In the Pilot!Serenity, Simon says of River, "There is nothing that didn't come to her as naturally as breathing does to us." Even considering that this must be an exaggeration, between that innate talent and her observing Wash for 8 months, I had no problem of her piloting the ship, especially with Mal assisting.
Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
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.
tommyrot - Oct 02, 2005 5:24:41 am PDT #5573 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.
Narrator - Oct 02, 2005 5:56:24 am PDT #5574 of 10001
The evil is this way?
Bill Clinton is aging rapidly, too, you partisans.
He’s not evil. Not Dick Cheney Evil, anyway.
I think Clinton aged a lot in office. And sudden thinness ages a person in the short-run. Also, he's less ruddy, which is a by-product of being in better cardiac health, but to the eye, it looks the same as being pale.
I think Clinton misses being president the most – he misses the action. Watching from the sidelines may be particularly hard on him.
Pilot!Serenity actually seemed more cinematic to me than Movie!Serenity.
Maybe me too. I need to see the movie again. I mean, there were spaceships and horses in the TV pilot. What could be more cinematic?
Polter-Cow - Oct 02, 2005 5:57:49 am PDT #5575 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Javier Grillo Marxuach posts a review of Serenity disguised as a review of a sequel to Alien: Resurrection. It's very amusing.
evil jimi - Oct 02, 2005 6:30:08 am PDT #5576 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Boxofficemojo.com has Serenity second in the estimates for Friday. The estimate is 3.9mil from 2,188 screens. That's only 500thou less than Flightplan, which is on 3,424 screens, and has Jodie Foster and Sean Bean in the lead roles.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 02, 2005 7:41:16 am PDT #5577 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
Here's hoping it has the legs to cross the $80 million mark over the next few weeks.
Javier Grillo Marxuach posts a review of Serenity disguised as a review of a sequel to Alien: Resurrection. It's very amusing.
Tim, if Marxuach hasn't already sent this to Joss you MUST call him up and give him the link.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 02, 2005 7:47:41 am PDT #5578 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
DavidS - Oct 02, 2005 8:21:37 am PDT #5579 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Javier Grillo Marxuach posts a review of Serenity disguised as a review of a sequel to Alien: Resurrection. It's very amusing.
Bwah! Good mapping, and damn that's revelatory in several ways. One, how much of Alien: Resurrection was in the original Firefly concept. Two, that Joss does not let go of a story until he gets to tell it his way. Three, that this maps as perfectly as does the mapping of the story as a big Fuck You to Fox. Layers, baby.
tommyrot - Oct 02, 2005 8:24:33 am PDT #5580 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.
When I watched Alien: Resurrection on cable, I noticed many similarities to Firefly. Joss, however, claims he did not notice the similarities until they were pointed out to him.
this maps as perfectly as does the mapping of the story as a the big Fuck You to Fox.
I hear that in the next Aliens movie, the aliens will infest Fox corporate headquarters.
Gandalfe - Oct 02, 2005 8:38:52 am PDT #5581 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
BTW, as far as mapping Serenity to the Fox debacle, has anyone considered that Haven is really the symbol for Angel?
Polter-Cow - Oct 02, 2005 8:47:21 am PDT #5582 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Saturday's numbers, not so hot. They're down from Friday, and the only good thing is it's still ahead of anything else that opened this weekend. It's just being clobbered by last week's releases.