Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.

Simon ,'Objects In Space'


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.


HiddenSky - Sep 30, 2005 2:24:11 pm PDT #5329 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

You're in a really safe space (relatively speaking) when Wash buys it.

It's probably because I've seen the movie several times, but there's one line that I think is foreshadowy. On Miranda, Jayne has his little outburst, "She's right! Everybody's dead! This whole world is dead for no reason!" While he says that line at the left side of the frame, Wash is pretty much dead center and then the camera kind of hangs on him for a sec before he says "Let's go to the beacon." I have the feeling that shot composition was intentional.


Kat - Sep 30, 2005 2:32:35 pm PDT #5330 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I think the second best part of Serenity is how balletic and yet strategic River's fighting is.

The best part is Zoe in that dress. Clearly.


§ ita § - Sep 30, 2005 2:52:32 pm PDT #5331 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I wouldn't be comfortable omitting Simon's back, nor the meatiness of Mal's chest.

It's the completist in me.


amych - Sep 30, 2005 2:55:12 pm PDT #5332 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

There may have been some squirming at the sight of Mal in hips and bedhead, yes.


Astarte - Sep 30, 2005 2:57:34 pm PDT #5333 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.

A friend asked me if Jayne ever was shirtless. I told here I didn't think so, but I have no complaints about the very nice skin we did see.

Mmmmmmmm.


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 30, 2005 2:58:14 pm PDT #5334 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Mal was shirtless in the movie? I'd forgotten. Oh well, guess I'll have to watcha few times this weekend to refresh my spotty memory...


Kat - Sep 30, 2005 2:58:44 pm PDT #5335 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I think Mal's hips and bedhead is my third favorite thing. And then Simon's back.

I still think he has a Back Double, yoga be damned.

And now, we've named all of the things I really liked about the movie. Oh, and you can put free below Simon's back.

The list of the things I disliked? Irksomely long.


Jars - Sep 30, 2005 3:03:24 pm PDT #5336 of 10001

Don't forget Mal's scars. The scars with the hips and the chest and the bedhead.


amych - Sep 30, 2005 3:05:01 pm PDT #5337 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

t bunk


Allyson - Sep 30, 2005 3:20:55 pm PDT #5338 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

And now, we've named all of the things I really liked about the movie.

You saw it with me! We mimed our pain!