I'm all excited about disk three, again.
So I took some time to muse over Zoe, and why she's my favourite TV warrior woman. Two key things:
1. She's not otherly gifted. She's not a Buffy or a Xena.
2. She's comfortable with it. Her conflicts will come from other places, not the fact that she's fighting -- it's way time for that to happen for female fighters.
The whole hot as the flames of a thousand suns thing and the happily married thing? Such wonderful bonuses.
Jars - Aug 29, 2005 10:18:17 am PDT #4561 of 10001
Yikes.
Is that the last of the session videos?
Also, yikes.
theonetruebix - Aug 29, 2005 10:46:44 am PDT #4562 of 10001
Session 416 (Information Page):
http://www.session416.com/
Reports, both from some of the places who have posted these, and apparently from Joss himself at the Premier, is that there are five Sessions in total.
That likely means that the next and final will be "Session 416, First Excerpt" which will bring us full circle back to where this all started, with "Session 416, Second Excerpt."
sumi - Aug 29, 2005 10:47:46 am PDT #4563 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I'm going to have to wait 'til I'm home to see that properly.
Betsy HP - Aug 29, 2005 10:50:53 am PDT #4564 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Aeryn seems to meet your criteria as well, ita.
Kate P. - Aug 29, 2005 10:56:02 am PDT #4565 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
"War Stories" is possibly my favorite episode. God, I love Zoe so much. And Mal. And Wash. And it has my favorite line in it, when Wash and Zoe are fighting and Mal is getting frustrated with them:
Mal: "Okay, I'm ... lost, I'm angry ... and I'm armed!"
Perfect delivery.
Steph L. - Aug 29, 2005 11:00:03 am PDT #4566 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
"War Stories" is possibly my favorite episode.
Is that the episode where, toward the end, Mal is beating up (or trying to) the bad guy, and when t memfault Jayne? Wash? t /memfault goes to help Mal, Zoe says "No -- this is something he needs to do on his own," and Mal yells "No I don't!!!" and then Jayne (or Zoe?) just shoots the bad guy?
Frankenbuddha - Aug 29, 2005 11:02:42 am PDT #4567 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Is that the episode where...
Yep. Also with the funniest torture scene this side of Princess Bride.