The friend I sat with at the premiere said he was hoping to hear me sing along to something. I reminded him he'd met me before, and he admitted it was a pretty slim hope going in. He still insists my coat was brown, though.
I kissed him, and I told him that I loved him. And I killed him.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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 § - Oct 23, 2005 4:24:21 pm PDT #7094 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DavidS - Oct 23, 2005 4:50:15 pm PDT #7095 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Everyone I know hated the song at the beginning, but were singing along by the end of the discs. And no one believes me when I tell them it'll grow on them. And then I can say "I told you so." Which is always fun.
Heh. That was my experience. I mocked it when it first aired, and came around on it by the end. I mean, it's no "Hero of Canton" but it means more when you understand how the lyrics reflect Mal's experience.
Strega - Oct 23, 2005 5:17:01 pm PDT #7096 of 10001
Dude, who could fail to see the mirth in the Melon King?Yeah, but it's all the jokes about rape and dead babies that I think might get me in trouble.
You know, he does have a birthday coming up...Can I assume he has a region-free player? I bet my UK source would get him a copy.
...slinking back to Minearverse now...
Theodosia - Oct 24, 2005 2:06:09 am PDT #7097 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Every decade or so there's a case where a crazy woman decides, instead of hanging around a hospital and kidnapping a newborn, to off a pregnant woman and perform an emergency Caesarean instead. It's much more common to take a baby, but now hospitals have really tightened up the security so that just anybody can't walk into the newborn ward.
Kevin - Oct 24, 2005 2:07:00 am PDT #7098 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
To me, the theme song represents the entire show.
It tells you what it's about. It's quirky. Not everybody is going to like it. It's going to put a lot of people off.
Like, er, Firefly.
P.M. Marc - Oct 24, 2005 8:07:56 am PDT #7099 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
The one where they put the Amber alert out for the fetus of unknown status (who turned up alive and well for all that she'd been ripped from her mother a month early by a fucking psycho) happened while I was pregnant, and gave me nightmares until I remembered that I didn't leave the house or open the door that often. The crazy baby cutting out people had no window of opportunity with me, damn it.
It's much more common to take a baby, but now hospitals have really tightened up the security so that just anybody can't walk into the newborn ward.
In most hospitals, even if you make it in, it's next to impossible to escape with a kidlet.
The kidlets are security tagged, the parents have matching tags, and no one can take the kidlet past a certain point without the matching tag. If one attempts it, an alarm will sound, and I'm pretty certain in our hospital, things were designed to go into auto lockdown. (I'm still fuzzy on the details, on account of having just had a baby when they were explained.)
Of course, hospitals (including ours) are increasingly moving away from the nursery model and towards rooming in.
I was going to pretend to have a way to tie this back into topic, but the nearest I can is by suggesting they should have had a similar system for River.
Aims - Oct 24, 2005 8:09:22 am PDT #7100 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Our hospital was the same way. We all had tags and Em was Lo-Jacked. Hosp went into auto-shut down if the "barrier" was passed. All doors and everything just locked. Like, Pentagon shut down.
aurelia - Oct 24, 2005 8:13:23 am PDT #7101 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
every decade or so
Google tells me there were 2 cases last year. There was one in Nov in Columbia (the mother survived!) and the one in Dec in Missouri.
Kristen - Oct 24, 2005 8:15:58 am PDT #7102 of 10001
The crazy baby cutting out people had no window of opportunity with me, damn it.
Yes and thank god. Though, in one of the cases I was reading about, the woman's attacker was her "pregnant" friend. Which is super freaky. Like, do you need to be carrying around an ultrasound machine to verify the pregnancies of those around you?
bon bon - Oct 24, 2005 8:20:03 am PDT #7103 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I remember the Kansas one. I went to her first hearing. She was incredibly pathetic.