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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.


§ ita § - Aug 29, 2005 11:22:11 am PDT #4579 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But Mal's not crazy. He ... he's ... I dunno. He has problems with some stuff (unlike his laissez-faire until action is required second in command), but they're in a mundane scale. He's a browncoat, and pissy about it, and he has contempt for Companions (though I think it's, at least by HoG, more of his inability to deal with liking Inara than anything else).

So he has a firm political stance, and isn't good with the ladies when something might actually be at stake, including re-evaluating his world view.

Normal stuff.

Crichton, OTOH, is more like a Mal/River love child. And damn, did I ever gross myself out typing that.


Nutty - Aug 29, 2005 11:32:19 am PDT #4580 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Mal is not crazy; he is bitter. Possibly maladjusted, but definitely bitter.

Crichton isn't well-and-truly crazy till middle of S2, and never is he well-and-truly sane again. Still, that first 1.5 seasons of watching the Big Man on Campus get his head twaddled with was pretty entertaining in its own right.


Betsy HP - Aug 29, 2005 11:39:38 am PDT #4581 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Starting fights in enemy bars every Bastille Day? Not exactually grounds for membership in the Sane Human Beings club.


§ ita § - Aug 29, 2005 11:42:38 am PDT #4582 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But it's more like "Dude, don't do that!" behaviour than something requiring much medication, therapy, or hospitalisation.


DavidS - Aug 29, 2005 11:43:58 am PDT #4583 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Starting fights in enemy bars every Bastille Day? Not exactually grounds for membership in the Sane Human Beings club.

It's like you don't even hang out with frat boys.


DXMachina - Aug 29, 2005 12:00:01 pm PDT #4584 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I was gonna say.


manzo - Aug 29, 2005 12:49:24 pm PDT #4585 of 10001
If we're really lucky, they'll do it in that order...

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.

There was nothing said at the premier Q&A about these, so unless it was a private conversation?

So, what is the order of these segments, and is there a single place to get them from? Other than, you know, reading back through this thread. ;)


§ ita § - Aug 29, 2005 12:51:46 pm PDT #4586 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The link here: dcp "Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains" Aug 29, 2005 11:47:54 am PDT has links to them all.


dcp - Aug 29, 2005 1:11:05 pm PDT #4587 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

what is the order of these segments

They were released 416, 1, 22, 165, so try watching in that order first.

416 has maximum WTF?

1 has maximum "Awwwww...."

Watching them in ascending numerical order works pretty well, too.


theonetruebix - Aug 29, 2005 2:13:54 pm PDT #4588 of 10001
Session 416 (Information Page): http://www.session416.com/

Re: "is there a single place to get them from" -- I am keeping a list of mirrors which links to each, in both .mov and .wmv versions, as well as single files which present all currently-available clips in release order.