Serenity's up to 80% on Rotten Tomatoes.
A year and a half ago, I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can barely hurt his feelings. Things used to be so much simpler.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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.
Dana - Sep 29, 2005 6:24:20 pm PDT #5212 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
§ ita § - Sep 29, 2005 6:33:38 pm PDT #5213 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't know if y'all were paying attention to the Bureaucracy discussion, but as of September 30th (board time, shall we say), ALL SERENITY DISCUSSIONS ARE BLACKFONT AND IN THIS THREAD.
FYI.
brenda m - Sep 29, 2005 6:35:09 pm PDT #5214 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Whoot! Just chatting on lj with a friend - I stay with her for a few months when I first moved to Chicago, and when I moved out I accidentally left my Firefly DVDs behind. She sat down and watched one, and then got totally hooked and zoomed through the rest, and she's all fired up for the movie. Accidental toaster, you are mine!
tommyrot - Sep 29, 2005 6:36:48 pm PDT #5215 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Salon review of Serenity. Spoilery when you get to the middle of page 2. (eta: and as Sean K points out, And continues to be spoilery for a couple of paragraphs after that. Yeah, I shoulda made that more clear.)
Joss Whedon's feature-film debut, the science-fiction western "Serenity," is beautifully made, written with more wit and intelligence than we get from most contemporary movies of any genre, and features an ensemble of actors whose rhythms are almost supernaturally in tune. There's only one problem with "Serenity": It's not "Firefly," the TV show that first gave these characters, and this story, life in autumn 2002 on the Fox network.
eta: I suppose the link would be helpful: [link]
Sean K - Sep 29, 2005 6:48:05 pm PDT #5216 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Spoilery when you get to the middle of page 2.
And continues to be spoilery for a couple of paragraphs after that.
Polter-Cow - Sep 29, 2005 7:21:55 pm PDT #5217 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I finished converting my friend.
After we were done, she said, "Why was this cancelled?"
"Ratings," I said.
She said she liked it better than Angel.
We're seeing Serenity in twenty-one hours.
Whee, toaster.
Consuela - Sep 29, 2005 7:23:30 pm PDT #5218 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yay Toaster!
Good review, the best I've seen yet -- but then Zacharek is admittedly a Firefly fan.
brenda m - Sep 29, 2005 7:34:46 pm PDT #5219 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
After we were done, she said, "Why was this cancelled?"
"Ratings," I said.
Anyone watch this week's Bones on Fox? At the end of the ep, they announced that the series was going on hiatus until the end of baseball. Fuckos. I mean, it's good they learned something, but Jesus.
HiddenSky - Sep 29, 2005 7:39:54 pm PDT #5220 of 10001
"There are two sorts of people in the world: those who believe Joss Whedon is a genius and those who are wrong." - Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
Anyone watch this week's Bones on Fox? At the end of the ep, they announced that the series was going on hiatus until the end of baseball. Fuckos. I mean, it's good they learned something, but Jesus.
Yeah, I heard that and thought, "Oh, no...is this going to be the FOX kiss of death?" It's bound to happen to me at least once a season. (If you count The Inside, then I guess it has. *grumble*)
brenda m - Sep 29, 2005 7:44:17 pm PDT #5221 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
But the fact that they're finally recognizing that you can't just preempt willy-nilly until November and still count those ratings? If they'd done the same thing for FF, I bet you money we'd have gotten more than 11 eps. They're carrying baseball, that's not a surprise. So either start the shows in Nov., like they did with X-Files for a while, or take October off. But tell people, and don't fuck with it the way they did with FF. It's not rocket science.