What I get from AB's posts over at the OB is that he's pretty much a 9-11 Republican, and flailing desperately to justify the ideological tectonic shift.

Just my take on the situation, anyway. Kind of like poor, misguided, Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary. It even happened to me for a few months, I'm embarrassed to acknowledge.

Just my take on the situation, anyway. Kind of like poor, misguided, Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary. It even happened to me for a few months, I'm embarrassed to acknowledge.

It happened to me too, and I'm Canadian, so I can certainly see how that might happen to an American and last longer. I guess the difference between AB and Dennis Miller is that I can still find AB entertaining since 9/11, given that if he started ad-libbing pro-war rants he'd be fired from his acting jobs pretty soon, whereas Miller's whole act consists of political rants.

My pet theory about Miller is still that he died in 9/11 and was replaced by a crazed Republican clone, though.

Although if anyone saw Team America they should be amused by the irony of an actor named A. Baldwin being pro-war!

Chris Buchanan is scouring the Internet looking for early reports on the London screening today. If you hear anything I think he would appreciate it being posted in one of the usual locations.

Fireflyfans.net has some (non-spoilery) reports at the bottom of the page.

In short, they love it.

It happened to me too, and I'm Canadian, so I can certainly see how that might happen to an American and last longer. I guess the difference between AB and Dennis Miller is that I can still find AB entertaining since 9/11, given that if he started ad-libbing pro-war rants he'd be fired from his acting jobs pretty soon, whereas Miller's whole act consists of political rants.

Agreed. Hasn't changed my burning passion for Jayne Cobb. ;-D On the other hand, my passion for Dennis Miller has turned into pity and revulsion.

My pet theory about Miller is still that he died in 9/11 and was replaced by a crazed Republican clone, though.

Hah! We must think alike, because my own hypothesis is that we actually entered an alternate timeline when W "won" the 2000 election. The Heroes didn't get to the whatchamacallit on time, and didn't save us from splitting off from the timeline we were supposed to be on.

Somewhere, there's a world where the rightwing wingnuts don't rule, and the Heroes are still out there, whoever they may be, trying to wrest us back on course.

Although if anyone saw Team America they should be amused by the irony of an actor named A. Baldwin being pro-war!

Love that movie. Giggled through the entire thing, face and stomach hurt afterwards. "America! Fuck yeah!"

Gawd, I love FF fans.

There is an alternative timeline, now, where Dennis Miller doesn't frog march around with his armpit exposed chanting "Sieg Heil, Uber Bush!" and Adam Baldwin is completely aware that "Fully Clad Jacket" was not a celebration of war and rants like this are on HBO in primetime with good ratings because people are aware of when their knees are being jerked and it tickles a little because interupting circular references is a fun way to recognize you are smarter than a computer and you can run a sentence on anytime you want, thank you very much.

Interdimensional magic, this is.

[ducking now, because I know there's someone out there who's going to argue that multiple dimensions and alternate realities are two different things, never the twixt should meet]

reequeen is an SF person.

Busted!

Wonders why busting someone for SF-ness is a thing, in a Firefly thread.

Nevermind. The fingers type. The mind moves on.

"America! Fuck yeah!"

This still reduces me to giggles.

Agreed. Hasn't changed my burning passion for Jayne Cobb. ;-D On the other hand, my passion for Dennis Miller has turned into pity and revulsion.

Way to summarize my own feelings. I used to love "Dennis Miller Live" (remember the "news") and gradually grew annoyed and disgusted by his increasingly pro-war, pro-Bush, anti-civilization (he really ticked me off when he expressed contempt for those who cared about Iraq's artifacts and museums; hey Dennis, do they call wherever you're from "the cradle of civilization"?), and anti-common sense and compassion views. It was like, before, sure he was cynical, but he was cynical in a biting, anti-authoritarian, tell-it-like-it-is way, but after 9/11 he became cynical in a "everyone hates each other, let's just kill all these brown people" way. The alternate reality explanation is as good as any. Oh to go where W. lost in 2000...

Oh, getting back to Firefly...uh...yeah. Great show. Cancelled too damn soon. Can't wait for the movie.